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

By Chad Bauman

…. On the one hand, this is the generation that began in historically large numbers to leave institutional religion behind and embrace the eclectic, episodic, “spiritual but not religious” life that Melinda Lundquist Denton and Richard Flory call “back-pocket” religion. And that, of course, is if they’re religious at all. Many no longer are, and are therefore in equally historic numbers flooding the agnostic, atheist, and “unaffiliated” (or religio…

East Lansing Demonstrates How Not to Respond to Anti-LGBT “Christian” Businesses

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nd its event venue) is located in neighboring Eaton County—specifically in Delta Township, which offers no statutory public accommodations protections to LGBT people—that denial of service based on sexual orientation is entirely legal where it took place. Frankly, East Lansing doesn’t have jurisdictional authority to implicate Country Mill’s accommodations policy such that it exists in a neighboring town. This jurisdictional quirk serves as a clea…

Did the “Real America” Elect Trump?

By Paul Harvey

…Delta or from Bristol, Virginia. But never mind. Bubble is as Bubble does. After Tuesday’s election, coastal elites have been busy opining that “we” should be empathetic towards heartland Trump voters. “We” should feel their pain. We should stop shaming Trump supporters. We should stop making fun of their religion. Now in the Rocky Mountain West, neither heartland exactly nor liberal elite bubbleland, I see something different. I’m on board with d…

What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…secretly, the City Council of Springfield did,” Ellison says. Shortly thereafter, according to Ellison, he was contacted by Tim Barton of Wallbuilders about helping to repeal the ordinance. (Tim Barton is the son of David Barton, the faux-historian beloved by Glenn Beck. The elder Barton founded Wallbuilders for the purpose of “educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country.”) Ellison was on board. “I said, ‘You bet.’…. [E]ven…

Americans Lose Faith, Sinning with Transfats, the Elusive God Particle

By Michael J. Altman

…. Rev. Michael O. Minor is fighting fat from his pulpit in the Mississippi Delta. He may want to mix in a few sermons on marriage. The Bible Belt has a higher divorce rate than the Northeast, researchers say. Some rabbis are getting help from comedy writers for their High Holy Day sermons. Glenn Beck (remember him?) held his rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday. More than 1,000 folks (mostly Christians) showed up. For personal use when the comments sec…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…an, as explained with liberal quotations from the Book of Proverbs and any number of recent self-help authors, then and only then will we rebuild the wealth of our nation and recover from an economic downturn that was driven by a negative and biased media in the first place. And only then, after a national revival and an awakening to self-reliance, will God work his plan to help others—not through our governing institutions, but through our religi…

Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

…ling his heels since taking a drubbing from the mainstream press last year after saying Jews had caused the Holocaust. “The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching,” Hagee wrote in his 2006 book, Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World. “Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran,” he wrote, “followed by Ezekiel’s war [as described in Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39], and then the final battle—the battle of Armageddon.” The same…

Muslim Mickey Mouse Tweet as Egyptian Wedge Issue

By Joseph Hammond

…s second city is traditionally considered a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold. After initial reluctance, Muslim Brotherhood groups also joined in Friday’s nationwide protests to preserve revolutionary “unity.” As for Mohamed Morsy, he has found himself embroiled in controversy in recent days after allegedly calling those who oppose his FJP party “zionists,” a statement that brought condemnation from various Egyptian political groups. While other membe…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…very country across the African continent. She told AFP the magazine’s two phone lines ring off the hook. But there is still a lot of opposition. Copies in some eastern Ugandan shops have been burned, and distributors in the west have been threatened. Nabagesera says she herself was threatened with legal action after one issue was delivered to a church. And Uganda’s ethics minister warned Nabagesera she is at risk of arrest for “promoting homosexu…

Behind a Recent Stunt in Idaho Lies a Dangerous Theocratic Movement

By Chrissy Stroop

…ce from those in attendance; the letters were reportedly available to sign after the service. On June 25, according to local reporter Nathan Brown, the Idaho state GOP adopted both the nullification of “federal court rulings the state deems unconstitutional” and the defining of “all abortion as murder, including in cases of rape or incest,” as official planks of the party platform. Both proposals, the inclusion of which represents a serious danger…