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God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…ceive as necessities, such as health care, education, and so forth. A transvaluation of values. Of course you could say that voice is power and that necessities require wealth, but part of what they’re doing in the “temporary autonomous zone” of the occupation is to say something different in regard to those things. I do think that, especially as older people enter the movement, both at Wall Street and through the Freedom Plaza occupation in Washi…

“Guerilla Warrior of Judeo-Christian Political Commentary” Stars in Anti-Newt Video in Iowa

By Sarah Posner

…sday, to every registered Republican or non-aligned Iowa voter with a cell phone on record. . . . The video’s star is Molotov Mitchell, whom Cary K. Gordon, president of PeaceMakers Institute and pastor of Sioux City’s Cornerstone Church, calls “the guerilla warrior of Judeo-Christian political commentary.” Mitchell is an edgy independent filmmaker whose Illuminati Pictures delivers something akin to an animated political cartoon weekly at WorldN…

The Great Cremation Debate

By David Marchese

…tion is widely reinterpreted in the way the Winters have—that is, as a mitzvah, a good deed—then perhaps it is the religion’s normative practices, and not cremation, that are problematic. Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center, a Jewish ecological think tank in Philadelphia, has spent more than a quarter of a century contemplating eco-kashruth, the Jewish relationship with ecology. “You would need to be certain,” Waskow reflects, “that cremation…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…sequently, the story goes, “heartened by [his] conversations” with “a wide variety of faith leaders,” Assemblymember Evan Low withdrew the bill that he himself had initiated. Involved in that same case was yet another IFTCC-affiliated figure named Laura Haynes, who founded the National Task Force for Therapy Equality and who’s described in the IFTCC’s 2023 conference program as a “retired Psychologist.” In addition to being a board member of the B…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…Reynolds at news.com.au: Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher sent hundreds of flyers to city churches and published articles available on many church websites encouraging worshippers to volunteer and donate to the Coalition for Marriage. “Vote No in the Postal Plebiscite on Marriage,” reads an entry in this weekend’s bulletin at St Anthony of Padua Parish Clovelly. “A change in the marriage law has consequences for freedom of religion, including the…

From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…wake of yesterday’s revelation, Duke Div School teaching assistant Meghan Florian reflects on how we might approach the issues MacBain has herself raised regarding belief and doubt in light of the fact that she does not appear to have attended divinity school. –eds After coming out as an atheist at the 2012 American Atheists convention Teresa MacBain, a former Methodist minister, became a professional atheist, subsequently serving as the Public R…

Presidential Debate: We Are All Socialists Now

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…buy up an enormous number of imminent foreclosures (how?), mandate a new evaluation of the real value of these homes (how?), then enable homeowners to re-negotiate their current mortgages and to stay in their homes (huh?). The failure of “Fannie and Freddie,” McCain insisted, was “the match that lit this forest fire.” And apparently he believes that you can dig the necessary fire-break with even more federal intervention than we’ve already witnes…

The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…tribution, character, and abilities embody aspects that many identify as reflecting our collective values and objectives as individuals. In this way, we as a society together proclaim who are significant members with our mourning energies. Clearly, for a significant number of people, Kobe Bryant exemplified the ethos of America with his Mamba mentality that was centered on being better, stronger, more dominant, and ruthless at competing. Even fans…

New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…But the religious breakdown of this response is worth noting: it’s most prevalent, by wide margins, among white evangelicals over other religious groups. Forty-seven percent of white evangelicals deem Democrats “unfriendly” to religion, while other are less sure: only 27% of mainline Protestants, 10% of black Protestants, and 24% of Catholics view the Democratic Party as “unfriendly” to religion. Notably, most Catholics—whose leadership expended m…

The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work

By Kaya Oakes

…American Christianity right now is telling. Dreher has only commented briefly in his blogs on the Pew Survey’s data about the rapidly growing number of religiously unaffiliated younger adults, saying that “Christians don’t underestimate the difficulty of the road ahead,” and that they must “prepare.” But running throughout his and other’s growing commentary on the Benedict Option is a real sense of anxiety about what will happen to the kids. Amis…