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Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ctions in particular have been notably active in their efforts: the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdioceses of North America (AOA) and (you guessed it) the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Both are, unsurprisingly, characterized by a large number of American converts in their ranks. Nearly 70% of those in the AOA are converts, while the OCA is about evenly split, 50-50. Similarly, the GOA, arguably the most progressive Orthodox body in America…

Republicans “Evangelizing” Catholic Voters

By Patricia Miller

…istian right with his anti-abortion rhetoric and was once named by Time magazine as one of the nation’s “25 Most Influential Evangelicals.” Marco Rubio so conflates Catholicism and Evangelicalism that he toggles back and forth between attending a Catholic church and a Baptist mega-church. Chris Christie who? By contrast, Jeb Bush’s brand of go-to-church-in-polo-shirts, cozy-up-to-powerful-bishops (who then turn a blind eye as you preside over a re…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…e clear I had absolutely nothing to do with it, and am so grateful for the design team at the University of Georgia Press for producing such a beautiful work. Moreover, since it’s a collage of page images from some of the newspapers that I focus on in the book, the cover really fulfills the mission of showcasing the papers themselves. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? I’m not sure there’s a particular book I wish…

Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ut Mormonism, so he wants to play it down. If he brings on a vice presidential candidate like (Virginia governor) Bob McDonnell, there’s no way it’s going to be diminished. I suspect that the vice presidential candidate will be the person who carries the narrative for the religious right, if it’s Romney. I’m not even convinced the nominee is going to come from these four people who are still in the process. I have long thought that there was going…

More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim

By Sarah Posner

…saturated in anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. More data from the poll after the jump. On other issues, 60% of respondents in Alabama do not believe in evolution; that number jumps to 74% among evangelicals. Twenty one percent of all respondents believe interracial marriage should be illegal; 24% of evangelicals did. Sixty-six percent of respondents in Mississippi do not believe in evolution; among evangelicals that number jumped to 74%. Of all the…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…job which has to receive audio through a wired earpiece and then respond via speaker into a microphone? Couldn’t synth software do the trick without complex parts that mimic the functions of ears and a mouth? Furthermore, wouldn’t it make better economic sense to distribute artificial intelligence across multiple hardware platforms, instead of clustering so much precious technology into a single body? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a dog-lik…

New Report: Muslim Terrorism a ‘Minuscule Threat’

By Hussein Rashid

…American Muslims have been charged with terrorism-related activities. This number includes those who committed acts of terrorism overseas in places like Somalia and Yemen. Even if we take the conservative number of 2 million Muslims in the U.S., that means 0.01% of Muslims are involved in terrorism-related activity over the span of a decade. Per annum, it is 0.001%. If we take a more realistic number of 4 million American Muslims, the numbers beco…

Liberty University’s In-House Conversion ‘Therapist’ Retires, But Will the Christian School Cease This Discredited Practice?

By Lucas Wilson

…ussell, a 2020 graduate, indicates in her recent article about being a lesbian at Liberty, homophobia is alive and well on campus—something that should be of significant concern for Liberty’s accrediting body, the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges. Although I don’t expect Liberty to be on the right side of history and denounce its homophobia any time soon, I do hope that we queer Liberty alumni will continue to draw attention to the big…

Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Arab world’s most progressive, Jalel’s story sparked mixed reactions on social media. “These are lies. God created her as female and her name is Leila. She rejected her femininity and she is going to be punished for this on Judgment Day,” said a Facebook user. “This woman, and the likes of her, does not need an operation as she claims because she wants to change God’s creation. She needs the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); this is her solu…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…a Muslim American population that is critical of anti-Muslim prejudice, media bias, and some government policies, it also reveals a remarkably hopeful community. There was no polling of Muslim Americans in 1967, but historical research on Muslim Americans has revealed something similar. Despite all the negativity surrounding the image of Islam and Muslims and the real prejudice that Muslims faced in the 1960s, Muslim individuals and communities on…