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Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…back loops. What happens next? Old fertilizer is a negative feedback loop. Compost is a positive one. Complex systems thinking, which knows that even the rich are just a part of the picture. Nesting governance, decisions made locally and then nested. Encouraging ongoing learning. The resilience of the skateboarders will save us. The world’s leaders may not. Many of them are too invested in what I call the static quo. I’m not going all the way to h…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…statement on the issue of fracking, which is also affecting an increasing number of communities in the state, it has not publicized it widely either. The same reluctance to speak loudly and clearly can be seen in the Diocese’s response to worker justice issues. In 2013, during the Fairness at Patriot campaign, when church officials were asked why the bishop was not saying anything publicly in defense of the miners whose pensions and insurance wer…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…ere not companionship-based. They were economic arrangements. Okay, that’s number 1. Number 2, let’s say that your wife didn’t provide you with a male offspring. A man could take another wife and another wife and another wife until one of them did. This is the “sanctity of marriage” that is being protected. Are you kidding me? Wow. Okay, so that’s Old Testament. Then along comes Jesus. Well for those of us who follow Jesus, I always like to point…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…is a monolith, there is no such thing as the LGBTI community or the Muslim community, we have communities within communities within communities,” Khaki said, referring to those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex. In addition to the Iftar, the Toronto Unity Mosque regularly keeps its doors open as a safe space for all. “The mosque comes out of a visioning of Islam as an egalitarian space, where everyone has access to G…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…s and other animals are ultimately the same. This calls for at least three comments. First, Christianity is in fact compatible with evolution and the “closing of the gulf between humans and other animals.” There are many extraordinarily intelligent Christians who have freely admitted that evolution poses challenges to Christian theology and have freely chosen to not ignore them or sweep them under the rug. They have a deep knowledge of Christian h…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…ential material,” said Mpofu. “Oh yeah,” echoes Bourland. “In my heart, I just begin to pray, God, let this woman rise to this place that you want her to go,” said Mpofu. “Number one, she’s a Christian. Number two, she’s a woman.” Watch a short video montage of the conference here. —Ed….

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones

By Joseph Laycock

…tones’ origin is that Joe Fendley Sr., president of the Elberton Finishing Company, was contacted in 1979 by one “Robert C. Christian” to commission a monument. Christian was a pseudonym used by someone representing “a small group of loyal Americans who believe in God.” Fendley has since died, but Randall Sullivan of Wired interviewed Wyatt Martin, the president of Granite City Bank and the only living man who allegedly met Christian. As the proje…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…ed and morally corrupt. The reality of the North-South dynamic is far more complex—there is cross-pollination these days between Christian traditions in the Global South and in the developed world, with African evangelicals aggressively moving to develop their own missions in Texas, Ukraine, Moscow, and elsewhere. The original Counter-Reformation did not originate in Europe’s developing colonial holdings but, rather, in the European Catholic Churc…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…e likely to be confronted by, or exposed to, pornography. When the Federal Communications Commission lifted all “restrictions on obscene speech or visual content in radio and television broadcasts,” it freed television programmers to show “explicit portrayals of sexual acts” any time during the day. Gun ownership is outlawed in eight states and “the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships.” Home…

The Jihadi Revolution is Dead (But Bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Kill It)

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…American military cadre some hours ago in Pakistan, but the legion of cell phone-toting protestors earlier this year in Tahrir Square. They have helped to complete the erosion of legitimacy that has undermined the jihadi activists in recent years within the Muslim world. For the past thirty years, the jihadi movement has crested on a wave of popular unrest and been propelled by the moral legitimacy given by their violent interpretation of the…