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Frodo and Mormon Share Stage in South Park Mormon Musical

By Seth Perry

… In “A Million Little Fibers,” a similarly fictionalized story by Towelie, South Park’s resident sentient, pot-smoking towel (it’s a long story), is defended for the inspiration it has provided others: “What’s the big deal? His book helped people; why does it matter that he made some stuff up?” This appreciation for the value of a well-told story extends to a love of the story-teller. The Joseph Smith in The Book of Mormon is (like the South Park…

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…discrimination, and violence. Instead, the church is planning a summit in South Africa that will only further marginalize vulnerable populations on the African continent… It is dangerous for our church to organize such an echo chamber for conversations about sexual and gender minorities when LGBTI Adventists on the very same continent are at risk for beatings, prison terms, and mob violence. I can’t fathom why my church is spending so much money…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…ile, been relegated to living in ghettos. As a result, Rothstein told me, “African American family incomes are about 60% of white family incomes, but African American wealth is about 5% of white family wealth. And that difference is heavily attributable to federal race-based housing policy.” It might be psychologically satisfying to blame unemployment on individual laziness, or segregation on prejudiced white homeowners, but this would miss the fo…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nals study ‘appears to have been written by someone apparently lacking the African point of view.’” It is a recurring complaint from African prelates taking part in the three-week synod: there is little discussion of extended families, for example, while much is said of the family units of the West, made up of a father, mother and children. Time spent discussing the problem of lonely or abandoned elderly people also has little resonance in Africa,…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…ce began in the run up to the July 9 inauguration of the newly independent South Sudan. South Kordofan is a northern border province, and home to many supporters of the SPLM, the political movement aligned with the South, and the SPLA-North, one of its armed wings. History has left them behind, in the name of peace, to face the vengeance of a regime led by indicted war criminals. The ethnic Nuba, who are Black Africans, and predominantly Christian…

Nikki Haley: Churches Should Take Over Universal Pre-K Education

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…” Yes, just imagine! As in most of the country, and especially in the deep South like South Carolina, when Haley says “faith-based organizations” what she really means is “Christian organizations.” Here in South Carolina, Muslims, Jews, or any liberal faiths like the Unitarian Universalists or the United Church of Christ, need not apply. What Haley proposes to do is put conservative Christians in charge of the earliest learning experiences of chil…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…n, having being been arrested for allowing black children to enroll in the South African Catholic school she headed during apartheid. When she speaks of how frightened she was as she was taken to jail, I believe her completely. And she did not back down. Nevertheless, I fear that Fresen’s heroic resistance to racial injustice provides the justification for certain seriously problematic assertions made in Pink Smoke. Early on in the film, Fresen na…

The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

By Dianne M. Stewart

…. Today, white Christian missionaries retain power over representations of African civilizations, often influencing the African and Caribbean sheep among their flocks to condemn ancient African religions and customs. Long after the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean and the United States, Mr. Robertson and others in his camp can’t seem to restrain themselves from trying to beat Haiti’s saltwater heritage into total submission. Sadly, some Haiti…

The Eddie Long Scandal: It is About Anti-Homosexuality

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…g of these monsters. For this I have repented more times than I can number! It is from my own sense of passionate responsibility and love for neighbor and the oppressed that I have moved from being lachrymose to dissident.” Could it be that the African American community in larger numbers than ever before finally wants to talk? Are the members of our community and the American public willing to hear from African American LGBTQI persons or must we…

BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

By Joanna Brooks

…code, where white athletes enjoy more protection than their Polynesian and African-American peers. Yes, it is a story that calls up Mormonism’s troubled history on African-American issues. (And Smith, surprisingly, gets some of that history wrong: for example, some African-American men were ordained to the Mormon priesthood until the latter part of the nineteenth century, when regressive racially discriminatory policies were instituted.) And it is…