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Prophecy and Prosperity are Keys to Republican Christian Nationalism According to New Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…Donald Trump. Those implications fall into two broad categories: religious change and the faith identity of Trump’s followers. To set the scene for the first category, let’s list some general points of interest: Mainline Protestants outnumber evangelicals by a very slim margin Only nine percent of religiously unaffiliated Americans are looking for a new “religious or spiritual home” Almost half of the people who reported leaving a religious tradit…

Why White Evangelical Women Aren’t the Swing Voters They Sometimes Appear to Be

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…ference. In the words of IF founder Jennie Allen, these relationships “can change the world.” In 2017, she got on stage and asked a rhetorical question, “How many people feel like the world is complicated right now?” She nodded her head and explained, “we have a very important mission in the midst of this complicated world. I believe that women with other women on living room floors with their Bible open can change the world.” Each year, Allen ret…

Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…f “Judeo-Christian” origins for democracy. However, the board rejected the change. The board rejected a similar change involving another Christian Americanist tenet, the claim that trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, and equality before the law “originated from the Judeo-Christian legal tradition and in Greece and Rome.” The streamlining work groups deleted the entire phrase, noting that “there are multiple influences to these ideas.” Onc…

Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to see, and that’s going to be a slow process.” While the process is slow, change could be coming – or at least there’s a semblance of change. “Twenty years ago, if you asked any mainstream scholar about this issue, they would’ve said it’s an abomination,” Jahangir said. “They would have said it’s a major sin. They would have said that there is no room for it in the religion.” “You cannot deny the basic human need for intimacy, affection, and comp…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mbers of the junior governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) are pushing to change that. They are calling on their coalition partners, the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), to go along with a change of law that would grant same-sex couples the right to get married and not just obtain civil unions. DW reports that a gay DCU deputy, Stefan Kaufmann, said religion is part of the resistance to marriage equality: “…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ng with “Catholic and Protestant leaders” are pushing for a constitutional change to restrict marriage to a man and a woman. Taiwan: Religious opponents of marriage equality rally in opposition With Taiwan potentially on the verge of becoming the first Asian country to legalize marriage by same-sex couples, religious hardliners rallied thousands of people to protest outside the legislature. The China Post reports that protesters are demanding a re…

Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

By Shaul Magid

…ubled committed” now rules the state of Israel. Hartman may not be able to change that reality, so he wants to change the story. Is it possible, today, for one to not be a Zionist and still be pro-Israel? Can Israel be a state where Jews have autonomy and partial sovereignty but not be a Jewish state? That is, can one re-conceptualize Israel as a state of all its citizens without undermining the right of Jewish self-determination? I think so, and…

Religion Scholars Convene, Have Nowhere to Sit

By Ivan Strenski

…can convey what it was like to be wrong! Over a lifetime, serious scholars change their minds. But, with today’s obsession with the latest and greatest theory, little thought is given to how minds and theories change. We fall madly in love with one “Prince Charming of Theories” today, only to dump him tomorrow for the next, never realizing, in our promiscuous frenzy, how flighty our infatuated shifts of affection show us up to be. Creating interge…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…t do we lose when we leave a lifestyle behind? What do we lose when things change suddenly? Hm. What do you think about that? Think about what? Are we better off psychologically, or worse? When things change really quickly? I think it’s very easy to glorify the past. No question about that. There are critics who look at Paleo trends and say they’re glorifying the past. I think that’s justified, in some cases. That goes all the way back to Rousseau…

The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

By Patricia Miller

…semble and give their pre-written “interventions” affirming current church policy, agree that current church policy was awesome, eat some fabulous meals in Rome, and then go home. (And for the record, conservatives have argued for years that the church isn’t a democracy.) What Douthat doesn’t explain is why it wasn’t a “plot” for Pope John Paul II to stack the bishops’ ranks with conservatives; purge liberal bishops, theologians and dissenters fro…