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Millennials Invent New Religion: No Hell, No Priests, No Punishment

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nicate them from your religion?” I asked. “No,” they said, “they’re always welcome to come back.” The tales of their “reformers” were not much more forceful. Other than tinkering with one or two doctrines or ideas, the reformers they imagined for the assignment were just as “feel good” about the religion as the original founders. I asked the class after the presentations why they all chose to eschew the idea of hell. “Religion today is so … judgme…

New Poll: ‘Faithful Catholics’ an Endangered Species

By Linda Woodhead

…g gather strayed sheep back to the fold. Reformists say the opposite. They welcome the initiative as a sign that Francis really cares about what ordinary Catholics think, and that Vatican II’s claim that the Church is “the whole people of God” is at last being made good. A closer look at the questionnaire supports the conservative view over the reformist one, for it’s not a survey in any sense that a social scientist would recognize. The 38 questi…

A Rabbinical View: Bringing Honor to God By Extending Equal Rights to Gays and Lesbians

By Justus N. Baird

…e responsibility to debate in public how civil marriage is defined. Let us welcome the voices of the rabbis of Lakewood, NJ in this debate. But our voices as religious leaders cannot be limited to what is best for our own communities. The wisdom we bring from our traditions must be good for all Americans, even those who do not share our faith perspective. We must cry out that the cohesiveness of families across America is under attack. But it does…

LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ows just how far the LGBT community has strayed from our own commitment to welcome everyone. Apparently, we cannot even make room at the table for everyone in our own community if their doctrines don’t smell right. I understand the argument put forth by the owner of the site itself, that they do have a right to add or exclude churches at their discretion. I could always build a site that includes every faith group from Christian to Wiccan congrega…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…of lawn to read a statement declaring that the Soulforce contingent is not welcome and that anyone who ventures off the sidewalk onto the college’s campus will be arrested for trespassing. “We love you,” one of the riders calls out as Kimbrow gives instructions to a police officer who has followed him to the edge of campus. “I love you too,” Kimbrow replies before he turns and walks away from the strangers at his gate. “This is just what happens s…

Are Messianic Jews Unfairly Shunned by Jews?

By Sarah Posner

…lar. It’s conservatives, not liberals, though, who have endorsed MJBI, and welcome Messianic Jews as partners, for the same reason conservative Jews embrace evangelicals: “love” for the Jews and Israel, as well as shared beliefs on other political and social issues. Past speakers at MJBI before Bush included Mike Huckabee and Glenn Beck. The Pew survey, notably, also showed shifts in American Jewish attitudes towards Israel, a development that mus…

No Religious Left “Split” On Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption

By Sarah Posner

…think it’s delightful that Jim Wallis has decided to come along, and he’s welcome along the 21st century train towards making liberty and justice for all actually mean all.” (Ball reports that Wallis and Wear “see themselves as deeply, spiritually committed to gay rights.”) “But the fact that Jim Wallis and some other folks would prefer a broader religious exemption,” said Russell, “that’s not splitting the religious left.” Speaking of the religi…

Manufactured Outrage Over ‘Godless’ Democratic Platform [UPDATE]

By Peter Montgomery

…justice and mercy it inspires.” God, it turns out, has already been quite welcome in Charlotte, from opening and closing prayers to references in several speakers’ remarks. But that is not enough for the word-counters at Fox News, who demand to know why the number of uses of “God” has dropped. In response, Sen. Dick Durbin took on the insinuation that the platform revision somehow proved that Democrats are anti-God: Well, I can just basically tel…

New Ordinance to Protect Scientologists

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ght to worship, work and live in peace? If they are breaking the law inside Golden Era Productions, protesters should file a complaint, allow police to obtain a warrant, and I will eagerly anticipate (and welcome) watching Tom Cruise taken away in handcuffs. Otherwise they may need to chill out. Their speech is just as free from across the street as it is at the door of the Mothership….

Mark Twain’s Blasphemy

By Michael A. Elliott

…is not an abolitionist in sight—nor does Huck show any signs that he would welcome one—and Twain will render Huck’s entire self-examination moot by the end of the novel when he tells us that, in fact, Jim had already been manumitted upon the death of his owner. At the most pragmatic level, the entire narrative of Jim’s quest for freedom is an exercise in redundancy. There are no lessons for liberation here. What may be most useful about reading, c…