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Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…real possibility that Moore could win a second term in the Senate would likely amount to a lifelong appointment. His Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, is a former federal prosecutor with notable accomplishments to his name, including convicting the white supremacists who bombed a Birmingham church in 1963, but he has never run a political campaign and the national arm of the Democratic party has largely left its red-state candidates to fend for the…

Trump’s Nominee to Fill RBG’s Seat Is Unfit. By Definition.

By Andrew L. Seidel

…on year. When Justice Scalia died 269 days before the 2016 election, McConnell immediately announced, “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.” His ilk agreed. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appears on Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist and sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 2016 he said, “It has been 80 years since a Sup…

GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

By Brittany Shoot

…oral views on biotechnology? A new collection of essays explores the links between religion, culture, and GMOs. In their new book, Acceptable Genes: Religious Traditions and Genetically Modified Foods, Conrad G. Brunk and Harold Coward have compiled a unique set of religious, cultural, and indigenous perspectives on genetically modified foods. Many of us are aware of at least some of the ways biotechnology has invaded the supermarket. But dietary…

Only Fetuses and Popes are Worthy

By Frances Kissling

…under duress and the penalty does not apply. Finally if these people genuinely believed that they were doing the most moral thing possible in a very difficult situation; no penalty applies. Can you imagine that a mother or a doctor confronted with a nine-year-old who has been raped would not believe that the most decent and moral thing one can do is terminate the pregnancy? Can you imagine a pastor not standing with that family, that child and tho…

Bachmann’s Law School Mentor Asserts Biblical Roots of American Political System

By Julie Ingersoll

…er, in one of his talks at Vision Forum’s 2009 conference, he presented a Calvinist teaching widely popular among Reconstructionists that when leaders depart from their biblically mandated and limited roles it is the duty of lower level officials (lesser magistrates) to “interpose” themselves between the people and those leaders. This is the theological context in which Reconstructionists suggest that gun ownership is a biblical responsibility, an…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…es not equal passivity. Choose a side. White churches such as Hillsong and Bethel Music would do well to incorporate the Black contribution of gospel music to their worship services instead of segregating the art forms. How do your Black parishioners feel? Included? Celebrated? Appreciated? Probably not. Until white evangelicals are willing to rework the entire framework of their teachings, they can ‘Blackout Day’ till they’re blue in the face, bu…

Why I Am Still a Christian

By Diana Butler Bass

…not-religious” and the “church alumni club.” And those who might be completely post-religious and just want to read a good story about interesting people in the past. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I always want my readers—of my books, blogs, or articles—to say, “I’ve never really seen the world from that angle before.” It is more than information; I always hope to provide some transformative vision into…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…marriage involves children or not. Faith institutions already distinguish between civil and religious marriage. While it is proper that faith leaders govern their members’ access to religious marriage, they should not seek to prevent access to civil marriage. People of faith can exercise their freedom of conscience to vote yes to civil marriage in this referendum, as was done to permit civil divorce twenty years ago. In contrast, Catholic Bisohp…

Women’s Ordination Horrifies Traditionalist Anglican Clergy

By Kate Childs Graham

…ension. Voices on the side of women’s ordination in the Church of England believed that the legislation did not go far enough. Graham James, the Bishop of Norwich and a support of women bishops stated: I believe that women should and will be ordained to the episcopate but what I see before me in the proposed legislation is an episcopacy so damaged and fractured as to be scarcely worthy of the name…I cannot see any amendments that would render it s…

Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…it’s a vital question. Yet it’s also an easy question to approach in an unhelpful way. Precisely because sexual abuse is appallingly common, compassionate people look for patterns to explain why it happened in this instance and not that one. And that’s a good thing: abuse prevention means recognizing common patterns and then looking for interventions that are likely to keep abuse from happening. But our pattern-seeking human brains can also steer…