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Bearing Witness: The Work of Hospital Chaplains

By Wendy Cadge

…r also recently published a report featuring six essays on hospital chaplaincy. These essays encourage chaplains to develop standards of practice—which they are doing—and to work together to identify and teach their best practices. Given a chaplain’s traditional role in end of life situations, some authors encourage chaplains to focus first on working with palliative care teams to clarify and improve their care for dying people and their families….

Florida Primary Winner: ‘War on Religion’ Talking Point

By Sarah Posner

…aid. “Where’s the separation of church and power?” At a a campaign stop in Orlando yesterday, Gingrich pledged to protect “the right to worship God without government interference.” Gingrich, a convert to Catholicism, could not even win the Catholic vote. Thirty-one percent of voters are Catholic, and Romney won them handily, 56% to Gingrich’s 30%. In his victory speech tonight, Romney showed he’s getting the message, pledging to eliminate the reg…

Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History

By Bernard Schweizer

…mpaigns against Jesus-as-loser on South Park. They may constitute a brief inconvenience and perhaps put a dent into the profitability of the Porta dos Fundos YouTube channel, but they’re unlikely to put a stop to the steady march of the triumph of humor. For reasons that are beyond the scope of this article (but which are detailed in my book), Christianity has accommodated itself to the forces of comedy and has allowed humor to touch every conceiv…

Harry Jackson Shakes Religious Right Money Tree for “Below the Radar” Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…artners in the effort. Among those scheduled to take part in his summit in Orlando, which includes a training for pastors and leaders followed by a public rally in the evening, are: Brian Brown, whose National Organization for Marriage has enthusiastically embraced racial wedge strategies; retired Gen. Jerry Boykin, executive vice president of the Family Research Council; Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel and Liberty University Law School; Alveda King…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…en thwarted by conservatives, progressives have resorted to civil disobedience and defiance. Islam and Homosexuality According to news reports, ISIS has publicly executed another Iraqi man charged with homosexuality by throwing him off a rooftop in Kirkuk; a crowd was waiting to throw stones at his body. At Huffington Post Canada, MacEwan University assistant professor Junaid Jahangir challenges five “commonly held beliefs” about LGBT people and I…

What’s Huntsman’s Game Plan?

By Joanna Brooks

…ss the likelihood of his success. Even Huntsman himself seems to be a bit uncertain, visibly flinching during some moments in the spotlight and comparing political fortunes to catching “lightning in a bottle.” His campaign rides on convincing aspirational moderates and younger voters to hitch their wagons to his telegenic, pro-business, civil-union supporting star. Very Disney. Very Orlando. Trouble is that Republican conduct over the last two yea…

2016 Was the Year Queer and Trans Muslims Entered the Public Consciousness: Mahdia Lynn On This New Era

By The Editors

…d the way the outside world perceived us. And so it was like the one-two punch of Orlando—suddenly all cameras are on us—and then (the election) a few months later affirmed the thing that we’ve been saying for years: that there is this violent insidious nihilistic white supremacist cult still right there in the middle of America. It was just a very catalyzing year. We realized just how much work there was to be done. In the last year, after the ye…

What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…migrant community of North Africans who have often felt marginalized in France. At first glance, then, this would appear to be another case in which an angry and depressed person takes out his hostility (and it is almost invariably a “he”) in a violent way. Lahouaiej-Bouhlel joins the sad list of crazed attackers that includes the killers at the Columbine and Sandy Hook schools. On the other hand, he was ethnically a Muslim, which automatically co…

The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well

By Cathleen Falsani

…Were they really who they said they were? Why were there so many travel agency-related emergencies that called them away from home in the middle of the night? Was anything they told her or taught her about life true? Paige’s new-found religiosity startles her parents, who, unbeknownst to their daughter, are atheists, Communists, and basically hostile toward the whole opiate-of-the-masses God notion. Paige’s spiritual explorations, which began last…

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…10): 1,058,423 The United Church of Christ does not view homosexuality as incompatible with Christian teachings. Since 1972, the church’s Open and Affirming Coalition has advocated for the UCC LGBT community. 82% of members believe homosexuality should be accepted by society. Presbyterian Church in America (Evangelical Protestant) Members (as of 2010): 341,482 According to the PCA, homosexuality is a sin and “not an acceptable alternative lifest…