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LGBTQ Victory at Christian Azusa Pacific U. Leaves Significant Questions About Future and Faculty Security

By Chrissy Stroop

…n attending all college meetings emphasizing that anyone who doesn’t fully support the identity statements should look for work elsewhere.” Diaz adds, “The administration has been very strategic and hesitant about on-campus events that involve LGBTQ+ conversations and stories because they don’t want any more backlash. What’s upsetting about this is that they continue to silence LGBTQ+ voices.” Unlike many other member schools of the Council for Ch…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Amid Anticipation of Government Disclosure, ‘We Are Not Alone’ Follows Those Who Claim Alien Contact Through Meditation

By Joseph Laycock

…elligence (CSETI) and in 1991 Greer’s team reported their first successful contact with a UFO, which appeared in the sky and blinked its lights at them. CE5 has continued to grow over since. In April 2020, Greer was featured prominently in the documentary Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact has Begun, directed by DC’s friend Michael Mazzola. As DC recalls, the film was perfectly timed to coincide with Covid lockdown: It was the middle of C…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…lifting for gaslighting students into silence. There’s no justice or true support for these students, just a culture of being quiet and toughing it out.” Azusa Pacific University: Is a Faculty Purge Imminent? A few days after I published “The Struggle for LGBTQ Inclusion,” an Azusa Pacific faculty member reached out to me with some disturbing information, encouraging me to publicize it, though requesting anonymity out of fear of retaliation from…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…om ADF, Shelton called them “good people” and “tried to explain away ADF’s support for criminalization.” The Australian Christian Lobby has developed a new legal arm, the Human Rights Law Alliance, modeled after ADF. Pacific: Will proposed decriminalization in Cook Islands affect other island nations? Radio New Zealand reported that draft legislation that would remove a ban on homosexuality from the Cook Island’s crime law could have an effect on…

Ironies & Bright Spots for Gays in the Christian College World

By L Marston

…of teaching was October 4, 2013. The irony is that this coming April Azusa Pacific will host a conference titled, “The Transformative Power of Diversity in the Global Community.” Obviously, the transformative power of diversity at Azusa does not include transgender faculty. Living in the Christian college subset of Christendom, I’m almost obsessive about finding bright spots in an otherwise tarnished landscape. For example The Chimes, the student…

UNESCO on Religion, Culture and SOGI in Asia; Orthodox Family Sues to Stop Cremation of Israeli Trans Woman; Struggles of Iraqi Queer Activists; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ly religious setting. There is significant religious diversity in the Asia-Pacific region. In a recent study, Hindus were the largest religious group in the Asia-Pacific, comprising around 25% of the total population, followed by Muslims (24%), and people unaffiliated with any religion (21%).There is also significant diversity within countries, and particularly in China, including Taiwan province and Hong Kong SAR, Republic of Korea, Singapore and…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…in a network of human rights groups across the political spectrum began to contact each other to share information and concerns about the potential for violence. With liberal Democrat Bill Clinton in the White House, conspiracy theories about skullduggery and threats to liberty went viral on the pre-Web online computer systems of the day. In early 1995, Eric Ward helped coordinate a national conference of the human rights and watchdog groups. Held…

RDBook: Christian Culture Clash

By Krista Kapralos

…ral churches could learn from them. What are some misconceptions about the Pacific Northwest’s religious landscape? James Wellman: There’s general ignorance about the Pacific Northwest. The northwest is unique precisely because it is so unchurched. Two in three people in the country are affiliated with a religious organization, but only one in three people in the northwest. You really have an open religious market. However, most people believe in…

Spiritual Unplugging, Or What to Do When There is Wifi at the Ashram

By Matt Hamilton

…self-interrogation boiled, my hand extended to the right. I reached for my phone, but I found nothing. At first I laughed at my instinct, my muscle memory. The phone, with its glowing screen, gave me solace and control. But I was tied to my cushion for another hour, and in this ashram for another day, so email would have to wait. I panicked. My heart raced. Would my editor be asking for me? Would a reply from that politician’s secretary sit unansw…