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Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ciety,” he said. CNN traces the start of the backlash to early 2016 when a number of political leaders began making “unprompted attacks on Indonesia’s LGBT community.” It notes that conservative Islam is a growing political force, evident in the arrest and conviction of Jakarta’s Christian governor on blasphemy charges. The report says human rights activists have been disappointed by President Joko Widodo’s “lackluster” defense of LGBT people. Sal…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…ly, that no body is good enough. What alternative title would you give the book? Thank you for this question! I appreciate it because after the book came out, I started thinking that perhaps I should have given it a title that does a better job capturing the critique the book makes (about religious/cultural sources of body shame), rather than naming the problem in the title (i.e., the problem that our culture encourages us to view unconventional b…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…good move. When I got to the lobby another something told me to dig out my phone and check it for messages. Sure enough, I had one from an unfamiliar number. A woman’s voice said Bedi was still sleeping, exhausted from the previous day’s overseas flight, and needed to reschedule our interview for that afternoon. I called the number back, convinced the opportunity was lost. “I’m here at the hotel now, but I’m booked solid this afternoon—” “Hold on,…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…e reading copy, but three. A sign from the universe? I decided to read the book to find out. Or rather, to experience the book. Because that’s the one word that is associated with the work of Rob Bell, a “contemporary Christian” thinker who is at once renegade and establishment. Whether lectures or workshops or books, it’s all part of the Rob Bell Experience. So when I learned that Bell would be stopping in nearby Durham, North Carolina, for an al…

Proselytizing the Pros: Christianity in Big-Time Sports

By Tom Krattenmaker

…sh you had written? Which one? Why? In a way, you’re asking me to name the book or books that I admire most and that represent the best example of the kind of writing I do. Malcolm Gladwell’s books immediately come to mind. His books shed fresh light on longstanding situations and phenomena and help us find new ways of thinking about things—and in a very accessible, engaging style. That’s what I try to do in my newspaper columns and in my book. Wh…

A Secret History of Satan

By W. Scott Poole

…American religion, pop culture, and even, in some cases public policy. The book makes the case that a significant number of Americans believe in the same Devil believed in by Puritan preachers and 19th-century evangelists. This cannot be dismissed. Its essential to understand why this is so, what historical conditions gave rise to this phenomenon and what does it tell us about the United States. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writin…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e group did not get a private meeting with Pope Francis, but was given VIP tickets to the pope’s weekly audience in St. Peter’s square. Religion News Service reports that several bishops, including “San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone – point man or the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ battle against gay marriage – had written a letter to the Vatican on their behalf.” A group of LGBT Catholics from London who met up with the New Ways…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…up like a pinball machine? Did you annotate and highlight and earmark and bookmark and run to the phone to call your girlfriend because you found a Scripture that was God speaking to you? “That’s why we know more than they do. You need to tell your Christian friends to read the Bible. Reading the Bible makes atheists. Christian education makes atheists. I’ve given the Bible to my fourteen-year-old daughter and I’ve asked her to read it.” I pictur…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…omething-year-old Deadhead guys hit on my teenage friends by offering them tickets to shows. Deadheads were anathema to my chosen subculture of socially conscious punks. East Bay punks were aggro and in your face about social justice, feminism, human rights; Deadheads, in our eyes, were too stoned and obsessed with their god Jerry to care. Sometimes, I’d be out in Berkeley at night, coming out of a punk show in some basement or garage, and I’d hea…

Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution

By Kriti Sharma

…Axe place the same tired, often-refuted argument as the centerpiece of his book? He clearly isn’t trying to win over biologists. Undeniable is a book for believers—those who are already troubled in some way by evolutionary theory and the perceived threat it poses to the origin of life from God. He calls this audience together conspiratorially, creating a wise us and a deluded them. “If you and I really are after the truth, we can’t follow them,” A…