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“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

By Welton Gaddy

…ies of public events in support of marriage equality—particularly to those sites around the country that I visited last year during the tour. And I want to go to these sites again, and this time stand up for marriage equality, not against it. And one of those stops was Washington, DC, and so I hope to make it to the Capitol this summer. I’ll also be in New York City on June 11th, I’m going to have an event there as well. So I do intend to be activ…

New Study Claims to ‘Explain’ Near-Death Religious Experiences

By Michael Schulson

…oscience. But there’s no need to panic and reassure believers, as Catholic Online recently did, that “faith remains strong” even after this “gruesome study involving rats.” Sure, The Economist is now suggesting that if near-death experiences are divine, then rats must have souls, and there’s always the overeager journalist who will jump to conclusions and claim that scientists have totally and finally solved near-death experiences. But it seems pr…

Gen Z’s Religious Affiliation Stats Are Confusing … But Only When Viewed From a Christian-Centric Perspective

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…something called “religion” isn’t survey data but literary journalism. The online religion magazine Killing the Buddha (shameless plug), founded in 2000 by Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau for people who are “both hostile and drawn to talk of God,” has survived and thrived because that mix continues to be fascinating. Freedom of Choice. My third limitation of measuring “affiliation” is a hard one for Americans to accept: Religious affiliation is not…

Should Satanic Temple Have Threatened Netflix Over Baphomet Statue in ‘Sabrina’ Series?

By Joseph Laycock

…875) who used it to represent the occult idea of the reconciliation of opposites. Levi stated cryptically, “The dread Baphomet, henceforth, like all monstrous idols, enigmas of antique science and its dreams, is only an innocent and even pious hieroglyph.” The Satanic Temple’s Baphomet is inspired by Levi’s design, but with several important changes, which the BBC explained in 2015. Levi’s Baphomet has breasts, but the Satanic Temple’s statue coul…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n itself a moral problem.” It is not just Muslims who are turning to these online websites, the BBC has also seen posts from individuals from Sikh and Hindu backgrounds. Dipen Rajyaguru, the director of human rights and equality for the Hindu Council UK believes it is a cultural problem rather than a religious one. “People are forced into marriages of convenience because of those [cultural] pressures,” he said. “But, in terms of Hinduism, there is…

What Can Fascination With ‘Sister Cindy’ Teach Us About the ‘None’ Generation?

By Chad Bauman

…40-year campus ministry veteran and now darling of ironic Gen Z TikTok, visited Butler University recently. Earlier in the day, she’d projected a 3:30 pm arrival, and within minutes of the announcement half a dozen students in a class I teach at the same time had emailed me, many in breathless all-caps, asking if they could attend. They knew I’d say yes. It was a beautiful spring day during the last full week of classes at the end of the great Co…

Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

By Julie Byrne

…t happens to have all the scholarly apparatus, too. There are endnotes and—online at Columbia’s web page for the book—a full bibliography and bibliographic essay. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I have heard from people who said they were reading the book and laughing out loud, so apparently it has moments of humor or at least delight. I assume that some readers will feel suspicious, disturbed or angry. Indepe…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…roups have praised the anti-gay policies of Russia under Putin. The WCF website has featured a quote from local sponsor Levan Vasadze saying, “The West is attacking our Christian culture with atheism, new forms of socialism and sexual radicalism – worse than what we saw during the last 25 years when we were part of the Soviet empire.” Georgia’s Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II is scheduled to address the gathering. In an in-depth preview of the conferen…

Better Gay at Work Than Gay in Church

By Paul Gorrell

…h scored 100 on the HRC study) instead of FedEx (which scored 55). And the online division of Barnes and Noble is sure to benefit from the recent incidence of homophobia in Amazon’s sales-ranking controversy. Beyond focusing on LGBT customers, companies also increasingly appreciate the multiple benefits of creating a corporate culture that embraces LGBT employees. Before the recession, businesses were experiencing a “talent war” as a consequence o…

Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment

By Christopher Douglas

…f-published in 2007, the evangelical bookstore was in rapid decline due to online and big box store sales. The strongest dimension of the book is its account of the rise and fall of the evangelical bookstore read alongside the five bestsellers. And Silliman’s argument that evangelical fiction “shapes” the culture is significantly true: while I read This Present Darkness and the Left Behind series as more indebted to apocalyptic thinking than Silli…