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Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…hurches, than in ecumenical parachurch organizations. The likes of Campus Crusade for Christ and Youth with a Mission paved the way for more explicitly political organizations like the Christian Coalition of the 1990s, and the Family Research Council and Family Policy Alliance of the 2000s. But of course if the prochoice religious community were to create parachurch organizations of their own in which matters of reproductive choice, access and jus…

The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…. It’s a monument to Christian exploitation of a national crisis. This is true of other national verbiage too, as I detail in The Founding Myth; in particular, “one nation, under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, and the presidential practice of ending addresses with “God bless America,” which dates to Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Christian nationalists seize on fearful times, including the Red Scare of the 1950s when In God We Trust became the nati…

On National Coming Out Day, Many Still Can’t Afford the Luxury

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gia towns that I knew would not embrace me—and might even fire me—if they knew the truth. I fled to the relative safety of Atlanta and found jobs where my sexual orientation made no difference, and since then have been up-front, even in interviews, choosing to pass up jobs where I would not be both welcomed and affirmed. Again, many of us do not have that luxury. As Preston Mitchum writes in the Atlantic, the closet is often still the safest plac…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…public offering. In doing so, SoulCycle is gambling that people outside of New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (which, together, account for 95% of SoulCycle’s revenue) will be willing to drop $30+ in order to pedal in unison with strangers, listening to messages of empowerment, growth, and self-actualization. But SoulCycle is also part of a larger gamble: namely, that Americans will be willing to meld the forms of spirituality and the forms…

A Time to Break Down, and A Time to Build Up: Reinventing Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans

By Ellen Blue

…st-Katrina New Orleans Ellen Blue Wipf & Stock August 4, 2016 My heart was breaking, too, since New Orleans is my home. My son was in the city as a first responder during the storm, and his family’s home had to be bulldozed. The fear and grief were very personal for me. Yet living and teaching in Tulsa gave me the distance that allowed some level of objectivity that UMC people living in south Louisiana couldn’t hope to achieve. It was clear this b…

Masturbation, Evolution, Or National Security?

By Sarah Posner

…Women for America, O’Donnell asserted that women serving in combat damages national security, and believed that sex discrimination by taxpayer-funded institutions was constitutional. That might come as a huge surprise — and affront — to women serving in our military. Democrats shouldn’t overplay the masturbation bit. I understand the, shall we say, urge to do it. O’Donnell has proved herself to be a sexual puritan, but the masturbation clip should…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…is that you don’t respect people and impose your opinions on them.” The Jerusalem Post reported that on Monday, June 15, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation “voted down a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT people in any way.” The legislation, proposed by MK Ofer Shelah (Yesh Atid), would make any law prohibiting discrimination based on gender, age, country of origin, etc. apply to LGBT people as well. “Only Gila Ga…

Hagee and Others See
End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

…the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and elsewhere—many former Lindsey fans are scrambling to retool and update their narrative of the endtimes. After all, who today would say that Soviet Russia is really Gog and Magog?…

Gay Rights Org Delivers 150,000-Signature Petition to LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…d goodwill can prevail. It’s a remarkable statement after an eventful, sometimes brutal, and perhaps pivotal week in LGBT-Mormon relations. To be sure, the Church’s statement does not fulfill the HRC’s demands that Elder Packer rescind his talk. Nor does it expand institutional options for LGBT Mormons beyond celibacy, the closet, or excommunication. But it may in fact be the most important official statement on LGBT human rights and Mormon doctri…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…porting civic orgniazations, and arrest people who attend gay events. His crusade is being cheered on by some in the media, such as this commentary that appeared in the Daily News last week, which called for the “anti-gayism” plan to be taken nationally. Some excerpts: DAR ES SALAAM Regional Commissioner Paul Makonda has made a point, his bid to fight homosexuality must be cheered. The truth is, for the first time, a government leader has come out…