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5 Lessons From an Ex-Gay Industry Defector

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…be trusted to see that homosexuality is wrong. I should have resigned that minute. 3. Ex-gay poster children are scripted and interchangeable: Near the end, especially with Prop. 8, I felt that I was stripped of my individuality. If it hadn’t been me at an event, it would have been someone else. When a speaking engagement conflicted with my schedule, someone else was found to be the “ex-gay” voice. There was nothing I could add or contribute that…

Francis and the Nuns: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Patricia Miller

…him to do is to pull the censure of the LCWR. He could have done that in a minute. I am also tired of the way that women are always referred to as the kinder, gentler, more nurturing sex. It’s a way of denying us power. On my more charitable days, I think, okay, Francis is 76 and he is Latin American. Maybe he doesn’t have a lot of experience with strong women. But because a lot of what he has accomplished is tonal and symbolic, then I think, let…

The Internet is Not Killing Organized Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t it would be interesting to explore the balance of ideologies across this number. Are liberal Catholics more likely to become unaffiliated than conservative ones? I wouldn’t be surprised to find that this is the case. Certainly, findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion bear this out, showing that mainline Protestant and Catholic young people exhibit significantly less robust and enduring denominational identities than do their evang…

Religious Freedom Extravaganza

By Sarah Posner

…d some common ground between two people who disagree on an issue. The five-minute condensed version of our hour-long discussion, is up at The Atlantic. The whole discussion is available at bloggingheads.tv. The second discussion, on my own bloggingheads show, was with Mere Orthodoxy’s Matt Anderson, about the fallout from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s veto of the controversial religious freedom bill there. Matt goes against the grain of much of conser…

An Agnostic Biography of the Prophet Muhammad

By Lesley Hazleton

…plain the appeal of Islam. How do you feel about the cover? I loved it the minute I saw it. Riverhead brilliantly avoided all the usual obvious images—domes, minarets, crescent moons, camels, and so on—and opted instead for the understated elegance of this classic “knot” tile design. Is there a book out there you wish you’d written? On Muhammad? No, and that’s exactly why I wrote The First Muslim. The book I wish someone else had written didn’t ex…

How Anne Frank Turned Up At Occupy

By Peter Manseau

…staccato prose style best lends itself to recitation via the people’s microphone, they might puzzle over a video clip date-stamped October 6, when Jeff Mangum, the man behind the beloved indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, treated the occupiers in Zuccotti Park to an eight song solo set. Dressed in a shaggy Nordic sweater and dark Mao-ish cap, Mangum looked the very model of the modern hipster protest singer. But his lyrics—echoed by the crowd of…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…he human race for most of our history. And so I was asking myself, “Wait a minute—when did they get separated?” I think we Americans mostly think about the American Revolution and the French Revolution when we set up a secular government. But there were people in the ancient world that tried to create a secular relationship to government where nobody else did—and those people were Jews. Because the government of the nations that conquered them—Egy…

Muslims and Christians Bond Over Gay Rights

By Hussein Rashid

…ud of on this front, they got their members to perform an action, and they a bunch of ‘phobes (Islamo-, homo-, xeno-, etc.) to like them for a minute. Jackasses leading dumbasses. You can debate who’s who….

Mainline Protestantism a Shambles? Tell Us Something We Haven’t Heard

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…incipled critiques of the capacity for religions to collude with political power brokers in ways that abuse the most vulnerable? Well, I simply can’t imagine! Give me a minute, though. It will come to me. I remember them covering that, in that class I had after Moustache Grooming….

Santorum: I Voted to Fund a Program that Doesn’t Work and Harms Women

By Sarah Posner

…ause she zeroed in on Santorum’s comment that contraception is “harmful to women.” But note also what he says right before that: “I don’t think it works.” So in the course of one minute, Santorum said he voted to fund contraception, even though he thinks it doesn’t work and is harmful to women. Genius! …