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“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…that marries autobiography to personal and national trauma,” calling the book “easily among the most inventive and successfully performative works to appear in living memory.” Dramatic words for the Gray Lady. Giving Godhead Dylan Krieger Delete Press August 2017 And a shock, surely, to the small press that had produced the volume. Orders placed in the wake of that review’s publication were filled just this month, an interval that only furthered…

Heterosexual Martyrs and Gay Saints: Did AIDS Coverage Clear the Way for LGBT Equality?

By Diane Winston

…the “growing concern of psychiatrists, religious leaders and the police.” Soon afterward, when homosexuals organized protests against discriminatory employment practices, police entrapment, and raids on gay bars, the press paid scant attention. Even the iconic Stonewall riots, the June 1969 clashes between police and gays in New York’s Greenwich Village, were barely noted by the mainstream news. The Times’ piece was on page thirty-three and the Da…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…law. “As a Christian politician I cannot leave my conscience outside the door” when voting, Vassallo said. The Independent reported that “some 150-200 protestors gathered outside Parliament to voice their opposition to gay marriage, saying that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Protestors held that they wanted the public to know that not everybody in Malta is in favour of gay marriage.” New Ways Ministry notes: Unlike in many other na…

Vatican Reverses Anti-Liberation Policies in Mexico

By Ruth Chojnacki and Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…inistry. An erstwhile seminary rector, Bishop Ruiz was “converted” by the poor of his diocese, much as Oscar Romero had been. There are more than two million Maya indigenous in the Diocese of San Cristobal, which encompasses both the sprawling mountain highlands and the vast Lacandon Jungle in one of Mexico’s poorest states. Ruiz responded to the extreme poverty and marginalization of the diocese’s majority indigenous population with pastoral inno…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

Congress’s year-end slashing of food stamps and refusal to extend unemployment benefits for the 1.3 million people whose benefits were about to expire are just some of the latest examples of the heartless approach to poverty and unemployment that characterizes contemporary policy making. Not only have millions of the long-term unemployed started the New Year with no safety net, but many of those with full-time jobs earn less than the poverty leve…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…e carrying on such a courageous fight against this. Certainly this is not too much to do for these people who are caring for our spiritual welfare. In the very same year Congress added the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, and in 1956, it mandated that “In God We Trust” appear on U.S. currency. Neither required by free exercise, nor prohibited by establishment In the suit brought by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and several of…

Religious Exceptions Not So Exceptional According to New Study

By Patricia Miller

…ne by allowing a few limited exceptions—letting the Little Sisters of the Poor refuse to cover contraceptives or a baker to decline to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding—is more than offset by the greater good of protecting the foundational right of religious liberty. For instance, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents the Little Sisters of the Poor, agues that the mandate would force a “small group of religious objectors into su…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

…e truth of the Bible. We can’t condone heresy but we need to give God the room to move in people’s hearts, if that’s indeed what’s happening.” He concluded by saying that while he wants to wait and see if Beck’s professed faith in Jesus is “real,” he is “very encouraged by the movement all around the country to get back to the foundations of our country. God is using Glenn Beck.” It will be interesting to see if Beck’s influence can keep the anti-…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…ish, who have a completely foreign background and cultural experience. It took a lot of hard work but we reached a place a number of years ago where, while things are far from perfect, things work. We have learned how to be in community with others who are radically different from us. About three years ago we realized that in order to be authentic to gay and lesbian individuals in the pews and in our community we needed to clarify how we were goin…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…“Hear this, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy…Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!” That’s Amos. Or for a prophet nearer to our own time—and one who saw the rot of democracy with crystal clarity—consider this from Langston Hughes: Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem…