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The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…mmunity that I can lead them to more familiarity with a very great text. A number of times you bring up Thomas Jefferson’s abridgement of the Gospels. He seems to be someone who, in some ways, you’re identifying with but also making very different choices from. I don’t have the luxury of just snipping out the parts of the Bible I don’t like. Whereas I greatly admire Jefferson and the Enlightenment figures for their courage in blasting through so m…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…be learned through experiences in life. In every society, there is a small number of people with homosexuality tendencies. “The practice needs regulation like any other human behaviour especially to protect the vulnerable. There is need for further studies to address sexuality in the African context.” It was later found that the study claimed no such thing, and the politicians had been deliberately highlighting phrases which already suited their v…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ance minister, is openly gay and in a civil union. Sensing an opportunity, Ms. Merkel’s main rival for the chancellery, Martin Schulz of the Social Democrats, has called for “marriage for all” on the campaign trail. But he remains behind in the polls. Nonetheless, even if Ms. Merkel wins a fourth term in September, gay marriage may not be far off. In one scenario, her coalition partners may insist on it. In another, court cases reach the highest c…

The Quixotic Task of Debunking David Barton

By Paul Harvey

…he same tack with the likes of Barton? It’s not clear. In recent months, a number of voices have demanded that historians rise to the task of debunking Barton’s claims, insisting that they cannot remain in their ivory towers. Even some historians who consistently have done so, such as John Fea, were criticized; evidently for not doing it enough. In a more popular and polemical vein, Chris Rodda has also exposed Barton’s distortions. Not surprisin…

Pastor Convicted in Lisa Miller Child Kidnapping Case

By Peter Montgomery

…d that as he drove home from the border, Mr. Zodhiates tried to call a cellphone number registered to Liberty Counsel, an evangelical legal group. That cellphone number has sometimes been used by Mathew D. Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, dean of the Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., and a leader of Ms. Miller’s defense team. The RICO filed by Jenkins includes information that RD readers learned last year from Sarah Posner’s…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…intimidation of the press. But Russia is not free, and Mr. Putin hardly seems perturbed. He tolerates brutality and coercion as instruments of state power, deaf to the cries of anguish from its victims. In a commentary for the European Council on Foreign Relations, Anna Arutunyan explains “Why Putin won’t get tough on Kadyrov.” Recounting a recent meeting between the two leaders, Arutunyan writes: The sum total of the message demonstrated that Put…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…“Christian” courts and militia groups that act as if they are legitimate arms of “lawful” government. In this belief system, Whites from northern Europe—the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Teutonic and Lombard peoples—are the real descendents of the biblical people of Israel. As such, Jews are fakes and considered either satanic by nature or Satan himself incarnate. In this schema, Black people and other people of color are considered “pre-Adamic”—that is, b…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.” The sentiment of the hymn really sums up the role of faith in this movement—ultimately, beyond the demographic dreams of Vision Forum and the Hesses, this movement relies on women having a faith strong enough to convince them to have children they may not necessarily be able to provide for, but to trust instead that God will take care of them if they are obedient. It’s a deceptively simple challenge to any w…

Are We Entering the End Times for Mainline Seminaries?

By Elesha Coffman

…nce existed mainly to train full-time pastors faced reductions in both the number of churches that could support such positions and the number of people eager to take the more challenging, but lower paying, church jobs that remained. Some seminaries shifted their missions to serve the academy or society more broadly, while others trained more part-time, second-career and lay pastors. These shifts were less abrupt than decisions to close or merge a…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…arts of the state, it could really affect low-income and rural women in terms of access,” Tarina Keene, executive director of the Virginia chapter of the National Abortion Rights Action League, told the AP. The anti-abortion Pharmacists for Life International claims that while only a few pharmacies have been certified birth control-free, there could be hundreds of others with similar policies. However, several states “require pharmacies or pharmac…