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Michelle Shocked Show Shut Down After Anti-Gay Rant

By Kathryn Joyce

…homophobe. Ask God what He thinks,” she said, before shutting off her microphone to complain, “There is always someone who wants to catch me.” Shocked, who somewhat famously came to Jesus through a black evangelical church she began attending for its gospel choir, spoke in 2008 to the Dallas Voice, a gay paper, about reconciling her image among fans as “an honorary lesbian” with the anti-gay sermons she heard at her new church. He said he preach…

Evangelical Star Rob Bell Comes Out For Marriage Equality

By Nicole Greenfield

…atest step in Bell’s “search for a more forgiving faith,” a process Kelefa Sanneh detailed in The New Yorker last November. Bell first truly rocked the conservative Christian world in 2011 by questioning the existence of hell in his book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. Six months after its publication, he resigned from Mars Hill. Although the reasons behind, and the consequences of, Bell’s departu…

Bobby Jindal Hypes His Christian Cred at Liberty U.

By Murali Balaji

…Though the community slowly established itself in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago, the reality for many Hindu immigrants—and their children—was that they were alone in a new country without much of a support network. My story is somewhat similar to Jindal’s. I grew up in small towns in New Jersey, New York, and Ohio before my family settled in the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1980s, and I was subjected to th…

Ponzi Schemes and Prophecy

By Sarah Posner

…onomic Armageddon: What Bible Prophecy Warns about the New Global Economy, San Diego megachurch pastor, radio host, and Tim LaHaye protégé David Jeremiah likens Social Security to a Ponzi scheme and adds that “financing massive entitlement programs, wars, and runaway big government” were “predicted twenty centuries ago in the New Testament letters of James” and figure “prominently as a sign of the coming economic Armageddon.” The book is a favorit…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…on of yoga to its routine. Ever since a widely read article in ESPN The Magazine that showed an image of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson seated in the lotus posture, the team had become celebrated among yoga advocates. This high-profile development served to further universalize yoga, suggesting it’s not just for slight, suburbanite women, but also big burly men. 7. The “Yoga Tax” In Washington D. C., yoga was newly subjected to a tax. Though…

Houston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News

By Sarah Posner

…e radical nature of Mayor Annise Parker’s commitment to imposing the full “San Francisco Style” Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, etc. agenda. … We have a sin-sick city and we need the power of God through Jesus Christ changing lives and changing City Hall! Conservatives have jumped on the issue as evidence of their long-standing claims of government overreach, government hostility to Christians, and the ultimate result of LGBT rights: infrin…

What’s Wrong With the Virgin Mary Depicted as a Barbie Doll?

By Joseph Laycock

…o’s also “Barbie-fied.” According to legend, Correa attempted to cross the San Juan desert with her baby after becoming separated from her husband during the Argentine civil wars. When Correa’s corpse was discovered, her baby was still alive. Miraculously, her body was still able to supply her baby with milk even in death. A spokesperson for a sanctuary commemorating Difunta Correa claimed the saint’s image is copyrighted and threatened to sue. Pa…

Eight General Seminary Professors “Resign” Without Their Knowledge

By Anthea Butler

…nary.org): He (Dean Dunkle) once described Asian transit passengers in the San Francisco Bay area as “slanty-eyed.” In a large community meeting last spring, he compared the technical side of theological education to “looking up women’s skirts.” Before several faculty members and students, he spoke, as an obvious act of intimidation, of how “black people can do such interesting things with their hair,” a comment about which students complained. On…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…ing about meaningful reform on this issue is to change the terms of the conversation and alter the moral climate. Besides, the only thing that both sides of what currently passes for debate over abortion agree on is that making abortion illegal will not have a significant effect on the number of abortions. The developments at Regent University and the University of Notre Dame suggest that younger evangelicals understand that, as do a growing numbe…

Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…st, whereas Vermont—known to be a liberal state—clocked in with the lowest number of both Internet porn searches and religiosity. Just knowing the number of conservatives in a given state was enough information for the researchers to accurately predict the extent of pornography searches using key words including sex, gay sex, porn, free porn, XXX, and gay porn. These findings held true even after the researchers controlled for other demographic va…