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Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…rt ever needed and felt. Sometimes you find an oasis, like The Reformation Project, but I’m in the wilderness for now, and I’m learning about God’s faithfulness, provision and goodness in new ways. What could your church have done to keep you? I don’t really blame my church for the ways things turned out. They just don’t have the tools or resources to even begin divesting from whiteness. It would have been a process that took many many years and s…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…lded 50,200 hits at last check, and YouTube contains dozens of videos that promote the October 14 prophecy and speculates on its import—one asks believers to carry their cameras today to record proof of the visitation. Equally significant, mediums channeling different extraterrestrial beings have chimed in, claiming that they have received their own confirmations of this evening’s cosmic denouement. Not all the attention appears to have been good….

Is Bart Stupak As Marginalized As He Claims?

By Sarah Posner

…iness of distributing “the most popular pork skins in America,” also lists pro-Stupak Bobby Bright as a client. Bright, also of Alabama, was recently profiled in the Times, too, for voting more with Republicans than Democrats (including against the health care bill, after demanding the inclusion of the Stupak amendment). What the party leadership is out of touch with is not Stupak, but its own constituents. In an ongoing discussion of the efficacy…

The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

By Hugh B. Urban

…h Rundown” report, the church adopted a different strategy: it hired three prominent journalists (a Pulitzer Prize winner, a former 60 Minutes producer, and the former executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors) to undertake their own investigation of the Times and the conduct of Childs and Tobin. This new move is at once in continuity with Scientology’s longstanding war with the American media and the signal of an important shift i…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…ow Satanists. Daniels is also a registered sex offender, having had an inappropriate relationship with a female prisoner while working as a guard at an Oklahoma prison. When asked if there had been a pushback to Daniels’ previous three events, Civic Center general manager Jim Brown answered, “We’ve had none.” However, Daniels’ latest announcement to hold a black mass at the Civic Center on September 21 has generated unprecedented attention. Mayor…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…eople’s need to succeed… With the church’s complicity in some cases, as in prosperity preaching… Yes. And the prosperity preaching was utilized by people who said… you can get a house, nothing down, reverse mortgage. You can get a house with negative equity and it’s actually worth $200K but we’ll get it appraised at 300 so you can get the loan and we won’t tell you about the adjustment so 5 years later it’s gonna go from no percent to 7.5. But let…

Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

By Frances Kissling

…s, to be in dialogue on the issue. And indeed, many pro-choice Senators, Representatives, Supreme Court Justices and administration officials who are prochoice and Catholic regularly and publicly receive communion in DC. You can see them for example at the annual “Red Mass” in September which honors the opening of the Supreme Court session. Wuerl, of course, is making a canonically sound decision not to use communion against legislators who vote f…

Planned Parenthood ‘Stung’ By Lila Rose

By Bill Berkowitz

…really, to wage a campaign against PPFA as they are the most well known reproductive health provider.” Indeed, Rose’s work “is an update of an old tactic invented by Mark Crutcher of the Denton, Texas-based group Life Dynamics,” adds Frederick Clarkson, a longtime researcher of the anti-choice movement. Crutcher waged a similar campaign for several years, and while his efforts were much ballyhooed in the conservative press, little ultimately came…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…y process. I think reason is one of the main reasons that the evolutionary process is now progressing forward so fast. I don’t want to even pretend that [an advanced future will be] devoid of all religion or spirituality. The reason that I like the scientific method, which I base everything on, is that it never allows you to be correct. It allows you to make the best decision at the time, given all the circumstances you have in front of you. And I…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…as constituting an underlying principle of this right; it would be more appropriate to view the right to freedom of religion or belief as also constituting a right to equality. This right prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion or belief system, recognized as sacrosanct by a number of human rights instruments. It must be clear, however, that the right to freedom of religion or belief does not give the individual – as a right-holder – th…