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Religion Dispatches
On July 2, still glowing from the national media spotlight, Personhood USA issued a press release, “Personhood Leaders Suffer Violent Attacks From Pro-Abortion Terrorists Following Newsweek Feature,” with photos and description of shattered front-door glass, spray-painted coat hangers and “F— You” with a backward F across the front of their Denver-suburb house. The release said the Newsweek profile led to physical threats and the posting of the Masons’ home address in comments—and implicated The Daily Beast’s “notoriously liberal” readers and “pro-choice criminals” in the alleged vandalism.
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Religion Dispatches
The Wilsons claim to be offering an antidote to the hypersexualized pop culture that targets young women—but by defining girls so concretely by their virginity, they’re ensuring that young women will continue to be judged by what they do or don’t do sexually. The women who take virginity pledges and go to purity balls are promising that their bodies aren’t their own, but instead belong to their fathers and future husbands.
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A suggestion for the lonely few who still believe they can “pray away the gay.”
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What should a Muslim Scot wear to graduation?
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Exodus International appears to be re-thinking its commitment to transforming gay Christians into straight ones. So now it is the larger world’s turn to ask: is that kind of change really possible?
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Should Christians ignore or exploit slaves-obey-your-masters verses?
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Church leaders have had to admit that Christianity in India is tainted by caste—a strange argument for American Christians, especially evangelicals, who pour millions of dollars into missionary work in India.
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Tourist buses are fixtures on Capitol Hill, but the arrival at the Methodist Building of “Nuns on the Bus: Nuns Drive for Faith, Family and Fairness” in noonday heat to the cheers of their colleagues had to be a first.
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All the rage in today’s media, home birth advocates, who run the spectrum from conservative Christians to liberal hippies, are working together to ensure that women are able to make informed decisions about their childbirth.
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Religion Dispatches
An alternative to the depressing offerings of a gay-but-hating-it Christian blogger.
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