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Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…e the screen, and then pushed her ottoman over to it and settled in. “This will be good for you to watch. It will help you understand.” The subject of the broadcast? The Jan Lokpal Bill, which has been her focus for most of 2011. “Everything else is taking a backseat,” she said, including her two foundations, which provide education, training, counseling, and health care to the urban and rural poor. “This is critical for more than a billion people…

Gimme Shelter: Queer Space Is Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…y for a few hours, before the cops come in, the shooter, the good old boys with a confederate flag on their pickup, enraged bigots with hands full of flame. In the ’80s I joined a band with a bunch of queers, all of them refugees from small towns. It was possible, in those days, to live in the Bay Area on the wages you made as a stripper, a cook, a house cleaner. It was possible to be two brown queers, a white queer, and a white straight girl and…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…Islamic State in Iraq, and how did it get there? If there is a “civil war” within Islam, it’s a multi-sided conflict of hopeless complexity, in which the West, including the United States, isn’t just involved, but deeply complicit, as are countless Muslim agitators, instigators, or enables. And many other countries and forces beside. What makes this World War so different from the last ones, though, is that instead of a series of imperial powers f…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ved the ethical path I see queer people walking. We have to be very honest with ourselves and with other people, sometimes at a real personal cost. We have a pretty good track record of looking to the margins and seeing who is not included. That ethical path is tied directly to our queer identities, very much informed by this idea of queered binaries. It’s not a surprise to me that this ethical path bears a resemblance to the ethical path that Jes…

Our Dance Clubs, Our Churches

By Peter Laarman

…ow we ever forgot that we are graced with every breath of freedom we draw, with every step we take out on the street with our backs upright and our faces unashamed, with every kiss and every caress we steal while strolling proudly through our “safe” spaces, and with every late night of dancing (and grinding and goofing) in the places we have long claimed as our sanctuaries. I mean the bars. The clubs. The dives and disco palaces that always used t…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…day we in the church manage to join up the dots about equality. Our words will mean more as we engage with our own issues on the subject. One sign of this process biting will be the full acceptance of LGBT people as equals.” Along those lines, a commentary by Lancaster University Research Associate Simon Reader discusses Bishop Philip North, a traditionalist who insisted that bishops and archbishops who have ordained women not participate in the…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…at 90% of the prayers in America consists of “Please, God, help me find my flip flops.” When a speaker screws up and apologizes to the audience, there is a chorus of “Jesus forgives you.” Remarks from audience members who stand and take turns to speak at the mic: “There are 435 members of Congress and almost all of them are our enemies.” “If we could take the brainpower of this room and pool it, it would be fantastic.” “We have to take territory…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…ail end of a Dead set drifting down from the Greek, always, always, always with the same finale: “Sugar Magnolia.” My friends and I would start roaring with laughter at that “doo doo-doo” chorus, occasionally passing a pedestrian in tie dye or flowy skirts who couldn’t get a ticket, and we’d keep laughing as that person started his or her ridiculous spinning dance in middle of the street. That was their ritual, these Deadheads. Play “Sugar Magnoli…

What’s More Frightening Than Snakes on a Plane?

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…g the Affordable Care Act under claims of religious freedom. While I agree with Loewentheil’s points, I wish to add that what this protest shows, as do many other broader conservative religious movements, is that it isn’t a question of women’s rights versus religious freedom, as some reporters have framed it, and it isn’t actually an issue of religious freedom at all. Rather, these culture war battles are about trying to impose one’s own religious…

God Makes an Independent Film

By Eric Zassenhaus

…of its plot. We get only broad outlines of what the divinely inspired film will be about: It will be set in the future, a future much like the biblical past. It will be “Star Wars meets the Ten Commandments.” We see glimpses of sets, medieval-looking costumes, sketches of strange creatures, and fragments of dialogue. The closest we get to seeing an actual scene from Gravity occurs in Italy, where the cast, crew and several hundred Italian extras s…