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

By Vlad Chituc

…d signs that his penis had been stolen. Bures had traveled to Nigeria to research “genital retraction syndrome,” or koro. He had heard stories of men swearing that their penises had shrunk into their bodies. A few years before his arrival, 12 alleged penis thieves had been burned alive by a fearful mob. The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes Frank Bures Melville Hous…

Review: Jews in America: Anti-Semitism, Class Struggle, Secularism

By David Biale

…ed en masse to America abandoned their religious practices in much greater numbers than had their German and Sephardic predecessors. They came largely without their Old World rabbis and were willing to compromise religious laws in order to make it in America. This process of secularization is alluded to, though inadequately examined—despite being a major factor in the emergence of new forms of political and cultural Jewish identity. The documentar…

The End of the Catholic Church’s Pelvic Zone Orthodoxy

By Daniel C. Maguire

…sisted he is not a “right winger.” Suddenly a pope appears who knows that, search the Bible from top to bottom and you will never hear Jesus say: “By this shall people know you are my disciples, that you do not contracept!” Jesus never said it and this pope knows it. Nowhere in the Bible is abortion condemned. And never before did a pope abandon the errors of the Bible by rejecting its condemnation of those whom God has made gay. The second Vatica…

What the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience

By Kaya Oakes

…of discernment and thoughtfulness about what is non-negotiable in people’s search for a way of believing. The identity of being a seeker is no longer one that might result in a lifelong adherence to a single faith. Younger generations of Americans are used to being able to customize and curate many things. Additionally, the shifts in the ways we live out careers, marriage, and family means that we are becoming more adaptable, more accustomed to co…

Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%

By J. Dana Trent

…’ series with Dr. George Yancy. But even in the face of pandemic, we still search only for cures in lieu of meaning. Is there anything you had to leave out? It was clear to my editor that the earliest manuscript draft was actually three books: a personal narrative of a daughter’s grief; a chaplaincy memoir of an interfaith minister; and an in-depth systematic theology of death and afterlife from the world’s global religious traditions (Hinduism, B…

When the Church’s LGBTIQ Loss is the World’s Gain

By Mary E. Hunt

…. So many LGBTIQ people have religious backgrounds, perhaps resultant of a search for meaning and belonging in a hostile society. Whatever, when religions push people away, as the Presbyterians did to this well educated minister, it is even more painful. Selisse focused her considerable energies on a broader context after concluding, “no one should ever have to choose between a career they love and the person they love.” Out & Equal became her for…

How ‘The Seven Missions’ of the ‘Doomsday Couple’ Connect Them to the Larger LDS Prophecy Subculture

By Christopher James Blythe

…have been able to offer much insight into a document released last week, a numbered list that Chad sent to Lori in January 2019 entitled, “Seven missions to accomplish together,” which reveals how their beliefs relate to this larger movement. The list as it appears in the document is as follows: Translate ancient records Write the book about the translation process Identify locations in northeast Arizona for white camps Presidency of the Church of…

RDPulpit: Is Barack Obama a “Fierce Advocate” For Gays or Just Pragmatist-in-Chief?

By Paul Gorrell

…DOMA in California sounds like it could have been written by the Family Research Council, including slippery slope arguments that same-sex marriage will eventually lead to legalized incest. It also claims that marriage is a right already afforded to gay people because they could always choose to marry someone of the opposite sex. With this action, the administration allowed a devout Mormon and Bush appointee in the Department of Justice to repres…

Christian Publishing v. the Vagina

By Katie Toth

…tually speak the [mainstream] cultural language.” So Metaxas described the search for purpose within a Darwinist atheist world as “a total crapshoot.” Facing the Christian subculture for the first time, he was in for a surprise. “The editor objected strongly to the term,” he says. “What he said was ‘It’s a gambling term, and we don’t want to, like, frighten a large bookstore account.’” “I just couldn’t believe that [my editor] was serious,” rememb…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…also referred to Pope Francis’ quote from 2013: “If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?” Nepal: Kathmandu Pride coincides with Hindu festival; country becomes LGBT ‘beacon’ in Asia AFP reported on Kathmandu’s August 8 pride parade, which is “timed to coincide with the Hindu festival of Gai Jatra, which brings hundreds onto the streets to pay respects to those who have died in the past year:…