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Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…role of white evangelical support for Donald Trump remains under the microscope. Last year I wrote a story about the multiplicity of reactions from evangelicals of color, many of whom worship alongside the white believers supporting a president that empowered white nationalists. In a few decades, people of color will make up the majority of the evangelical movement, according to church growth experts. Much is at stake as this political era throws…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…at UFO believers draw on sources as diverse as theosophy, Asian religions, science fiction, Scientology, Mormonism and Christianity. Certainly, the October 14 prophecy seems to have resonated with the broader UFO community. A Google search for “Blossom Goodchild” yielded 50,200 hits at last check, and YouTube contains dozens of videos that promote the October 14 prophecy and speculates on its import—one asks believers to carry their cameras today…

Is Bart Stupak As Marginalized As He Claims?

By Sarah Posner

…olic Bishops and the religious right, for whom he is the poster boy of “conscience.” Stupak uses a profile in today’s New York Times to complain that the Democratic Party spurned him. He’s voting his conscience; they’re a bunch of baby-killers. Stupak complains that his party has marginalized him for his anti-abortion views, but that — cue the gloating vindictiveness befitting the opposition, rather than a party loyalist — he showed them by roundi…

The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

By Hugh B. Urban

…nched against journalist Paulette Cooper because of her scathing book, The Scandal of Scientology (1971). According to documents obtained by an FBI raid, the operation was designed to do nothing less than to get Cooper “incarcerated in a mental institution or jail.” The “freakout” was to be accomplished by making fake bomb threats against the church and, if that failed, to frame Cooper for attempting to bomb Henry Kissinger. The GO was officiall…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…tle against the powers of hell. The opportunity to mobilize against self-described Satanists creates a kind of collective effervescence and its energy has already begun to transfer to other conservative causes. After decrying the black mass, Aletiea’s exorcist went on to condemn atheism, abortion, and gay marriage. For conservative culture warriors, public displays of Satanism form a convenient centerpiece for a declension narrative in which Ameri…

Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

By Frances Kissling

…ice legislators in 2004; three of them publicly resisted. One became an Episcopalian; the other said he’d go to Mass in New York and a third just said that was the end of Mass for him. Duin suggests that bishops who have imposed sanctions on politicians in other dioceses should pick up the phone and call Wuerl and ask him to extend the penalties to the DC diocese. They are about as likely to be successful as the Catholics who have petitioned the V…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…le funding for science. Pick the candidate that’s going to be the most pro-science, and I mean pro-science in a philosophical way. [The candidate should be] ready to allow robots into our homes, to allow CRISPR technology that’s going to give our children ten more IQ points through genetic treatments. The question is: which politician is going to be the easiest one to guide us down this thorny path of evolution? If the right candidate reached out…

The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience

By Michael Schulson

…rain. More, perhaps, than participants in any other scientific field, neuroscientists can oscillate between the hard data of the physical world and the loftier questions of self and soul. That kind of back-and-forth has been central to the career of David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at the Baylor College of Medicine. As an academic researcher, Eagleman has studied time perception, synesthesia, sensory input, and decision-making. But that more tradi…

Planned Parenthood ‘Stung’ By Lila Rose

By Bill Berkowitz

…crosystems. She was home schooled… and also attended a part-time Christian school and a junior college throughout high school. When she was 15, she said, she founded Live Action and began giving anti-abortion presentations to schools and youth groups. Between 2006 and 2008, Rose attended four workshops at the Leadership Institute, a Virginia-based educational foundation that teaches conservatives how to polish their communication skills. The Times…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ports that Muslim and Jewish religious leaders have raised concerns over discussions about extending a law against racial discrimination “to include people claiming they have been offended or insulted because of their sexual orientation, disabilities or age.” The Australian reports that some religious leaders are concerned, in the words of Islamic Council of Queensland spokesman Ali Kadri, that “the misinterpretation of such laws can trample upon…