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“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…d to convert to Christianity) and Christian converts to Islam “who came in contact with each other before and after the expulsion of the converts from Spain,” noting that “in common with several other texts written in these circles, it presents Muhammad as the messiah.” Most recently, Theodore Pulcini has made a case for its authorship by a medieval monk of the Carmelite order who had converted to Islam. Whatever its origins, the recent growth of…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ruling as “a great victory” for the LGBTQ community. He said Lambda would contact the Ministry of Justice yet again, send the ministry the Council’s ruling and await the ministry’s response. Chile: Opponent of marriage equality takes top spot in presidential voting, heads to run-off Chileans voting on November 19 had eight presidential candidates to choose from. Conservative billionaire Sebastián Piñera and Alejandro Guillier have apparently adva…

Turning Point Efforts to Export Drag Queen Attacks and ‘Take Back Universities’ Marred by Fringe Associations and Farcical Missteps

By Matthew Boedy

…in, TP Australia has a resource problem. Its website is all of two pages—a contact information page and a homepage that makes claims about its 2022 election efforts in Victoria, which is home to Melbourne, the country’s most populous city. Despite a lack of chapters, Turning Point Australia has become an “increasingly common” fixture on “the fringes of Australia’s conservative movement,” according to Crikey, an independent news site. Conservatives…

Forget “Nasty,” Trump’s Got a “Disgusting” Problem

By Karen E. Park

…ose who were too disgusting to touch, and brought themselves into intimate contact with the physical realities of infection and cancer. They understood that disgust for human beings has no place in the Christian life. Donald Trump seems to live in a near permanent state of disgust. He finds not only the human body but human beings “disgusting” and “nasty.” Disgust is part of what allows him to revile and dehumanize people regularly. It fuels his h…

Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families

By Chrissy Stroop

…e coronavirus pandemic on the right has added so much stress to reasonable Americans’ lives over the past year and counting. And, while rearguard efforts like the NAE-sponsored “Christians and the Vaccine” initiative may make a dent in the proportion of evangelical vaccine refusers, they won’t even begin to solve the underlying problem of widespread willful ignorance and paranoid, conspiratorial thinking among conservative evangelicals. As I’ve be…

Sacred&Profane: ARIS Survey Gets ‘Religion’, Misses Boat

By Gary Laderman

…we should be celebrating the individualistic indications of the poll—that Americans simply want faith on their own terms. On the one hand we can thank God for polls and surveys that monitor how Americans identify their religious preferences and identities. But on the other, who really needs God to be religious anyway? And do these polls really capture the spiritual landscape in all of its complex, contradictory, and confounding realities? It woul…

Op-Ed: The Other: Dimensions of Resistance to Obama’s Candidacy

By Michael L. Hays

…ctors in play, including and starting with his race. A sizable minority of Americans, most, but not all, of them white, is operationally prejudiced against blacks (different by degree from the casual racism latent in many Americans of all races). Those in the South were once Democrats but, since the Civil Rights Movement, are now Republicans. Those in the North are those who otherwise vote Democratic: white, blue-collar families in West Virginia;…

‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…issues”—and to a place where conscience compelled him to ensure that most American workplaces had protections for LGBT workers his own Church did not offer its employees. The complexity of Senator Reid’s own position suggests that as it turns out—twentieth-century LDS bureaucratic branding efforts notwithstanding—Mormons are actually subject to the same kinds of growth and conflict as every other people of faith, even if they tend to manage thos…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…ent-elect and his cabinet. The white, elderly, conservative leaders of the American church are a vocal minority, as are those who insist that Latin mass will somehow make a miraculous comeback leading to the salvation of the rapidly shrinking American Catholic church. The seminarians who learn to perform it will stand in front of parishes that are increasingly made up of speakers of Spanish, Tagalog, and multiple Asian and African languages. Yes,…

The New Manson Family or Teens at “Play”?

By Joseph Laycock

…agic cases, though it will be even more tragic if—in our rush to slake the American appetite for horror—we once again beat the drums of Satanic Panic instead of asking harder questions about why these murders happened. Assuming these teenage murderers were not following prescribed rituals for human sacrifice or in contact with networks of criminal Satanists, why would they tell such stories? Why did the Houston case have the disturbing feature of…