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Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…t be sympathetic to the advertising. But we don’t take a position on this except promoting dialogue. At Sojourners, we’ve decided to have a safe place for dialogue and even disagreement on our staff and in our constituency. That’s interesting, since the Believe Out Loud ad could be best interpreted as . . . promoting dialogue. Sojourners, so far, has been silent on the Rev. Robert Chase’s piece we published here. In the court of public opinion Twi…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…oncern about Nicolas Cage’s soul. A video of Cage giving an interview to Fox News got scores of comments from viewers upset that Cage apparently didn’t get the point of the film, since he didn’t accept Jesus as his personal savior. Fan after fan pleaded for prayers that Cage might be saved, until Lalonde commented again. “I am honestly so upset and embarrassed by some of these comments,” he wrote, “that I was thinking of just deleting the video an…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…A gay man is legally challenging seven sections of law that criminalize sex between men: Yeung Chu-wing, a volunteer from local sexual minorities rights group Rainbow Action, argued that such laws were discriminatory since they targeted only gay men without providing equivalent criminal sanctions against heterosexuals or lesbians for the same or comparable conduct. Chile: Presidential Candidate Rejects Abortion, LGBT Equality AND Radio reported,…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…ience, and then you add to that DNA, which has been called things like the code of codes, the holy grail. We give it this kind of supernatural significance. So, I think it’s a combination of being a society that values data, being a society that equates progress with scientific development, and being a society that thinks that genetics—in part because DNA comes from you, from us, from we—is the ultimate information, the ultimate data. It’s like th…

Well, It Would Have Been a Good Religion Question…

By Sarah Posner

…rbing the public peace according to regulation 201 A4 of the Israeli legal code. The punishment for this crime is six months in prison. They also broke regulation 287A by performing a religious act that ‘offends the feelings of others.’ The punishment for this crime is up to two years in prison.” After her arrest last week, Hoffman told the Forward’s Debra Nussbaum Cohen: “I was saying Sh’ma Israel and arrested for it. It’s just unbelievable,” she…

McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

By Kathryn Joyce

…, he argues, distinguished her beliefs from the pious rules-oriented religious right of American politics, ostensibly making her a more independent-minded evangelical. It’s the same image raised by the popular photographs of Palin sitting on couches draped with bear-skin rugs, next to taxidermied Alaskan King Crabs: a new archetype even a purist can appreciate. Tough, Western Christian women in dresses with guns. The truth of the matter to remembe…

Women’s Ordination Horrifies Traditionalist Anglican Clergy

By Kate Childs Graham

…refuge in the Catholic church. Indeed, statements like these may be very exciting to the hierarchy of the Catholic church, who get a bit nervous anytime the Church of England grants more rights to women than they are ready (or, more accurately, willing) to give. However, it is a sad reflection of the sexist tendencies of the Catholic church that these clergy opposed to women’s rights would turn to the Catholic church for support. And it is an eve…

Prayer vs. Medicine in the Courts

By Shawn Francis Peters

…manns is bound to be complicated, if not simply derailed, by the apparent exemption for faith healing practices that remains in place in the state’s child abuse and neglect laws. The couple is likely to claim that this conflict in the laws (spiritual healing practices appear to be protected under one part of the criminal code but not under another) violates their right to due process of law. Wisconsin’s “treatment through prayer” provision is not…

The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

By Sarah Posner

…trusive regulation” are “as wrong and immoral and stealing;” and the the tax code should be revamped “so we can rejoice together because it would stimulate economic growth.” But there’s more. There’s good, and there’s evil, and in laying out a parade of evils, Robison lists “radical Islam,” “terrorism” and “extreme environmental activism” all in the same breath. The players in Robison’s meetings reflect this agenda. They include Jim Garlow, the Ca…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…the Dover trial, she was its most damning witness. In her testimony, she exposed how the intelligent design textbook Of Pandas and People was initially a creationist text. But following the US Supreme Court’s 1987 decision in Edwards v. Aguillard, in which the teaching of creation science was ruled unconstitutional to teach in public schools, its editors simply replaced the phrase with “intelligent design.” Forrest also unearthed the quote of DI…