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‘Joel’s Army’ Is Already Here: The Obscure 20th Century Religious Movement That Profoundly Influences The Right’s Cosmic Battle

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ffice of apostle.” This, he said, “constitutes the most radical of all the changes.” And it’s a “reformation” because the changes he was seeing in global Christianity were “at least as radical a change as those of the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago”: “Particularly beginning in the 1990s, but having roots going back for more than a century, new forms and operational procedures have been emerging in areas such as local church government, inter…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…and tilted for Bush over Kerry in 2004, it remains debatable how much they changed on the ground. Around a third of them have been relatively centrist “Carter-types” all along. These numbers are neither static nor crystal clear—they probably inched upward along generational lines and shifted by a few percentage points from time to time, depending on how we measure evangelical status and centrism. (Many evangelicals take more progressive stances to…

Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…riage and LGBT advocates have been involved in a long campaign to demand a change in the law. While Gareth Lee, whose order was cancelled, welcomed the Court of Appeal decision, Ashers general manager Daniel McArthur expressed his “extreme disappointment”. “If equality law means people can be punished for politely refusing to support other people’s causes, then equality law needs to change,” he said as he emerged from court surrounded by his famil…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…ous ways. Tomorrow history is going to be made! Go Barack Obama, let’s see change happen.” “Ben reminds you that Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.” “Faith is starting to believe in miracles of the electoral kind.” Social networking sites are often belittled as disengaged from the so-called “real world”—but I would argue that they are critical political spaces in which young people create discourses that will (and d…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…the true genius of this nation. Of course, proclaiming that the nation can change and actually seeing such change happen are two quite different things. Perhaps the great service of Reverend Wright’s controversial remarks will turn out to lie not in the sentiments he voiced but in the response he evoked from his most famous parishioner. That would be a call and response worthy, not just of the African-American religious tradition, but of all Ameri…

Conservative Christians Get in Touch with Feminist Side in Islamophobia

By Julie Ingersoll

…ntalists took control of the Southern Baptist Convention and Mohler had a “change of heart.” No matter that the change served his political interests and came at great cost to many women who believed they were called to Southern Baptist leadership, to the men who supported their callings, as well as to the families of those women and men. Mohler writes about the social impact arising from the disproportionate numbers of males and females. Citing a…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the end of 2018. Botswana: Court tells government to allow trans woman to change legal gender A court ordered government officials to allow a transgender woman to change the gender in official registration and on her national Identity Card. Italy: European Court of Human Rights slams failure to recognize same-sex couples’ marriages On December 14 the European Court of Human Rights condemned Italy for refusing to recognize the unions of same-sex c…

When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For

By Nelle Smith

…ot fun. It is, frankly, terrifying. That’s not to say that realities can’t change. Mine did. But few individuals can be argued out of an entire worldview. Realities shift when ideas bloom and ideas are slow and patient, creeping in through unguarded portals and establishing themselves without much fanfare. However well-intentioned you are, bludgeoning people with fact after argument after fact will only entrench them in their position and reinforc…

R.I.P. Pope John Paul’s “Contraceptive Mentality”: 1979–2014

By Patricia Miller

…lain why they are OK. If this is the case, then the Francis revolution will be less a revolution and more an evolution, which may be the only way to change a church that can’t bring itself to admit it needs to change. …

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…is that there IS no point to endless argumentation. Hearts and minds don’t change that way. They change when we share our stories and when we become present in a different way to those whom we wish to influence. The further point is that hearts change before minds do. It rarely works the other way around. And now some scientists believe that we don’t actually argue to arrive at clarity or truth—argumentation is a “social adaptation,” they contend…