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Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism

By Geoffrey Goble

…in 1997), punched up into a screenplay by Melissa Mathison. The same year, New York City hosted the second Tibetan Freedom Concert, a benefit to support Tibetan independence spearheaded by Adam Yauch (aka MCA) of the Beastie Boys. The inaugural concert in San Francisco the year before drew 100,000 people and featured some of the biggest names in music at the time: Yauch’s Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, A Tribe Called Qu…

Not Only is the Right Unapologetic For Violent Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric — It’s Doubling Down

By Thomas Lecaque

…ven the most overt of the calls. Sure Foundation Baptist Church was in the news earlier this year for ties to a man who made anti-LGBTQIA+ threats in Washington State. Sure Foundation’s Aaron Thompson, an aggressively anti-LGBTQIA+ hate preacher, is once again in the news for celebrating the mass shooting, saying it was a “good thing” that five people were killed and accusing them of being child molesters. The clip is horrifying: https://twitter.c…

Pope Francis’ Concern for Jews is Genuine — But Until This Doctrine is Abolished He’ll Have Trouble Convincing Them

By Paul Knitter

…ions. All religions therefore need to be fulfilled in each other through a mutual dialogue in which no one claims to be superior or have the final word, and all recognize their need for each other. For Francis to be able genuinely to assure the rabbis that Christians are abandoning their “contempt for Jews,” he will have to reformulate his own words: “Those who seek life need to look to God’s promise and to its fulfillment not only in Christ but i…

Should Christians Confess to Plants? A Cranky Meditation

By Greg Carey

…ould. But the classic liturgies confront us with a bigger, albeit generic truth: we have sinned against God and against our neighbors. We have not loved as we should. We have sinned in thought, word, and deed. I’m not Lutheran, but I’m happy to confess: we are in bondage to sin, and we cannot save ourselves. How true that is of our relationship to plants and animals. Maybe liturgical planners could encourage us to bear those realities in mind as w…

As a Minister I’m Fed Up With Anti-Trans Legislation Written by Adults to Pick on Children, All in the Name of Religious Freedom

By Welton Gaddy

…ands the importance of both civil rights for all people and the nature of true love—why can’t adults in public office be so committed to a better world? Working for equality fosters in all of us the kind of citizenship that drives a nation characterized by good neighbors, mutual respect, and empathy. By championing the rights of those historically marginalized in American life, we affirm the dignity and worth of every person and continue the diffi…

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

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…o not seem as popular among those who’ve been on the receiving end of the Trump administration’s more destructive, racist, draconian policies. I don’t see immigration lawyers and activists, especially among the Latinx community, clamoring for unity. Nor are my Muslim friends, who’ve dealt with rampant Islamophobia within the Trump administration. Nor are climate change scientists who have watched the Republican party deny the very existence of glo…

Hating Liberally: Why We ❤️ Zombies

By Haroon Moghul

…eude. The people most likely to survive the undead uprising are people the world had otherwise passed by. A revenge of the jocks on a planet of the nerds. Probably all of this is true to some degree. But something else is at work, too: racism. Or the lack of it. I think the reason so many of us love zombies is because we can. Zombies are the perfect villains for our multiethnic, multireligious, multicultural, interconnected age. Zombies are bad, p…

The United Methodist Church to LGBTQ People: You’re ‘Sacred,’ But Not Welcome

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…al, Christian Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion). The truth of denominational relationships is that they are tenuous at best. Despite sincere efforts to show themselves to the world as “one body,” denominations can only make this claim in the spiritual sense. With the looming impasse on LGBTQ full inclusion into the life and ministry of the denomination, it may very well be that the United Methodist Church has reached the end o…

The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion

By Andreea Nica

…29-year-old, female, and exiter of The Church Universal and Triumphant, a new age religious cult, echoes: There were three weekly important Church services of about 2-3 hours each that I attended with my parents. My school was run by the Church so every day was started with a 30-minute services. I took Holy Communion classes every Sunday afternoon for 2 months one summer when I was 8 or 9. There were four major holy events—“Conferences”—when ever…

Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

By Cody Musselman

…make of the 2020 turmoil within their community. If the history of religion has anything to offer the weary (ex)CrossFitter in this moment, it’s a caution against the seductions of racial privilege and the desire for unity that may arise as news of Glassman’s tweet is replaced by new headlines and community imperatives. In order to create a more equitable future in fitness and in life for all, CrossFit needs to dismantle the white supremacy at the…