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Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…rtion, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. “We decided that ad space on our website isn’t the best way to get our message out,” King said. “What we’ve found is that people tend to respond to the ads and fail to have productive discussions.” King wrote a blog post on Sojourners’ website describing his personal experience with a gay friend who was alienated by the church, and he endorsed the message of the Believe Out Loud video. Sojourners thought i…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…‘pandora’x box of gender-identity issues’ The Belize Prayer Network, whose website features a testimonial from US-based pastor Rick Joyner, featured a report on an evangelism campaign by the National Evangelical Association of Belize targeting the country’s youth. We joined in order to target the Pandora’s box of gender-identity issues raised by the legalization of sodomy and the government’s revised gender policy. Already the churches’ changes to…

Harry Jackson Shakes Religious Right Money Tree for “Below the Radar” Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…s to be made to his self-promoting High Impact Leadership Coalition, whose website says it is a 501(c)(3) organization and which seems to operate as a ministry of his church. Jackson said on the call that his campaign “really is a defense of marriage strategy” designed to make sure whoever is president cannot change the definition of marriage. But later in the call he spoke admiringly about strategies used in 2004 to mobilize anti-marriage equalit…

Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement

By Sarah Posner

…ews on abortion I explored in a post on Monday. According to the Twin Oaks website, Akin is no longer an elder, but is apparently still a member; the church pastor, the Rev. Robert Stuart, is listed as an endorser on Akin’s campaign website. Twin Oaks, like many conservative evangelical churches, has a “Life Team Ministry,” whose “mission is to support TOPC in spreading the testimony of God’s grace in the St. Louis area and to sufficiently equip i…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…o spurred much of the anti-Park51 fervor; and Robert Spencer, who runs the website Jihad Watch; and Steve Emerson, whose profits from a cottage industry of peddling fear of Islam were exposed last month by the Tennessean’s religion reporter Bob Smietana. Indeed, during the controversy over the Park51 community center last summer, Gaffney appeared on Beck’s radio program and called “Muslim Brotherhood front groups” Obama’s “go-to people.” After the…

David Brat, Theological Conundrum

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker and Bridget O'Brien

…restriction of moral questions to the individual’s heart with his campaign website’s boilerplate Republican promise to “protect the rights of the unborn and the sanctity of marriage, and … oppose any governmental intrusion upon the conscience of people of faith,” that’s unclear. Three years ago, Professor Brat cited the Right’s efforts to “enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality” as evidence of rising government coerc…

Virginia Mollenkott: Warrior in the Battle for Evangelical Acceptance of Gays (1932-2020)

By Anne Linstatter

…ved by this groundbreaking book,” comments Christian Feminism Today on its website. An earlier book, Women, Men, and the Bible, attracted widespread attention in 1977, giving hope to women raised in conservative denominations that required women’s submission to men. Mollenkott spoke at two of the first conferences of evangelical feminists: one in 1973 at Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver and another in 1975 to the newly founded Evangelical Wo…

Gay Republicans Question Conservative Credentials

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tion.” They opposed the health care bill, and again according to their own website, because it “does indeed discriminate against gay families.” Which is sort of a strange complaint since Perkins and the religious right oppose or support laws simply because they directly affect their families and friends personally in some way. I thought that’s what advocacy work, on either side of fence, was all about. Seems a bit ridiculous to point out that a gr…

Cyber-Colonialism: Anonymous Enters LGBT Fray in Uganda

By Joseph Tolton

…d Investment Authority, as well as Somalia’s TV Network and Gurmad company websites, and the Sudanese stock exchange. They’ve threatened to take down key websites in any African country in which LGBT people are subject to imprisonment or death for expressing their sexual orientation or gender identity publicly. Last week, they went a step further and posted a message on the website of Uganda’s Prime Minister, saying: LGBT People of Uganda, Anonymo…

Moving Day: A Note from the Publisher

By Diane Winston

…years at USC, Religion Dispatches is moving on! We’ve enjoyed hosting the website, and the Knight Program in Media and Religion has benefited from the collaboration. We’re very proud of the work we produced together, especially covering American Christianities, public theology and LGBTQI issues. Evan Derkacz and Lisa Webster deserve special thanks for their dedication and self-sacrifice. They have been fearless editors, tireless boosters and dedi…