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C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…rag queen or a Miami yenta, two demographics with whom he’s had his differences over the years. Rick Sanchez of CNN’s Newsroom was much more informed than I expected; he’d clearly read some of the book, which is rare. Jon Stewart wanted to talk about Calvinism in the green room, but on screen we mainly talked about C Street and sex in the kitchen. Radio, of course, was a whole different story. The bottom line is that the further you got from esta…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ombia has permitted civil unions for heterosexual and homosexual couples since 2007. Since 2013, some municipal judges have granted civil marriages to about 100 same-sex couples.” Herlinger tells the story of a devout Catholic transgender woman who worried about the afterlife, and was told by her priest, “We are all equal in heaven. There is no gender in heaven. It’s all souls.” Recent polls estimate that two-thirds of Colombians oppose same-sex m…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…arguably represents an infringement of liberties. The way to diminish the incidence of abortion, he counters, is to diminish demand through sex education and the availability of contraceptives. The only way truly to bring about meaningful reform on this issue is to change the terms of the conversation and alter the moral climate. Besides, the only thing that both sides of what currently passes for debate over abortion agree on is that making abort…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…o continue conducting business as usual in the face of the multiverse: science can look for evidence; theology can always say God created the multiverse; and philosophy can say the Atomists or Leibniz or modal realism knew this all along. To me, however, these options are far less interesting than the disciplinary reconfigurations the multiverse could also provoke; for example, philosophy might re-evaluate its categories of “many”ness; physics mig…

Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?

By Sarah Posner

…ership is politically diverse, and is not aware of their faith taking distinctive stances on these issues,” leaving the pastor to stand alone in framing issues like poverty, climate change, or gun violence as moral ones, Bean said. In contrast, in evangelical churches, the “core lay leadership” is “much more conservative than even regularly attending evangelicals,” reinforcing more homogenous political positions around their faith. (Bean’s 2014 bo…

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

By PRA Staff

…he gives us his biblical worldview spin: the person who’s right about the number is the person who knows who made the number and for what purpose. Neither person in the meme can know the truth of whether it’s a six or a nine until the author of the meme tells them. In other words, while there might be many worldviews, only God can truly tell us the truth of the world. Thus the only worldview that’s correct is the one that acknowledges God made th…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on strengthening anti-gay and anti-abortion advocacy globally, the conference included training sessions on a range of topics, such as a session on messaging from Frank Schubert, the notorious mastermind of the gays-as-threats-to-children ads used to promote Prop 8 and other anti-gay initiatives in the U.S. The conference also included an “emerging leaders” training track, which provided scholarships to about 260 young people from more than 40 co…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…of Mike Huckabee) were too little and too late. (And see how much significance those endorsements had in Huckabee’s 2016 run—that is to say, none). Similarly, after Rick Perry’s post-prayer rally sputter in 2012, evangelical influencers were at loose ends about who to endorse. In both cases, the candidate evangelicals were apparently trying to avoid (John McCain and Mitt Romney) got the nomination. This year, Cruz is trying to amass more endorseme…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ew phenomenon, however. Varieties—North African, Syrian, etc.—all went extinct at the hands of ancient humans far before the modern era. And the demand for ivory, whether for religious or spiritual or aesthetic reasons, doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. In a history of millennia of the destruction of elephants, saving a few hundred seems utterly insignificant. Yet, I remind myself, fragments of care quite often become the sources for dee…

None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…l Religious Landscape” report, belief was not a central focus. The report includes but three sentences on belief in the “Religiously Unaffiliated” section. That is, it offers precious little insight into global patterns of religious belief or unbelief. The Pew report on the religiously unaffiliated in the United States does focus substantially on belief, offering a number of significant findings among Nones. I’ve discussed some of these previously…