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RDPulpit: Israel in Gaza: Right but not Smart

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…the conditions. These steps would make a huge difference by isolating the most radical members of each side from the mainstream, making it possible to begin negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian people on a much broader and deeper set of issues. The basic condition for creating peace is to help each side feel “safe” enough to ignore those within their own community who claim that peace is impossible and that no one cares about the safet…

Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

By Mary E. Hunt

…s far, is only a serious matter if you bank on clergy privilege. Goodness, most Catholics live in the lay state all of our lives and live to tell it. Only the notion that clergy are qualitatively different (read: better) than lay people makes being stripped of such titles bothersome. Of course it is hard to get a prestigious church job like a diplomatic post if you aren’t ordained, but that hardly compares with facing your abusers in court. Wesolo…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…yond the criticisms they direct at other religious communities. One of the most widely-known atheists in the world, Bill Maher, for example, is alarmed by the number of babies being named Mohammed in the U.K., and said the following of Muslims and Islam: “What it comes down to is that there is one religion in the world that kills you when you disagree with them. They say, ‘Look, we’re a religion of peace and if you disagree we’ll cut your fucking…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…oad and open a definition of ‘religious employer.’” He goes on: Consider just a few questions: How will HHS determine what does and does not count as a “religious objection”? What does it mean for an outfit to “hold itself out as a religious organization”? For example, will a humanitarian organization with a devoutly religious board of directors that claims it directs the organization based on Biblical principles qualify for exemption? Or are ther…

Mormonism’s Black Issues

By Joanna Brooks

…aiths that recognize the sanctity of committed same-sex relationships. But most of Oaks’ respondents politely sidestepped an even deeper paradox troubling his black-Mormon analogy: the fact that Mormons have our own long and peculiar history of discrimination against African Americans. MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann alluded to this history when he gave Oaks his daily “worst person in the world” award on October 14. Comparing the Proposition 8 M…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. Pope Francis, will you welcome us home?” In New York, openly gay journalist Mo Rocca was among those on the altar at the papal mass in Madison Square Garden to do a reading. Rocca read from the book of Isaiah in Spanish; his mother is an immigrant from Colombia. The pope ended his US trip in Philadelphia, where the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families was taking place. LGBT Catholics were forced to move a gathering on gender identity issu…

Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics

By Kaya Oakes

…eligious peers. Birth control and abortion, arguably the Catholic church’s most contentious issues, are not always perceived in a negative light by young Catholics. Among those polled, more than half say abortion should be legal in “almo*]}*st all” or “most” cases, and 31 percent say it should be legal in “just a few” cases. Only 17 percent say it should be illegal. 78 percent say birth control should be included in insurance coverage, no matter where…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…the numbers don’t add up.) Back in March, Politifact rated this statement “mostly false,” and it’s been roundly criticized even in conservative media. Meant to trigger guilt and fear (the nation’s very survival is in your hands), the tactic is also crafted to elevate Cruz’s standing: you stayed home in 2012, but in 2016 there’s a “true” conservative to vote for, a “true” Christian, someone you can trust to save the nation and its Christian values…

Who Bombed the Boston Marathon?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…that killed three and seriously injured over a hundred. But rumors abound. Most of the suspicions point toward right-wing extremist Christian Patriot groups. They are exactly the kind of movement that might be attracted to make its mark on a liberal anti-gun crowd on what many have noted is Massachusetts’ Patriots’ Day. The 26-mile course of the marathon was meant to honor the 26 victims of the Newtown school shooting, with a different victim reco…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…’s rise to power, the assertion that unchurched White evangelicals are the most supportive of Trump is not supported by the preponderance of evidence. Broken down, this myth has two components: The overall drop in church attendance in the general population has produced a significant increase in the number of WEINOs, White evangelicals who seldom or never attend church; and Support for Trump is strongest among White evangelicals who are not connec…