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“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

By Anthea Butler

…. Cry out all who will and He will relent. #Japan‘s #earthquake http://www.google.com/url?url=http://twitter.com/lydia_fuson/status/46227101413670912&rct=j&sa=X&ei=aD16Ta7zDo2dgQfG4szVBw&sqi=2&ved=0CFYQrwcwBw&q=japanese+earthquake+and+2012&usg=AFQjCNFev7RkeZbi4eJzisU1d7ZJy8rObQ ‎ EspoOriginals‎ Maybe the Mayans were right…. #2012 #Earthquakes #Japan #Haiti Catcasco‎ All I’m going to say is this: if God gave one tiny dog’s scrotum about Japan he wo…

“Saints Are Only Human”: Leaving the Church, But Heeding this Pope’s Lessons

By Elizabeth Colmant Estes

…slogans about immigration reform. On line I heard that parishes with large numbers of undocumented immigrants had received many tickets. No outside food or water, statues, gifts or selfie sticks were permitted. Despite 10,000 folding chairs, most of us would have no choice but to stand. Once in my appointed place behind the last row of seats, I found myself in a community of fellow pilgrims, lottery winners from local parishes, nearby colleges, an…

We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…eteronormative uncontracepted sex in monogamous marriage.” Sections 243 and 299 would also disappoint any divorced and remarried Catholics who want to receive Communion openly. Pope Francis says they should be treated with care and kindness and respect, but he stops short of giving them access to receiving Communion. He offers the same condescension to LGBT Catholics in Section 250 when he says should be treated with care, kindness and respect, bu…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to strip LGBT people from hate crimes law The Congressional Constitutional Committee voted to recommend removing LGBT people from the country’s hate crimes law; the provisions had been added in January as part of a legislative decree. A congressman who supported the removal said “those who defend life and the family are not homophobic” and said they lawmakers decided to repeal part of the decree “because human rights are given to people, not to at…

Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian

By Chrissy Stroop

…witterdom leapt at the chance to dunk on the theological heterodoxy of the comment: https://twitter.com/ndrewwhitehead/status/1537028907152588804?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1536865780368801793?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/1537133642706714631?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1537118021113765891?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g Sometim…

Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

By Chrissy Stroop

…://twitter.com/levi_bullen/status/1232499124076826626?s=20 https://twitter.com/1n1m1/status/1232500422667067392?s=20 https://twitter.com/snboyle/status/1232529394091970561?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnmark/status/1232499002286850048?s=20 In any case, Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions regarding Israel have been shaped almost entirely by America’s apocalyptically minded white evangelicals, and not by Jews at all. It’s evangelicals’ beliefs abo…

There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle

By Chrissy Stroop

…mmediately at risk for his moment of performative kumbaya. https://twitter.com/BrianZahnd/status/1065753809715150848?s=20 https://twitter.com/BrianZahnd/status/1142942804643057664?s=20 In fairness, Zahnd has called for humane treatment of detained refugees and asylum seekers: https://twitter.com/BrianZahnd/status/1142637240306348032?s=20 Nevertheless, it’s unsurprising that Zahnd came to Merritt’s (and, more or less, Pence’s) defense in the unfo…

Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ich means the ordinary rules for evidence are not in play. https://twitter.com/JakeDockter/status/1479931404204982274?s=20 https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/1480276182880768000?s=20 A related issue that evangelical-turned-humanist Bart Campolo and I have argued about on his HumanizeMe podcast is whether it’s ethical to form relationships with other people on the basis of hoping to change them—an example of which is the manipulative evangelical p…

Is Criticizing Mitt Romney an Excommunicable Offense? No.

By Joanna Brooks

…ir faith. That question of openness—the matter and manner in which the LDS community sorts through its own history and practices—is a source of tension among Mormons today. It’s complicated by so many factors—among them the youth of the Church, Mormon feelings of vulnerability to persecution from and misunderstanding by outsiders, the historical value assigned to secrecy when Mormon lifeways were under threat and from the US government in the nine…

Mike Johnson isn’t Just Your Average Christian Right Avatar — He’s Influenced by Fringe Movements Unfamiliar to Most Political Analysts

By Annika Brockschmidt

…have to Google him first). There are however a small handful of political commentators who don’t have to Google Johnson to know who he is and what he stands for: Those who’ve been writing about White Christian nationalism in the U.S. for years. As many commentators have noted since his election as speaker, Mike Johnson has been an integral part of a movement that’s been sawing away at the democratic foundations of the country for decades: The Chr…