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By Peter Montgomery

…d evangelical Christian activists that a Fujimori administration would not promote civil unions or adoption rights for same-sex couples, and would oppose abortion except to save a woman’s life. Fujimori “signed a letter of commitment” pledging to defend the family and reject civil unions, gay marriage, and adoption by same-sex couples. Peru Reports noted that her comments around to backtracking from pro-civil-union comments she made while visiting…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…, the Russian government officially criticized Europe for its “aggressive” promotion of homosexuality. Colombia: Pro-Gay Ad from Senator Colombian journalist, commentator, and Senator Armando Benedetti has been a supporter of civil unions. This week he posted a short campaign video featuring kissing same-sex couples, Benedetti himself emphatically stating his support for equal rights, and the text of Mexican national hero Benito Juárez’s famous li…

Why the Hell Does Hell Still Matter?

By Kathryn Gin

…as a heretic. Sound familiar? No, this isn’t the story of Rob Bell, whose latest book Love Wins remains among the top 10 bestsellers on Amazon.com. The flurry of voices condemning and congratulating him continues unabated, driving up sales and raising Bell’s profile [Listen to Rob Bell discuss hell and the controversy here]. This is the story of Carlton Pearson, an African-American minister trained by the famous Pentecostal televangelist Oral Rob…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…why we keep repeating that trope every few years. This time for sure! The latest example of a legacy media outlet platforming one such “respectable” evangelical for clearing the lowest of low moral bars comes in the pages of The Atlantic. This ostensibly centrist magazine has given Moore, a former Southern Baptist Convention bigwig and the current editor-in-chief of the major evangelical magazine Christianity Today, space to rebuke his (mostly Wh…

RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina

By Gordon D. Newby

…for publication by Ballantine Books. The novel is now at the center of the latest round of controversy about fictionalizing the history of Islam and the lives of Muhammad and his relatives. Media reaction was minimal until the Wall Street Journal picked up the story under the head, “You Still Can’t Write About Muhammad.” The refusal of the publisher to go ahead with the publication of the book, which also involved a contract for a second book, has…

Silence of Latino Religious Leaders Enable GOP Tolerance of Trump Spectacle

By Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh

…er U.S. population into the much-debated “nones” category according to the latest Pew Religion Survey, is they view religion as simply not important. Part of that is the lack of political will so many of their religious leaders display especially when it comes to taking on someone with Trump’s vast financial resources. Lukewarm responses, Christians are fond of telling us, will bring the most feared of responses: being spit out for lack of steel t…

Hands in the Till: When Priests Steal

By Paul Gorrell

…abuses of power and cover-ups of immoralities are too often the norm. It can be argued that the unique lifestyle of the priest creates the need for compensation, the propensity toward addictive behavior, and an expression of immaturity when it comes to sexuality. The latest discovery of thefts by priests is yet another reason to examine the theology and polity of the Roman Catholic priesthood. While individual scandals grab the headlines, it is im…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…ist plots involving anti-matter bombs, there’s little reason to expect his latest work to be factually reliable. Perhaps it shouldn’t need to be, except for Brown’s prefatory note claiming that “all organizations in this novel exist,” and “all rituals, science, artwork, and monuments in this novel are real.” As a student of Freemasonry, I can vouch that Brown’s claim is generally true. The strange rituals and traditions that the novel attributes t…

Karen Armstrong, Caped Anti-Anti-Muslim Crusader?

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…hen a friend recently saw me carrying around a galley of Karen Armstrong’s latest book Fields of Blood: A History of Religion and Violence to review, she was puzzled. “But you hate Karen Armstrong!” Hate may be too strong a word, but my friend was accurately remembered the attitude I had toward the universally admired, “name brand” in popular religion writing, circa our college years in the late 1990s. I would express frustration at Armstrong’s ge…

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…net helps you become well-informed—knowledgeable about current events, the latest controversies and important trends. The internet also helps you become hip…” Really? I’ve taken a gander at Brooks’ 924 Facebook friends, and, if I may say so, there’s not a lot of hip there. Okay, you could probably say the same about my meager 438 friends. But my friends are smart—both well informed and cultured; savvy with regard to current trends and true masters…