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A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…t. Finding unexpected connections between verses, what believers call comparing scripture with scripture, was a way to become known in the group. The essays they wrote explaining these links could be stunningly intricate. That intricacy was part of the appeal. The arguments were so complex that they were impossible to summarize and therefore very challenging to refute. As one longtime believer, an accountant, told me: “Based on everything we know,…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…ore landing at the Episcopal Christ Church Cathedral. But as a gay man, Morris wearied of Christian conversations about sexuality that have raged in the new millennium. At the suggestion of his husband, English instructor Sean Michael Morris, he explored Druidry. In 2010, he released a solo album, When Everything Breaks Open, and started a neo-Pagan blog, Bishop in the Grove, under the pen-name Teo Bishop, which eventually became his legal name. O…

Giving Up God—Not Just a Spiritual Stunt

By Becky Garrison

…pped up in these denominations; even the most progressive expressions of Christianity strike me as marketing and branding. Nor am I attracted to atheist churches like Sunday Assembly because I just don’t care for the format of an evangelical worship service. One of the perks of being an atheist is not having to do that anymore. I’ve been in the religion business all my life and I just need a break. Is this some kind of apophatic journey of the sou…

Why is Liberty Institute Still Defending Phillip Monk?

By Rob Shryock

…on…and with the exception of him, those folks that have called us have all wanted to remain anonymous. Sergeant Monk, to his credit, is willing to stand up.” Let’s read between the lines here: Monk is, quite literally, the best example of discrimination against Christians in the military that the Liberty Institute could find. He was chosen not so much because his case is strong, but because he was willing. So it’s quite possible that they’re unwi…

Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)

By Sarah Posner

…f Numbers.) Anti-marriage equality crusader Bishop Harry Jackson, who is African American, urges readers to vote for Romney “as a statement of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream.” While King was sitting in the Birmingham jail, Romney was tormenting boys with long hair at Cranbrook, and his Church was still 15 years away from lifting its ban on black men serving in the priesthood. Romney was still nearly half a century away from pronouncing his contemp…

Mormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…sing. To close, tell me how you came to be supporters of same-sex civil marriage rights. SL: I’ve never been against gay rights. I remember when I was a little kid, these lifelong family friends—their daughter came out as a lesbian. They were Mormon, and the dad was bishop of their local congregation. He did not allow his daughter to bring her partner home for Thanksgiving. I thought then that this was one of the worst things I’d ever heard. It m…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…multimedia presentation that went along with its otherwise fine piece on African-American Mormons. Mormons, we’re busy and pragmatic people. We laugh about the little stuff. (And believe me, we’ve heard the one about the LDS and the LSD before.) It’s a bigger problem when journalists misconstrue Mormon doctrine in the service of political critique, as did Wills. Yes, Mormon leaders have taught that the Constitution was “divinely inspired,” and man…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…r church clothes—dress shirts and ties for men, dresses for women. Some carried scriptures in hand. Others pushed their children in strollers, or carried them on their shoulders. Susan Dortsch from Park City, Utah, was among the first to arrive. “As a parent, when I read about gay kids committing suicide and parents kicking out kids, it hammers at my heart,” she explained. “I came because I wanted to be part of what I hope will be a new directio…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…mornings in my childhood church, listening to the fatherly, white-haired priest’s baritone reverberate through the floorboards while imaginary bees hummed from the whirring fans. Yet, despite these gladder memories, I told the pastor as I thumbed through a copy of a local Portuguese-language evangelical newsletter, I too often exited Sunday Mass heavy of spirit, brooding over my terrible guilt and sinfulness—common refrains offered up with few pa…

Pennsylvania Rep. Says Contraception Mandate Is Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r thing to… do whatever Rep. Kelly thinks he’s doing. I give up. Here, have a video about Basenjis freaking out when a phone rings:…