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

By Peter Montgomery

…esults of a WIN/Gallup International poll in 2015 that found Hong Kong was rated second lowest in the world in terms of religious belief – behind only China – with 34 per cent claiming they did not believe in a deity. Other polls have put that number far higher, with as much as 80 per cent stating that they do not have any particular religious affiliation. It seems that the powers that be in Hong Kong will, therefore, face increasing pressure on t…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…abiding and residing unity, or tawhid. Have you ever seen the computer-generated image of a fractal? A pattern that adheres to its unity and form at the tiniest, most minute level as well as when projected out toward its largest manifestation at the mega level. They call it the handprint of God. To see such a visual depiction of a metaphysical idea was both a relief and a challenge to me. It almost took the mystery out of the whole idea of being a…

From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…nnect with other clergy persons. Over the past 18 months, I’ve developed a number of relationships with people who contact me because they find themselves in a similar situation. They ask questions, I don’t push. I’m simply a listening ear…someone safe for them to talk to. What was the response to your coming out as an atheist? An enormous number of Christians have threatened to do physical harm to me. Many others have been kind in their response…

New Poll Reveals a Paradox in Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…te boundary. Before secular government enthusiasts get too excited by this number I would point out that, for a fair number of evangelicals, the worry is that the state will interfere with the church, not the other way around. Similarly, a little more than one in four White evangelicals said the federal government should declare Christianity the official religion of the United States. Far more (61%) said that Christianity should not be the officia…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…y against “The Innocence of Muslims” than did violently, even though their numbers together were still incredibly small. In his introduction to Sufism for Non-Sufis?, University of Southern California Professor Sherman Jackson notes that we cannot separate Islam from who most Muslims are: Colonized persons, or their recent descendants. Hence their Islam, and much of Islam today, is the product of a cycle of violence and subjugation. Most Muslims a…

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

By Sarah Posner

…s the natural home for people of faith.” On the Democratic side, a growing number, concentrated among white, conservative religious voters, say they see the Democrats as “unfriendly” to religion. In the past two presidential election cycles, Democrats have sought to win over more religious voters with heightened religious outreach, although this appears to have had little impact on the perceptions of conservatives. Whether these findings prompt ca…

High Jewish Voter Turnout—and They Don’t Like Trump

By Gordon Haber

…ewish Vote,” its post-election survey of the midterms conducted with GBA Strategies’ strategist Jim Gerstein. It’s an interesting snapshot even if it holds few surprises. American Jews voted Democrat by a 76 to 19 percent margin—for one reason because most American Jews are already left-leaning; the second being their distaste for President Trump. Seventy-five percent of American Jews disapprove of how Trump is doing his job, compared to 54 percen…

Does Religious Freedom Extend to Child Endangerment? It’s Not as Simple as It Seems

By Rebecca Moore

…e established by Idaho governor Butch Otter found that the child mortality rate for the Followers between 2002 and 2011 was 10 times that of Idaho as a whole. But let me also repeat: government claims of child endangerment may be inflated. Or, they may lead to even greater endangerment, such as the 1993 federal assault on the Branch Davidians. In that event, 22 children were killed as they huddled with their parents in an enclosed room to escape t…

Catholic Bishops Fund Anti-Choice ‘Clinics’ Set to Receive Trump Title X Funding

By Patricia Miller

…a Catholic woman who pioneered the idea of creating a “medical model” corporate-sounding anti-abortion clinic to siphon money away from Planned Parenthood. The Obria clinics keep the features of crisis pregnancy centers, including the lure of free or low-cost pregnancy testing and ultrasounds, which lure women with unintended pregnancy in the door to hear a pitch about the horrors and dangers of abortion, but add just enough primary care services—…

Anti-Choice Groups Prove It’s Not Just About Abortion Anymore

By Patricia Miller

…contraceptive providers—it’s not clear where Obria will refer low- and moderate-income women for contraceptives. This presumably could increase both the rate of unplanned pregnancies and abortion. It’s increasingly clear, however, that “pro-life” clinics like Obria aren’t about reducing abortion, or even giving women an alternative to Planned Parenthood. They’re about creating reproductive health deserts where women have no access to either aborti…