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Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…sm, they worried that too much enthusiasm would signal support for Mormon religious beliefs. Amidst the social upheaval of the 1960s, evangelical outlets like Christianity Today often remarked favorably on Mormonism’s conservative politics and “family values,” but they also argued the LDS Church emphasized strong families as a way of controlling its members and covering up its more unseemly beliefs and practices, including its history of polygamy….

American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016

By Richard Flory

…s received a significant amount of attention, from religious observers as well as religious leaders, is the so-called “Rise of the Religious Nones.” The number of dropouts/defectors from church involvement has risen significantly over the last several years, such that about 23 percent of the American population now claims no religious affiliation. They leave for many reasons, ranging from a general disillusionment with large-scale institutions in…

An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

By Anne Eggebroten

…tal change in the Church. “It seems to me that the Vatican don’t actually believe in God at all. They’re certainly not acting like they believe in a God that watches. A Christian is supposed to ask ‘What would Jesus do?’ and try to do it. Would Jesus have covered up for decades all of this abuse?” Like many others, O’Connor has chosen not to leave the church but to work for change. Her most dramatic call for change came in 1992 when she tore up a…

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

By Joanna Brooks

…ion. Twenty-five percent of Utah Mormons reported being “unsure,” and 15% believed gay people could not voluntarily “change” their own sexual orientation. Among non-Mormon Utahns surveyed, 66% believed it was not possible for gay people to “change” their sexual orientation, while 20% thought it possible, and 14% were unsure. Which confirms what those of us who live within the culture know: many, many LDS people live in a parallel universe when it…

Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump

By Patricia Miller

…time, says Krueger, the bishops are “acting in a very pragmatic way to develop a relationship with the Trump administration [at the expense of] losing their prophetic voice.” The U.S. bishops see Trump not merely as a potential ally in appointing a conservative justice to replace Antonin Scalia (who would help roll back abortion rights) but also in an aggressive expansion of “religious liberty.” In a letter to the advisory board of conservative C…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…omething closer to my U.S. limit. I’m sorry, but in almost 40 years of travel to 40 countries, I have only once used travelers checks. They are supposed to be better protected. You can get them 100% replaced if lost or stolen, but only if you first write down each and every serial number. Then you have to keep this information somewhere that’s not the same somewhere you keep the checks. But then they really do NOT spend just like cash—especially a…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…igiously-based views on others. And indeed for a time Pence considered himself an “Evangelical Catholic” before finally making the transition to full-on evangelicalism. And it’s that divergence that was on full display Tuesday evening when the candidates were asked to discuss “a time that you have struggled to balance your personal faith and the public policy decision.” Kaine discussed his difficulty in applying the death penalty when he was gover…

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

By Paul Wallace

…’s Guide to the Galaxy, wrote in all truth, “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” What’s more, whether or not it reflects reality, there is an unavoidable psychological tendency to associate the small with the insignificant. This may be seen in the history of astronomy, which is a history of recedi…

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

By Daniel Schultz

…ous 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 Universalist Association of Congregations Sikh Coalition The Religious Institute The Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist Pennsylvania C…

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…