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Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…rts come to the Red River Women’s Clinic (RRWC) from the nearby Lutheran college wearing buttons that say “Jesus Never Shamed Women.” At the same time, a couple of blocks away is a state-funded Christian crisis pregnancy center (one of the city’s nine state-funded CPCs), while across the parking lot anti-abortion Catholics pray downward upon the clinic from a third-floor chapel. The chapel is an outpost of St. Mary’s Cathedral, just five blocks aw…

Atheist Islamophobia… Again

By Kate Blanchard

…“flirt with” Islamophobia [echoing Chris Stedman’s prescient warning to fellow atheists on RD this past August]. As the article explains, Dawkins, Hitchens, and their ilk have had a gleeful decade of “intellectual triumphalism” directed against the religion that they see as particularly adept at producing “suicide bombers and terrorists,” which “are not aberrations. They are the norm.” Such Islamophobic ideas are not unique to the new atheists, o…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…t lawyer who brought down the wrath of local officials by demanding they follow the law of the land and stop forced abortions and sterilizations. As a “barefoot lawyer” Chen has fought to expand the rule of law on various issues, including environmental protection and the rights of disabled citizens; though it’s important to point out that his struggle doesn’t map neatly onto the U.S. abortion debate. No Help From Beijing Born in a rural village i…

NC Pastor Says Gays Should Be “Penned Up With a Fence”

By Anthea Butler

…eproduce.” Meanwhile, don’t bother to look up the church’s website. Thankfully, the web designer removed the church’s webpage from their servers in retaliation for Worley’s hate filled sermon. I was interviewed by Martin Bashir about Pastor Worley for the Last Word on MSNBC last night. Needless to say, I’m receiving a lot of email and tweets about homosexuality and the scripture, both in support and in condemnation of Worley. The takeaway is, Past…

Ugandan Bishops Push Notorious Anti-Gay Bill

By Peter Montgomery

…an Council, which includes Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox bishops, has called on parliament to move the notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill forward. According to the Ugandan newspaper The Daily Monitor: Top religious leaders from across the country have asked Parliament to speed-up the process of enacting the Anti-Homosexuality law to prevent what they called “an attack on the Bible and the institution of marriage.” Speaking after their recent ann…

The Internets Own Your Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…watched with some fascination. One of the earliest discussions was around allowing “.xxx” to indicate pornography-related sites. However, I am interested in a new round of names that may potentially define who is in and who is out of religious communities. In particular, I am looking at the applications for “.islam” and “.shia”. Ownership of these gTLD could potentially define who is part of the fold of Islam broadly, and Shi’ism in particular. Si…

Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

By Jeffrey Scholes

…here is no shortage of pundits offering their own explanations. Maybe the alleged shooter, James Holmes, was depressed after scoring low on exams in his PhD program at the University of Colorado. Or he must have had a rough upbringing. Or the common refrain: he’s simply psychotic, and no verifiable reason for the shooting will ever be discovered. The responses from religious commentators, scholars, and pastors have a similar range. Shootings like…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

On July 20, just after James Holmes wounded 58 and killed 12 people at the opening of the latest Batman film at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, The Telegraph published a “history of mass shootings in the U.S. since Columbine”—a list of nearly 30 shooting sprees with lethal results. Ne’er-do-wells who merely wounded didn’t make the cut. Thus, not included on the list was a shooting spree in an Alabama bar with a multiple arson warm-up just two…

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

By The Editors

…y are primary evidence of this lack of motive. For the umpteenth time, I will quote this excerpt. I think it’s important. It was from an interview with “Russky Reporter”, given the day after the concert at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour: “Our attitude toward religion, and toward Orthodoxy in particular, is one of respect, and for this very reason we are distressed that the great and luminous Christian philosophy is being used so shabbily. We…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…ed on to Twitter to express my shock, outrage, disgust, and sadness—as a Millennial, I suppose you could say this is one way I engage in the collective processing of such traumas. Within minutes of my first tweet, I began to get responses from other atheists saying that interfaith work is bad, that I should be more concerned about atheists than Sikhs, and that “religion poisons everything.” The next day, I was called “a traitor” when I tweeted abo…