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Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…ot interested in exploring the deeper sources of widespread yearning for a time when “time shall be no more”? And would someone please notice the ironic dimension: while many 21st-century cosmopolites fix their eyes on the ancient doomsday calendar, few seem bothered by the fact that rapid climate change appears to be what caused the Mayan collapse—1,200 years ahead of time. 2. Together at Last in Hurricane Alley? Even if it didn’t make much of a…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…Islam are very quick to distance themselves from the Nation.” “At the same time, many African Americans feel a connection with the Nation,” added Walid, who is also the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter. “Maybe they were former members, or they have family members who are. There’s a feeling of cooperation, though not total agreement on theological issues.” This is an especially notable point: the Nat…

FRC Rehashes Religious Opposition to DADT… in Real Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…with good points and bad points. In short, they are human beings doing the best they can. Lee is also wrong in berating Congress for giving in to “three percent of the population over the other 97 percent.” If America believes in fairness, then repealing DADT is simply a matter of equity and protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Gay and lesbian soldiers who are qualified should be allowed to serve without being disqualified by…

Will Church Attendance Reduce Bigotry? A Response to Peter Beinart

By Daniel Schultz

…kid for nothing. I’ve even seen a little tolerance grow in the church from time to time. It does happen. Beinart’s probably right that religious participation brings down cross-cultural hostility. Any kind of social participation would do that, but religious institutions, like schools, are particularly effective because they consistently push the message of wider community. My firm belief is that the small church is God’s engine for social change,…

Without Judgement Day or Karma How Does a Humanist Confront ‘Trump Funk’?

By Ivan Strenski

…p Funk? Quite simply, every time Trump flaunts the norms of decency; every time he lies, bullies, insults, or demeans; every time he heaps scorn on the broken and vulnerable; every time he prosecutes another desperate, asylum-seeking refugee; every time he uses a Stormy Daniels or Karen McDougal, only then to shutter them up with another NDA; every time his booted feet trample another human face—and he gets away with it—Trump forces us to fear tha…

QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement

By Adam Willems

…, not new. It’s just one instantiation. This is where we’ve been the whole time. Apocalypticism is one of America’s favorite pastimes. We’ve been predicting the end of the world since before we were a country. Again, we’ve just kept doing it. The idea that our political opponents are sexual predators is also so much older than America. It’s a standard way of defaming an outsider group. We see something very similar in European anti-Semitism in the…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…the global Left Proclaiming that “total victory” for the Right would take time, American Moment’s Saurabh Sharma used his time slot to announce the formation of a “nationalist international coalition” (loud applause), uniting the global Right to defeat what he calls “the degenerate coalition of the socialist Left and the capitalist Right.” American Moment, a right-wing think tank founded in 2021 with the backing of J.D. Vance, is, according to Po…

Preaching to the ‘Moveable Middle’: Bishop Gene Robinson on Marriage Equality and the Election

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he psychological all into one place. Most people are not going to take the time to read a whole book on even one of those aspects so I wanted to do an overarching summary of each. You’ve done a good job. As someone who has faced these questions a million times as well, when I read books like this I’m always reading with the “yeah, but…” point of view. You say you’re trying to answer questions from good and loving people, but my cynicism says, “Yea…

COVID-19 is Concentrating Wealth Even Further; Can we Talk About the Surplus of Powerlessness in the Faith Community?

By Peter Laarman

…d in the public square. It’s okay, it’s even better, if all of that falls to the ground and we acknowledge that we have failed and are failing. And may this locked-in time, this time of supreme sadness, become the seedtime of a new awakening to faithfulness and fearlessness….

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ill deports LGBT people to countries where it’s unsafe to be queer all the time.” Venezuela: Two women recognized as legal parents on son’s birth certificate Venezuela Analysis reports that two lesbians have been recognized as legal parents on a child’s birth certificate for the first time. The action by the national registry office follows a Supreme Court case brought by the Venezuelan Equality Association. The women were married in Argentina, wh…