Deifying Matthew Shepard
We want our heroes, blameless, pure…even sexless. But even Jesus was human.
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Why Are Some Religious Progressives Reinforcing the Religious Right on Abortion And Health Care Reform?
And for that matter, why is an influential blogger writing straight from dubious press releases?
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Personalities, Politics and Penises: National Baptist Convention Dodged a Bullet
Although convicted felon Henry J. Lyons lost the election for president of the largest religious body of African Americans in the nation, what does it say about NBC that he was even eligible to run where women are not?
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Black Episcopal Congregation Celebrates Lesbian Marriage
In what is likely a first, an Episcopal church in Cambridge that serves a primarily African-American community has blessed the union of two women—one of whom is the mayor of the city. Our correspondent was one of the officiants.
Read MoreSame-Sex Marriage Showdown in California
The religious right will back county clerks that refuse to perform wedding ceremonies after June 17…
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Sex Comes For the Archbishop: Rembert Weakland’s Unflinching Memoir
Rembert Weakland is a Catholic progressive, a Benedictine monk, and a former Archbishop. His new memoir tells the story of a career marked by good work, pastoral advocacy, and the public scandal of a gay love life.
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Leaving America to Marry
In Canada getting married to your same-sex partner is just a matter of filling out the paperwork. So we did.
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Conservative ‘Cafeteria Catholics’ Favor Opposition to Gay Marriage Over Health Care
As the debate over gay marriage is reignited in New Jersey, the local Roman Catholic bishops threw themselves in with a zeal they have yet to display in the fight for universal health care, despite theological requirements that they fight for it. Are they acting like “cafeteria Catholics,” picking and choosing which parts of the Church’s mandates to follow?
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Transgender and Christian: Finding Identity
The idea of transgender Christianity shocks people on both sides of the divide: conservative religious reject any kind of gender variance and the LGBT community can be suspicious of organized religion. In all of this, trans-Christians are forging a new spirituality.
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Seeing the Future: Can Religion Evolve and Survive in a Changing World?
Since the fall of Secularization Theory, which claimed that belief in God would slowly recede in the face of science and technology, we still must ask: Is there a future for formal, organized, institutionalized religion as we presently recognize it in rapidly globalizing, postindustrial and postmodern world? Here’s what religion will have to do for humans to survive and flourish.
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