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I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…they nevertheless put the number at roughly 338,000. I am willing to work with this number until a better one comes along. Of this number, roughly 8,000 congregations claim upwards of 1,000 members; most are smaller, indeed most are much smaller. My concept is this: I think we can create a Christian Honor Corps (CHC) of perhaps 10,000 persons. Persons like myself who take our responsibility to monitor Christian extremist thought seriously and who…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…ing college in Kansas, the juvenile rheumatoid arthritis she had contended with since she was 11 flared up, and she moved home to Denver. In pain, and distressed to find herself dependent on her parents, Birge, whose mother grew up in a number of Latin American countries, joined a charismatic Hispanic church group for young adults held at Catholic churches around Denver. The group, Christo Y Yo, drew as many as 500 participants across the Archdioc…

Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…ithout a chance to talk openly about pornography, it leaves maturing teens with flooding hormones and easily available pornography, a combination that can create a conflict between body image, gender-role expectations, and teens’ sense of self. Beyenberg hopes education and conversation will help in better understanding these issues. As for those national trends in keyword searches, one caveat is important to add. In part, keyword search rates ref…

Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…immigration reform: Hispanics will drive minority growth above all. Their numbers will triple to 133 million by 2050 from 47 million today, while the number of non-Hispanic whites will remain essentially flat. Hispanics will double as a percentage of the population from 15 percent to 30 percent. The population of Asian Americans will also come close to doubling, going from 5 percent to 9 percent. The number of blacks, however, will grow only from…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…he Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention voices its concern over the growing number of laws introduced in the United States that target transgender individuals and the transgender community. Anti-trans hostility in the US has become a staple of the Republican Party’s election strategy and is clearly being used to stoke voters’ fears of a changing world by raising the specter of a malevolent polluting force tied to liberalism, cosmopolitanism, a…

C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…ble you can make your organization,” preaches leader Doug Coe, “the more influence it will have.” They’re not the only group in Washington that keeps a low profile, but it’s the nature of their influence that’s really noteworthy: some congressmen call it simply personal and thus private, but nearly 600 boxes of documents stored at the Billy Graham Center Archive reveals decades of intense political work around foreign and economic affairs. Most pe…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…92 percent of state schools are run by the Catholic Church, but that a growing number of parents are trying to find other options for educating their children. It’s particularly hard for parents whose children are not baptized Catholic, because the schools are legally permitted to discriminate on the basis of religion. Australia: Marriage opponents claim their voices are stifled; former PM shifts to support The BBC’s Wendy Frew reports from the o…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…ight and the Republican Party. These younger evangelicals, along with a growing number of Roman Catholics, also recognize that the tired debate over abortion has produced nothing but a stalemate over the last three-plus decades. So when Barack Obama, the presidential candidate, and Barack Obama, the president, declared his intention to address the abortion issue from a different angle, evangelicals and Roman Catholics took note. Obama has staked o…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…well. In each case, the proponents have been ridiculed and dismissed, but with diminishing levels of rancor with each passing decade. What we’re witnessing right now is a reconfigured repetition of a 2500-year debate over the oneness or the manyness of the universe. Just as it was for the Atomist philosophers in the 5th Century BCE, the multiverse is a way to sidestep theology: if there are an infinite number of universes that take on all possibl…

Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?

By Sarah Posner

…ail the number of gun deaths in America, the number of mass shootings, the number of accidents, the number of suicides. The movement would have more than these grassroots activists. It would have willing politicians, a legal strategy, and lots of money. All of these components would work in tandem to change people’s minds, to pressure lawmakers, to intimidate politicians running for office, to go to court when necessary. With these political, legi…