Religion Dispatches
…ng, which was derided as part of the “divorce culture:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npxjuh6UyT4 Tonight, Anna described her husband to People as “someone who had gone down a wrong path and had humbled himself before God and those whom he had offended.” This week, a recap of their television show on their blog discussed how Jim Bob and Michelle “encourage their kids to take a chaperone along on all their dates so they have someone to keep them…
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…audience, that he couldn’t even state the name of the website, HUQueerPress.com, because the “address itself is offensive to me.” (Is it the word “queer” that offends him, or the linking of that word with Harding?) I want to ask: did you actually read it? I found the essays to be provocative, heartfelt, smart, thoughtful, and brave. These students are avowedly Christian, though it is clear they have to grapple with what that means in the context o…
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…al or external. And as my friend Mitch wrote recently on mormonsformarriage.com, “despite how you feel, you are not alone. Your path likely won’t be easy, but don’t let anyone dissuade you from loving your Savior. I can testify to you that he is right beside you, and he loves you exactly as you are.” The Human Rights Campaign and other LGBT advocacy groups are now using Elder Packer’s conference talk to mobilize supporters. Thoughts? That’s certai…
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…rs. The night was unprecedented in the modern Mormon world. https://twitter.com/sltrib/status/710953531021221888 Close observers expected the “Mormon Vote” to go Sanders’s way—the latest polling had him up eight points, Sanders held huge rallies in both states, and Hillary Clinton didn’t even hold any events in the area—but these were much larger margins than even the most pro-Bernie fans could have expected. This likely won’t be Sanders’s springb…
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…king to understand evangelicalism—and, I would add, all religions. It especially pays to do so right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtXmryT32oc…
Read More…Aqua-Buddha college pranks notwithstanding, Rand Paul embraces Buddhist notions of the interconnectedness of everything and the illusion of difference; “nothingness” is The Word. Thanks to my colleague Jon for sharing. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Nothingness www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive…
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…reatment program prescribed above. The much-maligned fansite, avatar-forums.com, for example, is buzzing with suggestions on how to, in effect, bring about a kind of Pandora on Earth. One poster on this site suggested joining Greenpeace. Another announced that he would be writing angry letters to Wall Street and GM and all other corporations who are imperiling the delicate balance of life on this planet. People have quit smoking, littering, eating…
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…yne “The Rock” Johnson’s winged character from Tooth Fairy. https://twitter.com/TheCourtMann/status/1241898192477642752 A more serious response came from Latter-day Saint prophecy enthusiasts who looked for prophetic and even apocalyptic meanings in the fallen trumpet. A popular meme included an image of Moroni without his trumpet and a passage taken from the Hebrew prophet Amos interspersed with commentary: “That in the day that I shall visit the…
Read More…servation of optics for the sake of a high-stakes campaign. https://twitter.com/JamalDajani/status/1110362705775345664 Like Republicans, Democrats frame their support of Israel as fundamentally American and resulting from the abhorrence of antisemitism. But the Democrats don’t seem interested in the nuances of antisemitism, and they damn sure don’t seem interested in examining their own ingrained antisemitism. Recently at the 2019 AIPAC conference…
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…inherently pathological) from its DSM in 2013. © Paulmckinnon | Dreamstime.com – WorldPride Parade Law professors Andrew Koppelman of Northwestern University and Ilya Somin of George Mason University, who co-authored an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to invalidate laws banning same-sex marriage, argued earlier this week that gender discrimination is the missing link needed to protect marriage equality. Long before I experienced evangelical…
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