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War on Christmas Affirmed by Southern Baptist Convention

By Mark Gstohl

…if Southern Baptists feel the need to de-secularize Christmas they should practice the teachings of Christ and reflect on whether or not they are truly restoring Christmas to its proper place in their lives. Has Christmas become an excuse for excessive consumption? How much time does one spend in reflection on the incarnation versus the time spent contemplating gift lists and shopping? I think the best method for addressing the secularization of…

The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…hington this week, told me that while the AHB would authorize the state to prosecute, imprison, and even put to death anyone the state deems homosexual, “to date we have more non-state violence directed at gay people.” That violence is both promoted by the government—one parliamentarian has said if he had a lesbian daughter, he would hang her—and carried out by private citizens with government complicity. If a lesbian victim of the common “correct…

From A Belize Jungle, A Look At Creationist “Outreach” in Vancouver

By Lauri Lebo

…rieked, growled and grunted at each other. Julian pointed out a jaguar paw print — sadly no jaguar. Leaf cutter ants marched back and forth lugging bits of green on immaculately cleared trails reaching into the jungle farther than the beam of our flashlight. Never have I been so surrounded by such rich primitive fecund life. It is intoxicating and disorienting. From the sky came an incredible BOOM. “What was that?” Julian said slowly, as if we wou…

Republicans in Favor of Reproductive Rights

By Katie Toth

…ct the views of the party’s constituents. Secondly, Stone says, labels of “pro-life” and “pro-choice” are misleading and do little to reveal people’s political opinions. “National pollsters need to stop using self-labeling to gauge true sentiment on the issue of choice,” she says. “These labels have lost their meaning.” In a Gallup poll earlier this year, 72 percent of Republicans and 50 percent of the general population identified as “pro-life”;…

Why It’s Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…max is and you roll Mark backwards to the opening, he opens with a story appropriate to Rosh Hashanah. Mark writes a Jesus narrative to carry the Jewish Christians from Rosh Hashanah to Passover. The reason Matthew wanted to expand Mark was that he wanted Jesus stories for the whole year so he has another five and a half months to cover. One of the crucial insights is that because Matthew can’t hold off the baptism of Jesus until Rosh Hashanah whe…

Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation

By Isaiah Murtaugh

…urtyard of the next-door Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, to pray for another revival. It’s the latest stop on a nationwide “worship protest” campaign, led by Sean Feucht, a worship leader, failed congressional candidate, and would-be revivalist. Feucht’s Let Us Worship events have become regular news cycle fodder, with largely maskless crowds flouting local rules on social distancing and worship gatherings. Feucht has styled the eve…

Is Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?

By Anthea Butler

…sake of his family. I could care less who he decides to 999. Allowing his private dalliances to become a public spectacle while pretending to tout “family values” is hypocritical. What’s more, Cain may want to rethink all of the things he said about black people being brainwashed into voting for Democrats. He is going to need the solace of the black church to comfort him when he gets off the campaign trail. Somehow, though, I don’t think his chur…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…been permitted since 1963, but clarified first that burial of the body is preferred over cremation, and second that in the case of cremation, scattering of the ashes, or keeping the remains in a private or domestic setting is strictly forbidden. “It is not permitted to scatter the ashes of the faithful departed in the air, on land, at sea or in some other way, nor may they be preserved in mementos, pieces of jewelry or other objects.” Instead, al…

High Ark: A Geologist on the True Meaning of Noah’s Flood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…illing to talk about science as a human endeavor. I spoke to Montgomery by phone to find out more about these surprising aspects of his story. ______________ BWL: You write in your introduction that you started out to write a more traditional debunking of creationism’s flood geology, from your perspective as a geologist. And you ended up with something different. What happened? DM: I learned a lot writing this book. And I like it much better than…

When Mormons Mobilize: Anti-Gay Marriage Prop. 8 Effort ‘Outed’?

By Joanna Brooks

…ervice once again, she prepared to undertake the same donor-identification project for Proposition 8 at the Web site mormonsfor8.com. In early September, a surge of $25,000 donations began to appear in campaign finance records compiled by the California Secretary of State. Hansen and a crew of Mormon supporters of same-sex marriage began to comb large donor records to identify Mormon Church members. By Election Day, mormonsfor8.com volunteers had…