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Mormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…ged members to vote for the initiative but instructed them not to use ward contact lists for campaigning or to say they were campaigning or voting on behalf of the LDS Church. The letter even specified that the letter itself should not be printed or distributed, only read by the bishop to congregations. It seems like there is a heightened awareness on the part of LDS leaders that members are tracking what’s happening more carefully. SH: Yes. We be…

Will Ralph Reed’s New Venture Wed Religious Right to Tea Partiers?

By Sarah Posner

…the world, we crush the entrepreneurial and liberty-loving freedom of the American people to go out there and pursue their dreams as high and as far as they can carry them.” Reed Reenters a Crowded and Ambivalent Evangelical World It was Reed’s overly zealous entrepreneurial spirit—to put it charitably—that led to his key role in the Abramoff scandal. Although he crashed and burned in his first public effort after the scandal, evangelical activis…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…ar, some threatening—pouring into the church as of publication. The church contacted local and federal law enforcement (who they say have been helpful) and took their Palm Sunday service online. Rev. John Edgerton told RD, “Threatening a church because you do not like the way they practice Christianity is a crime. Our Constitution guarantees the right to the free exercise of religion. A campaign of threats like this is intended to do one thing: in…

California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

By Sarah Sentilles

…there were a handful of control units across the country, according to the American Friends Service Committee. Today an estimated 44 states have supermax facilities, and “[as with the overall prison population, people of color are disproportionately represented in isolation units.” “In California, roughly 90 percent of the individuals in the Security Housing Units are people of color,” said Markle Downton. “For people of faith, for people of consc…

Presbyterians, Change Hearts & Minds, Begin Ordaining Gays

By MaryAnn McKibben Dana

…l” nature of their work: the campaign’s success relied on person-to-person contact. Peterson says the Covenant Network group in Blackhawk Presbytery set a goal of calling every single commissioner, urging them to come to the meeting and in many cases, offering to meet to talk further. Some presbyteries employed scripts and talking points; others were more informal. “There were a lot of cups of coffee shared,” says Peterson. She noted that whereas…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…t vampires, Jesus is a prophet in Islam, Bible verses don’t burn people on contact—but that idea, that this gun, named after the holy wars waged by Catholics against Muslims, Jews, “pagans,” and other Christians from 1096 until they finally ended in 1798, is both a weapon for Christians to “hoist the flag of our faith and make a statement” and apparently anti-Muslim kryptonite—is a whole mess of Islamophobic Christian nationalist ideas in a single…

Raelians Push White House for Alien Embassy to Save Humanity

By Joseph Laycock

…, Jesus, and Muhammad. Thus all religions are actually the result of alien contact. To show the Elohim we are prepared to receive their help, Rael was to oversee the construction of an embassy in Jerusalem that would serve as a millennial “third temple.” Originally Earth was given until 2025 to construct the embassy or face destruction, though a website describing the embassy has pushed the critical date back to 2035. It also features messages fro…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…ow? Lifetimes after Sharbat Gula had her picture taken—her image stolen—by American photographer Steven McCurry, how many Americans know the name of one Afghan photographer? Afghans, and Afghan women and girls in particular, do not need saving. They need—and deserve—understanding through multiple lenses and panoramas, and they need respect as individuals. ### Author’s note: Afghan-led organizations to follow and support include Enabled Children’s…

Progressive Faith Leaders Rally to Keep Heat on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

By Alex McNeill

…ear, and the faith communities he represents are fired up and ready to act because the next four weeks are critical to the fate of DADT. He, and the Human Rights Campaign are calling on everyone who wants DADT repealed to contact their US Senators today to urge them to push for repeal before the November election. As Knox insists, “we must not wait on the courts. The Senate must not pass the buck on justice. The time for repeal is now.”…

Sing the Glory of the Smoke: The Spiritual History of Jazz

By Andrew Aghapour

…on scholars certain anti-essentialist leanings. Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion Jason C. Bivins Oxford University Press (May 1, 2015) The similarities run deeper. Jazz musicians often describe their music as “sacred,” “spiritual,” and conducive of self-realization or social change. The history of jazz in America is one of cultural and sonic recombination, a mingling of traditions and concepts, words and sounds. Bivins, a professor in…