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Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lso want connection with God. They want to know how you connect with wonder, awe, transcendence, and how we can connect with our neighbors in meaningful ways. They’re interested in how we can form networks of care, networks of doing justices, and networks of service in which we can make a better world. I see it happening in many congregations. People tell me they see the church as an institutional bureaucracy going nowhere fast, but not in their c…

More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim

By Sarah Posner

…ieve President Obama is a Christian, and 52% believe he is a Muslim. These numbers, like in Alabama, are more pronounced among evangelicals: only 9% of evangelicals in Mississippi believe the president is a Christian, and 54% believe he is a Muslim. The real question here is why evangelicals believe this false and debunked conspiracy theory that the Christian president is a Muslim. I think the question of whether he is a Christian is a little less…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…oes unrecycled, what’s late one day might be on time another. Unfortunately, too, many who responded to Dawkins’ tweet did no more than prove his point. By arguing for all that Islam had historically accomplished for science and technology, they were however unwittingly drawing attention to the great knowledge gap between the modern West and modern Muslims, or at least the modern Muslim-majority world, which is another reason to return to his twee…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…over sophisticated tasks, like housekeeping, manual labor, medical care and, yes, sex. Imagine the human equivalent of a Roomba. This is the world depicted in AMC’s Humans, which recently wrapped up its first season. Set in a “parallel present” where highly sophisticated androids—called “synths”—have become ubiquitous, the show explores what it would be like for humans to one day experience intimacy, jealousy, and bigotry towards machines. Critics…

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…t means a safe abortion or the right to quality childbirth care in hospital, clinic, or home environment. The recent onslaught of feticide laws and personhood bills at the state level has made the connection between anti-choice legislation and birthing rights palpable, as even women who do not plan to have an abortion have been imprisoned or forced to undergo unwanted medical procedures under the auspices of anti-abortion laws. “Radical Doula” Mi…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…but now it’s actually started to lose members. In 2013, the SBC claimed 15,735,640 members, and in 2014, that number fell by 236,467 to 15,499,173—that’s a 1.5 percent decline. However, on this stat alone, the claim could be made that churches are simply clearing out the cobwebs and tidying up their membership rolls so their numbers more accurately reflect their active members. The problem is, membership isn’t alone in its decline—it’s joined by…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…exual, my response is, ‘Does sleeping with over 1,000 men count?’” Actually, no, it doesn’t. Neither the number nor the gender of the people one has slept with in their life proves anything about one’s sexual orientation. What this “proof” reveals is that, indeed, Foster’s problem isn’t homosexuality, but (as the title of his most recent book alludes to) sexual addiction, and gets the most bang (sorry) for his buck out of sex with men. Perhaps he…

Liberty University’s In-House Conversion ‘Therapist’ Retires, But Will the Christian School Cease This Discredited Practice?

By Lucas Wilson

…, Emerick would assume the “love the sinner, hate the sin” posture. However, I, like Coomer, would consistently feel guilty for not following the straight-and-narrow (pun of course intended). And, as was also the case with Coomer, Emerick’s guilt trips were inevitably tempered with him telling me that he loved me. Such “love” never embraced us for who we were; it embraced us, rather, for who Emerick wanted us to be. Kevin Roose, in his undercover…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…uslims. U.S. citizens, whether liberal or conservative, should hold federal, state, and local law enforcement to account when an entire community comes under suspicion based on religious and racial profiling rather than a body of evidence. As long as Muslims are disproportionately targeted for criminal investigation, anti-Muslim bias will be perpetuated. By the end of 2016, Muslim terrorists were responsible for 123 of the 240,000 murders in the U…

Participant Discredits the Original Ex-Gay Study

By Warren Throckmorton

…Second, only three men reported no indications of homosexuality, subjects 3, 4, and 9. NARTH counted the Kinsey 0 ratings as indicating no homosexual thoughts or feelings, despite the fact that the Pattisons reported some kind of same-sex intrapsychic experience for two of the five men rated 0. The chart contains another questionable rating as well. Subject 4 reported no same-sex dreams, fantasies, or impulses but was still rated a Kinsey 1. Perha…