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Jesus in 3D: The Shroud of Turin Meets the 21st Century

By Peter Manseau

…I graphics that make the viewer wonder if Christ might be revealed to have blue skin and a Nav’i tail. Because I have written about religious relics, I was brought in to serve as a talking head on the documentary. My main purpose in the film was to explain that the Shroud is one of the objects related to the events Christians commemorate this past weekend, including the Spear of Destiny (said to be the Roman soldier’s lance that pierced Jesus’ sid…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…magazine. “It’s dangerous as we can’t see who our foes are, but out of the blue everyone is brainwashed — now the [LGBT] community is demanding more freedom, it really is a threat.” President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said last year that the job of police was to defend LGBT communities and other groups from discrimination, but he has largely stayed on the sidelines of the debate as the crackdown has intensified. Associated Press reports from Africa tha…

That Not-So-Mystifying Rick Warren

By Sarah Posner

…a dreamily campaigning on a message of worshipping the same God in red and blue states; the same candidate Obama who believed that reaching out to evangelicals who’d never vote for him might bear electoral fruit; and the same President-elect Obama who asked Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. At the time, Obama came under fire for the pick, given Warren’s hostility to LGBT and reproductive rights, as well as his dabbling in equiv…

Special Interests are Not “Ideas”: Moral Lessons from the Health Care Reform Factory

By Peter Laarman

…Anticipating this fight, they worked for years to put the Republicans and Blue Dogs in their pocket. It is less clear that Obama understands the mortal combat nature of health care politics. Now he does, but now it’s too late. Now we don’t have a passionate President standing with the hurting populace and against the Gucci-clad creeps and their compliant Congressional clients. Now it’s trim a little here, tuck a little there, but no real cost con…

In the Age of Megachurches, Sometimes Less Is More

By Richard Flory

…ty that is attracting mostly younger, college educated congregants—not the blue-haired members suggested by the tiny small-town churches usually cited in these reports. These new, smaller churches are capitalizing on the appeal of urban areas to younger people. They offer both the urban vibe and the opportunities for creating smaller Christian communities and the many social outreach opportunities that inevitably present themselves in cities. And,…

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…s very assembly 4.5 billion years ago. I was stupefied. With its boxes and numbers and colors and fine print the timeline seemed to me a thing of great elegance. The words—Ordovician, Silurian, Jurassic, Eocene—were themselves rare discoveries, whatever they signified. Yet standing at the edge of that precipice was, for me, secretly scary. It was profoundly disorienting. It made me feel utterly empty, like I was an absolute nothing. Like I was a g…

Hamas Bunny Eats Jews

By Hussein Rashid

…(55:15, etc.), and for Hamas the answer is all. Children no longer see the blue sky and ask “why?” but say “I must die.” All of mankind has the spirit of God breathed into them (15:29). Why is Hamas so eager to extinguish that breath? Are they denying God in their lives? Mankind is the caretaker of this earth (2:30) to care for all of creation, including one another. Hamas is teaching the exact opposite of this. Their ideology offers care for no o…

Baby Dolls, Sex Dolls, and Ritual Objects

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…her.” Nisan is known as a “2-D lover,” the designation given to a growing number of people, mostly men, within Japan’s anime-fan culture who have romantic attachments to representations of animated girls. Some images exist virtually on computer screens, some as figurines, and others like Nemutan, as pillowcases. This real-life story reminded me of the fictional 2007 film Lars and the Real Girl. The plot of that quiet, surprise-hit movie wouldn’t…

Tony Perkins: Soldiers Will Quit if Gays Can Serve Openly

By Daniel Schultz

…y, forcing the return of a military draft: The military is not a red state/blue state institution. It unifies our country. It draws its dedicated members from all regions. Still, it is no secret that the military is a socially conservative institution. It recruits heavily from rural areas in the South, the Midwest, and the Inter-Mountain states. In our larger cities, black and Hispanic recruits are encouraged to consider the military — which has h…

Not God’s Army: The Front Lines of the Fight Against Proselytizing in the U.S. Military

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ion at least we were, arguably, pulling [somewhat equally] from “red” and “blue” states, since they were going in involuntarily. With the end of the draft (though we clearly still have a “poverty draft”) we begain to see people who were volunteering coming mostly from the red states, or extremely conservative states. After Vietnam a lot of clergy did not want to go into the military, and since nature abhors a vacuum we began to see this influx of…