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Which Hogwarts House would Jesus be in? Or would He be in a Walmart Receipt?

By Michael J. Altman

…, the Obamas went to church. President Obama also met with the Dalai Lama. China did not like it. You probably bought your Bible from Rupert Murdoch. According to a new survey, reading the Bible will make you more concerned about poverty, the environment, and civil liberties. Though some find the hubbub surrounding the new Harry Potter flick diabolical, at least one theologian is asking the tough questions about Hogwarts. What Hogwarts house would…

SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree

By Dianna Anderson

…ut, as any close observer of evangelicalism since its booming growth in the 1960s and 70s can tell you, complementarianism is a breeding ground for abusive marriages and harmful sexual ethics. Patterson didn’t emerge out of his own unique muck of sin: his theology is directly in line with what prominent evangelical pastors have been saying for years. When I first began studying the evangelical church in 2010, I discovered an entire underground net…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ish passport for her son, reported the Irish Sun. The denial was based on a 1965 law, which recognizes as a child’s mother the person who gives birth to the child. She was told that, because his mother is British, her son “cannot be regarded as an Irish citizen.” But Katie, who lives with Holly in Suffolk, England, said: “We are so frustrated and heartbroken that we can’t get an Irish passport for our son because of an antiquated law passed in 195…

Harold Camping, Prophet of Apocalypse, Dies at 92

By Daniel Silliman

…9 percent certain the end would come in September of that year, between the 15th and the 17th of the month. Critics quoted Jesus saying “no man knows the day nor the hour” of Christ’s Second Coming, but Camping said that was right. He knew the year, the week and the month, not the day or the hour. A follow-up, setting the same date, was titled Are You Ready? In it, Camping claimed to have discovered a calendar in the Bible, missed by everyone who…

The Risk of Teaching Theology in a Public University: A Response

By Martin Kavka

…ley had announced that it had figured out how to travel back in time to the 1940s. For it seemed that the nation’s most highly ranked public institution had announced an expansion of something that sounded dogmatic and even sectarian—“theology”—and a diminution of something truly public, the academic study of religion. Now, Jonathan Sheehan, the director of BCSR, has expanded in Religion Dispatches on what he sees as BCSR’s role in a public instit…

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…x reassignment” and the government subsidizes the surgery. It dates back to 1986 when, following a personal appeal from a trans woman, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a hand-written fatwa that “God willing, sex reassignment, if advised by a reliable doctor, is permissible.” More from the BuzzFeed story: Hundreds have undergone sex reassignment surgery in Iran since Molkara’s meeting with Khomeini. Almost 1,400 people applied for permission for the proce…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…conversation about anything from gender to science—climate change, Russia, China, and a thousand other things beside, just because of some admittedly very dangerous but equally not very sophisticated terrorists. Or, like someone said to me after one of my book readings, “I thought you were going to be Hamas.” Seriously? Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? My life kind of crashed and burned when I hit 32. Outwardly, everything wa…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…ny binding union activities. The Apostle Joseph F. Merrill, speaking at the 1941 Conference, referred to closed shops as “Satan’s club,” and in 1965, the Prophet David O. McKay wrote to Mormon congressmen urging them to protect right-to-work legislation in the name of “free agency.” “That’s Not Flip-Flopping” A key principle of Mormon theology, “free agency” is foundational, with roots extending all the way back to the Mormon pre-earthly existence…

What’s Truth? Scientific Method Under the Microscope

By Arri Eisen

…ge numbers of people, write up the experience, repeat it, compare the same number of people at the same time who don’t believe in God, but are otherwise similar, see if they have the same experience, and then have someone in Australia and China repeat my experiment and see if they get the same results. This method is what science is supposed to be about; this is scientific proof, this is what scientists believe in. The Decline Effect: Results are…

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

…n who were “irregularly” ordained in 1974, ushered in regular ordination by 1976 and the consecration of the first woman bishop, Barbara Harris, in 1989. Roman Catholic women began ordaining themselves in 2004 after an initial irregular ordination by a male bishop in 2002. While these women (who number about 50 priests and five bishops) have been excommunicated, they are living proof that the institutional church has only the power we give it. The…