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Betraying a Sacred Trust: From Penn State to Dover Air Force Base

By Gary Laderman

…at other kinds of ethical considerations—about prioritizing education and fair recruitment practices, about caring for the health and welfare of college student athletes, about betraying the team when violations of moral principles and abuses of power are witnessed and reported—fall by the wayside. The religious dimensions to this story are more complicated than the simplistic, though relevant, attention to the breakdown of ethical responsibility…

Magic in the Air: How Intellectuals Invented the Myth of a Mythless Society

By Jason Josephson Storm

…que. It really anticipates some things I’ve been working toward in my next book. To have her say them first is nice because they are out there, but in other ways she really beat me to the punch. Plus, her prose is wonderful and poetic. What’s your next book? I’m pretty far along in the first draft of a new manuscript called “Absolute Disruption: The Future of Theory after Postmodernism.” It was mainly born in the same moment as The Myth of Disench…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…on the other side. When he and his brother Peter Lalonde first turned the best-selling books into movies, they argued it wasn’t possible to make Left Behind in a way that would appeal both to people who were waiting for the rapture and people who thought the whole thing was preposterous. You couldn’t do both. They made the movie cheap and released it to the home market. It only had a limited run in theaters the following year Peter Lalonde said s…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…ed to a smaller venue (600 seats) and ticket sales remained low even after ticket prices were cut in half. There were still probably 80 empty seats, and it was clear that some number of attendees had free tickets. The largest financial supporter of the event was a local news/talk radio station and its representatives were the only media allowed in. As I arrived with my Religion Dispatches press badge they stopped me before I even got to the door….

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Wire has more on India backing the amendments moved by the “Islamic Bloc.” Canada: Prime Minister marches in pride parade Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marched in Toronto’s pride parade alongside a Syrian refugee who had arrived in Toronto in May. The parade was temporarily disrupted by protestors from Black Lives Matter Toronto, whose demands included the exclusion of police floats from future pride parades. More from Peter Kim at Global News: At…

Virtual Book Burning and Its Consequences

By Laurie Patton

…ayed ignorance of the contents of the Qur’an (an all-too-frequent trait of book burners), he intuitively knew that book burning could involve all three aspects of this complex symbol. It could be a politically purifying act on the part of the dominant institution, a way of clarifying religious canon, as well as an act of protest on the part of a religious minority. And in his rhetoric, Jones used all three stances involving the symbolism of the bo…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e for Germany Party. Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board adopts new guidelines on LGBT refugees Canada’s Immigration and Refugee board announced new guidelines for dealing with cases involving sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. A story published the same day, May 1, in The Globe and Mail, addresses the need for the guidelines: When they reach Canadian soil, gay refugees fleeing repressive, homophobic regimes face a maddening…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…in books published The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger. The 800-page book includes over 50 pages of references and covers a vast history that spans 50 million years—a magnum opus from a highly acclaimed scholar of Hindu traditions. A few months after The Hindus was published in the United States, it was favorably reviewed in the New York Times. The award-winning Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra praised the work as “staggeringly compre…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n the European Union also played a role in prodding social liberalization. Canada: LGBT people, questions welcome at Toronto’s Unity Mosque Samra Habib’s “Queering Islam” in the Advocate profiles a number of LGBT and affirming Muslim leaders in the U.S. and Canada, among them El-Farouk Khaki from Toronto’s Unity Mosque: Unlike at traditional mosques, everything is open for debate and dialogue at Unity mosque. Congregants are encouraged to speak ab…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…t of us today. Grappling with that reality is one of the challenges of the book. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? There are hundreds! Let me name two. First’s there’s Jill Lepore’s The Name of War. It’s the book that is the most direct (I hope not derivative) influence on Race and the Making of the Mormon People, especially in its analysis of the relationship between the written word and the construction of racia…