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New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…construction of racial identities, and most importantly, the diversity of African American religions. But we don’t examine the diversity within African American religions just for the sake of religious variety. Within various forms of Christianity, Islam, and even hip hop, we examine the interplay between religion, race, colonialism and self-determination. And for one day every semester I get to introduce students to my work on the Cercle Harmoni…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rnational, the global arm of the LGBT-equality-opposing Alliance Defending Freedom, recently posted a promotional video portraying themselves as defenders of people being persecuted for their faith. “ADF International has a presence at every major international institution on the planet,” says Executive Director Paul Coleman. In the video, ADF International’s Director of UN Advocacy Elyssa Kor criticizes the United Nations for trying to force coun…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…Urges End to Anti-Gay Discrimination U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield held an online press conference this week in which she reportedly urged African nations to repeal laws that violate human rights. “We strongly support human rights for all people, and we particularly are opposed to legislation that actually targets the gay community,” she reportedly said, “We are of the view that criminalization again…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…the most essential adjunct to white domination: the notion of the Virtuous Republic. Robinson is not alone in ignoring a central problem in the New England inheritance. We might call this the “wheat and tares” problem and look to the telling second verse of “Come, Ye Thankful People, Come”—the hymn that normally would be sung in tens of thousands of Christian churches at Thanksgiving time (and that will still be sung in many churches this year, Co…

A History of Prophetic Black Preaching That Doesn’t Start or End With Dr. King

By Kenyatta R. Gilbert

…ooks and underplays. She does not adequately attend to the vital roles the African-American preacher and African-American preaching played in shaping the course of the largely leaderless movement of more than 1.5 million southern Black migrants who exited the South between 1916 and 1940, staking it all in search of America’s Promised Land in the industrial North. What’s your next book? I have a book titled Exodus Preaching: Shaping Sermons for the…

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

…ning against LGBTI rights by evangelical Catholic groups in Hong Kong SAR, Republic of Korea and Singapore. In other countries, recent discourse and practice has been more embracing of sexual diversity,and may be further influenced by statements by the Catholic Pope Francis supporting greater integration of persons with diverse sexualities. Examples of Christian communities run by, and for, LGBTI people, while not large, exist in Australia, Hong K…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nd writer” Mikael Owunna, which publishes portraits and interviews of LGBT Africans living abroad in an effort “to debunk the stereotype that it is ‘un-African’ to be queer.” Owunna grew up “with tremendous anxiety from constantly balancing being both Nigerian and queer,” writes Karlan. Owunna was outed to his parents at the age of 15 and they responded with “a barrage of homophobia” and even told him his identity was “un-African.” They believed t…

How the Right’s War on ‘Critical Race Theory’ Taps into the Powerful Religion of American Innocence

By Peter Laarman

…nation of the indigenous peoples, the enslavement of millions of kidnapped Africans to build the wealth, the subjugation and exploitation of women, the vicious treatment of Asian immigrants, etc.) cannot alter the central fact that ours remains a virtuous history, that we were and are a redeemer nation, a city set on a hill, a beacon of democracy and human rights that still sends its bright beams of hope around the world. What so infuriates the ke…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…th a cross. We do the same thing for the Pledge of Allegiance. The US Flag Code advises: #172. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, ‘I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’, should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. After an item has been blessed in divine ser…

What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nial past and our colonial governance by the Roman Catholic Church. We are free at last to live and love as we were born to be. For freedom –– not happiness –– is the precious stone. One cannot cling to happiness; it submits to no clinging. To be free, to live and love in your homeland, this is the most precious stone against which all others fade by comparison. We now know that, whatever organised religion may say, our way of loving is right. No…