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Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

…tar, and a bat. The film even features “zombie kills of the week” with the most memorable kill involving a nun who uses a piano to crush a monster. The joy of destroying zombies is not limited to popular culture. Zombie Industries (click at your own risk) produces exploding and bleeding 3D zombie targets in 19 distinct types (12 human zombies and 7 zombified animals). In recent months, the company faced controversy over two of its targets, Rocky a…

Why is Liberty Institute Still Defending Phillip Monk?

By Rob Shryock

…tion” willfully misleading. From the beginning, the Air Force claimed they moved up Monk’s redeployment when his replacement arrived early, making Monk’s continued presence in his old unit unnecessary and redundant, whereas he was needed in his new unit. Monk has, to the best of my knowledge, not responded to this charge. It’s apparent here just how weak The Liberty Institute’s case actually is. In response to an official Air Force investigation,…

Giving Up God—Not Just a Spiritual Stunt

By Becky Garrison

…x revenue measure aimed to keep California public schools from losing even more money). I’ve had less of an activist role since I left my church because that was the medium for my activism. Why did you take a public stance in support of marriage equality? And what was the fallout? I made this decision because I had members of my congregation who were gay and lesbian. They were part of our community so we felt it at a personal level when the state…

Missouri Pastor Goes Viral on Gawker: ‘Separation of Church and Hate’

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…over the years. Throughout the course of my own ministry I started meeting more and more people who came to me in pastoral confidence and talked to me about their struggles growing up as a gay person in our society in general and in the church in particular (feelings of hurt, rejection, and depression, often feeling suicidal). I used to think about homosexuality as a sin along the same lines of alcoholism or adultery (and I should “love the sinner…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…Official persecution and mob violence Human Rights activists have reported more anti-gay mob violence, exacerbated by police violence, in Nigeria in the anti-gay climate that has intensified since the signing of a law that criminalizes not only sexual activity but advocacy and even participation in social clubs. According to a report by the New York Times’ Adam Nossiter: Activists said the mob violence was a sign that the new law appeared to have…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…But I think the same way about people who can’t see that it’s not just common decency, but true morality, to grant gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people full and equal rights in both society and the church. It’s easy to think of these folks as crazy—and it’s fairly easy to begin to hate them, not just for their opinions, but for how hard they fight against us. Certainly, I can’t morally equate my view of the world with Phelps’ or my stude…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…he brutal new criminal penalties imposed on gay people in those countries. Mormons: Apostle Affirms Commitment to One Man-One Woman Marriage Mormon Apostle Neil Andersen, speaking at a biannual national conference in Salt Lake City, affirmed the church’s opposition to same-sex marriage. “While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not,” said Andersen, an Apostle of the Quorum of the Twelve, the sec…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…nt is now. Now that the New York Times is confirming that at least a dozen Mormons nationwide have faced or are facing discipline for criticizing Church practices or policies or voicing support for same-sex marriage or women’s ordination on-line, on Facebook, on Twitter. Even in anonymous chat rooms. That the LDS Church supports what must be a substantial enterprise monitoring the on-line communications of its members—this is not a surprise to pro…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…defeating these groups fosters a narrative in which Catholics have triumphed over a truly demonic foe. Daniels claims he wants to show his defiance to Christian hegemony, but so far he has only demonstrated how well conservative Christianity responds to a Satanic foil….

James Foley Prayed, But He Was Not a Martyr

By Alana Massey

…looked aspect of both personal and corporate prayer. When he speaks to his mother by phone from Libya, she asks if he has felt the prayers coming from his home as well. He tells her that he has felt them and reports, “Maybe it was others’ prayers strengthening me, keeping me afloat.” This is precisely the kind of hope that prayer can inspire that should become central to the understanding of it for those of us who do not engage in prayer. Though t…