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By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…not your politics directing your faith.” What an idea! And from South Bend, Indiana, some equally unexpected news. The University of Notre Dame recently announced that President Barack Obama would give the commencement address this May, and will also receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. Unsurprisingly, the announcement was greeted with protests from conservative Catholics who object to Obama’s pro-choice position on abortion and to his rece…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…nother of microbe. These “others” form 90% of what “I” “am.” As you can see, then, this insight throws into question all our ordinary ways of speaking about self and other, human and nonhuman, and “being” itself. So it seems to me the modern natural sciences are trying to figure out what anything is when everything is a complex product of mixtures, relations, and recombinations of stuff-and-ideas. You describe your book as an attempt to “come to t…

Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?

By Sarah Posner

…ting abortion—but pamphlets that detail 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 n…

DeSantis is a No-Show, the Right’s ‘Secret Sauce,’ and Final Thoughts on Pray Vote Stand

By PRA Staff

…hem.” Any political belief that seems to be inspired by a Godless worldview, then, is automatically false. Backholm’s presentation loudly echoes Barna’s morning presentation and underlines a theme from the conference. The “biblical worldview” framework offers an opportunity to both inoculate evangelicals from politics-based rhetorical attacks and offer a strategy to cast doubt on others’ political beliefs without having to wade through the substan…

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

By Shira Tarrant

…ornography searches using key words including sex, gay sex, porn, free porn, XXX, and gay porn. These findings held true even after the researchers controlled for other demographic variables such as population size, poverty rate, and Internet use among various states. Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Edelman’s research replicates these findings, with Utah and Mississippi ranking the highest rates of online porn site subscriptions. And wh…

Methodists Move Toward LGBT Inclusion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…thodists who have already called for full equality and inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the life of the Church. Neither measure goes as far as approving LGBT people for ordination, but the question remains: could this coming UMC General Conference be the tipping point for the Methodists as it was the Presbyterians’ last denominational gathering? A lot has changed since 2008, with more people becoming accepting of LGBT…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…suicide and depression in LGBT people as a good Christian person you think, “Oh, my God, look at the damage being gay does to people.” But, it took me awhile and some good friendships with gay people to realize that suicide and depression and emotional problems aren’t the result of being gay, they’re the result of being told you’re an abomination at the core of your being. I come to this debate as an outsider and I don’t know if I’ve succeeded co…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…ted by LDS Church authorities about this blasphemy, the missionaries defect, and, with the help of the natives, start their own new religion based on their own new scripture: the Book of Arnold. The musical gives Africans far more offense than Mormons. By virtue of being from the American West, the South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have an intuitive feel for heartland Mormons. The main character, Elder Price—though a caricature—felt…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…, a 300-year-old Muslim shrine in Anuradhapura was destroyed. In April 2012, thousands forcibly entered a mosque in Dambulla and destroyed everything inside. In March 2013, a mob led by Buddhist monks attacked a series of Muslim owned businesses in the capital city of Colombo. In June 2014, several days of communal violence erupted after an altercation between a Buddhist monk and three Muslim youth. In February 2018, fueled by online misinformatio…

National Review’s Kevin Williamson Comes Out Against Daughters, Misunderstands Science

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ere it has been studied, for example, in red deer. The important thing here, though, is that it has certain conditions under which it is supposed to work, and if those conditions are not satisfied, there is no reason to even bring it up. Without the “if”, there is no “then.” So in baboons, where males compete fiercely for mates, and some cash in and some are shut out, we can look for Trivers-Willard. Unfortunately for Williamson, we find exactly t…