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Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…with different levels of authority, so as not to mistake what your local parish priest says for a papal encyclical. Bishops are going to read this book too, and they’re going to want to know that the LGBT community can interact with them in a respectful way as well. But the basic answer is that those virtues are Christian virtues. One of the things that always comes to mind is Martin Luther King, and the way he counseled people who were facing per…

C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…trident pulpit-pounding that makes headlines, Coe preaches a far more authoritarian message, advising congressmen to look to “evil men” such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao for insight into the nature of Christ’s power. Why did the much of the mainstream media—with the exception of MSNBC’S Rachel Maddow—lose interest in the C Street story after they mined the sex out of it? I can only speculate. To be fair, it’s not quite that bad or that unusual. Fir…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…: U.S. Conservatives gripe about media coverage of marriage equality An American right-wing media monitoring group, the Media Research Council, complained this week about media coverage of the mass gay wedding and related celebrations that took place in Puerto Rico after the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling. MRC said on Monday that Univision’s coverage focused on the celebrations and shut out the voices of those who are still opposed…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…has no intention of buckling to such pressures. In the words of Buffalo Springfield, “Something’s happening here.” The rift between younger evangelicals and the Republican Party has been widening for several years now. Put simply, younger evangelicals—and, apparently, even those at places like Regent University—disagree with the older generation of religious right leaders who insist that the only salient moral issues are abortion and same-sex mar…

Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?

By Sarah Posner

…eventing abortion—but pamphlets that detail the number of gun deaths in America, the number of mass shootings, the number of accidents, the number of suicides. The movement would have more than these grassroots activists. It would have willing politicians, a legal strategy, and lots of money. All of these components would work in tandem to change people’s minds, to pressure lawmakers, to intimidate politicians running for office, to go to court wh…

Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…f online sexual activity come from liberals who live in these sexually restrictive right-leaning states. In any case, the rhetoric and reality gaps when it comes to religion and porn use easily confuses the issues and leaves people at odds in knowing what to do. Associate Pastor Cameron Beyenberg works with youth at a Southern California church. In working with young people between the ages of 14 and 18, Beyenberg notes that teens have a lot of qu…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ntion, in order to sit in the chair of Moses and judge, sometimes with superiority and superficiality, difficult cases and wounded families.” The bishops called on Francis to issue his own document on the family. He is expected to do so, and may even choose to make it an encyclical — a major teaching document — but it could take months or even a year before he weighs in. According to David Gibson at Religion News Service: Progressives said there w…

Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…ndividual victim, not the government, and thus the compensation should go primarily to the individual victim, not the government.” Now, wait. Where have I heard that before? Oh, I know. Way back in the late 1960s this was Rushdoony’s view (in the Foundations of Social Order). In his Institutes of Biblical Law (1973) he wrote: God’s Law has no sentence of imprisonment but only restitution, God’s view of crime is that the act of crime is committed,…

None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…sociologist, Ryan Cragun, whose quite respectable academic oeuvre focuses primarily on atheists and the otherwise nonreligious. (And Mormons. Go figure.) It certainly seems that Cragun’s work would provide helpful insight on the substantial minority of Nones who are unbelievers. Indeed, those RD readers who rightly noted that my recent list of “must-reads on Nones” did not include material on unbelievers per se will find his CV a bibliographical t…

Hell, in Rob Bell’s Own Words: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…ad news; like, if religion is negative, somehow it’s more authentic? [RB]: Right, right. And I’ve heard this over the past couple weeks. Somebody said: “You’re trying to communicate to modern people. You’re just trying to appeal to modern people.” Well, yeah. I think that’s what a Christian does. You want to tell this story. So, I also think, and I think you make great point: when you read the Gospels, Jesus is insisting to people that God is on t…