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Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)

By Sarah Posner

…ways been a mainstay of Obama’s political biography.” The story opens with prosperity preacher Kirbyjon Caldwell recalling his prayer on the phone with Obama before the first presidential debate in Denver (are they trying to advertise the ineffectiveness of prayer?): “I would pray that your primary will and words that you want the president to say will fall from his lips.” Gilgoff futher recounts: “Obama, for his part, was mostly silent.” Could it…

A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…e so dammit we will take 50 states and a white house! OBAMA 08! We NEED to PRAY for this president the most!!! And a most provocative email from a close friend: I hope that Mr. Obama can bring the change to the nation that not only people can believe in, but that is real and actual (and doesn’t have to do with raising anyone’s taxes). I hope that he and the Democratic Congress can solve the problems in the economy, end the armed incursion into the…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…Walsh wrote a piece in Salon explaining why it was, despite appearances, appropriate. I’m still ticked about it, and here’s why: whatever the extenuating circumstances were (Lewis is a congressman or We have a process) it doesn’t take into account how Lewis could have shared and inspired, through his own experience, what the Occupy Atlanta protesters could face. The moment you get pepper-sprayed, hosed down, bitten by dogs, etc., is the moment you…

“Guerilla Warrior of Judeo-Christian Political Commentary” Stars in Anti-Newt Video in Iowa

By Sarah Posner

…t out to Iowans last week bearing a link to his own video endorsement of a proposed GOP ticket, less than a month from the Iowa Republican Presidential Caucuses on Jan. 3. That endorsement? A merger of Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. Pastor Gordon, who previously supported former Ten Commandments judge Roy Moore before his presidential campaign fizzled, adds, “many Iowa conservatives don’t care who’s on top.” Update: Via Brian Tashman, some…

The Great Cremation Debate

By David Marchese

…ange back to something more closely resembling those of our ancestors. The process of burial as it should be practiced—recycling the body back into the earth from which it came—carries a profoundly powerful ecological reality.” It is not, Waskow says, ancestral burial that is “out of whack; it is the way we practice it now.” As Waskow suggests, cremation might not be as eco-friendly as supporters believe. Even though it uses less space—no small co…

Thank You Breitbart, For The Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…t not all Muslims.) That’s because, in every society, there are parallel approaches to the same problems. Allow me to explain. Many Muslims are African-American. A rising proportion are Mexican. Where do the boundaries between these groups lie? If “Muslim” is separate from African-American, does that mean Islam trumps (sic) blackness? What happens with Eastern European Muslims—who are, by any reasonable definition, white and (obviously) European?…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…s freedom; how, it asks, did we become a beacon of religious liberty and expression? Providing due time to both individual and social struggles for personal freedom of conscience, we meet the controversial Anne Hutchinson, who consumes a good chunk of the first hour; Frederick Douglass, who fulminates against the slaveholders’ religion during hour three; Charles Augustus Briggs, who sacrifices a comfortable academic career to endorse scientific fi…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…erapy.’ For $225 per 45-minute session Nicolosi Jr offers treatment at his private practice, “The Breakthrough Clinic,” in Westlake Village, California. His methods, he claims, are based on science, such as the study on the spectrum of sexualities by psychology professor Ritch Savin-Williams (et al.) from Cornell University in New York. When asked what he thinks of Nicolosi Jr’s use of his research, however, Dr. Savin-Williams told us that he find…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…g the ability of individuals to live out their faith in everyday life, for Priests to preach and Catholic schools to teach about marriage, and for faith-based charities to continue to take a pro-marriage stance.” Others — including the Holy Family Parish Maroubra and Waverley Catholic Church — use almost identical wording, directing readers to the Coalition for Marriage website. “As survey forms begin arriving in letterboxes across Australia, it i…

From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…reach programs and social support systems offered by churches? There are a number of great programs out there like Recovering from Religion, the Secular Therapist Project, Secular Organizations for Sobriety, and Grief Beyond Belief that offer support services to those in need. Through organizations like the Foundation Beyond Belief we can be active in helping others. Through these organizations, we have a good starting point to build a foundation…