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Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ary to prevent the acceptance of LGBTQ rights. This willingness to betray any other moral demand and make any allegiance, even with the most vile of leaders, so long as the narrow cultural objectives of American Christian nationalists are met (i.e., anything goes so long as you’re allowed to oppress women, gender and sexual minorities, and non-Christians) is the real problem. And that gets obscured when conversations about American Christian natio…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…inciples so it’s kind of important when you see a poll that says a growing number of Americans think you might be a Muslim. The President continues to tell everyone he’s a Christian but yet the number rises. See that? Which came first, the thought he was a Muslim or the lack of trust? If he is a Muslim, he can’t be trusted? Or if you can’t trust him, he must be a Muslim? In any case, Obama strained mightily to placate the likes of Graham and Brody…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…ent. Wilkins joked to Butler that the coalition was “a very loose one of many good friends who are convinced I am going to burn in hell.” But the jocularity of his admission also seems to indicate how willing many coalition members are to set aside differences in belief that they see as heretical or false teaching to make common cause. The WCF is not alone in seeing the potential in this kind of alliance. Peter Kreeft, right wing convert to Cathol…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s benign mathematical oracle leaves out, and it speaks to the subtle hegemony of a certain quantitative mentality among such scientists—even and especially applied to arenas of social life that don’t lend themselves to statistical or quantitative analysis. Like health care. Like education. Isn’t this what we who are educators or health care professionals grapple with on a daily basis? The number-crunchers are forcing us to speak their language and…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ylum seekers earlier this month. At the time, German press reported that many of the deportees had a criminal record, and there was no indication of whether any of the asylum claims were based on an LGBT identity. The event followed a series of agreements made in March between Germany and Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria to make the deportation process easier. Jordan: Band banned and unbanned The interior ministry blocked a performance by the band Ma…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…are winning in state after state. In the past six years, we’ve doubled the number of private school choice programs to 50, the number of private school choice states to 25, plus Washington, D.C., and doubled the number of students currently benefiting from private school choice to 400,000. All told, together, we’ve helped more than a million kids in private school choice programs, and we’re just getting started. “Just getting started”: we should n…

National Review’s Kevin Williamson Comes Out Against Daughters, Misunderstands Science

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ivers-Willard. And when it comes to humans, a man tends to have about as many children as another man, and about as many children as a woman has. Stories of sultans with 900 children notwithstanding, humans are generally characterized by a much lower variance in male reproductive fitness than other closely related species, because of the institution of marriage. Once again, without the “if” statement, there is no “then” statement. Those who have t…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…bance of our Good Death status quo to recognize that this will happen to many of those we love, to many of us, in the coming months―not to the ancient Greeks or the poor souls of 1918 or to people in far off places where no one we know lives. Cultivating Good Death imagination We must begin to cultivate new imagination for deathcare practices in the midst of this global pandemic that will rupture our every notion of the Good Death. There are a num…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…ecific audience in mind? Just people who like good stories. I think like many writers you want to appeal to as many people as possible. I was no different. However, my intention in writing the book was never to change people’s minds or make them believers. I wasn’t trying to change the minds of skeptics. What I wanted to do was to tell my story and get people to think about some of the things I wrote about: Is there more to life than what we can s…

None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…sticism. Religion News Service regrets the inaccuracy.” Well, okay. Take a number if you’d like to complain about my own writerly inaccuracies. Still, the trouble with the piece goes beyond an inaccurate (though indisputably grabby) headline. Reporter Kimberly Winston is careful to point out that the Pew report authors have noted “that [the religiously unaffiliated] are by no means homogeneous.” She goes on to highlight Pew researchers’ noting of…