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‘My Name is Legion’: Sources and Forces of White Supremacy in the U.S.

By R. Drew Smith

…h their actual numbers have remained sketchy. During the post-Civil Rights Movement period, a large number and variety of U.S.-based hate groups and “patriot” groups emerged, with known hate groups numbering 537 by the mid-1990s alongside 858 “patriot” groups (including militia groups, common law courts, and political or citizens groups) totaling more than a million members. Also by the mid-1990s there were reported to be more than 2,000 hate grou…

Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon

By Kaya Oakes

…ord—fundamentalist Christianity has done to queer people just based on the number who have left. But it also demonstrates why Christian denominations that trot out their “welcoming and affirming” credentials may need to do more; they may want to spend some serious time listening to new members who have arrived from a fundamentalist background. While there’s doubtlessly a great deal of sincerity in those denominations, the issue for a queer person,…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…e, a subjective description, but it also happens to be the word used by Pew itself to describe expectations for change by 2050, as in: “56% of Catholics think the church will soon allow Catholics to use birth control.” (Emphasis mine.) In the end Gallicho’s post amounts to little more than a noisier assertion of his opinions on the Francis Effect—which he is, of course, entitled to. But it remains highly unlikely that playing gotcha! and slinging…

Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching

By Kaya Oakes

…l average of 65 percent, but still problematic for a religious order whose most famous member decries materialist greed on a regular basis. At Jesuit run Seattle University, adjuncts voted to form a union in 2014, but according to the Seattle Times, “ballots were locked up” while the university appealed to the NLRB on religious freedom grounds. According to Seattle University professor Emily Lieb, in April of 2015, “some 20 faculty, students, and…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…centrist and even some leftist circles, often leading those using them to more and more extreme positions. This rhetoric has consequences. The British attorney general Suella Braverman, for instance, recently claimed that schools have no legal obligation to affirm trans pupils—to address them using their pronouns or their chosen name. But while the UK is at the forefront of Europe’s anti-trans bigotry—with even some leftist or liberal news outlet…

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…ascination with alchemy and buried treasure came into full flower in early Mormonism and later in Christian Science and other New Thought movements; He uncovers an ethic of sheer egoism in the thinking and writing of leading Transcendentalists Emerson and Channing; He explores the important later phase of William Jennings Bryan‘s long career, showing how even the Great Commoner lost his social critique in a haze of sentimentalism toward the end; H…

Mike Johnson isn’t Just Your Average Christian Right Avatar — He’s Influenced by Fringe Movements Unfamiliar to Most Political Analysts

By Annika Brockschmidt

…l but it’s the kind of thing I’d expect to see expand as these groups gain more power in more states.” Biblical law over democracy Mike Johnson, now third in line to the presidency, is not committed to democracy, historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez warns in Politico: “He’s not advocating for majority rule; he seems to be saying he’ll advocate for minority rule if that’s what it takes to make sure we stay on the Christian foundation that [he believes] t…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…h supported legislation opposing discrimination in employment and housing, Mormon officials reaffirmed Church teaching against, in the words of apostle L. Tom Perry, “all of the counterfeit and alternative lifestyles that try to replace the family organization that God himself established.” “Despite what much of media and entertainment outlets may suggest, however, and despite the very real decline in the marriage and family orientation of some,”…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…it to my family and my friends and the people around me.” This drew a fair number of cheers from the audience. Even most Republicans support same-sex marriage these days. At the end of the event, Megyn Kelly directly invited the participants to discuss whether or not they’d “had a word from God” about their candidacy. Some viewers might question the appropriateness of such a question, but I thought it was okay. It is the sort of thing that Republi…

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…environment.” Northern Idaho fits the bill on both counts. Apart from the modest amount of provincial sprawl around Coeur d’Alene, what isn’t given over to public land is all farmland and acreage. It is one of the least populated parts of a state that has the seventh lowest population density in the country. Coeur d’Alene is a seven-hour drive from the Cathedral in Boise. Geographical isolation from church authority may be a factor in allowing cu…