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Cross-Burning Hearing Ends, Trial Set to Begin

By Lauri Lebo

…was accusing the Dennis family of lying. Then he accused them of being in it for money. Then he wanted to know if I was a Christian. In short, Freshwater and his supporters have done everything but accept personal responsibility for his actions. I have not spoken to Zachary’s mother Jenifer about this (The judge has issued gag orders in both the termination hearing and the civil case.) but with the trial still weeks away, I wouldn’t be surprised…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…ate. Entrapment by the religious police does not necessarily lead to prosecution, but often results in life-long financial and/or sexual blackmail. Ali, a 31 year-old gay law student in Jeddah told Gay Star News: ‘Once the Hay’ah [religious police] have your identity on record for being gay, you are very likely to face financial and even sexual blackmail. Argentina: President will Godmother to Child of Lesbian Couple President Cristina Fernandez,…

Sometimes Salvation Looks Like Rage: An Open Letter to “Non-denominational” Churches

By Yazmine Nichols

…1 Corinthians 5:1-13 are usually cited as reasons for “radical” acts of amputation). But how are we defining what is radical? Are we only radical when it comes to sexual sin? Are we radical in our love for the poor? Throughout the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, God commands the people to take care of the neighbor. The neighbor is the prostitute, the widow, the child, and yes, the sinner in the church. What would the world look like if we spen…

What Liberals Want: A Response to Susan Thistlethwaite

By Frances Kissling

…We can’t face each other. And so Thistlethwaite holds forth in “On Faith” but does not pick up the phone and call Peter. And Peter in turn rails against Wallis who in turn ignores everyone he does not think is more powerful than he (there I just did it; I was nasty). Thistlethwaite suggests that the differences are actually about strategy. Liberals demand complete agreement on all issues to work with others on one issue. Progressives want to reach…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…it will be. A signal of peace for every one of us who agonizes—while the outside world watches mutely or wonders aloud why we even bother—over how our beloved faith will respond to the pressures of the twenty-first century. Forget Mitt Romney. Forget the Book of Mormon musical. Forget—yes, forget—the LDS Church’s multi-million dollar “I’m a Mormon” campaign designed to rebrand contemporary Mormonism as diverse and welcoming. This painful, pivotal…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…doing.” All this from a public radio audience. With renunciation of Dove Outreach coming from even the most outspoken anti-Muslim public figures (both political and religious) maybe the whole mess will serve to dial back the Islamophobic rhetoric a bit. The Wall Street Journal has reported that “residents of Gainesville are trying to get the word out that the actions of one tiny church don’t reflect the city. Along the main drag, businesses are p…

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

…f religion. Death is obviously a powerful consideration in the religious, but religion is about so much more than the fear of death. Morality, for example, has nothing to do with psychology or anxiety. I’m trying to show the psychological breadth of religion, a comprehensive addressing of everything. My own take on your book is that you multiply the number of psychological motivations we can associate with religion, and so you’re offering a much b…

Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

By Michael De Dora

…, about reason, about humanism.” There’s also the case of Ahemedur Rashid Tutul. Tutul is co-founder of the publishing house Shuddhashar. Shuddhashar, which began as a magazine, primarily produced books by young freethinkers; by late 2015, they had published roughly 1,000 books. “The slogan of my organization was ‘To Inspire,’” Tutul told me in an email. “Shuddhashar played an important role of trying to develop Bangladesh as a secular country cul…

Presbyterians, Change Hearts & Minds, Begin Ordaining Gays

By MaryAnn McKibben Dana

…t time the vote was 192-125 in our presbytery, and this time it was 152-152 [which counts as a “no” vote]. A huge and surprising difference… I don’t know about you, but if I’d thought we could get that close, I’d have beaten the bushes harder.” …

Even Tougher Questions to Ask Mormon Presidential Candidates

By Joanna Brooks

…the relationship between personal faith and public decision-making. Both have solid track records of non-theocratic reasoning in business and government life. What they may not have learned to do in the cradle of Mormon religious culture is to be willing to step outside the institutional reward structures they’ve profited from, or to state hard truths that challenge majority opinions within their own circles of power and influence—traits desirabl…