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The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…nvalid. They declared that responsible parenthood was an essential part of modern marriage and that the morality of sexual acts between married couples was not dependent “upon the direct fecundity of each and every particular act” but must be viewed within the totality of the marriage relationship. Despite the commission’s years of work and theologically unassailable conclusion that the church’s teaching on birth control was neither infallible nor…

LGBT Christians Respond to Southern Baptists’ Call For Kindness, Understanding

By Mike Greer

…onciliatory theme was later championed by the conference convener, Russell Moore. Mohler later gave a brief nod to Moore’s tone when he acknowledged that he had been wrong years ago when he said that same sex attractions could be changed, echoed by Moore who declared his disapproval of reparative ex-gay therapies. (Moore has already received some feedback from those who still see this approach as valid, like the IRD’s Chelsen Vicari, writing in th…

Punks vs. Monks: Rockers Speak Out Against Genocide in Myanmar

By M. Sophia Newman

…violence appears to have been incited by Buddhist monks. The Rohingya, who number almost one million, have been denied citizenship since 1982 and subjected to denials of the rights to travel, marry and have children. The discrimination appears rooted in the ethnic group’s Muslim faith, which makes them a tiny minority in the majority-Buddhist nation. The most notable participants in the violence are a movement of Buddhist monks called “969”. The…

New Research Links Spiritual-Not-Religious to Mental Disorder

By Elizabeth Drescher

…connections between religion and health. But encouraging the sin of pride among religionists is surely not among them. Rather, one hopes that future studies will highlight both the positive and negative health effects of traditional religion, unaffiliated spirituality, non-religious activities and ideologies, and various in-betweens so that we might better understand the potential for human thriving in all its psychological, political, and cultura…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…has been disrupted by colonialists. Such movements include the Pai Marire movement among the Maori in New Zealand in the 1850s and 1860s, and the “Ghost Dance” movement among Native Americans in the Western United States in the late nineteenth century. In the 1980s and 1990s in the United States, white people, especially farming families and people living in rural small towns, felt that their way of life and ownership of land and property were th…

The “Mormon Moment” Yields… Not So Much

By Joanna Brooks

…campaign must have yielded a net positive for public understanding of the Mormon faith. But new data released by the Pew Forum suggests otherwise. 82% of Americans surveyed by Pew say they learned little to nothing about Mormonism during the 2012 campaign. Nearly 50% said they still know “little to nothing” about Mormonism, a proportion unchanged from 2011. And only about 40% could answer two basic factual questions about the faith, a proporti…

White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenters”

By Neil J. Young

…rump.” Carter is right, of course, to point out that Trump’s poor showing among non-white evangelicals, particularly Latinos and African Americans, means that his total standing among all evangelicals likely came under 50 percent. But the whole weight of Carter’s argument depends on an inaccurate depiction of the media’s reporting on the election. News media did not report, as Carter asserts, that “an overwhelming number of evangelicals” voted for…

Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…he bottom half of the top twenty. In all, more than half of the top twenty most engaging pages—pages that move beyond mere broadcast messaging to share content that inspires participants to interact with one another—are religious. While tracking Twitter trends is somewhat trickier, hashtagged memes like #prayer, #spirituality, #bible, #Jesus, #Buddha, #Allah, and so on are consistently robust, and event-related hashtags like #haroldcamping, #raptu…

If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts

By Andrew Aghapour

…it as realistic as possible. After finishing Weir’s book I was hungry for more. Luckily, Weir offers a treasure trove of short stories on his website, a number of which break with The Martian’s goal of approximating reality, grappling instead with some of the same issues that we discuss here at The Cubit. Without further ado, here are the top three short stories for anyone jonesing for more Weir: Bored World. The story of a mischievous, trans-dim…

Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

By Timothy King

…society today. And yet the import and meaning of these changes are likely more nuanced than how they often are portrayed. A mouse pad decorated with a school of ancient “ichthus” Christian symbols (and a contemporary “evangellyfish” headed in the opposite direction). Image via Zazzle.com. A few examples: Self-reported church attendance is roughly the same today as in the 1940’s and did not change significantly during the time of these reports. Ac…