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Parkland Activists Don’t Care What You Think And They’re Not Interested in the Faith Wars

By Daniel Schultz

…ys found corrosive on both sides of the equation. Forced to choose between competing views of a faith, many people will simply walk away instead. (And to be fair, even white evangelicals—among the most conservative demographics in the nation—support stricter gun controls.) And again, the Parkland activists have made it pretty clear that they don’t see themselves as perfect, much less moral paragons, and certainly not exemplars in any religious sen…

Louis C.K., Paige Patterson, and the White Male Forgiveness Charade

By Dianna Anderson

…is an asset to comedy and that he deserves a second chance. https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/1034401081193836544 These are two men who come from quite different backgrounds: Patterson is a Southern Baptist who began preaching when he was a teenager; Louis C.K. is an acerbic comedian from Boston who grew up speaking Spanish in Mexico and has made a career out of being an awkward and offensive comedian. Despite their differences, these two…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…motto is to give Judaism back to the people,” Goldstein told timesofisrael.com. “I feel that the Orthodox establishment in this country has hijacked Judaism.” He attended the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary that trains rabbis in Israel for the Masorti movement, and since they were not admitting LGBT students then he went to New York to be ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary that was ordaining openly gay and lesbian students in the Conservat…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

…ion and the forces of barbarism… May God Bless Israel.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVs7akyMh0 The widespread assumption that Netanyahu’s religious rhetoric is a cynical appeal to his right-wing base isn’t incorrect, but it isn’t the only explanation—and it may not even be the primary one. The success of his military campaign (and perhaps his political future), depends on Netanyahu framing the conflict (and Israel’s place in it) in such a way…

Stop Trying to Save Jesus: ‘Fandamentalism’ Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism

By Chrissy Stroop

…niently shielding Christianity from any systemic criticism. https://twitter.com/BethMooreLPM/status/1346936670608879617 These moves, often made by people with good intentions, serve to reinforce Christian supremacism by equating “Christian” with “good,” a privilege our society does not afford to religious minorities or the nonreligious. Those of us who fall into one of those categories are in fact directly harmed by discourse that protects Christi…

Russian Operative Maria Butina, Who Leveraged Christian Right Connections, Sentenced For Conspiracy

By Becky Garrison

…fast was not on display at the 2019 breakfast. As I reported at TheHumanist.com, Butina’s Family connections run far deeper than simply infiltrating this annual breakfast: In a July 21, 2018 article for The New York Post, [Jeff] Sharlet noted, “At a 2017 prayer breakfast in Moscow, Doug Burleigh—a current Fellowship leader and lifelong Russia hand—appeared alongside Butina’s handler, Alexander Torshin, to declare ‘a breakthrough in relations betwe…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…ound around his arm like tefilin—bands of prayer bearing the Most Holy Name of God. Interpret that! *This essay first appeared on floodofnoah.com and is published under a Creative Commons license….

Dying in Dirty Places: How to Honor the Dead in the Era of Ecocide

By Ryann Croken

…’s surviving brother, Frank, explained this complication to reporters at al.com, “We’d like to [scatter his ashes] sooner rather than later, but we really don’t know when we’ll be able to do it because you can’t predict what the oil’s going to do,” he said. “One day there’s no oil, and the next day we’re covered up with it.” I don’t know the Kruses, and, as a Gulf outsider, I’m afraid I have nothing to offer them but the condolences of a stranger….

An Evangelical (Millennial) on the Canterbury Trail

By John Schmalzbauer

…ldhood religious group for the Anglican/Episcopal tradition), it is fairly common among evangelical writers and intellectuals. From the historian Randall Balmer and the author Ian Morgan Cron, to the poet Luci Shaw and even Bono of U2 — evangelicalism’s creative class is loaded with Anglicans.” This quest for wholeness leads her to the doors of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland, Tenn. Organizing her memoir around the sacraments of baptism,…

Gays to Ex-Gay Movement: “Lift My Luggage”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…NARTH after he was caught vacationing with a male escort he met on RentBoy.com. When asked why he had hired the young man, Rekers said it was to, “lift his luggage.” “As the infamous quacks at NARTH gather for their annual convention, let’s remind America that NARTH is a pseudo-scientific organization that is more about luring Rent Boys than conducting legitimate research,” said Truth Wins Out’s founder Wayne Besen. “In light of recent gay teen su…