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LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s asked. They replied, “You are the eschatological manifestation of the Ground of Being, the incarnation of the divine Logos in whom we find our ultimate meaning and raison d’etre over against the Angst and alienation caused by the existential predicaments and uncertainties that plague human life.” To which Jesus goes, “Huh?” This is what creeds do for us, they obscure the real message of Jesus, which was, “Go, and do likewise,” not, “Believe and…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…g flight, we still had a four-hour bus ride ahead of us. When we finally found each other, boarded the bus and found boxed breakfasts of chicken salad sandwiches, I relaxed a bit. That was premature. The bus driver went in circles, clocking eight hours to travel 95 miles. Arriving at Osho, my only goal was sleep. But the registrar at the Welcome Center had other plans. First check-in, then blood tests to insure we did not have AIDS, a lengthy regi…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…us that the evidence for such a claim is firmly to the contrary. Now it is undeniably true that the extremism of al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram and their many variants thrives on poor governance, power vacuums, social marginalization, and sheer hunger for political control. It cannot be a coincidence that these groups are at their most robust in places where the rule of law and democratic culture are at best fragile — from Somalia and Yemen to…

A Question for Hobby Lobby Supporters…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…used for a colorectal cancer screening, or they might be used for a strep test. Nobody’s insisting that you use that compensation for birth control, and you don’t lose it if you don’t. Or put another way: The Catholic theologians’ brief suggests there is a big moral difference between (to speak in concrete terms) handing someone a pile of money, versus handing someone a piece of paper that says “This is your insurance plan that I, your employer,…

Supreme Court Rules Sectarian Legislative Prayer Constitutional

By Sarah Posner

…istian prayers with prayer-givers asking people to bow their heads and incidents of denigration of minority faiths isn’t enough to make out an Establishment Clause violation,” then the Court “has read the Establishment Clause out of prayer.” The town, he said, “clearly favored Christianity over other religions and in a way that was in fact quite coercive—people have to go to town council meetings, they were asked to pray to Jesus, and if they didn…

Florida School Prayer Bill Stalls in Committee

By Lauri Lebo

…y closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Prayer is not banned from public school. Students are free to pray all they want, as long as it’s not disruptive to other students. Heck, I used to utter a little silent prayer before every trigonometry test. “Please God, don’t let me fail this.” (Didn’t help.) So why is officially sanctioned school pray…

Holy Grail is Found!

By Gwynne Watkins

…ake their way to the sanctuary of an ancient temple, where they’re given a test: choose the real Grail from a collection of fancy cups. Glover chooses the fanciest one, drinks from it, and is disintegrated, like so: Then our pal Indy selects the smallest, dustiest vessel, saying, “This is the cup of a carpenter.” He uses his cup to save Sean Connery’s life, the Nazi lady dies, and a thousand sermons are born. The idea that Jesus would drink from a…

Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) Plan Hypocrisy

By Sarah Posner

…and vices (gambling, tobacco, and alcohol). Two companies identified by Redden as being included in the mutual funds available in the Hobby Lobby 401(k), Teva Pharmaceuticals and Pfizer, Inc., are listed on the Timothy Plan’s Hall of Shame in the abortion column. Teva, as Redden notes, is the manufacturer of Plan B and a copper IUD, both of which Hobby Lobby objects to covering in its group health insurance plan, claiming (erroneously) that they a…

Who Gets to Decide if Noah is Biblical?

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…g partner, Ari Handel… have ended up in my view producing a film that profoundly reflects biblical themes that have been lost in most common readings of the Noah story in Genesis 6-9.” What’s interesting to me, however, is that both sides agree that biblical fidelity is even the key question; the film itself lacks any claim of this sort, and Aronofsky himself described it as the “least biblical, biblical movie ever made.” Furthermore, the Flood is…

Is Supreme Court Jurisprudence Making State Religious Freedom Bills More Dangerous?

By Sarah Posner

…king and harm to human health from the drug were sufficient to satisfy the compelling interest test. In addition, the exemption in the Controlled Substances Act of peyote use by Native American tribes led the Court to conclude that the federal government does not have a compelling interest in suppressing the use of hoasca tea, a hallucinogen comparable to peyote. Suppose Senate Bill 2681 becomes law. If a person raises a RFRA defense to a charge u…