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A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…spoken at several evangelical Christian colleges that require students to sign agreements that prohibit “homosexual activity” and disbelief in God. These are instituions that would likely expel me were I a student. Agreeing to visit these campuses isn’t easy, but they are communities that perhaps need open conversations about faith and diversity more than many others. Though getting there requires me to deal with my own discomfort, I have never r…

Crowdfunding Joplin Mosque Project Blows Past Its Goals

By Katie Toth

…rprised: When they opened their mosque and community center in 2007, their sign was torched…That’s a lot of open cases in a town as small as Joplin.” ”I do not believe the arsonist acted alone, or in a vacuum,” Campbell says. “The perpetrator has bragged somewhere, in a bar, at work, at—yes!—church. And while Joplin residents would do well to hold a vigil and take up a collection to help their Muslim neighbors rebuild, the best thing would be to t…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ars, white cars; trucks, station wagons, sedans; light posts, fence posts, sign posts; and so on. So it is that I learned this at an early age: numbers make us comfortable. They create the illusion that we understand something meaningful about the reality through which we are moving even as they distract us from the mysterious, often hidden, mechanisms propelling us through time and space. Judging by the media excitement over the latest poll ill…

Building Jesus out of Toast, “Pro-Life” Effigies, Apple is a Religion, and Taunting Muslims with Dogs

By Michael J. Altman

…nswers in Genesis, argues that the Smithsonian’s new Hall of Human Origins promotes atheism. Ham is one of the founders of the Creation Museum, proving that one museum’s atheism is another museum’s science. A Methodist minister will be tweeting the Eucharist 140 characters at a time. A Christian graduate student at Augusta State University is suing the school for religious discrimination because her counseling department demanded she work to chang…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…xecutive Director of NETWORK: A Catholic Social Justice Lobby, organized a sign-on letter to members of Congress supporting the bill that was affirmed by dozens of leaders of women’s congregations representing tens of thousands of nuns. President Obama acknowledged the singular importance of the sisters’ actions in helping to secure passage of the legislation. The sisters differed with the bishops, though in fact, their letter was subsequent to an…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…t have allowed palliative sedation death to occur,” he said. That may be a sign that even the strictest of religious traditions have a tendency to shift with time, and as our culture changes. Like Niedzielski’s friends, people who claim intense faith and adherence to a certain doctrine may likely reconsider those beliefs as technology advances and its use becomes accepted in everyday life, Campbell said. Even if official church policies don’t chan…

The Roots of White Evangelicalism’s Crisis Are in White Evangelical Churches, Not Republican Politics

By Jesse Curtis

…n America.” While white evangelicals treated their movement’s success as a sign of God’s blessing and their own devotion to the gospel, Perkins declared that a gospel that didn’t confront American racism was “no gospel at all.” White evangelicals often liked to think that their theology was unimpeachable. In their view, problems arose only when they failed to faithfully bring that theology to bear on the pressing issues of the day. Perkins cut thr…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…first episode here.] See here for the full list of discussions so far, or sign up here for the RSS feed. Diane Winston ___________________________ Comrades, Capricsters, Y’all (or simply Anthea, Henry and Salman): If there had just been the BSG miniseries – Dayeinu If there had been the miniseries and four seasons of BSG – Dayeinu If there had been the miniseries, the four seasons, and the Caprica pilot – Dayeinu But The Caprican? At the very m…

Scalia on Muslim Beard Case: “Religious Beliefs Aren’t Reasonable”

By Kara Loewentheil

…that his very willingness to help reach a satisfactory accommodation is a sign that his dedication to his religion is insufficient to justify an accommodation. Is the idea that only the most inflexible and rigid should be deemed religiously committed enough to receive an accommodation–even though they are those least likely to accept being accommodated rather than absolutely exempted? In other words, if we require purity of religious devotion we…

‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning

By Chrissy Stroop

…essing abortion care. This newly passed bill, which Stitt will most likely sign, retains the cruel and bizarre “bounty hunter” enforcement mechanism pioneered in Texas while banning abortion from conception except to save the life of the mother. The bill does not include exceptions for rape or incest. As The New York Times reports, the law’s enforcement language also extends to those who help pay for abortions, a provision that’s likely to have a…