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DeMint Uses Christian Reconstructionist Mailing List To Raise Money For Angle

By Julie Ingersoll

…rder to receive the support of the Senate Conservatives Fund, candidates must demonstrate a core commitment to our nation’s founding principles and a willingness to stand up to their own party when it’s wrong. (emphasis in original) In the appeal, DeMint describes a plan to raise money for Angle and other candidates like her by, among other things, targeting particular audiences: I have put together a plan to invest hundreds of thousands of dollar…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…one about the LDS and the LSD before.) It’s a bigger problem when journalists misconstrue Mormon doctrine in the service of political critique, as did Wills. Yes, Mormon leaders have taught that the Constitution was “divinely inspired,” and many Mormons believe it. But that belief is not really a point of doctrine. Neither the Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence are Mormon scripture. Not to millions of Mormons who live in the US, and…

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…followed, nativist rioters burned down several Catholic churches including St. Augustine’s, its rectory, and a library containing thousands of books. By the time it was over, around twenty-five persons were killed, and hundreds were injured. Military troops finally put an end to rioting but few Protestant Christians spoke out against the nativists as their movement grew. For instance, in the archives of a Protestant church right across the street,…

Jesus, Please Take Away These Feelings

By Nick Street

…ted the school a year and a half ago. Loschmann’s idea was twofold: to enlist student actors to be part of an entirely new production, and to integrate the play into Sacred Heart’s religious studies curriculum. “The play was done in conjunction with students’ studying biblical views of homosexuality,” Loschmann said. “It’s not a standalone production—it’s been part of an all-school dialogue.” That spirit of faithful inquiry is the thread that conn…

Forgiveness

By Amina Wadud

…sque, when I went there for the tarawih prayer the night proceeding the first day of fasting. None of them have the same time on it. I therefore create a buffer to offset any slight disagreement a few minutes in the morning and a few at sunset. The rest I leave in trust to Allah. But 5:40 is way, way later than any of these, and I thought to myself how could I be so far off? I thought, hmm, well I better adjust my clock. I am getting up too early…

The Sacred and the Dead: Ten Writers on the End of an American Adventure

By The Editors

…connection, once burning with possibility and joy, began to cool, as cell phone calls dwindled and numbers eventually changed or were disconnected. As our shared realities drifted apart in their likeness, like Pigpen, I also turned to technologies that promised connection to try to tamp down the yearning and temper that sense of loss. #5 : Three Ways to American Beauty by Aaron K. Kerr At the height of secular modernity, when Catholics were openi…

Seeing What They Wanna See: Religion Surveys Reflect Surveyors

By Nathan Schneider

…1,721—and it has been conducted over almost two decades, while Baylor’s first numbers come from 2006. Because researchers will inevitably craft their survey according to their own interests and assumptions, the ARIS doesn’t give respondents a list of religious identities to choose from. Instead it asks, simply, “What is your religion, if any?” and categorizes the results after the fact. “What we get is true, democratic vox populi,” boasts Kosmin….

Obama’s Pastor “Dream Team”

By Peter Laarman

…homas Mores among royal favorites are few and far between. Still rarer are still feistier prophets like the Bible’s Nathan, willing to front the king in his chamber and shout “You are the man!” in the face of royal criminality. I understand that Obama craves and needs spiritual counsel. But in my judgment, it is the high-placed pastors who are willing to have our newspaper of record identify them as the ones providing such counsel who are truly, a…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…d her cousin and, by extension, all LGBTIQ people. While the United Methodist Church is still debating this issue, Bishop Carcaño is clear about the connections. Sometimes trying to make them as a sitting bishop is fraught and vexed. I asked her how she puts the two issues together. She put the onus squarely on those with power: “We cannot be free of responsibility for putting them down.” “Both communities,” she continued, “struggle economica…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…echnologies. In this instance, we point to George W. Bush, who was able to stop stem cell funding for seven years, essentially because of his religious views. We want to make it law that you’re not able to go against science just because it violates a cultural or a religious perspective. Another very important issue is that there’s not enough funding for some of the great technologies that are out. It’s crazy the nation spends ten times the amount…