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What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains

By Vlad Chituc

…I think there are two levels of realness. There’s one where the person is really experiencing these things and really suffering, and to that extent it’s real. Then there’s another level where it gets a name or a diagnosis and the society agrees that this is a real thing. That can be very powerful to the person to feel that everybody agrees that this thing is really happening, and this is the chain of events that they’re part of, and this is what’…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…I was little. You know, that we could be that way toward each other. It’s really the ideal for me of how people should behave. Not “do unto others,” but more like “do what they need when you find them on the road.” That still really matters to me even though I don’t think of myself as a “Christian” in a religious sense anymore. Spiritually, though, I guess I still have that in my personal beliefs—that this was what Jesus stood for and expected us…

Will Mormonism Really Hurt Romney in Iowa?

By Joanna Brooks

…heran agrees: “I’ve never heard anyone bring up Romney’s Mormon-ness as an issue here. There are a few people who I could imagine bringing that up, but never in public.” And the faith-motivated issues his younger congregants care about don’t map onto the traditional social conservatism. “We have a number of people who are really concerned with food and poverty issues,” says Olson-Smith. All Saints plays a significant role in a local food bank, but…

Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…oogle search. He’s very smart on how he runs his website. To me, it’s just really hateful stuff and not worthy of even listening to. If someone I respect or someone I really know wants to say something about me, I’ll sit down and listen. To have people talk about you who won’t even show their face or you’ve never met before and wants to write about how horrible you are, there’s nothing you can do. I can’t stop them and I definitely won’t fight the…

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

By Deborah Whitehead

…h this man. He’s a fantastic speaker, he’s—he’s tremendously likable, he’s really good at what he does. But this man is basically taking the mantle from Billy Graham, the greatest televangelist of all time, the greatest, you know, pastor-preacher of all time as far as I’m concerned. And he’s huge now. He is the figurehead, I believe, of Christianity, notwithstanding the pope, he is a big deal. And when you take that position, and when you position…

Honey, I Shrunk the Church: The Vatican Manages Sexual Abuse, Canonization and the Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…cal model of church. Lest anyone labor under the delusion that things have really changed with Pope Francis, the celebration featured the kyriarchal church doing as it pleased—clergy dolling up in their best duds, bureaucrats putting the current pope through his paces to be sure that he’s really what the cardinals elected him to be—namely, a “company” man in every sense of the term (The Society of Jesus, of which he is a member, was called “The Co…

Rush Limbaugh’s Race-Baiting and Gaslighting of Obama Paved the Way for Trump

By Ian Reifowitz

…Muslim, Limbaugh went after Obama in similar terms, saying he was always “really, really bothered out there about offending Islamists,” yet did “not seem concerned about Christianity. He is a Christian. If he is [sic] get upset about attacks on Christianity, he never comes out defends [sic] Christianity.” Again, Obama is really on the side of Muslims, not Christians, is what the audience takes away from such bile. Religion is far from the only to…

Conservative Christians Say it’s Okay to Vote for Romney Despite Doctrine

By Joanna Brooks

…d he’d vote for Romney. “Game over,” we said here at RD. But now, I guess, as strategic interests align, it’s really truly over. They really, really like us. When they have to….

“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

By Welton Gaddy

…cause you changed your point of view on a political issue, then that’s not really someone you want to have in your list of friends anyway. I always thought that I’d rather be rejected for who I am than accepted for who I’m not. And I think you must have come to something like that… I wonder, and I’m not trying to play psychologist here, but how do you feel about yourself? I mean, I ask you how your family felt and how your friends felt… How do y…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…of people have come with amazingly positive reviews and said that this is really important, and covered things that they didn’t know. CK: In terms of it getting out there, we’ve found that around the world there’s a much stronger embrace of it in countries that are more secular, and that’s really interesting. In the United States we’re on Sundance and Fusion, and via Prime, for Sundance. But I think there’s a nervousness on the part of broadcaste…