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Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…to show mercy. Incidentally, we thank Dmitry Anatolievich Medvedev for his latest wonderful aphorism. If Medvedev gave his presidency the slogan: “Freedom is better than non-freedom”, then, thanks to Medvedev’s felicitous saying, Putin’s third term has a good chance of being known by a new aphorism: “Prison is better than stoning.” I would like you to think carefully about the following reflection by Montaigne from his Essays written in the 16th c…

Religious Leaders Accuse Conservatives of Misleading Public on Contraception

By Katie Toth

…(Wheaton College, the prominent evangelical school in Illinois, became the latest institution to sue the Obama administration over the contraceptin coverage requirement.) “Unfortunately they violated one of the primary dictates of our faith… which is that we tell the truth.” Knox called contraceptive coverage with no co-pays a moral imperative. His rejoinder to conservative Catholics and evangelical claims that the ACA attacks religious freedom: “…

God is My Co-Belligerent: Avatar Priests, Hijacked Theologians, and Other Figures of Right-Wing Revolt

By Frederick Clarkson

…te House in Washington DC. Probably few who gathered to hear Bonhoeffer’s latest biographer expected to be asked to imagine themselves called by God to rise up against a regime that might be as heinous as the Third Reich—but as it turns out Metaxas is not unique among religious-right intellectuals in his use of the language of armed revolt. “I Am Offended” Metaxas is not yet a household name, but this has certainly been his year. He was not onl…

Dear Common Grounders, Religious Progressives, and Ecumenical Seminaries…

By The Editors

…on obscurantist versions of the faith, a more insistent discussion of the latest in biblical scholarship, a yet more widespread commentary on the tendency of many of today’s evangelical leaders to focus on tiny segments of scripture—this might be a valuable service. And might it cement an accommodation not with the evangelicals, but with secular intellectuals? That might be a good thing. The salient solidarity today may not be with the community…

Ex-Gay Groups Go Back to the Future

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t Spitzer, who recently disavowed his own research. Chambers is simply the latest “ex-gay” to realize he isn’t. Exodus’ founder Michael Bussee discovered that back in 1979, when he and Gary Cooper—another ex-gay pioneer—fell in love and got married. “By calling ourselves ‘ex-gay’ we were lying to ourselves and others. We were hurting people,” Bussee recalls. Now that “pray away the gay” is quickly headed for the historical dustbin, Gagnon and his…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…that when I recently grasped hands with a modern-day Apostle (as Valdemiro Santiago, miracle curer and head of Brazil’s World Church of God’s Power, proclaims himself), I momentarily implored God for a miracle for my mother, who six months ago survived the latest in a harrowing series of medical ordeals. With that little bit of prayerful business out of the way, I turned from the ecstatic mob of Santiago-rushing crentes and walked down the darken…

Theology Fail in Christian Statement on Israel, Judaism, Palestine

By Adam Gregerman

…nian activism using “biblically- and theologically-based principles.” This latest statement’s American context is important. Most authors are from major Protestant denominations such as the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and United Methodist churches. These Christian traditions have, in a remarkable break with centuries of hateful teachings, opposed both Christian hostility toward Judaism and polemics about Jews’ unfaithfulness to God. They also endorse…

The Real Reason For “Vagina-gate”

By Jerry Faught

…d to stock popular young evangelical blogger and writer Rachel Held Evans’ latest book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood. Although Evans was told by her publisher that the word “vagina” would likely keep her books out of Lifeway’s stores, it is another word that better explains the ban: “fundamentalism.” The leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention are, across the board, hidebound fundamentalists who try to pass themselves off as conservatives. Unl…

National Catholic Reporter Endorses Women’s Ordination

By Megan Sweas

…ckly, we realized that the focus is not Roy,” Coday said. “Roy is just the latest… In the last two year, the number of people who have been silenced is incredible.” With bishops, theologians, priests, and even “liberal” Catholic publications unable to discuss women’s ordination, the editors realized that they—the laity—were the only ones left to keep the conversation going. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops isn’t likely to respond to NCR’s…

Will Voters Approve Marriage Equality?

By Sarah Posner

…On the latest bloggingheads, The American Prospect’s E.J. Graff and I discuss whether polling showing 52% support for Maryland’s marriage equality ballot question will hold on election day: We also discussed the marriage referenda in Maine and Washington, and why Graff thinks the three-year campaign by marriage equality advocates in Maine will pay off. You can watch the whole thing here….