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Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith

By Peter Montgomery

…lar, humanist UUs, Harris-Perry says that as a teenager she found God on a lake, and over time came to call herself a Christian. She says she doesn’t particularly know or care whether Jesus actually walked on water, but she feels bound to the religious texts and stories that gave her enslaved ancestors the power to believe in a God that loved them when all evidence pointed to the contrary: When my great-great-great-grandmother was sold on a stre…

The Confessions of Haneke

By Gabriel Mckee

…on the new version.] The film’s story is simple: a family vacationing in a lake house invites two young men (who claim to be friends of the neighbors) into their home. The two begin terrorizing and torturing the family in a broadening circle of violence, and before long they’re winking to the camera, making the audience complicit in the onscreen brutality. It is (as if it needed saying!) a powerful and disturbing film, particularly to anyone who e…

LDS Church-Owned Radio Station Stands By Rush Limbaugh

By Joanna Brooks

…lle International. In October 2010, LDS/Bonneville-owned KSL radio in Salt Lake City dumped political commentator Sean Hannity, a move some viewed as an effort to align programming with a recently adopted corporate mission and values statement including the following points: “I honor principles espoused by our owner in the products and services I provide.” “I promote integrity, civility, morality, and respect for all people.” “I seek to lift, insp…

Anxiety About Homosexuality and Apocalyptic Worldview is An Old Marriage: 10 Questions for the Author of Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England

By H. G. Cocks

…England, and The Reformation of the Landscape, and the huge tomes of Peter Lake. These are monuments of scholarship that I read with awe. Foucault’s History of Sexuality is also one of my favourites. What’s your next book? I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a book at the moment, but I’m working on the different meanings of lust in late 17th/early 18th century English religious debate. Lust was a feature of original sin, and only gradually took on…

Double Helix: The Environment Is the Economy

By Arri Eisen

…d buckets of water left over from my kids’ bath outside to water my trees (Lake Lanier, Atlanta’s main water reservoir, is 17 feet below normal for October, so outdoor watering is mostly illegal) and waited in line at Quick Trip to get gas at one of the few open service stations in the city, I saw another staggering failure of science and religion to work together. In a new survey, the intriguing results of which are buried in the back pages behin…

Palin Tries to Join the Mishpachah

By Sarah Posner

…cting as modern-day apostles, bringing salvation to those left behind because they’re non-Christians, and who would, according to this narrative, otherwise perish when non-Christians are cast into a lake of brimstone when Christ vanquishes the Antichrist. So is Palin pandering to the Jews, or adapting to trends in Christian Zionist wings of evangelicalism? Maybe both?…

Does Conservative Watchdog Actually “Get Religion”?

By Joanna Brooks

…Read the words of the churchgoing LDS women who spoke last week at a Salt Lake City vigil against gaybashing. These women don’t have high-ranking positions in LDS institutional life. They don’t make doctrine or policy. Very, very few women in Mormonism actually do. But they speak for an increasing number of everyday Mormons who know that gay people are our relatives. Family. Saints. Us. Are views on homosexuality evolving in Mormonism? You bet, a…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…ill go to Mina, etc. There is still no address for the hotels, but a local phone number. There is also information about processing customs at Jeddah, meeting the tour guide, and information that says “the group” will proceed to Makkah—which means the first will have to wait for the last person, which is the beginning of feeling like you are a group. They even include suggestions to “get to know” your fellow travelers. I still had no idea what wer…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…internet as a result of the inexorable working out of Moore’s Law. As the number of transistors on a chip grew exponentially, computers became smaller, and then they became “personal,” and then they fit in our pockets as a phone. “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing,” at the Computer History Museum In this telling, the internet was not a unique “Columbus” event, but an evolution dependent on the shrinking size and growing capacity of co…

Record Number of Stealth Creationism Bills Introduced in 2011

By Lauri Lebo

The National Center for Science Education has tracked a record-setting number of nine anti-evolution bills introduced in state legislatures since Jan. 1. The latest is Texas’ HB 2454, which would prohibit an institution of higher learning from “discrimination related to research related into intelligent design.” “PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RESEARCH RELATED TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN. An institution of higher education may not discriminate…