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Hell, in Rob Bell’s Own Words: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…and are thankful that we can have this kind of conversation. So it’s been incredibly encouraging and inspiring to me. [WG]: Good, well, I saw one summary of the book that read: “Evangelical pastor writes book denying hell, catches hell for doing so.” [RB]: What’s interesting about that is: I don’t deny hell. And in the book I clearly state: I see right now in our world greed, rape, abuse, financial scandals, I see genocide. We see hells on earth r…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…penness and naivety are superior to hypocrisy, cunning and a contrived decency that conceals crimes. The state’s leaders stand with saintly expressions in church, but their sins are far greater than ours. We’ve put on our political punk concerts because the Russian state system is dominated by rigidity, closedness and caste. Аnd the policies pursued serve only narrow corporate interests to the extent that even the air of Russia makes us ill. We ar…

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

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hesis. The Trivers-Willard Hypothesis is an if/then statement. If the variance in male fitness is much higher than the variance in female fitness, then then mothers in good condition should invest in male offspring. In other words, you have to assume a situation where any male offspring will someday either “cash in big” and produce a whole lot of offspring himself, or else be shut out, but female offspring will probably go on to crank out a predic…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…educators or health care professionals grapple with on a daily basis? The number-crunchers are forcing us to speak their language and play their game, though they make no parallel effort to learn ours. And that is precisely what this not-so-benign linguistic analogy suggests. If “religion” (never defined) is like Quechua—and thus rapidly dying out, I take it—then who’s speaking the religious equivalent of imperial Spanish? It would seem to be the…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Presidency to put this on the agenda and the attempt to reach unanimous Council Conclusions on the List of Actions.” “Although it is disappointing that the Hungarian government has taken this as an opportunity to show itself from its most homophobic side, the broad agreement among all other Member States is really a promising sign of increased LGBTI acceptance across Europe.” At Pink News, Nick Duffy notes that the proposed agreement had even been…

Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…and increase the 4300 inmates already held within faith based programs by increasing the number of programs from four to six. While inmates in these facilitates choose the faith based programs over other options, it’s not, as proponents like to argue, fair to say that they choose to be there. Opponents of the plans argue that inmates in faith based programs enjoy a number of perks and better facilities than other inmates. But whatever the case, Sc…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hostile environment LGBT Africans face in the media, lamenting that “Such incidences where the media has incited violence to the point of death should serve as a lesson not to put other people’s lives in danger, but not in Africa.” Critics included many of the paper’s own readers: Comments on the newspaper’s website were overwhelmingly supportive of the gay and lesbian people outed by the publication, including words of encouragement directed at t…

Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics

By Kaya Oakes

…ike Ave Maria will be able to recruit enough young Catholics to counterbalance the increasing number of Nones, however, is unclear. What is clear, however, is that the more young Catholics start to embrace marriage equality, safe and legal abortion, access to contraception, and the liberal side on many other issues in the culture wars, the more of those same Catholics will also drift away from a church they perceive as incapable of change. Perhaps…

Don’t Misread Russell Moore’s Disavowal of “Christian Nation” and Anti-Trump Stance

By Daniel Schultz

…in trouble, whether liberal or conservative. It just so happens that announcing it now also helps distance them from Trump, for which Moore is surely grateful. But to my mind, the most political part of the story is right here: Moore’s comments were uploaded by The Gospel Coalition, a theologically conservative group largely comprised of pastors in the Reformed tradition. There’s been a long-running debate in the SBC between traditional, pietist…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for violations of anti-sodomy laws in the three nations are quite severe, including sentences of up to life imprisonment in Barbados and Guyana. The study models support for anti-gay laws “as a function of religion, socio-demographics, beliefs about the origins of homosexuals and interpersonal contact with homosexuals.” Among its findings: With respect to religiousness, there was some (albeit weak) evidence that the more involved an individual is…