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PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About

By Daniel Schultz

…hose views. I think the challenges start to be that, when we’re talking about authoritarianism—in particular, talking about violence—we don’t need a majority of folks supporting violence to get violence. For example, Republicans are two and a half times more likely than Democrats to agree with these measures of political violence. So then you start saying, okay, well, one of our two political parties has somewhere between one in four and three in…

What’s in a Name? Religious Nones and the American Religious Landscape

By Richard Flory

…category. There are others who dismiss the whole idea of being “spiritual but not religious,” but who do religious/spiritual things. They occasionally attend services, pray, believe in Karma and meditate. But they don’t tend to think of these things as having any particular religious or spiritual content. Focusing on Nones also misses those who are marginally interested in religion, rarely if ever attend services, yet claim that it has some releva…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…6, according to the Bay Area Reporter, the Yes on 8 campaign had raised about $16.8 million, while about $13 million has been raised by No on 8. ++++++++++ Rick Warren Sets the Record Straight Whatever else Rick Warren may be, he is the master of his own domain; savvy enough to try and control his image and how he is described in the media. After his performance as moderator at Saddleback Church’s presidential forum with Senators John McCain and B…

How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote

By Katherine Stewart

…eer out of the idea that he is “ex-gay.” I worry that he’ll take offense. But he immediately puts me at ease. “Thank you for that incredible article!” he exclaims. “I am so blessed by your piece.” He asks for a hug and invites me to dinner, adding that his wife is eager to meet me. In an instant I feel the warmth and charisma that has made Domen a leader in conservative Christian circles in this part of the state. “Sometimes the Latino pastors cal…

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

By Mary E. Hunt

…and bishops abused minors and some covered it up. What’s so mysterious about that? A large number of minors have been sexually abused by a large number of clerics. Period. Full stop. It’s simply the beginning of a hideous story that includes the abuse of seminarians, nuns and other women, children of priests, and more, all of whom merit summits of their own. Francis’ discussion of power fell flat. He claimed that the sexual abuse of minors is an…

Economy Yields Too Few Prophets

By Peter Laarman

…in crisis is not the 14 million who are officially unemployed (as if that number were acceptable), but more like 29 million people, if you count people no longer looking or working at sharply reduced hours or taking big pay and benefit cuts. That is 18 percent of the total workforce and still rising. What’s more, three-fourths of those losing work over the past year were permanently displaced, not temporarily laid off. Many had worked in construc…

The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

By Patricia Miller

…who back them a chance to be heard in a synod where they’re still vastly outnumbered by conservatives. Douthat likewise ignores Pope Paul VI’s apostolic letter Apostolica Sollicitudo, which established the Synod of Bishops and the procedures for their meetings which states that the responsibilities of the pontiff regarding synods are: To call the Synod into session whenever he feels this will be advisable and to designate the place where the meet…

Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Belfast pride parade Belfast’s annual pride parade was led by the city’s first openly gay deputy lord mayor, Sinn Fein’s Mary Ellen Campbell. According to the Irish Times, “footage posted on social media showed Christians giving speeches outside Belfast City Hall being interrupted by a small number of jeering protestors.” Colombia: Bogota’s first married couple receiving death threats According to news reports, the first gay couple to be married…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…position, ultimately voted against the African Group’s effort to kill it. But as Reuters notes, some countries have already vowed not to cooperate: Russia and Egypt, speaking on behalf of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, said they would not recognize the mandate of the gay rights investigator and would not cooperate with Muntarbhorn. The Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam), a U.S. based anti-LGBT group active at the UN, call…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…in the American Journal of Sociology. The author—a Baptist minister based out of Chicago’s South Side—interviewed workers, asking what could be done to win them back. Their words varied but their answer was resoundingly clear: “Apply the Sermon on the Mount”; “Preach Christianity instead of theology”; “Let the pastor have a personal relationship with the needs of labor. Be our champion.” As they assimilated such data, many church leaders came to s…