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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…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…rtheless put the number at roughly 338,000. I am willing to work with this number until a better one comes along. Of this number, roughly 8,000 congregations claim upwards of 1,000 members; most are smaller, indeed most are much smaller. My concept is this: I think we can create a Christian Honor Corps (CHC) of perhaps 10,000 persons. Persons like myself who take our responsibility to monitor Christian extremist thought seriously and who are willi…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…dicted that 30,000 people would participate in the service, but the actual number appeared to number around 2,000. “Our prayers will open the sky and the homosexuals will fall, we will be blessed with victory,” said Lee Young-hoon, head of the leading organization in the anti-LGBT coalition. Mexico: Supreme Court embraces marriage, Church and some political officials resist As we have been reporting, the marriage equality movement has been movemen…

Our Father, Who Art Our Mother: The (Open) Secret Queer History of God

By Mark Sameth

…ritings are, at the moment, less well-known, although they were covered in books—even a popular magazine article—published in America in the nineteenth century, as I recount in my book. The secret of God’s name and dual gender has been an open secret for almost five hundred years. Only recently have feminism, the gender revolution, and intersectionality made the notion of a dual-gendered God seem both culturally possible and historically plausible…

Evangelicalism Thrived Because it Enabled White Christians to Avoid Civil Rights Movements According to New Book

By Eric C. Miller

…ey’s argument—and Mohler’s endorsement—fall quickly into doubt. In his new book, Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular, historian David Hollinger turns the tables completely, arguing that evangelical churches grew during and after the 1960s precisely because they offered a less demanding alternative to the social justice and civil rights commitments of the liberal mainline. To put it another w…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…essed in nicely ironed Old World clothing, smiling in the sun, posing with books. A note attached to the photograph reads: These young refugee children learn that books aren’t burned in America. The Picture was taken at the New York World’s Fair following a ceremony for refugees in the Temple of Religion. The Fair which will reopen May 11th has chosen Peace and Freedom as its theme in 1940. *** Also at the 1939 World’s Fair, right across the parad…

An Agnostic Biography of the Prophet Muhammad

By Lesley Hazleton

…, camels, and so on—and opted instead for the understated elegance of this classic “knot” tile design. Is there a book out there you wish you’d written? On Muhammad? No, and that’s exactly why I wrote The First Muslim. The book I wish someone else had written didn’t exist—one that brought psychological and political context to the historical and religious record, and one I actually wanted to read instead of feeling that I should. What’s your next…

Is It Immoral to Believe in Miracles?

By Noah Berlatsky

…dead, Shapiro says, is a failure of both reason and ethics. He directs the book toward those who still believe, in an effort to get them to convert. One imagines Shapiro showing up at a church and pressing copies of his book on unsuspecting Christians. “Excuse me, ma’am, but I wanted to talk to you about Jesus Christ, who is not our savior…” I’m skeptical that Shapiro’s skepticism is actually going to persuade the folks he seems to think he’s pers…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…ack,” says Walker-Barnes, who is in the process of getting released from a book contract with an evangelical publisher. “I was working on a book that was marketed toward evangelicals and I’m no longer doing that because I think it’s a waste of time. I don’t think they’re ready. I’d rather work with folks who are ready.” “Like it was all for nothing” These forms of divestment come after a four-decade-long evangelical initiative many call “racial re…

“LGBT People Have a Lot to Teach Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…look like that anymore and maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe all the waning numbers will force us to ask, “What does it mean to be a successful church?” I think it means practicing those sacraments and creating that community. How did you get started blogging and are you surprised by the immense community of followers you’ve amassed over the years? I started because I always wanted to write a book. I was a writer even as a kid. This is all I ever w…