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2024-05-13T08:49:53-04:00

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Will religious beliefs on abortion affect 2024 U.S. vote?

Last updated on: May 13, 2024 at 8:49 am By Richard Ostling

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New York abortion protest. “All”? “Most”? / Katie Godowski @ pexels.com THE RELIGON GUY’S ANSWER: Yes, but perhaps not much. Starting with the news, the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) announced a poll showing 64% of Americans think abortion should be legal in “most or all” cases. However, dig into the internals and only 29% said “all” cases while 35% said “most,” indicating some restrictions. Meanwhile, Gallup found 51% want abortion “legal only under certain circumstances” with 34% favoring all... Read more

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2024-04-30T18:54:22-04:00

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Is belief in God “good for you”?

Last updated on: April 30, 2024 at 6:54 pm By Richard Ostling

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THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: Yes, according to a large and growing body of scientific research this past generation. But as with most things regarding religion, the following sketch of the discussion will indicate things may not be quite so simple. Three recent articles neatly focus matters: “Some Mental-Health Benefits Are Linked to Going to Church” (Clare Ansberry, Wall Street Journal, April 16), “The True Cost of the Churchgoing Bust” (Derek Thompson, theatlantic.com, April 3), and “What Really Happens When Americans... Read more

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2024-04-13T12:34:10-04:00

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Why does the Catholic Church oppose gender transitions?

Last updated on: April 13, 2024 at 12:34 pm By Richard Ostling

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THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: Talk about timeliness for a church pronouncement. On April 8, the Vatican’s doctrine office issued a broad-gauged “declaration,” approved by Pope Francis after five years of work, that contained new moral denunciations of what it called “gender theory” and resulting “sex change” treatments. The very next day, science weighed in, as British medical journals reported such devastating research findings that the National Health Service has halted gender transition treatments for children and teen-agers. There’ve been other... Read more

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2024-03-30T19:30:25-04:00

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Why so many splits in the Latter-day Saints tradition?

Last updated on: March 30, 2024 at 7:30 pm By Richard Ostling

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THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: History was made this month when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“LDS”) paid a rival denomination $192.5 million to purchase the faith’s first temple in Kirtland, Ohio, along with other properties and sacred manuscripts. The buyer and seller are the two largest among 68 branches that have emerged from U.S. Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr.’s latter-day revelations between 1830 and 1844. The Utah-based LDS church (which rejected its familiar “Mormon” nickname in 2018) is... Read more

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2024-03-20T22:05:57-04:00

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What do U.S. churches believe on “recreational” marijuana?

Last updated on: March 20, 2024 at 10:05 pm By Richard Ostling

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THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: All the buzz after President Biden’s State of the Union address ignored his boast about “directing my Cabinet to review the federal classification of marijuana.” Since 1970, the federal government has designated marijuana, a.k.a. cannabis, as a dangerous Schedule I drug alongside ecstasy, heroin, and LSD, therefore outlawing manufacture, distribution or possession, except for qualified research. But prodded by the President, the Health and Human Services department in 2022 launched a review and last August 29... Read more

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2024-03-02T13:19:50-05:00

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“What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?”

Last updated on: March 2, 2024 at 1:19 pm By Richard Ostling

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THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: That pertinent question above was the headline with David French’s February 26 New York Times column, which lamented confused definitions of the movement known as “Christian nationalism” (hereafter abbreviated as CN). The past few weeks have seen assorted articles pro and con, political squabbles, new public opinion polling, and even a Hollywood documentary. Here are aspects of recent attempts to understand and define this controversial movement. The CN term is mostly defined and applied by outside... Read more

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2024-02-17T13:05:54-05:00

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Why does the Catholic Church condemn surrogate motherhood?

Last updated on: February 17, 2024 at 1:05 pm By Richard Ostling

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THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: They say Pope Francis is Catholicism’s most liberal leader in modern times. So there was some surprise January 8 when he declared that nations should outlaw the morally “deplorable” practice of surrogate motherhood to produce human children. He said surrogacy “represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child” and “a child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract,” asserting the fundamental belief that human life must... Read more

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2024-02-05T00:03:55-05:00

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Should Christians attend LGBT weddings?

Last updated on: February 5, 2024 at 12:03 am By Richard Ostling

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THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: Many readers, including regular churchgoers, may be perplexed that this question is even being asked. Whatever their own concept of marriage, they’ll feel that accepting a wedding invitation is a matter of basic courtesy and kindness. Moreover, Pew Research Center polling after the Supreme Court ruling on this shows 61% of U.S. Catholics and 66% of “Mainline” Protestants accept legalized same-sex marriage. And a much-debated December edict from Pope Francis’s Vatican now allows priests to offer... Read more

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2024-01-21T23:52:17-05:00

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Will the Catholic Church allow married priests? Should it?

Last updated on: January 21, 2024 at 11:52 pm By Richard Ostling

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THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: The new year began with the surprise revival of this perennial issue by a prominent Catholic insider who asserted that the mandate for priests to be unmarried and celibate “was optional for the first millennium of the Church’s existence and it should become optional again.” This came in a media interview with Archbishop Charles Scicluna, 63, named by Pope Francis in 2015 to lead the church in the nation of Malta. As he indicated, celibacy... Read more

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2024-01-06T02:37:25-05:00

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Is it time to rename the Southern Baptist Convention?

Last updated on: January 6, 2024 at 2:37 am By Richard Ostling

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THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: As it looks toward the annual meeting in June, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), by far America’s largest Protestant denomination, faces difficult issues. What tactics might halt its recent membership decline? Should women be forbidden clergy ordination even as assistants, educators, or chaplains? What steps might soothe racial tensions? Are churches too political this election year? And most important, how can the SBC cleanse itself from sexual abuse scandals? With all that’s going on, one matter... Read more

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