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Yet Another Survey Shows ‘Nones’ Growth at Record Levels

By Elizabeth Drescher

…f Duke and UC-Berkeley researchers highlights the continuing growth in the number of Americans who indicate no religious affiliation, with a full 20% now answering “none” when asked “What is your religious preference?” Michael Hout and Claude S. Fisher of UCB and Mark A. Chaves of Duke drew on data from the most recent General Social Survey (GSS), which has tracked religious preference since 1972, when a mere 5% of Americans self-identified as rel…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

…Mahaney’s potential complicity—a stance that sits uneasily with their claims that they “side with the victims” in cases of abuse and “are not in a place to adjudicate all of the charges leveled against [SGM] or…specific individuals.” Instead they have vocally defended their friend as a “vast influence for good” who has produced a “fruitful ministry of the gospel over many decades.” Dever recently told Mahaney’s new congregation in Louisville, Ken…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…picting transgendered and interracial couples. But there were no Kenyan films on offer. The award winning production, Stories of our Lives, which tracked the lives of members of the LGBT community in Kenya, was banned in 2014 by the country’s film board after it claimed the documentary “promotes homosexuality, which is contrary to national norms and values”. The film sparked a debate among young activists who argued that the country’s gay rights m…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…ver 80 percent of the mosques in this country are controlled by radical Imams,” based on a remark made 12 years ago by neoconservative-friendly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCart…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…that disaffiliation is driven by a rejection of the religious right. It seems perverse to say that members of liberal denominations show their displeasure with religious conservatism by walking away from their own churches, but that seems to be exactly what’s happening. On the surface, this might seem like a point in Eberhardt’s favor. “Orthodox” churches keep their members in line; liberal ones can’t. But how then to explain that the most liberal…

More Thoughts on Media Coverage of Liberal Religion

By Sarah Posner

…secular media do no better than I do. But I would add that the publicity arms of non-conservative religious groups need to do a better job, too. I am sure my own small mainline Protestant church would have been happy to participate in the weekend events, had we known of it. So the circle of indifference towards the efforts of liberal religious folk is the work of many hands. I didn’t intend to suggest that Ed should have written about the Gun Viol…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…the end of white supremacy. NO MORE. Pamela R. Lightsey and Matthew Williams ### Original Signatories Rev. Angela D. Sims, PhD President, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Rev. Valerie Bridgeman, PhD Dean and VP of Academic Affairs, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Rev. Pamela R. Lightsey, PhD VP of Academic Affairs, Meadville Lombard Theological School Marsha Foster Boyd, PhD, Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic De…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…fference, but it’s an interesting counter-factual to contemplate. Barber himself seems to have thought along similar lines, suggesting at one point an alliance with the liberal netroots community Daily Kos, long a bastion for support for Sanders. (Full disclosure: I used to be very active at Daily Kos and formerly ran its religion-and-politics spinoff Street Prophets, but I have not been involved in years.) I have long been suspicious of moral rev…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…ght-ists, although one could argue on some issues it’s deserved). Hunter himself, although sharing much the Christian right (he supported, for example, a 2008 measure in his home state of Florida to ban gay marriage), he’s also affiliated himself with “common ground” measures that reject the scorched earth tactics of the religious right. In fact, a companion piece in Newsweek pointed out Hunter’s and Wallis’s divergence from their religious right…

Size Matters According to New Study

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ain then you’re more likely to be a Buddhist. Those are pretty strange claims, too. They echo claims made by the now-suspect 19th century science of Phrenology. The idea there was that by studying the human head—its size, shape, and general morphology—you could tell a lot about the intelligence and even the moral character of the person under consideration. There were criminal craniums; that was the main idea. Naturally, the Nazi pseudo-science…