https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to masturbation en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/14/weeks-meeting-will-sbc-vote-voddie-baucham-homeschooling-star-who-embraces-right-wing On March 4, news broke that African Christian University dean Voddie Baucham was asked to accept a nomination to be President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Baptist denomination in the world—a denomination also in the spotlight at… Tue, 14 Jun 2022 05:39:36 EDT R.L. Stollar 800c87ca-2f16-4abe-9c8a-4da811f6a616 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/02/04/broken-promise-gwyneth-paltrows-goop-lab It is perhaps unsurprisingly rare for anyone to talk about Goop, New Agers, and the world of wellness as offering trenchant critiques of neoliberal capitalism. But let’s try. Netflix’s The Goop Lab (TGL), for the uninitiated (or those deaf to… Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:47:42 EST Daniel Albert Joslyn de986303-e2a2-4132-83a5-233f1d778a09 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/10/10/louis-ck-paige-patterson-and-white-male-forgiveness-charade Redemption of the man who has done bad things is dependent on this principle: The men involved are not bad men at heart. They are mistaken or misled. They just didn’t realize what was wrong. Wed, 10 Oct 2018 05:01:11 EDT Dianna Anderson b35df370-c4c5-40e2-8770-d43c313f23a4 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/09/28/kavanaugh-hearings-are-commentary-mormonism I strongly suspect that what Senator Orrin Hatch found so objectionable about the Kavanaugh hearing was that women were allowed to ask questions of a man. Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:27:33 EDT Holly Welker 4587dded-7dd1-4b48-92aa-861afc262719 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/04/04/ban-female-genital-cutting-somaliland-progress-success-relies-working-religious-leaders Somaliland, the unrecognized self-governing region of Somalia, is known for two things: its relatively stable government, and its staggering rate of female genital cutting (FGC). In early February authorities in the Somaliland Ministry of Religious Affairs issued a fatwa against… Wed, 04 Apr 2018 06:02:35 EDT Chelsea Garbell 436e2b65-a877-4c1e-831a-7b07d6881b32 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/11/oedipus-complexity-it-enough-fire-men-accused-sexual-misconduct Stories of sexual abuse and misconduct are, of course, nothing new. The matter changes. So do the punishments and the means of restoration or reconciliation. When Oedipus, the legendary Greek king, was revealed to have engaged in an inappropriate sexual… Mon, 11 Dec 2017 01:04:21 EST Benjamin Dueholm c025fcec-e64d-485d-a3d5-c04231be8e02 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/10/04/first-things-first-sexual-equality-just I am a liberal Christian, but I generally think well of First Things as a publication by and for smart conservative Christians. I don’t expect to agree with everything I find in it, but I do expect its authors to… Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:39:50 EDT Kate Blanchard dc709673-e5fb-4d9d-8239-4f8b360b2450 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/07/23/satan-contributor-teen-vogues-new-sodomy-section It’s possible, I guess, that contracts are being signed in blood at Condé Nast headquarters. But I doubt it. Sun, 23 Jul 2017 10:01:45 EDT Mark D. Jordan ad5cbd9a-43fb-4e56-ae5d-a56f7539d742 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/10/flaws-latest-anti-gay-islamic-theology More and more practitioners have grown weary of being repeatedly told “because God says so, end of discussion” when asking why same-sex relationships are prohibited in Islam. Fri, 10 Feb 2017 01:43:32 EST Omar Sarwar a81faa28-7ccc-4e38-9f07-fd8fb356ab03 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/08/07/pope-denounces-gender-colonization-indonesian-court-considers-islamist-request There are reportedly a record number of openly lesbian, gay, and bisexual athletes competing in this year’s Olympics, which the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers wrote are getting under way “against the backdrop of rampant anti-LGBT violence.” According to news reports… Sun, 07 Aug 2016 12:46:43 EDT Peter Montgomery 97d7a2a5-612e-4aae-93a5-bc95a73411b5 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/07/god-not-god-methodist-minister-speaks-about-churchs-refusal-open-its-doors-lgbt Two U.S. jurisdictions will consider three openly gay candidates for bishop this month. Long before she learned that my sister was gay, our mother had been risking her reputation, and her career, to stand up for the rights of LGBT… Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:55:42 EDT Joel Pitney a8c5a0a9-1085-4f71-82d2-654bf5ba0983 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/12/porn-again-christians-what-happens-when-biblical-literalist-launches-sex-site I’m a prude. Let’s just get that out there right now. I blame my Southern Baptist upbringing for my prudishness. I was taught that the body was inherently shameful, the earthen vessel we had been given to inhabit until we… Thu, 12 May 2016 10:30:23 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge dd9123d2-48f4-4adc-b505-be6fd9ddcbd6 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/25/masturbation-porn-bigger-priority-planet-poverty-us-bishops In another sign of just how far the agendas of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Pope Francis have diverged, it’s worth noting that at their recently concluded fall plenary, the bishops signaled strongly about what’s on their radar… Wed, 25 Nov 2015 06:31:00 EST Patricia Miller 9107f63c-f2d5-40ef-be10-c0c4968fb84b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/22/untold-story-religious-support-gay-rights Historian Heather White on the surprising role of Protestantism in the story of LGBT justice in the U.S. Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:51:45 EDT Rebecca Alpert 510fa012-58ec-49f9-bcaa-80d5474c7aec https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/26/anti-gay-evangelicalism-norm-less-rosy-take-evangelical-tipping-point “I held my tongue as she told me, ‘Son, fear is the heart of love.’ So I never went back.” – Death Cab for Cutie, from “I Will Follow You into the Dark” (2005) Ahead of today’s historic Supreme Court… Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:23:08 EDT Chrissy Stroop dfa7536f-3ac5-469c-90bb-b1cb60bcd939 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/08/no-room-gays-country-worships-god-kenya-churches-fight-keep-sexuality-out-sex-ed-s-korea University of Pennsylvania senior Katie Sgarro writes about her involvement with friend Sayid Abdullaev in the creation of a project called Asylum Connect, “born out of Sayid’s personal experiences as an LGBTQ asylum-seeker from Kyrgyzstan now living in the U.S.”… Fri, 08 May 2015 01:00:05 EDT Peter Montgomery d1b022b2-2b1b-41d3-910e-71c11e984028 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/02/27/teachacceptance-and-fight-soul-sfs-catholic-schools Despite media reports to the contrary, it doesn’t appear that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is backing down from his attempt to dictate the private morality of teachers in San Francisco Catholic schools or from his effort to exempt them… Fri, 27 Feb 2015 05:43:12 EST Patricia Miller 9f3e382e-7e21-4657-93b8-572c17c09939 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/04/02/raelians-clitoraid-met-suspicion-burkina-faso The Raelians, who regard the Catholic Church as their sexually repressive nemesis, say they’ve launched Clitoraid to help the victims of female circumcision. Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:21:46 EDT Joseph Laycock 765bdaaf-b45a-4608-8359-98b45bfac9e5 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/02/25/lords-standard-morality-promotes-lds-rape-culture Psychologists, counselors, politicians, friends, parents, or would-be moralists make way for Elder Callister. Tue, 25 Feb 2014 04:37:34 EST Holly Welker 6ed2d1f7-11cf-409b-acbb-f177ffa73590 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/05/colin-mcginn-not-only-masturbating-philosopher While researching the history of philosophical arguments about the existence of God, it gradually became clear that my undertaking was in fact a study of masculinity, so shot through were these arguments with gendered assumptions and ideals. And, as a study of masculinity, it was also a study of patriarchy. Mon, 05 Aug 2013 04:31:46 EDT Nathan Schneider 3b55cffb-30dc-4c37-8121-bd20dd3e8726 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/30/will-francis-statements-women-and-gays-make-mess-inside-church Pope Francis turned heads with statements that suggest a course correction in the church’s attitude toward gays and women, but ultimately it’ll be what ministry, decision-making power, and moral authority women share that will answer the question. Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:36:21 EDT Mary Hunt 968641f3-6663-48cd-96f5-8b2a622a5360 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/08/catholic-cohabitators-fornicators-and-masturbators-please-step On sacrament-denial and slut-shaming: why Barbara Johnson is a Catholic hero. Wed, 08 Aug 2012 06:14:31 EDT Sara Ritchey b79e272d-9270-43f0-8834-e645e1dc3bb0 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/06/11/notify-vatican-bungles-response-sexual-ethics-book Six years late and with little understanding of her intentions, the Vatican denounced Margaret A. Farley’s book on sexual ethics. Is the Vatican reining in scholars it finds threatening? Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:16:48 EDT Mary Hunt a6ccffef-51dc-42c4-a5c3-b45ea8ee7464 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/vatican-gay-rights-opponents-are-real-victims According to Vatican representative Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, ending discrimination against gays, lesbians, and transgender persons would make those who oppose such human rights the real victims. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:31:58 EDT Joseph M. Palacios d39bb69b-c4c9-46ef-a7b0-09d80d794aec https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/26/i-would-also-splinter-scouting-organization-please Two sisters quit the Girls Scouts over “anti-life, pro-abortion agenda.” Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:42:57 EDT Sarah Morice-Brubaker 09e80b7e-27f4-40c4-8eda-648af9ecd047