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Violence and Persecution of Christians Worldwide is Theme for Holy Week: A Report from Rome

By Anthea Butler

…hapel prior to the mass—although mass is too broad a term. The Good Friday service in Catholicism is not a mass, because there is no eucharistic celebration, rather, it is a commemoration of the Passion and crucifixion of Jesus. It is also the day on the liturgical calendar that the Pope does not deliver the homily. That did not matter to the thousands gathered. Pope Francis, (besides Jesus) was the attraction everyone had come to see. As the proc…

Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet

By Joanna Brooks

…of status in the community. (In Mormonism, the demands of lay ministerial service do convey certain privileges as well.) So imagine how LDS web crawlers felt last week when we found ourselves staring at a blog published by a self-described Mormon “Martin Luther” who had scanned the entire CHI into two giant PDF files and put them on the internet. For just anyone. For free. A few hours later, a fully-searchable edition of the CHI started to make t…

Tainted Love: The Cost of Sojourners’ Refusal to Take Sides on LGBT Issues

By Jamie L. Manson

…iately forthcoming about our relationship if someone talks to us after the service. Regardless of what good work we do for the church, our efforts will be seen by many church people as tainted because of our loving, committed relationship. The congregants in my partner’s home church are extremely proud of the work that she is doing with the poor in New York City. However, if they knew she was in a relationship with a woman, they would cease to ta…

“Not a Fan of the Undergarments”: A Mormon Mother Blogs

By Karen Maezen Miller

…urch—it’s often overwhelming. Mormon women tend to interpret the tools for service as obligations. One more damn thing! And we’re supposed to do it all without stimulants (coffee) or relaxants (wine). It never surprises me when they report that Utah has the highest per capita rate of antidepressant prescriptions. To be fair, the church authorities tell women over and over not to be so hard on themselves. It’s tricky to find the balance, but that’s…

McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

By Kathryn Joyce

…nt of independence from doctrine and denominational tradition. JCC, like a number of evangelical churches, works on a small-groups model, which it describes as a four-step graduation from community evangelism, to “consolidation” of new members through inclusion in small-cell “Life Groups” — men’s and women’s fellowship and accountability meetings that generally serve to bring new members into the community and in line with its standards, and move…

LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ver affirmed, which is one of love for self and others and a dedication to service in the world.” Well, suffice to say, I was informed that following Jesus’ teachings of love and service were not, indeed, enough to be considered a “real” Christian church. This infuriates me. As a member of a group of people who have been excluded, denied membership and generally shunned by Christian churches around the globe, to be summarily dismissed by a website…

Meet the Real Mitt Romney

By Joanna Brooks

The Sunday New York Times‘s front-page story on Mitt Romney’s service as a Mormon lay pastoral leader is hands down the most humanizing profile of candidate Romney that I’ve yet seen. And it makes a substantial contribution towards improving a national conversation about Mormonism that continues to fixate on caricatures and pejoratives. (A week after Pastor Robert Jeffress went on a media-spree hurling the pejorative term “cult” at millions of Am…

HuffPo Columnist Tries to Link Darwin to Hitler

By Lauri Lebo

…nghoffer a forum for his lies. He wrote originally: Creationists do a poor service to the memory of Holocaust victims by using their deaths in a politically motivated attack against science. David Klinghoffer and his fellow creationists should be ashamed of themselves, and the decision by Huffington Post to give a platform to an organization pushing a tactic rejected by a US federal court judge as “breathtaking inanity” should be strongly criticiz…

Obama Quietly Declares June “LGBT Pride Month”

By Nick Street

…equences—the likely repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian service personnel. “[A]nd as of Tuesday afternoon [it] was not listed under the Web site’s category of proclamations—a fact that some homosexual activists were criticizing.” Foust was putting the matter mildly. “Obama is a better friend to Rick Warren’s constituency than to LGBT,” one “homosexual activist” remarked, apropos of the White House press release, on the Advocate’…

RIP: Bishop Otis Charles and Rev. Robert Nugent

By Peter Montgomery

…ry 1 at age 76. The Washington Post carried Kevin Eckstrom’s Religion News Service obituary of Nugent, which notes that Nugent had been silenced by the Vatican for his work with LGBT Catholics. In many ways, the scrutiny of Nugent’s activism symbolized the Vatican’s approach to all talk of homosexuality under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI — what one gay Catholic group called a “witch hunt” — compared with the more tolerant “who am I to judge…