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With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No

By Katherine Kelaidis

…l’s most inflammatory rhetoric with regard to the war in Ukraine. While no official reason has been given for the move, for his part Metropolitan Hilarion has speculated that it was because he could no longer “fit” given the current geopolitical situation, an allusion to his less than enthusiastic public support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But even his explanation might be considered part of the influential bishop’s plan to secure himself…

Fox News Needs to Get a Grip on its Affiliate’s Issues with Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…merited the Fox logo. If ridiculing minority religions and cultures isn’t official Fox News policy, if it’s just, say, an unseemly aspect of their corporate culture, Fox might want to do something about that. Maybe it’s time to get the word down the line to hundreds of other Fox News affiliates nationwide that minority-baiting is unacceptable. Because we’ve got fifteen months left until November 2012. And it already feels like it’s going to be a…

Personhood Ohio Claims Bible Dictates Criminal Penalties for Abortion

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…, of Missionaries to the Preborn—an organization which features, on its website, a video comparing an abortion provider to a sniper who is running around killing children at an elementary school; which describes abortion clinics as “death camps” and a clinic employee as “one of the crazy women;” and which adopts militaristic language like “regiment” and “brigade” for its local groups. On the Personhood Ohio website, meanwhile, there are implicatio…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…resident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and other officials for their recent use of inflammatory anti-gay rhetoric. “The discourse of hatred against LGBTI deployed by President Tayyip Erdogan, the AKP government and the conservative media echoing on the street,” wrote LGBTI News Turkey. Theologist Hayrettin Karaman, known for his closeness to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and for his notorious statement that “corruption a…

Update #2: No Safe Place for Truthtellers: A Larger Frame for the House Chaplain Brouhaha

By Peter Laarman

…d by the reaction. Predictably (and this pattern likewise goes back to the official “handling” of the meddlesome Hebrew prophets), the party line now coming from Speaker Ryan and the gang is that Chaplain Conroy wasn’t sufficiently pastoral: that he didn’t provide enough comfort following the shootings at the ill-fated baseball game last year, etc. As anyone who has ever been forced out of a job in ministry knows, this is the standard line used wh…

“A Declaration of Dependence Upon MARRIAGE and FAMiLY”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ited the Bible’s warning against times when everyone would just ignore the official rules and instead go around making stuff up to suit the realities of their own situations. Here he is, in the New York Times Magazine article, quoted at an appearance in Iowa: “And we had a few people who didn’t see the world like we do. We had a professor who said: ‘Bob Vander Plaats should explore truth for Bob Vander Plaats. And Mary for Mary and Susan for Susa…

Conservative Mag: Glenn Greenwald Hates America

By Rob Shryock

…gus. According to an article in the Times, “more than one [U.S. government official] described the standards used by critics to link CAIR to terrorism as akin to McCarthyism, essentially guilt by association.” An FBI counterterrorism expert, in the same article, noted that there were no “cold hard facts” that linked CAIR to extremists. Then there is American-born Siraj Wahhaj, who’s engaged in such America-hating behavior as being the first Musli…

Patron Saint of AIDS/HIV To Be Canonized

By Susan Henking

…per” (as a doctor early in the pandemic reported in his article entitled “When Fear Conquers: A Doctor Learns About AIDS from Leprosy”). And, on the other hand, well, Pope Benedict XVI. On the one hand, an official saint of lepers and Hawaii. On the other hand, an unofficial saint of HIV/AIDS. Canonization as metaphor? As hope? As disfigurement? As cover-up? What would Father Damien think?…

Right Wing Morality is Costing the Church of England Dearly

By Linda Woodhead

…ed in opposition. A similar gap has long been evident between the Church’s official teachings and its members’ views about women clergy. A mere 11% of Anglicans and 8% of the general population say that they approve of their church’s policies on women. As long ago as 1979 a poll found 85% of Anglicans in favour of women’s ordination, and last year the same proportion was found to support women bishops. Whatever their personal views, church leaders…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…tion than these paltry paragraphs offer. Would someone please tell Vatican officials that it’s perfectly acceptable, indeed preferable, to avoid writing about topics about which they know precious little? Why squander any goodwill built up on ecological and economic matters by wading into waters over your head? It only makes the reader wonder what they don’t know about science and money. Such advice, if it had been heeded by these writers, would h…