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Fun with Facts, or, Yes Virginia, The UCC is still a Trinitarian Denomination

By Daniel Schultz

…ght not have known from the furious headlines on Christian websites proclaiming that the 1 million-member UCC will rebuff Christ and God by slashing a reference to God as “Heavenly Father.” Terry Mattingly at GetReligion.org headlined his piece, “Adios to God the Father?” Mattingly, founder of the media critique site, thumped mainstream media for failing to notice a news release from a critic of the proposed change. Without calling UCC to find out…

God, “The 34th Miner” in Chilean Ordeal

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…he stories that accompanied them. In the past few weeks we learned of several mistresses and one newborn; the personal lives of these men exposed for the world’s scrutiny. Through the scandals, the drilling, and the anticipation, we heard repeatedly about faith—the faith that accompanied these men for over two months. Mario Sepulveda claims that he witnessed the fight between good and evil in the shadowy darkness 2,300 feet below the earth’s surfa…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…and availability a part of the country’s uncontroversial system of universal health care. Kaufman said Israel’s liberal abortion policy had been “ingrained” since the state’s founding. On the American conservatives’ silence, she said, “most of the American anti-choice groups are not made up of Jewish women of any stripe, so most don’t really care what Israel’s policy is.” On the other hand, the views of Eli Schussheim, the head of the ultra-Ortho…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…st and without a real Tamara out there, she will rely on other imaginations to forge her identity. I suspect she will be apotheosized rather than sacrificed, and will probably end up as a rival to Zoe (mimicking Adama-Graystone family rivalry in the virtual world). As far as we are concerned, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to escape the virtual world even if we are real.…

Greatest Hits of 2015: Religion Stories Our Readers Couldn’t Resist

By Ellie Faustino

…ce shocks). #5 Josh Duggar and the Purity Lie The downfall of the Duggar family, of reality TV fame, was among the most notorious sources of Schadenfreude this year. Sarah Posner goes beyond the gossip and muckraking in this post about the family’s cover-up of Josh Duggar’s sexual predation. #4 Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism’s Tipping Point “A few years ago,” writes Cathleen Falsani, “when a few progeny of preachers from Campo…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tment that Francis did not speak out against anti-LGBT violence and the criminalization of homosexuality while addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Duddy-Burke also criticized the Argentine-born pontiff for referring to “ideological colonization” and “behaviors that are not human” and “unnatural” during his speech. “I don’t think that LGBT people heard the message of greater inclusion that we were looking for,” she told the Blade. Sis…

Fundamentalist Purity Purges

By Randall Balmer

…uce K. Waltke his job as a professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary. His offense? Waltke suggested that maybe, just maybe, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was not entirely incompatible with evangelical faith. “If the data is [sic] overwhelmingly in favor of evolution, to deny that reality will make us a cult,” he said in a video that made its rounds on the internet, “some odd group that is not really interacting with the wo…

The Rise of the Catholic Cyber-Bullies

By Patricia Miller

…ty. In Martin’s own words, “it is about dialogue and prayer, not about sexual morality or the sexual practices of LGBT people.” But that didn’t stop elements of the fringe Catholic right from launching, again in Martin’s words, an “hysterical, vicious and immediate” attack on him. Groups like the Church Militant, which was recently singled out in the apparently Francis-approved take-down of the American Catholic right by Antonio Spadaro and Marcel…