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Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…mes hesitatingly, as “unconfirmed”) by NPR, ABC News, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, the Houston Chronicle, and many other local news outlets and blogs. The real Joel Osteen Ministries began to receive inquiries. The earliest official denial came from the real Joel Osteen’s Twitter account on April 8 in response to a tweet: “It is a false rumor. Pastor Joel is not leaving the church. -JOM Team,” it read. The media coverage then shifted…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ay. Omri Lanzet, one of the many new parents who landed in Israel with his newborn son Sunday night told Ynet news that “We had a baby just days old with us, and had no heat. The food and the diapers ran out.” “The babies are the most vulnerable, and some of them were born prematurely. It’s neither the place nor the proper environment for a baby only a few days old.” …The Justice Ministry ruled on Sunday that four Nepalese surrogate mothers carryi…

In Defense of Feisal Abdul-Rauf

By Hussein Rashid

…xample, did you know that the Cordoba Initiative sent election monitors to Sudan, and Bin Laden was once believed to have been in Sudan? It is a game that trades in absurdity and conspiracy theories. The other approach is to take quotes out of context and use them to prove that the speaker or author is duplicitous. The term for that is now “Sherroding.” Then, finally, is the ever popular and constant smearcasting, where one just hurls mud and hope…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…orrectness run amok.” Really? One can easily point to the existence of the Sudan-born St. Josephine Bakhita, who was stationed at an Italian convent less than 200 miles from the Austrian border in 1938, to begin to refute such a claim. But the confidence with which detractors rejected the historical possibility of black nun in the Austria of 1938, along with the fact that the claim went unchallenged, even by McDonald’s staunchest supporters, deman…

ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

By Joanna Brooks

…mer athletes of color who had a positive experience with BYU and the Honor Code: “If Darron Smith wasn’t so hell bent on exposing BYU, the Church and the honor code office as racists, he’d find out that for every Thomas Stancil, Tico Pringle and Ray Hudson, there’s a Brandon Davies, Reno Mahe and Brian McDonald, the latter of which recovered from an alcohol-related probation, joined the Church and served a mission to Washington, DC.” Sikahema’s fu…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…at a group of students in the playground of St. Mary’s Parochial School in Newburgh, New York, causing minor injuries to several of the students. The majority of attacks during this time period were by students on other students or teachers, and usually involved stabbing with knives, or hitting with stones. 1900–1930s There are very few reports of mass or multiple school shootings during the first three decades of the 20th Century, with the three…

Was Prof Wrong to Ask Students to Not Thank God?

By Hollis Phelps

…, and in what manner to express or not express these rights. It’s when the code that translates these rights for us somehow ceases to function properly in the background that problems result. I want to suggest that often when problems crop up around religious or religiously-motivated speech in the United States, they often have less to do with rights per se than with the unwritten code that determines how these rights are to be taken. At least tha…

Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ational education. He’d be the first Catholic to hold the position, but as New York Magazine explains, that doesn’t mean he’d have any particular sensitivity for members of faith traditions that have been historically marginalized. Instead, it’s much more likely to mean he will continue the Christian supremacist agenda he’s been pushing since he entered public office. New York‘s Ed Kilgore explains: [Brownback] was a member of the shadowy conserva…

“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…ra, Turkey: Vatican in shock!” proclaimed the National Turk. Other Turkish newspapers, such as Today’s Zaman, speculated that it “may be a copy of the much-debated GBarn, which Muslims claim is an original gospel that was later suppressed.” Iran’s Basij Press went even further, using the discovery of the manuscript as an occasion to explain how the GBarn undermines Christianity. Such claims soon attracted attention from Western journalists. The Da…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…who has relativized all religious formalities in order to bring us into a new humanity starting from the rejected and precarious. PinkNews reports that the first World Congress of Homosexual Catholics’ Associations will be held in Portugal next week, bringing together 28 associations from 16 countries who will call on Pope Francis to make the church more inclusive. According to Portugal News Online, the meeting has been timed to coincide with the…