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What Should Truly Disturb Us About Game of Thrones’ Child Sacrifice

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…itics infer that Bat-Jephthah knows the stakes of the game: she has seen a sign of mourning in her father’s rent garments, and she laments her own demise. Still, I wonder. Did she know the pain of her fate? Did she, like Shireen, scream upon her pyre? I wish it were harder to draw analogies between Shireen’s fictional burning and the fires of reality. I wish that Weiss’ quote did not, for me, evoke the #blacklivesmatter campaign. I wish that Kalie…

A Letter to the Pope in Advance of the Synod: Why Must I Get My (Lutheran) Marriage Annulled?

By Randall Wedin

…t I am a full and welcome member of that family. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, I converted because the woman whom I love, and have been with since December of 2000, has deep and long family ties to the Catholic Church, and we want to share a spiritual community. We became engaged four months ago and I believe it is God’s plan for us to be married. (What I mean by that is that my heart/mind/body “knows,” at a profound and ineffable level…

Was Student Who Claims She Was Suspended For Saying, “Bless You” Mimicking God’s Not Dead?

By Joseph Laycock

…ce of anti-intellectualism, portrays educators as modern-day Pharisees who promote ideology rather than critical thinking. So it’s hardly surprising that some Christian students began performing this script in the first week of classes. By equating educators with the villains of the New Testament, ordinary classroom encounters can be transformed into an extension of Biblical narratives. In Cronk’s film, Harper’s character is compared to a Christia…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…has said that the legalization of gay marriage is a “dangerous apocalyptic sign.” This stance encouraged Orthodox Christians in Putin’s United Russia party to propose anti-gay legislative initiatives that crystallized into a law banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors.” Putin, a devout churchgoer, has publicly denounced “so-called tolerance, genderless and without issue.” Kuraev’s firing from the theological academy only…

Another Judge Rejects Religious Arguments Against Marriage Equality

By Sarah Posner

…ld prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from denying or revoking a church’s tax-exempt status for its opposition to same-sex marriage. That may be a solution in search of a problem, but it’s a sign of how the conservative campaign for its version of religious freedom isn’t going to be quelled by the actions of so-called “activist” and “arrogant” judges….

America’s Most Famous Catholic Scores Late Night Slot

By Sarah Posner

…said he views the church as teaching joy, which he called the “infallible sign of the presence of God.” “I love my church — warts and all,” he said, before an audience of about 3,000 cheering students, who posted his quotes on Twitter using the organizers’ #dolancolbert hashtag. Colbert said people in comedy often make jokes at the expense of religion, but he makes jokes about what he called people’s misuse of religion in politics and other arena…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…ticularly those which he adds to the biblical account, and the theological significance of those choices. Not every choice has the same weight in my view; some are interesting, some are amusing and some are deadly serious. One of the most interesting innovations is the idea that Adam picked up the serpent’s shed skin in the Garden of Eden and passed it down to his children as a sign of their responsibility to care for the earth. The totemic snake…

It’s Not Just Evangelicals Who Should Worry About World Vision

By Sarah Posner

…n their first letter to Attorney General Eric Holder in September 2009, 58 signatories argued that the Bush OLC’s interpretation of RFRA “provides for a blanket override of statutory nondiscrimination provisions” and “is erroneous and threatens core civil rights and religious freedom protections.” Further: The OLC Memo wrongly asserts that RFRA is “reasonably construed” to require that a federal agency categorically exempt a religious organizatio…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…epressive society. In March, Lene Segbo, the minister of health refused to sign documents necessary to open the hospital and revoked the licenses of doctors associated with Clitoraid. “Medical organizations should be focused on saving lives and not advertising their religion in an attempt to convert vulnerable people,” he declared. Clitoraid has responded with a campaign of protests and petitions and, in an interview with Afriquinfos, Boisselier b…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…opal Church: You might be an Anglican schismatic if… 1. You’ve changed the sign out front from “The Episcopal Church of St. Whatsit” to “The Anglican Church of St. Whatsit.” Or, 2. You’re now under the authority of an Anglican bishop in, say, Nigeria rather than the Episcopal one installed in the cathedral nearest your church. Or, 3. Your Vacation Bible School features a rollicking game of “Pin the Tail on the Antichrist” in which the cartoon imag…