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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…nger publishing house which recently acquired Politico, faced a fierce backlash and later changed some of the wording of the headline—though claims of a shadowy trans lobby, with its clearly antisemitic undertones referring to a secretive cabal pushing what the writers perceive as sexual deviancy—still stands. Its editor-in-chief, Ulf Poschardt, a right-leaning libertarian, published an op-ed in which he claimed the anti-trans op-ed was wrong, but…

Mormons Prepare to March in Seven LGBT Parades this Weekend

By Joanna Brooks

…ant to worship and serve? We should ask the same of any organization that places us in a similar situation in regards to our loved ones. We can refuse to make a choice between the Church and a loved one. Rather, ask what type of group or people would require making such a decision and then work to develop a better understanding of our responsibility to love and judge not. The same with friends and other family members. If they choose to judge then…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later—much later. In most instances, they are copies made many centuries later. And these copies all differ from one another, in many thousands of places.”[9] Look at any messiah from the right angle, and you can still see yourself, the fan within, in a sort of inverted entheos. Bowie may be coolness incarnate, but shift your perspective slightly and he reveals another face…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…gle U.S. congressperson attended a demonstration in Ferguson, Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), who walked the length of the demonstrations along with Rev. Jesse Jackson. After a lengthy discussion of ISIS and Iraq, President Obama spoke directly to the people of Ferguson in a televised statement: “So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simpl…

No ‘Christian Compassion’ in Tony Perkins’ Response to Anti-Gay Bullying, Suicides

By Andrew Marin

…just another misguided attempt to assert a hierarchal power structure in place of Jesus’ incarnational teachings in scripture. Tony Campolo recently spoke at a Living in the Tension gathering that my organization regularly hosts, bringing together all kinds of people—from non-Christian LGBT people to gay Christians to conservative and liberal straight Christians and non-Christian straight people—closing with these words: “If the church is to ever…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…1970s, Tim LaHaye in the 1990s and into the 2000s. Then, you have growing numbers of self-proclaimed evangelicals completely rejecting the apocalypticism that had for so long given their movement its distinctive identity. The story of postwar evangelicals is this tension between the more respectable, more careful, more savvy, leaders and those who preached a radical populist apocalypticism that harkened back to the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. And ye…

The Religious Right Goes Global with “Demographic Winter”

By Kathryn Joyce

…-level fertility” for developed nations (and a figure repeated so frequently it becomes a near incantation). The white Christian West, in this telling, is in danger of forfeiting itself through sheer lack of numbers to an onslaught of Muslim immigrants and their purportedly numerous offspring. In other words, Mosher and his colleagues aren’t really concerned about wolves….

It’s Bring Your Gun to Church Day

By Bill Berkowitz

…ervening years, Moon’s operations have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to black churches and to an assortment of community projects. Despite the longstanding Lowery/Moon relationship, those I spoke with feel that Lowery has been consistently true to progressive values and politics. Epilogue: A picture of Barack Obama attending a Moon-organized meeting in Chicago in 2003 is currently up on the Web site of the Unification Church. While ther…

“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…cores the larger point: Trump is still the one candidate who coalesces the largest number of evangelicals—even the weekly churchgoers—around him. Those numbers would likely shift should Trump face a two-man race with Ted Cruz. But if survey data still show what they have revealed so far—that Trump will continue to win at least a third of the most frequent church-attending evangelicals—it undermines anti-Trump evangelicals’ main argument about the…

Aliens in America

By Amir Hussain

…can athletes who had converted to Islam: Muhammad Ali, who came to Sunni Islam via the Nation of Islam, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who came straight into Sunni Islam. And in 1978, I came to admire the character of Venus Flytrap (played by Tim Reid) on WKRP in Cincinnati. On one episode in the final season (1982), a detective who was about to arrest Venus asked him if he was a Muslim. Since the time of my youth, while the Muslim population in North A…