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Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s the kind of Other that women usually must give up a lot more in order to welcome, I had two answers ready: First, childbearing isn’t THAT bad, and don’t you dare pathologize women’s bodies! (SPOILER ALERT: Turns out that childbirth sometimes isn’t that bad, but sometimes it is, and sometimes it’s REALLY DEADLY BAD. But that’s probably a different essay.) And second: Women, precisely because they’ve been an oppressed group, benefit when society a…

Jeff Sharlet’s Weird Religion, in 13 Chapters

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ioners of weird religion aren’t all ones that we (liberals anyway) want to welcome into our homes, but in these essays Sharlet is careful to notice the humanity of the people he is writing about. In good liberal fashion, there would seem to be no one beyond redemption (though some might need a bit more atonement than others). The placement of the first essay, “Sweet Fuck All, Colorado” (you’ll have to read it to get the title), is significant. H…

5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video

By Joanna Brooks

…r than you do.” Romney also goes on to explain that pro-choice Mormons are welcome in the Church, that there are plenty of Mormon Democrats, and that his own stance on abortion rights is “not a Mormon thing.” “I’m not running as a Mormon and I get tired of coming on the air and having it all be about Mormon,” he concludes. What to make of this video and its resurfacing now, just hours before the election? 1. Whoever pushed this video out again wan…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ce floor. It would be amazing. Many mainstream or evangelical churches may welcome you into the pew but never into leadership or other forms of service. You’re calling the church not simply to affirm LGBT people, but to fully accept us. I’m asking the church to dismantle that binary of “us” and “them” that sees anyone coming through the door as an other. My hope would be that [churches] learn to do that not just by trying to understand the queer e…

Judge Denies Church Graduation Ceremonies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…now all Enfield Schools students and their families will feel included and welcome at the ceremonies,” said Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. “No student should ever have to feel like a second-class citizen at his or her own graduation.” While I agree with that, I think the ACLU and the parents may be missing a teachable moment in all of this. My own high school graduation was held in the school’s auditor…

The Accidental Worshiper: Following the Music

By Tripp Hudgins

…issues and asks some of the questions that will guide this exploration. We welcome your stories. – The Eds _____________ I’m not quite sure when I first read about this kind of concert-going experience, but somewhere along the line some Christian fans started referring to rock concerts as if they were religious experiences, as if going to the coliseum to hear your favorite band was like going to a cathedral for worship. In this analogy, concert-go…

Final Thoughts on Religion and the DNC

By Sarah Posner

…d at almost no point were nonreligious Americans mentioned or made to feel welcome in either party’s verbose orations. “Our nation, and our entire planet, face so many great challenges that demand a clear focus on what is true and what is not. Reliance on facts, science, and real data have never been more crucial to the formulation of policy and for helping voters decide which candidates will have the best programs to resolve our pressing crises….

Who’s Smearing Obama?

By Svend White

…ve, one would expect them to be taken at face value and hailed as signs of welcome change. But that’s not happening. Pundits hold forth confidently (and often caustically) on the workings of a legal tradition in which they have little to no experience, while input from living and breathing Muslims to a debate over contemporary Islamic law is treated as superfluous, or worse, as some cunning new form of taqiyya, a curious state of affairs that spea…

Advice from a Disaster Pastor: Open Your Wallet, Not Your Closet

By Carlos Wilton

…early five years ago. The asset houses of worship and relief agencies most welcome, in the wake of a blockbuster storm, is money: undesignated money. They can use it to purchase the goods and services local survivors most need, at each stage of the recovery process. Yet, many high-minded and generous people shrink from writing such a check. They’d rather fill a shopping cart with items for the disaster-relief truck than contribute an equivalent am…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Bagnasco, “has given his blessing to a demonstration in Roe on January 30 promoting the supremacy of heterosexual family life and backing Catholic MPs within Renzi’s own party who plan to sabotage a gay unions bill on which the prime minister is staking his credibility.” The Catholic News Agency reported last week that Honduran Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga “has acknowledged the presence of a ‘gay lobby’ in the Vatican” and that “Pope Francis has adop…