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Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

By Julie Byrne

…t happens to have all the scholarly apparatus, too. There are endnotes and—online at Columbia’s web page for the book—a full bibliography and bibliographic essay. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I have heard from people who said they were reading the book and laughing out loud, so apparently it has moments of humor or at least delight. I assume that some readers will feel suspicious, disturbed or angry. Indepe…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the culmination of weeks of protest organized by the National Front for the Family. Days before, the Supreme Court ruled that adoption by same-sex couples should be considered, like other adoptions, according to the best interest of the child. In preparation for Saturday’s anti-marria…

Why Kaepernick’s Refusal to Stand Is an Act of Religious Dissent

By Benjamin E. Zeller

…ort of vitriol Kaepernick’s action inspired, simply scan the comments from online news reports, which call him un-American, selfish, naïve, treasonous, and dangerous. Donald Trump even laid into him, “I think it’s a terrible thing, and you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him.” As a scholar of religion what interests me in this instance is the power of the flag as symbol—particularly in the way that people have reacted. T…

CNN: Asking the Wrong Questions About Islam

By The Editors

…than blasphemy and a crude film. Watch:…

Free Will, Fate and FiveThirtyEight: The Theology of Election Polls

By Alan Levinovitz and Michael Schulson

…Chinese philosophy and religion at James Madison University, got together online to chat about fate, uncanniness, and prophecy as spectator sport. Michael Schulson: I’ll confess: I check Nate Silver’s odds obsessively. Am I alone in this compulsion? Alan Levinovitz: No. I check the Vegas odds. MHS: Vegas! Are the bookmakers better than Silver? AL: No. At least I don’t think so. But I don’t like the idea of Nate Silver (or his team) as some kind o…

The Master: “It’s Not the L. Ron Story”

By Joseph Laycock

…r Hoffman), a fictional stand-in for Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard. Online comments sections were rife with speculation that the Church of Scientology would stop at nothing to keep Anderson from revealing “the truth” about Hubbard. But Anderson has insisted that the movie is not about Scientology. “It’s not the L. Ron story,” he explained. Either way, I think The Master qualifies Anderson for an honorary degree in the study of new religious…

Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

…mmunication among staffers and an earlier draft of the tweet was published online, which was then corrected within a few minutes when the mistake was noticed.” When I asked Figueroa how the original tweet was mistaken, and what specifically had caused the campaign to change it, she declined to comment further. The difference between these two tweets is subtle. But it’s also significant. And it illustrates the delicate game that Stein is trying to…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…ing pictures of churches—exteriors only. While flipping through the photos online or in one of Auerbach’s outsized “megazines,” you might think the only thing that distinguishes these places of worship from a Walmart Supercenter is a cross adorning the facade. No elaborate vaults or soaring arches here. Though Auerbach is already well-known for her work with textiles, “Megachurches” has been making ripples in both the religion and art communities…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…resolution at the Human Rights Council, but has since stepped back. Mamba Online reported his week that human rights experts believe the South African government is saying one thing and doing another regarding the move to suspend the new independent expert: Last week Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO) spokesperson Clayson Monyela told Mambaonline that South Africa would not vote in favour of blocking the recently appoi…

The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…nnouncement, as Mark Juergensmeyer wrote for RD last week, ISIS supporters online were happily gossiping about Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s supposed affinity for their group, even speculating that he must have gone to Syria to wage jihad before returning to attack France. There’s just one problem with this interpretation: there’s no evidence for it. New details may come to the surface in the coming weeks, but for now, the Trumps and the terrorists of this…