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The Dynamics of God

Posted on February 17, 2010 · Add Comment

New review at Harvard Divinity Bulletin:

Given the enmity that recent works on evolution and God have fostered, pitting science and rationalism against spirit and faith—with “new atheist” celebrities casting believers as Scopes-era fools, and creationist culture warriors declaring natural selection the foundation of the Holocaust—Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God [...]

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Meet the New Haggards—Same as the Old Haggards?

Posted on February 17, 2010 · Add Comment

New Q&A with Gayle Haggard at Religion Dispatches:

Before Ted Haggard’s 2006 fall from grace—the result of a scandal involving drug use and a male prostitute—he and his wife Gayle coauthored a breezy, heavily illustrated marriage guide: From This Day Forward: Making Your Vows Last a Lifetime. Post-scandal, the book seemed to epitomize the [...]

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The Abandoned Orphanage

Posted on February 12, 2010 · Add Comment

New story at Religion Dispatches:

On February 4, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the surprise keynote speaker for the 58th annual National Prayer Breakfast. The Breakfast is the one public event organized by the secretive Washington network, the Family, a group of elite fundamentalists [...]

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Evangelicals’ Adoption Battlecry

Posted on February 7, 2010 · Add Comment

New story up at The Daily Beast:

For the past week, the news from Haiti has been dominated by the story of 10 American evangelicals from Idaho who were caught at the border of the Dominican Republic attempting to take 33 Haitian children, many with living parents, out of the country [...]

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Military Abortion Ban: Female Soldiers Not Protected by Constitution They Defend

Posted on December 15, 2009 · Add Comment

“You hear these legends of coat hanger abortions,” a 26-year-old former Marine sergeant told me recently, “but there are no coat hangers in Iraq. I looked.” Amy (who prefers not to use her real name) was stationed in Fallujah as a military journalist two years ago when she discovered she was pregnant. As a female [...]

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The Anti-Gay Highway

Posted on November 19, 2009 · Add Comment

New Religion Dispatches Q&A on Kapya Kaoma’s Report on the Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between US Evangelicals and African Antigay Clergy

A new report  released November 18 details the role that US-based renewal church movements have played in mobilizing homophobic sentiment in at least three African countries. “Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African [...]

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“Men’s Rights” Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective

Posted on November 5, 2009 · Add Comment

New article at Double X:

At the end of October, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, members of the men’s movement group RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting) gathered on the steps of Congress to lobby against what they say are the suppressed truths about domestic violence: that false allegations are rampant, that [...]

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Shotgun Adoption

Posted on August 27, 2009 · Add Comment

New article at The Nation:

Christian agencies lavish support services on pregnant women–if they give up their babies.

Carol Jordan, a 32-year-old pharmacy technician, was living in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1999 when she became pregnant. She’d already decided against abortion, but she was struggling financially and her boyfriend was unsupportive. [...]

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My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

Posted on July 13, 2009 · Add Comment

New piece up at Religion Dispatches:

In the last week of June, two different circles of blogs invested in the Quiverfull movement—both as critics and supporters of the pro-natalist, patriarchal, conservative Christian lifestyle—focused on the sad news of the death of one Quiverfull mother’s child shortly after birth. The woman was Carri Chmielewski, [...]

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Psychjourney Podcast

Posted on June 29, 2009 · Add Comment

Last week I spoke with Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, about Quiverfull. Listen to the complete podcast here.

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