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Burning Man: Fear of an Alternative Pagan Social Order

By John W. Morehead

…draws upon an evangelical counter-cult methodology that views most spiritual alternatives as heretical and deviant. Douglas Cowan has described this apologetic framework as a form of reality construction and boundary maintenance. The use of this approach often leads to a misunderstanding of a given religion (usually various new religious movements) and we see a good example of these failings in Matthews’ interpretations of Burning Man spiritualit…

Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement

By Sarah Posner

…born, at whose event Akin spoke, promotes the trope that the widespread availability of contraception has caused “an increase in abortion, pornography, divorce, sexual abuse and other problems.” The group advises followers: “You can help end the ravages of contraception by saving sex for marriage and using natural methods of family planning. These are just as accurate as artificial methods and they have many benefits that artificial contraception…

Romney’s VP Pick of Ryan Will Bring Religion to the Fore

By Sarah Posner

…economics. (A year later, Ryan decided he didn’t like Rand’s atheism after all.) Although House Republicans of course were not eager to advertise this, the USCCB did write letters to Congressional committees, citing concerns that Ryan’s budget failed to meet “moral criteria” because it was based on “disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor and vulnerable persons.” The result: politicians’ arguments not over the budget, but over what typ…

Christian Publishing v. the Vagina

By Katie Toth

…ays. She points to 2003 Christian cult hit, Blue Like Jazz. Its author, Donald Miller, is a single 40-year-old man. “You try to think, now could a single 30-some-plus woman go out there and write Blue Like Jazz and have it resonate within the Christian community the way Don Miller Did?” Zacharias says the answer is no. “The Christian community… would have been saying ‘What’s wrong with her, why isn’t she married?’” Irrelevance is Not a Negative…

Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

By Jeffrey Scholes

…ies furnish the morally untrained with the temptation of mimicry? And, mental illness aside, don’t all mass murderers suffer from some sense of moral relativism? He Floats Above History Perhaps a more precise way to connect Holmes to Ledger’s Joker, if in fact we can do this at all, is by way of the source for their respective actions. Ledger’s Joker is different from his predecessors’ in that the former does not seem to have a personal narrative…

Call Centers and… Congregational Email Lists

By Joanna Brooks

…like at least a few of Romney’s Utah supporters are using LDS congregational email lists to drum up donations—despite explicit instructions not to do so from LDS Church Headquarters. We know that the Romney campaign is mobilizing Mormon family and friend connections for fundraising, as the New York Times and others have reported. Leaked emails from the 2008 and 2012 campaigns have also revealed ranking Church leaders are active, albeit as private…

Pledging Virginity to Dad: A New Doc Explores the World of ‘Purity Balls’

By Jessica Valenti

…and politics. Filmmaker Mirjam von Arx follows the Colorado Springs-based Wilson family whose patriarch, Randy, invented purity balls. Von Arx focuses on one daughter in particular, Jordyn. (The Wilsons have five daughter and two sons.) Jordyn is college-aged but not in college. “I want to be a wife and a mother,” she says, “I would hate to go off and spend thousands of dollars on an education that I wouldn’t use.” She’s also the only one of the o…

Mormons Prepare to March in Seven LGBT Parades this Weekend

By Joanna Brooks

…to pick one or the other and instead ask what type of God requires the ritual killing of any human—much more so the sacrifice of his son. Is that the type of deity he should want to worship and serve? We should ask the same of any organization that places us in a similar situation in regards to our loved ones. We can refuse to make a choice between the Church and a loved one. Rather, ask what type of group or people would require making such a dec…

Will Religion Solve the Obesity Crisis?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ird of U.S. adults), it is no surprise that religion has entered the national dialogue as a possible site for fighting the obesity epidemic. What may surprise you is where we’re looking: the Book of Daniel and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The Book of Daniel is the inspiration for Purpose Driven Life author Rick Warren’s new initiative. Warren claims to have been inspired by Daniel, who refused rich foods of the royal court in order to serv…

Rev. Raphael Warnock Tweets ‘I am a pro-choice pastor’ and Suddenly a Public Figure’s Religion is Fair Game

By John Stoehr

…e claims on Black bodies. The Black church, I think, is manifesting the moral equality at the center of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. Would you accept authority over your body in defiance of your own? Of course you wouldn’t. For a conservative religious defense, allow me to draw on my own experience. I was once part of an obscure (white) evangelical Protestant sect called—deep breath—Christians Gathered Unto the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I do…