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The Exorcist Files, Getting Mad at God, The Obama Prayer…

By Michael J. Altman

…m church-state organizations who claim it is unconstitutional. Despite the new Republican majority in the House, the religious makeup of the 112th Congress is about the same as the previous one. Like the rest of the country, Congress has a majority of Protestants (56.8%) but nonbelievers are underrepresented—there are no “nones.” The man who discovered the “homeless man with a golden voice” says his Christian faith motivated him to help. The Disco…

New Poll: Millennials Suspicious of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…bout religion in the 2012 presidential race, it does provide some striking new data about perceptions of Mormonism among younger voters. Here are the familiar findings: About 40% of Americans are at least somewhat uncomfortable with the idea of a Mormon president. More Democrats (50%) report discomfort with an LDS president than Republicans (36%) or Independents (38%). About half of white evangelicals say we’re not Christian. Two-thirds of America…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…plain a little about the purpose of the center and the significance of the new museum having a Center for the Study of African American Religion, especially funded on the large scale that it is? Yolanda Pierce: I just recently joined, the current staff has been working on this for 10 years. So a lot of the credit belongs to the team that’s already here. One thing they’ve done very well is incorporate religion throughout the museum, all the way fro…

2016 Was the Year Queer and Trans Muslims Entered the Public Consciousness: Mahdia Lynn On This New Era

By The Editors

…from the show’s guests that reveal how their worldview has changed in this new era. Mahdia Lynn is a disabled bisexual transgender Shi’a Muslim woman. She is the Executive Director of Masjid al-Rabia, a women-centered LGBTQ affirming mosque, and is heavily involved in Chicago’s faith and justice communities, with a focus on police accountability, prison abolition, trans liberation and disability justice. This episode explores Mahdia’s life and wor…

Was Blind But Now I See: The Debut of a New Anti-Abortion Strategy

By Kellee Terrell

…cessary” mentality I didn’t know what to expect from a day-long meeting of new converts offering the faithful behind-the-curtain peeks at what they call the “abortion industry.” After making my way past tables of swag in the Crowne Plaza O’Hare Hotel’s lobby (rosaries, pictures of aborted babies and Romney campaign fliers), I caught the opening statements, hosted by the Pro-Life Action League, which was celebrating the morning’s “big win.” An appe…

Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent ‘Abuses’

By Emma Cieslik

…phenomenon one of six outcomes along a spectrum, ranging, according to the New York Times “from outright rejection to more nuanced reasonings” (declaring, in other words, whether or not a Catholic is permitted to devote themselves to it or whether it challenges or contradicts the Roman Catholic faith). Those promoting the validity of a rejected event could face penalties from the Church. Of course, this isn’t the first time the Church has pulled r…

AIDS Anniversary: Thirty is the New Eternity

By Susan Henking

…o the gym. The funerals slowed or stopped and the neighborhoods changed, a new kind of AIDS body modification came into being. No more KS and wasting syndrome on the street, now we have the Crixovan Look: sunken eyes and a pot belly. Guys who are HIV can bulk up the way the steroid-pure cannot. Now they’re larger than ever. Some men got their power back. We could not, did not face what we had really endured. Thirty years later we have still not f…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…what I say to everyone in the Movement: Be open to the Spirit moving us in new ways. Recently I was in New York City to receive an award from a philanthropist. After I’d received the award, this 90 year-old elder’s son invited me to walk to where his dad was seated as he has some difficulty walking these days. But he insisted upon getting up and grabbed my hand with great passion. “I’m so glad to be giving my money this year to a Movement that I k…

New York Legalizes Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rganization for Marriage president Brian Brown also took a swipe lambasted Republican lawmakers. “The Republican party has torn up its contract with the voters who trusted them in order to facilitate Andrew Cuomo’s bid to be president of the U.S. Selling out your principles to get elected is wrong. Selling out your principles to get the other guy elected is just plain dumb,” said NOM is pledging “to commit at least $2 million in the 2012 elections…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…server with Ruth Hunt, a Catholic lesbian who heads LGBT advocacy group Stonewall. “I think at Stonewall we have often seen the idea that the faith community and LGBT community have to come to blows as something artificially constructed,” she said. ”There are many LGBT people of faith and many LGBT people have lots of friends and family in faith communities. To think in terms of binaries and opposites is not helpful.” Ms Hunt admitted she was surp…