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Huckabee Calls For Civil Disobedience, Utterly Misreads MLK, Jr.

By Peter Gathje

…uples. The third criterion Dr. King identifies is that “an unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.” For same sex couples to have legal access just like heterosexual couples…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ialists such as in medicine or law, we might say there are apostolic specialists. These specialists include the following: nuclear church apostles, who minister in local congregations or apostolic centers; territorial apostles who are understood as having a God-given authority over geographical areas such as nations, states or cities. vertical apostles who oversee networks of churches or ministries. horizontal apostles who connect or convene vario…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…oncerned with money and power,” and “too involved in politics.” Not on the list: a desire for a stricter moral code. Along with another major study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, the Pew Forum found that Americans without religious affiliation strongly identified with the Democratic party and liberal social positions. All of which tends to indicate that Hout and Fischer were right when they said that disaffiliation is driven…

MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

Well, you can add the Hare Krishnas to the list of senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s religious experiments. Turns out she couldn’t handle the vegetarianism of ISKCON because she’s “Italian and I love meatballs.” And in case you weren’t sure, she’s still not a witch. Sit. Stay. Pray. Jango the dog says grace before every meal. Good boy. More and more people see the divine in the canine as pet blessings grow in popularity. Reverend Al Mohler,…

Anti-Abortion Group Claims Credit for Unseating West Virginia Democrat

By Sarah Posner

…n. There were many factors at play in this primary, of course, but the SBA List is clearly intent on spending money to unseat anti-choice Democrats who played a role in making the health care reform bill more restrictive of womens’ reproductive choices, but still supported health care reform. The SBA List and other members of the Stop the Abortion Mandate coalition ignored the facts about abortion coverage in the health care debate and used it as…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…ed not conventionally appear like religion to most people; that writing itself can be a form of sanctification. Hopper writes that she imagines “prayerful writing to be a vigilant flame sustained and made into the words we need.” An apt definition of the New Religion Journalism. While the above list masterfully collects some of the best writing from a relatively new genre, it’s important to remind readers that any such list is subjective. We men…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…Lemon test,” said Steve Newton. The hot-button issues of human cloning (a code word for abortion, Newton says) and global warming are linked to increase the appearance of evolution’s controversy. Fostering Fear of Science The science blog Denialism has a list of themes used in the global warming debate that have been similarly deployed in intelligent design battles: Well-funded think tanks are capable of derailing a scientific consensus, in this…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s are meeting in Costa Rica November 8-11. Tajikistan: Government compiles list of LGBT people A newspaper published by the state prosecutor reported that authorities have compiled a list of 319 gay men and 48 lesbians who will be “required to undergo testing to avoid ‘the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases,’” reports AFP: Unlike in neighbouring Uzbekistan, where “sodomy” is illegal, homosexuality is not banned in Tajikistan although it is fr…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…nd bloggers. The government offered police protection for those on the hit list, but the protection has clearly been inadequate as several on the list have been killed since. Prime Minister Sheik Hasina advised bloggers to use restraint in their exercise of free speech or leave the country for their safety. Although the prime minister has promised to take action against the attacks, authorities appointed by her have instead prosecuted bloggers for…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…entirely created by Republicans … [and] denial and gaslighting” among his list of journalistic sins, and he has the receipts to back them up. He calls on incoming New York Times editor in chief Joe Kahn to listen to the paper’s critics on these issues. Kahn, however, has already given a strong indication that he won’t change the paper’s approach to the profound asymmetry of the nation’s two parties. In an interview with the Columbia Journalism Re…