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Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…aying it is right for the government to outlaw homosexuality. Getting American evangelicals to consider the impact of their words and deeds is a major goal for director Williams. In recent weeks he has screened the film at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena and in New York.* At Fuller, he says, people were sharply critical of IHOP’s training and missionary style. The people at IHOP, he said, are planning to release a statement in response to…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…are praising the Pope for his leadership at the CDF during the time these cases came through, it would do them well to remember that this issue has been before the church long before 2001. This was the year that these sexual abuse cases were turned over to the CDF for Church oversight, headed by the leader of the CDF, Cardinal Ratzinger. Before it was renamed the CDF, this commission was called the Sacred Congregation of the Universal Inquisition…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…es as male virility, framing Joe Biden as the physical embodiment of the decay and decadence of failing liberalism: Liberalism itself is Joe Biden, a senile, selfish remnant of a failed world order which destroyed Western economies through invaders, sacrificed Western blood to its most freakish contents, and which tries to supplement Aristotle with the anti-racist baby. And just like Joe Biden, neoliberalism has no juice left in the tank. Like Bid…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…all not kill,’” said Dierdre McQuade, spokeswoman for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. “The Catholic Church teaching is very clear on this.” Only the United Church of Christ and the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations have offered support of aid in dying, although numerous individual congregations of all stripes have also stood up for such measures. The debate has largely focused on spirituality and ethics, but experts say ne…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…backed up by the likes of the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Association of Social Workers, “who all conﬁrm that LGBT parents make good parents,” Freedom to Marry reiterated. No study is ever perfect, and Gartrell acknowledges limitations in her study, including the fact that the families who participated are a nonrandom sample. Such limitations were understandable in the 1980s when the st…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…, won for the not terribly consequential post of chair of the Committee on Catholic Education. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput beat another Francis pick, Bridgeport, CT, Bishop Frank Caggiano, for chair of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, which is responsible for promoting the church’s teaching regarding hot-button issues like family and contraception (or the lack thereof). Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield was elected as th…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…d to keep those folks in mind as I wrote. I wanted to keep them engaged, because I don’t think you can change minds if your audience stops listening. This meant that I had to demonstrate that I respect their faith. At the same time, I wanted to challenge them to rethink some ideas about what goes into constructing a personal identity–perhaps even convincing them that personal and gender identity is a construction in the first place. Are you hoping…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Similarly in South Africa the Dutch Reformed Church supported apartheid because it was Biblical and part of the God-given order of creation. No one now supports either slavery or apartheid. The Biblical texts have not changed; our interpretation has. Certainly, those who oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds would hesitate to compare themselves to those who supported slavery and apartheid, but even conservative religious pollsters, like L…

Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead

By Gary Laderman

…spect of Barack Obama as the first president of the United States with African American ancestry is a thrilling possibility for so many, yet also cannot be disassociated from America’s shameful slaveholding past and the ghosts of so many Africans who died so that slavery might live, and African Americans brutally killed as a result of prejudice, hatred, and injustice. In our enlightened, scientific age, we don’t believe in the existence of ghosts…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…ses. The hope was that Krishnamacharya’s yoga would improve Iyengar’s physical state. It did. Iyengar became the most famous among the yoga prodigies and teachers to have studied under Krishnamacharya. After studying for three years with his guru, Iyengar moved to Pune, where he developed his own postural yoga system that was informed by Krishnamacharya’s approach and techniques as well as increasingly refined biomedical understandings of the body…