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Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ics Too often, major Apostles and Prophets of the NAR are misidentified in news stories and magazine articles as pastors or evangelists. While they may be those things as well, the failure to more precisely recognize the nature of their leadership and their church offices is a hefty understatement, and promotes critical misunderstandings of their roles. It’s like referring to Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan as a Catholic priest. He is certai…

DeMint Stymies Obama’s Religious Diplomacy Nominee

By Sarah Posner

…y of going about blocking the nomination, the Obama administration realized those hurdles and isn’t, as Freedman reports, going to attempt to renominate her. As Anthea noted, “With all respect to Dr. Sujay, the issues of religious freedom around the world, from Muslim-Christian violence in Africa, to protests by Buddhist monks in Myanmar, to religious repression in North Korea, should not be entrusted to a person whose most recent speaking engagem…

Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…conservative Christian lobbying organization Family Research Council—and Trump’s newest appointee to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Perkins exactly fits the profile of a commission championed by conservative Christians and largely focused on the rights of Christians abroad. Perkins is perhaps best known for his vociferous anti-LGBT stances. Designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Family…

Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…Middle Eastern mass migration of the past 2 years, not because … — David Frum (@davidfrum) November 14, 2015 Yeah. The last two years. Let’s take thousands of people, deport them—to where, exactly?—and trust that these same people, many of whom risked life and limb to arrive in Europe against all odds, will then not become radicalized. After all, the overwhelming majority of these people are peaceful, innocent of no crime, and will have just been…

Religion in Tension on World AIDS Day

By Susan Henking

…heme, “Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise” calls us, whether we are religious or secular, to refuse the role of religion in perpetuating hatred and inhumanity, to focus on a role for religion in social justice for all, and to share in the work of world transformation, aiming for a world in which World AIDS Day is no more. Some say setting aside a day to remember and mourn the millions who have died and the millions with AIDS/HIV is itself sacralizing—let…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…yer, an estimated 200 million Christians in stadiums and arenas around the world joined in synchronous prayer. Haggard’s New Life Church and the adjacent World Prayer Center that was dedicated in 1998 were, for roughly a decade, the epicenter of an ongoing, radical redefinition of Christianity. One of its early board members became known to the secular world during the 2008 presidential campaign as an enigmatic Kenyan evangelist who, in 2005, had…

Surprise: Local Press Does Good Job Covering Anti-Islam Campaigning…

By Hussein Rashid

…s in America, something interesting happened in Calgary, Canada. I believe CNN was the only national news outlet to recognize that Canada’s most conservative city elected a Muslim mayor, in a campaign where his faith was of little importance. The situation is instructive as to how fear, or lack of understanding, does not have to be the defining characteristic of a group of people. The election was about substance, not vitriol. When the question of…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…d to create a commission to study the issue of ordination and marriage. As World Religion News notes: The situation was extremely unlike even a few years ago. Even though a substantial portion of American Methodists are supportive of same-sex marriages, a conservative delegate coalition from the US and other countries have repeatedly blocked the required votes at the denominational meetings. More on the global context from Jacob Lupfer at Religion…

The Road to Decriminalization of Psychoactive Drugs Runs Through Religion

By Brad Stoddard

…ed to use them both recreationally and sacramentally. To honor the latter, Ruck created the word entheogen by combining the Greek word “entheos,” often translated as “god within,” with “gen” from the word hallucinogen. The term has grown in recent decades motivated by several factors. Chief among them is what activists and proponents often refer to as the Psychedelic Renaissance. As journalist and author Michael Pollan wrote in his 2018 New York T…

Adventists Cancel ‘Holy Sexuality’ Confab; Egyptian Court OKs Deportation of Gays; Mongolian Trans Activist Gives TV Interview; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on and that it is, as it has been thought in the past, a skewed, or in the words of the church, the rather regrettable words of the church – when I think back to what Benedict has written about it when he described it as ‘intrinsically disordered’. “Many of us do not believe it to be ‘intrinsically disordered’ but believe it to be a perfectly normal human adaptation.” The Church has threatened to stop performing the legal or civil parts of a weddi…