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Mormon Women Knock at the Door, Are Turned Away

By Holly Welker

…by church representative Doug Peterson. According to Mike Stevens of Ogden, Utah, who stood nearby and filmed the exchanges, each woman had a brief exchange with Peterson, along the lines of: “I would like to attend the priesthood session.” Peterson’s response?: “I’m sorry, it’s only for men.” Stevens said that it was particularly striking to watch couples talk to Peterson. “Men would say, ‘I’d like to attend the priesthood session with my wife,…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…acceptance in the general public—even among progressive demographics. That, at least, is my grim takeaway from PRRI’s new report, “The Politics of Gender, Pronouns, and Public Education.” The overall positions of various demographics are mostly what you would expect them to be. The report singles out White evangelical Protestants multiple times as, unsurprisingly, America’s most singularly anti-trans demo. In 2021, for example, 86% of White evang…

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…would believe that his disciples “hold their nose and vote” for such a man, or, alternatively, have been taken in unawares by his charm, rather than believe that they would follow him in their millions even unto the ends of the earth, looking past each flaw no matter how glaring, excusing each performance no matter how absurd, because their heartstrings have waited centuries to be undone by even the junkiest of exhumed Robert E. Lees. White supre…

LDS General Conference in the “Mormon Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…en I have asserted the Christianity of Mormon belief for national audiences, the number one reaction has come from Christians who seek to correct my understanding of my faith and remind me that Mormons are not, in their eyes, Christians. Some assert that they’ll be praying for my mistaken soul (and the soul of my Jewish husband too). Others seek to engage in a friendlier conversational exchange about whether Mormons profess the Nicene Creed. (We d…

Neuroscience Says Evil is “Over”: Not So Fast…

By Paul Wallace

…that has a lot going for it. Before I say what exactly it has going for it, however, let me say what it doesn’t have going for it. Science and theology are different. Richard Dawkins is right to say, as he does over and over, that anyone who cares to devote time and effort to understanding evolution can do it. As difficult as it can be, science is, in a very real sense, right there on the page. In fact, in the end there is nothing for it but to b…

New Study Touts Success of “Praying Away the Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ional consensus…” Both researchers are from conservative Christian colleges, which, of course, make the research suspect. But, as Timothy Kincaid over at Box Turtle Bulletin points out, Yarhouse has long been touting his conclusions that ex-gay ministries are “helpful.” Kincaid gives some background on Yarhouse, and his colleague, Rob Tisinai, gives a better breakdown of what the numbers really mean—and it isn’t a rousing success story about “chan…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…ity and simpler and more open church structures.” What should be emphasized, then, isn’t that there’s scant evidence of there being a schismatic Celtic Church in the past, but far more importantly, that there is a Celtic Church now whose values run counter to the patriarchal, colonialist, gender essentialist brand of Christianity so common across the globe. Bradley’s observation is instructive, as contemporary believers in Celtic Christianity are…

“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hard to start to form the outline for one. (I mean, for the trillionth time, yes, sometimes getting pregnant can make some women very very sick. Also, on what basis are we supposed to accept that there’s a clear and non-culturally-laden way of sorting out Official Real Diseases from Things That Aren’t Diseases But Still Make Your Life Worse? I mean it’s not like “disease” is a category that’s written into reality as such, plain for all to see. Mor…

Picasso’s Sacred Monster Eats Chicago: A Mystery Solved?

By Jeremy Biles

…he riddle is not simply what the Chicago Picasso might depict—dog, aardvark, woman, or whatever. The riddle of this sphinx is more mysterious. It is the riddle of the limitlessness of interpretation itself. Philosopher of religion Jean-Luc Marion describes great works of art, particularly religious icons, as “saturated phenomena.” In their “overwhelming givenness,” they exceed our intentional intuitions; they endlessly call for, but are never exha…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…n would not be a factor in future considerations about who they will ordain, hire, or perform a wedding ceremony for. Crescent Hill Baptist Church also voted in 2013 to join AWAB, the national Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists. The church is preparing to host their first same-sex marriage next month. The 106-year-old Crescent Hill congregation is adjacent to The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville and before the funda…