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The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality from Emerson to Oprah (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005); Schmidt and Sally Promey, eds.,American Religious Liberalism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012); Courtney Bender, The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010); Kathryn Lofton in Oprah: Gospel of an Icon(Berkeley: University of California, 2011); Mat…

Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?

By Katherine Stewart

…religious entities receive approximately $71 billion dollars per year in tax benefits and exemptions from the government, thus tilting the economic equation in favor of churchgoing families with the effect that they will eventually produce more voters. The more babies a congregation can produce, the more a religious entity can, over the long haul, move government policy in one direction. Founder of Seattle’s Mars Hill megachurch Mark Driscoll, wh…

“Like sunshine in the darkest abyss I’ve ever experienced.”

By Joanna Brooks

…he wants to be. I want him to feel comfortable there. I want him to be with his partner in church, feeling comfortable holding his partner’s hand, if he wants. I don’t want him to choose between a God he loves and a man he loves. None of us have to make that choice we expect of gay LDS people. If I had to, I’d choose a family and love….

Why Jason Collins’ Faith is Ignored… And Tebow’s Isn’t

By T.F. Charlton

…he reality that black Christians—of whatever politics or persuasion—don’t exist in this mindset except as tokens who afﬁrm the conservative persecution complex. After ﬂoating the conspiracy theory that Tebow was cut from the Jets because of his beliefs (“an avowed Christian like [him] is someone they enjoy kicking to the curb”), Abbott cites a Catholic priest’s assertion that “there is no spiritual leadership [Collins] has claimed in order to lead…

Body of Work: Remembering Daniel Berrigan, 1921-2016

By Michele Somerville

…bbing you and your mother!” someone stepping forward to state the obvious exclaimed. That this story was expressed with knives, and not guns, says something about how far we have failed to come. The edgy nun came for a school year and was soon gone. Shortly after she left, there was a new principal and a new pastor. The parish kept the folk mass, but by the end of eighth grade—1972—posters of fetuses began to appear on the street outside the churc…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…able. ‘The Bible condemns lust and immorality of any sort (whether heterosexual or homosexual). But nowhere does the Bible discuss same-sex attractions or how to live as a Christian if you have such feelings. ‘These are subjects where we must seek God’s heart through prayer and the guidance that we do have in Scripture.’ In 2013, Yang Tuck Yoong urged the church to be “battle ready” and get into “battle footing” to take on the “LGBT bloc” as he ra…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…s” in northern Brazil. In the late 1930s the Third Reich would sponsor an expedition to Tibet to find traces of ancient Aryan tribes in the Himalayas. (It was considered a success). And into the 20th century, leading archaeologists believed that massive ruins in southern Africa had been built by a lost white civilization. It’s tempting to wonder what these explorers saw. Were they crazy? Were they lying? Were they right? Can we find any lost white…

‘Politicized Religion’ Doesn’t Explain Evangelical Support of Donald Trump

By Daniel Miller

…wo Corinthians”) as ordinary Americans are with the loopholes of the IRS tax code…‘The Art of the Deal,’ his campaign biography by default, is a human billboard for pride and lust…‘I’m a greedy person,’ he told an Iowa audience, ‘I’ve always been greedy.’ Prothero’s explanation is structured around the notion of evangelicals’ loss of their fundamental religious identity through politicization. In supporting Trump, Prothero insists, evangelicals “a…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…her Moses Maimonides wrote that pi’s reality has not been found, only approximated. “The ratio between a diameter of a circle and its distance around is not known,” writes Maimonides, who goes on to recommend 22/7 as an approximation. More recently, Pi, the main character in 2001 novel Life of Pi, calls pi an “elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe.” “Like ‘pi’, life is not finite,” author Yann Martel expla…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e would go to hell,” Hendricks said. “So, I thought there was no place of expression for sexuality in my life. The community tells you you should just get married and then it will all go away. And so I got married. But it didn’t even take us a year to realize that we had made a big mistake.” Hendricks had two children with his wife, but then divorced her to seek a more honest life: “I needed to let the world know that I was an imam, but that I was…