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Study Shows Mainline Women Clergy Are Significantly More Progressive Than Their Male Counterparts

By Melissa Deckman

…rown Blackwell, who began preaching in her family’s Rochester Congregationalist Church as a child in the 1830s (and who became the first woman to be ordained by a major Protestant denomination), and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who established the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles before the Great Depression, which attracted millions of visitors and whose charismatic preaching style made her one of the country’s most famous women. Yet, despite t…

Georgia Gov Vetoes Right-To-Discriminate Bill

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…757. Below is a run-down of some of the worst provisions of the bill. The list also notes similarities between sections of HB 757 and bills that have been introduced in other states across the county: One section of the bill would have given faith-based organizations, including schools, universities, and certain non-profits, the right to refuse (1) to rent property for events that they find objectionable; and (2) to provide “social, educational,…

The Pundits and the Dominionists

By Julie Ingersoll

With Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann at the top of the list of Republican presidential hopefuls, “dominionism” has garnered a good bit of media attention—Michelle Goldberg’s piece “A Christian Plot for Domination?” at the Daily Beast, Ryan Lizza’s piece “The Transformation of Michele Bachmann” at The New Yorker, and a piece at the Texas Observer, “Rick Perry’s Army of God,” by Forrest Wilder. The increase in coverage of the religious right’s lon…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…Mexico also had zombie hackers co-opt their emergency systems. Add to that list states where aid in dying legislation has recently been introduced (New Mexico, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, and Hawaii) and states where it is already legal (Oregon since 1994 and Washington since 2008) and you’re likely to conclude that dead isn’t what it used to be. And you’d be right. Dead used to mean three things: you weren’t breathing, your heart wasn’t bea…

Russian Parliament Hosts U.S. Anti-Gay Activist Paul Cameron

By Chrissy Stroop

…lf is most likely no true believer in the law, but rather pragmatically using widespread popular Russian homophobia in pursuit of specific domestic and foreign policy goals—to placate hardline Orthodox believers and to keep the more radical, nationalist right at bay at home, while sending a clear message to the West that Russia won’t be pressured into adopting liberal norms. Like this story? Your tax-deductible $5 or $10 will help us pay writers,…

Romney’s Mild Rebuke to Bryan Fischer, and Fischer’s Ugly Speech

By Sarah Posner

…f sincere, authentic, genuine Chrisitan faith.” In the rest of his laundry list of presidential prerequisites, Fischer veered from there to discuss the “mythical separation of church and state,” the need for a president to “reject the morally and scientifically bankrupt theory of evolution,” and to believe in “the same Creator” as the founders— the “creator revealed in the pages of the Old and New Testaments.” That led him to an extended anti-Musl…

What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis

By Christopher Douglas

…ncluding Susan Harding and Ray Horton, ponder how we should read fundamentalist fictions, fictions by fundamentalist authors, or about fundamentalism itself. The point of paying attention to literature by Christian Right authors is it helps us better understand what’s going on in America today. In his Memoir Crazy for God, apostate ex-evangelical and former leader of the Christian Right, Frank Schaeffer, who helped politically activate a generatio…

Does the Historical Jesus Matter?

By Peter Laarman

…at in the context of grinding oppression, the most miraculous item in this list is that the poor are learning that God has good news for them.) And then there is the radical nonviolence. Jesus is certainly among the great axial age figures who invites us to explore and apply the immense power of nonviolent direct action. Crossan teaches that failing to put equal emphasis on both terms in “nonviolent revolutionary” completely misses what Jesus was…

Taking Stock of Religion in Super Bowl 44

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…Laderman’s RD story last year, which shows how the Janet Jackson “nipple incident” from the 2004 Superbowl crossed some boundaries and showed our collective limits on the sacred and the profane. This list, from no particular political perspective, simply aims to display the varieties of ways religion and sports (even the super sports of the superbowl) are interconnected….

White House Conference Call Seeks Common Ground on Abortion

By Frances Kissling

…es describing the initiative. No question or comments were solicited and a list of participants was not made available. Media reports suggested that both abortion rights supporters and religious proponents of common ground based on reducing the number of abortions were invited. Representatives from HHS, OMB, and White House Congressional Affairs will also be involved. The administration representatives indicated that the call was a precursor to a…