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Dragged Through the Mud: This Little Church-Backed Support Group for LGBTQ Teens Suffered Bomb Threats, Smears and the Cancellation of its Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…y on the teens involved, Constant more or less sent her away with a metaphorical pat on the head: Interpret as you wish to interpret—I guess we will have to agree to disagree. You have your perspectives and I have mine, which are informed by my experiences. I will not issue a false retraction to appease someone who disagrees with me. Sorry. That’s the beauty of our country we don’t have to agree [sic]. With the Landing Spot’s adult mentors and you…

Transitions: Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Identity, and Christians Behaving Badly (Again)

By Daniel Schultz

…ick and delusional,” and Roman Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco “denounced the spread of ‘gender ideology,’” according to RNS’ Michael Gibson. In some ways, the most interesting take comes from the Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore, who starts off by saying, “we do not see our transgendered neighbors as freaks to be despised.” The reality of a fallen world, Moore says, means that we’re all alienated in one way or ano…

#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

…i Britteny Rogers, who hails from Northern California, was actually a Pentecostal minister before she found yoga. When she became interested in the practice, she decided to eschew U.S. studios and traveled to India to study the yoga there. The choice forced her to reconcile her Pentecostalism with her new passion. Britteny Rogers, aka Yoga Bae “My yoga made it difficult to maintain my religious relationships, so much of that ended when I announced…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…lobal warming, check out the Evangelical Climate Initiative. ++++++++++ American Family Association’s voting guide The Rev. Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association, one of the major Christian Right organizations spearheading up the drive to pass Proposition 8 in California—the anti-same-sex marriage initiative—has issued its 2008 Voter guide. Not too extensive in its coverage, the “Voter Issue Guide” for the 2008 Presidential Race is divided…

Ponzi Schemes and Prophecy

By Sarah Posner

…onomic Armageddon: What Bible Prophecy Warns about the New Global Economy, San Diego megachurch pastor, radio host, and Tim LaHaye protégé David Jeremiah likens Social Security to a Ponzi scheme and adds that “financing massive entitlement programs, wars, and runaway big government” were “predicted twenty centuries ago in the New Testament letters of James” and figure “prominently as a sign of the coming economic Armageddon.” The book is a favorit…

The “Guilty” AIDS Sufferers

By Nick Street

…room. It’s in the traditional Japanese mold (even though he grew up in the San Fernando Valley, my friend has basically reshaped himself to fit the traditional Japanese mold). The altar features a carved wooden Buddha, red lacquered trays for offerings of various sorts, and a small forest of ihai—“spirit tablets”—inscribed with the names of friends and family members that he has lost. I’ve always been drawn to a pair of ihai on the left side of my…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…took him out to lunch and said, remembers Talen, “We need a new kind of American preacher.” Lanier convinced him that in order to speak relevantly to American politics and society, one has to understand its religion. They watched sermons together and studied “existential Christianity”‚ the historical Jesus, ancient Gnostics, and Continental philosophy. They learned the styles of televangelists like Billy Graham and Jimmy Swaggart. “Gradually I rel…

In Trump’s America, a Reminder of Our Prophetic Past

By Peter Laarman

…alysis of the unspeakable damage segregation inflicted on the psyches of African Americans. Of all the prophets treated by Raboteau, Thurman is clearly the one who has the most to say to our present situation. Raboteau again shows us the connective threads linking Thurman to other prophets: his decision (as a sophomore at Morehouse College!) to join the Fellowship of Reconciliation, his later tutelage by the same Rufus Jones who had influenced Mus…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…we’re here on this planet with other humans, not just ourselves, with headphones, watching Netflix all day. “A change in attitude seems to be occurring around the country. I don’t have a lot of time or energy to convince people that they should stop being selfish with their buildings. People come to me, and they get that already. They realize this building could be used in a lot of other ways.” ~ Nathan Marion Netflix binging is our top competito…

How to Die in America: A Conversation with Ann Neumann

By Ellie Faustino

…e versions are romanticized. The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America Ann Neumann Beacon Press February 16, 2016 This lack of knowledge of how death comes is now compounded by a general health care crisis. The American population has grown older than ever before; our heath care system has not taught itself to address pain and suffering at the end of life or even conversations about terminal diagnoses and death. There are not enough geron…