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How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote

By Katherine Stewart

…ersuade their congregations to vote their “biblical” values. A substantial number of Church United gatherings are conducted in the Spanish language, and the organization has spawned at least one affiliate, Alianza de Pastores Unidos de San Diego, whose members minister to largely Spanish-speaking audiences. It wasn’t always this way, of course, and it isn’t going to change overnight. Many of the southern white evangelical groups that remain entren…

Turn On The News: The Times Has to Make a Choice: It Can’t Laugh at Satanic Claims and Take the Christian Right at Face Value

By Daniel Schultz

…usician and composer Anna von Hausswolff might actually be, as you say, “a high priestess of satanic harmonies?” I mean not you per se, or even at all, but the New York Times, which recently ran an article based on an interview with Ms. von Hausswolff, who had a December concert in a French church abruptly canceled by right-wing Catholic protestors who had decided on the basis of extremely thin evidence that she was in fact consorting with Old Scr…

Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment

By Jay Michaelson

…mpelling interest” is a legal term of art, and refers to the exceptionally high burden the government must show to justify discrimination. And of course, “durable, enduring, and uniquely complementary and procreative” are, in theory, secular philosophical values. But does anyone think, for one second, that they’re really what Reed has in mind? Obviously, Reed—who now works for the “Faith and Freedom Coalition”—is talking about Adam and Eve, not Ad…

President Joe Biden at a podium with a microphone in hand.

Biden’s Embrace of ‘Victory Culture’ is a Victory for Toxic White Christianity

By Peter Laarman

…lso arming Zelensky and Netanyahu to the teeth and backing their wars with high-tech tactical support. If there weren’t actual threats to U.S. security Biden would have to invent them. Biden and his team see this pugilistic posture as his best path to reelection, given how the voters refuse to give him much credit for a rebounding job-rich economy. Politicians do what politicians do. No one should be surprised that Biden would even stoop to discou…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…hereafter, Seattle-area teacher Margie Bowker gave the book to her at-risk high school students. They had no problem relating to Ricks’s protagonist, a young girl trapped rather than supported by the safety net religion is supposed to supply, trying desperately to acquire some security despite parents who repeatedly put her in harm’s way. Ricks’s memoir inspired students to begin writing themselves; some of their short memoirs are compiled in a co…

A Shame-Positive Case for Keeping the Heat on Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…g John Bolton and other members of the administration who could explain in high-profile hearings just how Trump twisted American foreign policy for his own personal interests? Bo-ring. Examinations of the ways Trump is funneling tax dollars to himself and his family? Eh, not interested. Probes into which corporations are wielding influence in the administration and what they’re getting out of the deal? Nah. Finally getting Trump’s tax returns so w…

Of Mosques and Men

By Amina Wadud

…nd a small part time job, I was a free bird. In Ramadan a free bird, flies high on the rituals of the month. I stood for 20 units or tarawih every night that I was fasting. Like the first time reading through the Qu’ran in Arabic on my own this was exhilarating. Somewhere around 12 or 14 units, I lost track of everything outside of the recitation and the ritual performance—the zone. It was even more intense because Michigan had a summertime fast-b…

Faith in the Market Is Our National Religion, Says Theologian Harvey Cox

By Alan Levinovitz

…ces on contentious economic issues are limited to dated examples and a few high-profile books—Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Akerlof and Shiller’s Phishing for Phools. This is in contrast to work like Robert Nelson’s Economics as Religion, which, along with much modern scholarship on the relationship between the two disciplines, is not noted in The Market as God. The problem is all the more striking given the book’s detailed and in…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nted in LGBT Colors.” … Aktobe is notable in Kazakhstan for its relatively high proportion of deeply devout Muslims, so any suggestion of promoting secular lifestyle inevitably meets resistance. Intolerance for sexual minorities extends far beyond conservative religious circles, however. Uganda: Officials force cancellation of pride celebration Kuchu Times reported that Pride Uganda 2017 had been cancelled due to police harassment and threats from…

One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough

By Glenn Branch

…tudes cannot encounter it, or, if it is dealt with at all in a school or a high school biology course, to present it as unobtrusively and near the end of the course as possible.” Muller’s address was entitled “One Hundred Years without Darwinism Are Enough.” Now is a good opportunity to add that one hundred years of anti-evolution education legislation are enough. That’s because 2022 marks a centenary which, although obscure, is worth celebrating:…