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FRC’s Perkins Selling Straight Hot Sex

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…stians need to pay attention to here, and challenge through that media megaphone—if you can stop thinking about sex for just one minute—is the FRC’s absolute and total hypocrisy on the issue of welfare. In this presentation, they point out that welfare recipients are the most productive workers, the “heavy lifters of the economy.” FRC praises these families that have more mouths to feed, for their Protestant work ethic. Which begs the question abo…

“Like sunshine in the darkest abyss I’ve ever experienced.”

By Joanna Brooks

…r LDS families; you can find them here. “Families are Forever” is a twenty-minute film that takes us inside the very Mormon household of Tom and Wendy, committed and conservative LDS parents, and their adolescent son. It screens this week at a special event at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. I spoke with Wendy about her experience as a faithful LDS person who has chosen to be supportive of her gay teenage son. RD: It’s a big deal to come o…

Be Prepared: Preachers’ Daughters, Episode Eight

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…rom being vulnerable. In Olivia’s case, she invited the youth to spend ten minutes in silence writing their sins and struggles on a piece of paper, with the intention of nailing the papers to the cross. During the silence, Olivia approaches some of the youth individually, and inquires about their struggles. Here is what one girl, Molli, says. Bear in mind that Olivia guesses that Molli is probably fifteen or so: “About two years ago I went to a p…

The Case Against Despair Over the Two-State Solution

By Sarah Posner

…against despair over the prospects for peace:…

The Internet is Not Killing Organized Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t it would be interesting to explore the balance of ideologies across this number. Are liberal Catholics more likely to become unaffiliated than conservative ones? I wouldn’t be surprised to find that this is the case. Certainly, findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion bear this out, showing that mainline Protestant and Catholic young people exhibit significantly less robust and enduring denominational identities than do their evang…

Noah vs. 1929 Epic Noah’s Ark

By Gwynne Watkins

…ke hundreds of other silent films) is lost to history, and the existing 75-minute restoration appears to be out of print. I’m going with what we know about both films from critics and historians, and that’s actually quite a lot. Noah’s Ark is usually referenced today in conversations about the hazards of filmmaking, particularly in Hollywood’s early, unregulated days. Michael Curtiz was a famously rude and possibly sadistic director. He shot the f…

Talking to Noah Screenwriter On Being an Eco-Wacko

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…me) that when I heard that The Bible App was reporting a 300% increase in numbers of people reading Genesis 6, I figured it was all due to pundits like myself doing last-minute exegesis. But who was I kidding, I still had questions about this unique Genesis interpretation. So why not go directly to the source? I enjoyed the interview you and Aronofsky did with Paul Raushenbush at the Huffington Post where you talked about your process of interpre…

An Agnostic Biography of the Prophet Muhammad

By Lesley Hazleton

…plain the appeal of Islam. How do you feel about the cover? I loved it the minute I saw it. Riverhead brilliantly avoided all the usual obvious images—domes, minarets, crescent moons, camels, and so on—and opted instead for the understated elegance of this classic “knot” tile design. Is there a book out there you wish you’d written? On Muhammad? No, and that’s exactly why I wrote The First Muslim. The book I wish someone else had written didn’t ex…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o press the case of a lesbian seeking asylum in the country who won a last-minute, but possibly temporary, reprieve from deportation to Uganda this week. She told PinkNews that she would rather die in a British detention center than be returned to Uganda. “Campaigners say Ms Twikireze was forced to undergo ‘a torturous exorcism’ ritual in Uganda as a young child in a bid to ‘cure’ her from being gay.” A Catholic monk who is the director of a Scotl…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion: “Father Rodríguez says the past few years have seen an upsurge in the number of baptisms into the Catholic Church in Spain of children who have been born to or adopted by same-sex couples, and that this has posed a new challenge for priests and parish leaders which often leaves them with questions and confusion.” The guide encourages respect, as well as pastoral sensitivity, for gay and lesbian couples who bring their children to be baptized….