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Declining Southern Baptists Double Down on Homophobia

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntion is getting ready to double down on its anti-gay message. As an added bonus, their condemnation has gone all inclusive as they take special aim at the transgender community, who, up until now, had been largely ignored by the conservative Protestant denomination. As members gather this week in Baltimore, Md., for their annual meeting, Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has already fired the opening salvo…

Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are “Serious Parody,” Forcing Us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…et the new book or books are still just whispering at the back of my head. Bonus: Is there anything else you’d like our readers to know about your book? If you’re considering teaching all or part of the book, you might be interested to know that the Sisters have houses (non-residential chapters) in many large cities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. They are often happy to visit classrooms, and they will come in habit to discuss their ow…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…s Muslim Plurality For the first time ever (or perhaps just since sometime between 1000 and 1600 CE when The Plague decimated the European Christian population, according to footnote #2 of the report), in 2070 there will be more Muslims in the world than Christians. Between 2010 and 2050 the Muslim population is projected to grow by 73%, far outpacing the total population growth rate of 35%. Islam is not likely to keep up that growth rate forever…

Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are ‘Serious Parody,’ Forcing us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…et the new book or books are still just whispering at the back of my head. Bonus: Is there anything else you’d like our readers to know about your book? If you’re considering teaching all or part of the book, you might be interested to know that the Sisters have houses (non-residential chapters) in many large cities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. They are often happy to visit classrooms, and they will come in habit to discuss their ow…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…tional response, laughter being the emotional response, a form of weeping. Bonus: An Interview with Ultra Spiritual JP Sears Ultra Spiritual JP, is there an inherent conflict between religion and science? There’s no scientific basis to back up science. The fundamentalist scientists haven’t been willing to prove how science is actually scientific, because of their dogmatic beliefs. Wait, are you implying that science is a religion? Science is perha…

More Sex Icon than Feminist

By Kathryn Joyce

…vation that Palin is “running as kind of like the other partner, somewhere between a VP and a First Lady.” Here was McCain, the angry old warrior, deploying sex as a central political weapon to recharge his potency, his party’s fortunes and the cultural oomph of the right. Not gender. The Republicans didn’t need just any woman to compete with Obama for the Wow factor, the Mmm factor, the stable, loving family factor. It is a calculated bonus that…

Will ‘Conjuring 3’ Influence Real-Life Events Via the ‘Exorcist Effect’?

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…n to bless the set, which seemed plagued by literal supernatural forces. A bonus featurette called Faith and Fear packaged with another Conjuring Universe film, The Nun, features Bryan D. Ouelette—an “autocephalous [i.e. self-appointed] eastern Orthodox/western Catholic bishop”—blessing the set of The Devil Made Me Do It before filming began in 2019. Ouellette tells the crew, “The cosmos doesn’t know the difference between fiction and non-fiction….

From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…even admirable. Thus Israel’s PR stumbles. During a creepy back-and-forth between Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades and the Israeli Defense Forces, the IDF apparently managed to get its Twitter account suspended. (It’s up for dispute.) Anderson Cooper live tweeted from Gaza. Hacker collective Anonymous tied its disruption of official Israeli Twitter accounts to its intervention against Mubarak’s authoritarianism. Among celebrities, too, there were conse…

Breivik’s Christianity About Culture Not Piety

By Julie Ingersoll

…render to them until I have completed all three primary objectives AND the bonus mission…It is likely that I will pray to God for strength at one point during that operation, as I think most people in that situation would….I can’t possibly imagine how my state of mind will be during the time of the operation, though. Of course, this doesn’t mean that Christians are in some way (or any way) culpable for his acts, as Ross Douthat maintains people ar…

A Daily Utopia: Creating Our Moral Values Every Day

By Anna Peterson

…continuation of a decades-long conversation with them about the relations between our moral and political commitments on the one hand, and our personal lives on the other. Of course, I hope that people with Ph.D.s in ethics will read the book too! Are you hoping just to inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I hope to make them think differently about ethics and ordinary life. Hopefully that can be both pleasurable and informative. Wh…