Religion Dispatches
…evolution is incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” a significant number of evangelicals are working to convince their fellow believers of their compatibility. Their efforts are evident in the increasing number of books, conferences, and organizations—such as Francis Collins’ BioLogos—that have formed around the topic. Cracks are likewise showing in what once was understood as a unanimous and uncritical evangelical support of Israel as ep…
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…n, distrust, anger, anxiety and disunity” evident at the conference. As committees rejected appeals to lift LGBT prohibitions, gay rights advocates staged multiple protests, standing on the perimeter of one session with rainbow-colored duct tape over their mouths and lying on the floor with their hands and feet bound. At ThinkProgress, Jack Jenkins said the commission might lead to a reorganization of the church that could potentially “grant bisho…
Read More…ries. But earlier this month, a Supreme Court panel ruled that laws that limit marriage to a man and woman or declare procreation the goal of marriage are unconstitutional and said that the ruling establishes a “jurisprudence” on the question. In places with such laws, local magistrates may still refuse gay couples, but the new ruling binds judges in all states to rule in favor of couples who challenge such laws. his week, an official in the state…
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…erted traditional gender norms, sexuality, and other social values. Anti-Semitism Cultural Marxism theories have been stamped with anti-Semitism from the beginning. William Lind was careful to clarify to his audience at a 2002 Holocaust denial conference in Washington, D.C., that his organization, the Free Congress Foundation, did not engage in Holocaust revisionism. However, he winked, it was worth mentioning that “these guys [Frankfurt School th…
Read More…be helpful in reporting on Judaism, Islam, the Baha’i faith, Wicca, or any number of other groups that form the pluralistic religious mosaic in the United States today? No reporter or anchor could be expected to be an expert on the ins and outs of such groups. But as a matter of journalistic practice, I think it is reasonable to train reporters to look at more than meets the eye on religion, just as they are taught to investigate plane crashes and…
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…ing their children to do the same, they could win the culture wars through numbers alone. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? My main concern about these convictions is not so much the plans for Christian dominion that Quiverfull authors and homeschooling ministries discuss, but rather that in the service of these ideas, many women are subjecting themselves to an often punishing lifestyle. Quiverfull is not just about the…
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…rm and Reconstructionist Jewish movements support same-sex marriage and permit individual rabbis to officiate at same-sex weddings. The Conservative movement also allows individual rabbis to bless same-sex unions, but has so far stopped short of endorsing same-sex marriage. Despite this great diversity of religious attitudes toward homosexuality and same-sex marriage, many people believe that debates over religion and sexuality irrevocably mean ta…
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…percent of the total Russian population in 2021—according to the official numbers. When read against the dwindling numbers of some of Russia’s largest ethnic minority groups, such as Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Avars, Armenians, and Ukrainians, this data suggests that many Russian citizens do not feel safe enough to disclose their ethnic identity in the current political climate defined by the Russification of the nation. See Robert Coalson, “Russ…
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…to claim that “a diversity of opinions regarding abortion exists among committed Catholics.” The text continued: “A large number of Catholic theologians hold that even direct abortion, though tragic, can sometimes be a moral choice.” The ad included a call for “candid and respectful discussion on this diversity of opinion within the Church” and urged that those “who publicly dissent from hierarchical statements and explore areas of moral and lega…
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…rthodox. In 1981, for instance, he presented an 1844 blessing from Joseph Smith that delegated his son, Joseph Smith III, the faith’s true successor, rather than Brigham Young. Other documents similarly challenged traditional narratives, adding fuel to a growing fire over how to handle the faith’s past. No document caused as great a storm as the so-called “Salamander Letter,” which Hofmann sold in early 1984. The scandalous document was supposedly…
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