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Senate Candidate Todd Akin’s Anti-Abortion Acquaintances from the Late ’80s

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…wn for its role in creating and compiling the so-called “Nuremberg Files”: online dossiers on abortion providers and abortion supporters including their work addresses, photos, and places of worship. There was a trial, and Dreste himself was fined millions in damages, according to a 1999 investigative piece on Dreste by the St. Louis Riverfront Times: The defendants, two anti-abortion groups and 12 individuals, including Dreste, were not charged w…

The Sexual Threat to Fundamentalism

By Michelle Goldberg

…remarks hasn’t yet been published, but an unofficial version disseminated online by English bishop Michael Campbell shows that Pope Benedict did not, on this occasion, draw analogies between the despoiling of nature and torture or war. Gender-bending alone is singled out as a force rending the harmony of God’s creation. “What is necessary is a kind of ecology of man, understood in the correct sense,” said the Pope. “When the Church speaks of the…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of the resurgence of conservatism in Brazil.” (Some awkward language from online translation) The triumph of conservative Crivella is the latest sign of widespread anger in Brazil towards traditional leftist parties in the midst of a deep recession after impeachment by which the Workers Party was ousted from power, which had been for 13 years. Also it marks a political rise of evangelical churches as Pentecostal. Although Crivella had run in prev…

How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

By Tony Keddie

…nt. We don’t need to turn to the particular theology of the OPC or radical online fora to understand the synagogue shooter’s Bible-based vilification of Jews as avaricious money-grubbers who killed Jesus. He could have reached this conclusion from much more mainstream sources—for instance, from an attentive reading of Bill O’Reilly’s New York Times bestseller, Killing Jesus, picked up at his local bookstore. The wide appeal of the gospel of white…

Just a Mirror of a Mirror of Myself: Episode Three Recap of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ers’ Daughters. If you watched episode three last night—or if you watch it online here now—you could count on being caught up within a few minutes: Olivia, from California, is a former party girl turned pious teen mom who has just learned the paternity of her daughter Eden. Taylor, from Illinois, finds it difficult to integrate her church persona (and her pastor father’s strict rules) with her desire to party, date, and wear sexy clothes. And Kolb…

Defending Minority Religions, Despite Some Bad Practitioners

By Andrew Aghapour and Megan Goodwin

…moting greater awareness of sexual abuse across all of society, is why the online reaction to your article surprised me. I posted your article on Facebook and was immediately barraged with angry comments. Same here. One consistent point of pushback was from former members of new religious movements. I’ve heard from former Children of God, Christian Science, and Mormon fundamentalism members, all of whom are deeply invested in confirming that abuse…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…e yet to identify a clear motive for DePape’s actions, we do know that his online posts were littered with far-right propaganda including QAnon conspiracy theories, COVID-denialism, and attacks on Jews, Blacks, Democrats, members of the media, and transgender youth. When I first read about the attack intended for Nancy Pelosi, my thoughts returned to the ReAwaken America Tour that had just come to my town. The rally where all the targets lined up…

Lessons Learned this Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…t, I am not having the best relationship with the tour company I selected (online), so even now I feel a bit uncertain if this will be my year. Few things have made me feel so vulnerable and yet so motivated of late. So I will take this with the small wisdoms or the lessons I learned this Ramadan. In no particular order: Although Allah is always present, in the company of conscientious and devout believers, ones experience of that Divine presence…

Bishops Have No Religious Freedom Claim

By Sarah Posner

…id Shuster) to discuss the birth control coverage issue. There is no video online, but the transcript is. The key point: SHUSTER: When it comes down to it, though, how close does this mandate, in fact, violate — or get to violating — the First Amendment, as Speaker Boehner and Republicans are claiming? POSNER: It does not violate the First Amendment. The bishops are misrepresenting a legal issue in order to create a political issue. There are 28 s…

The Russian Patriarch Just Gave His Most Dangerous Speech Yet — And Almost No One in the West Has Noticed

By Katherine Kelaidis

…re doesn’t seem to be a single readily available translation of the sermon online in English and it’s received little coverage by any major Western media outlet (this Reuters article might be the only exception). It’s understandable why. Patriarch Kirill isn’t deploying the familiar rhetoric of the Culture Wars, “gay pride parades,” and Western decadence. He’s speaking in terms of the obscure history of the Christian East, a history largely unknow…