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55% of Utah Mormons Believe LGBT People can “Change”

By Joanna Brooks

…dignity. Few have absorbed the nuances Church leaders have been hammering out in successive statements about LGBT issues. Many are still thinking like we were taught to in the 1970s, that homosexuality is simply a base perversion, an abomination, and can be changed through repentance and prayer. Not so, say a legion of LDS LGBT people who have knees bruised and calloused from so much praying. Most straight LDS people have not grappled with the rea…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…esterday because with temperatures over one hundred degrees, I might just cut the lining out at some point. All of the others are 100% cotton—and some lovely cotton too. I’ll be okay with these. Then, I divide these reasonably between the suitcase that goes under the plane and my carry-on luggage. Remember I have to be in ihram before I reach Jeddah. Then there are the things that need to go in a suitcase but you use them every day. Fortunately, I…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…by 1992, the Catholic, pro-life Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey Sr. was shut out of speaking at Bill Clinton’s Democratic National Convention, and allegedly because of his efforts to restrict abortion in Pennsylvania. This sense of ideological homelessness is arguably responsible for the loss of distinctive Catholic identity among politicians voters—and for division within the Church itself. Catholicism didn’t become less “distinctive”—in terms o…

Do Space Aliens Need Baptism? The View From Gliese 581g

By Paul Wallace

…c quest more religious than the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. But this outward search is, on a certain level, guaranteed to bring us back where we are. To illustrate, let us perform an interesting thought experiment. Let us place ourselves on Gliese 591g and turn those same telescopes around and observe us observing the universe. What a strange, strange sight. What a wonder. Clearly, it is we—not black holes, not dark energy, not quasa…

Commies, Blacks, Jews, the UCC and Other Threats to America

By Daniel Schultz

…ling ideology, no good news for anyone who hasn’t been following his worn-out shtick for thirty years. So, good if they’re afraid of the religious left. It means we’re doing our job. And just in case anyone missed the number of religious progressive groups endorsing the rally, here’s a list culled from One Nation site. Their list of endorsers is pretty long, so I apologize if I missed somebody: Rainbow PUSH Coalition The Shalom Center Unitarian Un…

Halloween, Evangelicals, and the Macabre

By John W. Morehead

…ism must be evil is ignored; as is that fact that Halloween incorporates a number of elements and influences that have accrued during its journey through various cultures. In truth, some of these elements are Christian, like the feast of the dead that attempted to maintain communion with the saints, both living and deceased. The Roman Catholic Church continues to include this element in its festivities, and thus, as historian Ronald Hutton argues…

We Were Here Before September 11th

By Amina Wadud

…rica for a select Brown Muslim population. Still African-American Muslims out*]}*number them, and face double invisibility and erasure: from within and from without. So, if you ever wonder why I don’t comment on some of the “top” stories in the news about Islam in America, I intentionally try not to respond to sensationalism. I don’t comment about a story if the story already gets enough media attention and if the story does not help script the dynami…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…nt and harassment. After this, I sat in stunned silence in front of my computer screen as news stories continued to appear about the suicides of 13-year-old Asher Brown, 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, 13-year-old Seth Walsh, and 19-year-old Raymond Chase. Today, it is very clear to me that profound sadness and stunned silence is no longer a suitable, appropriate, or adequate response. From Lamentation to Indignation My sadness began to change into so…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…ollowed suit, with little use for rabble-rousers or supposed diluters of truth. Putting Catholic clergymen on the cover became a common trope for Time. After Pius XI, its next Catholic cover had the dual distinction of being the first to depict an American churchman (George Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop of Chicago) and the first to include color in the form of an eye-catching orange bar down the left side of the page. With such covers, which incl…

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…s been an unprecedented series of events that has forced a conversation about the first amendment and what we mean when we talk about “religion.” Here’s a month-by-month break down of 2014’s Satanic controversies. JANUARY In an interview for Religion Dispatches, Greaves explained that his goal is not to promote Satanic worship but to demonstrate why the establishment clause must be applied consistently. He stated that although he does not believe…