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Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

No other end-of-year list can hope to offer such profound juxtapositions: a groundbreaking female Mennonite pastor alongside an “immortalist”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader alongside one of the most hate-filled religious figures in contemporary memory. But here it is, a connect-the-dots portrait of a powerfully complicated American religious landscape, circa 2014. Vincent Gordon Harding Historian and theologian Vincent Gordon H…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…he Iraq war was Lori Piestewa, a Hopi Indian woman. And yet throughout the United States, Native women are remembered only by the place names that use the deeply offensive “s” word which is historically connected to the rape and sexual exploitation of Indian women. During the Vietnam War the US military referred to indigenous-controlled territory as “Indian Country.” Fire bases and military operations were named after Indian leaders or significant…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Crimes reports that police in Beirut are using messaging apps on the cell phones of arrestees to try to entrap other gay men. In related news, the smartphone app Grindr, which allows gay men to find each other, announced it would permanently disable an option that allowed people to see their distance from other users. There have been reports that police in Egypt and Iran have used Grindr to hunt and arrest gay men. Jamaica: Activist Drops Challen…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…h buildings, starting right around the same time. Talk about luxury on the cheap; it’s hard to deny a feeling of similarity. (The tower is to the Burj as a certain toupee is to hair: might the Trump Tower inadvertently mimic an Islamic motif?) The regal twin palm trees in the foreground are the world’s tallest, at some 3,500 feet each. Recently a falling coconut crushed an entire apartment complex, punching a massive hole that has filled up with…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…r fairly unrealistic TV programs that demonstrate an idealized life in the United States. When you combine hungry people desperate to support their families with a vision of hope just like our immigrant parents did however many years ago when they came, people are going to come. What we need, what faith calls me to, is a compassion that understands others’ stories, not just my own. Faith calls me to know we’re in community together, and the commun…

Why Serra Should Not Be a Saint

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…them to wealthy settler colonists who pursued their own unjust logics. And Mexico controlled California for only a short while before U.S. imperial aggression severed Alta California from Mexico, and finding gold in its mountains, U.S. colonists invaded the land and rapidly transformed Alta California into a state, extending and expediting the population decline and attempted cultural genocide of native peoples. It is precisely the place of Califo…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…previously only had marriage equality in some states, followed in 2013. In Mexico, Mexico City, Quintana Roo, and Colima all grant marriages to same-sex couples. More importantly, each Mexican state is required to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Although marriage equality technically is not the law of the land in Colombia, judges are able to use a 2011 ruling to marry same-sex couples. While some other Latin America states…

How Indiana’s New RFRA Expands the Federal RFRA

By Sarah Posner

…ompare Indiana’s newly minted RFRA to the one assessed by the court in New Mexico. The Indiana RFRA departs from New Mexico’s RFRA and the federal RFRA—on which many other state laws are modeled. How? Indiana’s RFRA expressly provides that a person can assert a “claim or defense in a judicial or administrative proceeding, regardless of whether the state or any other governmental entity is a party to the proceeding.” This new statutory language is…

Jeb Bush Is Confused About Religious Freedom

By Sarah Posner

…or does Florida’s RFRA, which was passed in 1998. Nor does the RFRA in New Mexico, which was enacted in 2000. In 2013, in the Elane Photography case, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that a photographer could not raise the state’s RFRA as a defense in a lawsuit, brought under the state’s anti-discrimination law by a lesbian couple denied service by the photographer precisely because, in the court’s words, New Mexico’s RFRA “is inapplicable in th…

Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…o the fact that I know this is hardly the first time in the history of the United States that people in power have called for reunion in the face of popular unrest. And while calls for reconciliation can be good or neutral, they can also signal an abdication of the responsibility to face and address injustice, a lesson I learned writing about the theological convictions embedded within Confederate monuments. As you can imagine, the nation was not…