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Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…guests were Tony Palmer, former director of Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Africa and current bishop & international ecumenical officer of the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches; Geoff Tunnicliffe, head of Worldwide Evangelical Alliance; and John and Carol Arnott of the Toronto Blessing “holy laughter” movement. If, the statement continues, “Pope Francis is offering his blessing on their activities, he’s either not the Francis we’ve come…

DeMint Stymies Obama’s Religious Diplomacy Nominee

By Sarah Posner

…ation realized those hurdles and isn’t, as Freedman reports, going to attempt to renominate her. As Anthea noted, “With all respect to Dr. Sujay, the issues of religious freedom around the world, from Muslim-Christian violence in Africa, to protests by Buddhist monks in Myanmar, to religious repression in North Korea, should not be entrusted to a person whose most recent speaking engagement included a May 2010 women’s conference called ‘Don’t Bloc…

Christ is Pissed, Again

By Hollis Phelps

…deed, even though Kristof takes the tense political situations in Northern Africa and the Middle East into account in evaluating responses to “Innocence of Muslims,” he still finds it necessary to emphasize that, “for a self-described ‘religion of peace,’ Islam does claim a lot of lives.” Never mind Christianity’s less-than-stellar track record with regard to violence, or the fact that Piss Christ has actually been subject to violent attacks in th…

The New York Times Sunday Review has a Mormon Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…he Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Asia, Latin America, and Africa who have claimed Mormonism as their own. Missionary proselytizing certainly entails its own racial problematics, and one will find in the annals of Mormonism as much racial chauvinism as you’ll find in the history of any other conservative American denomination. But Mormons do not view conversion as a project to redeem other peoples from benightedness. It has histori…

The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…Russia’s European navy to show up (it took many months to navigate around Africa), and then, once that showed up, they sunk all of that, too. People across the Middle East found inspiration in a non-white, non-Christian, non-European power, thinking: If they can do it, why can’t we? The tyranny of low expectations, of longstanding assumptions of inherent cultural inferiority, was shaken, but not overthrown. During today’s Arab revolutions, we hea…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…But insiders said a hardcore of eight to 12 conservative archbishops from Africa and Asia are preparing to quit the meeting on the first morning unless the liberal Americans ‘repent’ or the Archbishop throws them out. In what would be a massive challenge to Archbishop Welby’s authority, the conservatives, who represent some of the biggest of the 38 individual Churches in the worldwide ‘Communion’, are then likely move to their own headquarters ne…

Obama as Lord and Savior

By Edward J. Blum

…Improvement Association of the early twentieth century not only pushed for African Americans to move to Africa, but also sold images of Jesus as black. During the Harlem Renaissance, when black poets like Countee Cullen wished that “He I served were black,” artists M. Gray Johnson and Fred Bucholz depicted lynched southern black men as neo-Christ figures. These images, in tandem with poems by Langston Hughes and short stories by W. E. B. Du Bois,…

Was Ghana Anti-Gay Scare Just Politics?

By Warren Throckmorton

…epresentative group of Muslims claiming an imminent Sodom and Gomorrah for Africa. While the accuracy of the original story is open to question, only a spark is needed to get a fire going—intentionally or not. And given the rhetoric in Ghana, it is difficult to avoid comparison to Uganda’s recent history in relation to sexual minorities. In March, 2009, three Americans spoke at a conference on homosexuality and used false and misleading informatio…

What Does the Muslim World Really Want?

By Becky Garrison

…dged that lack of funds rendered him unable to travel and film in Asia and Africa. So while the survey covers over 35 countries, he focused his filming in the Middle East. While one can understand these economic constraints, the lack of African and Asian Muslims featured in the film serves as yet another reminder that we still tend to equate Arab with Muslim despite the stats that indicate otherwise. Also, most of the people gathered at this scree…

Of Birds and Buddhists: Wildlife Rehab, NYC Style

By Jay Wexler

…seyite with a dry sense of humor who spent nearly thirty years in Asia and Africa working with HIV patients before returning to New York to take up residence as a monk at the Grace Gratitude Buddhist Temple in Chinatown. The Fund’s door was open to allow easy milling in and out. “Should we close the door?” Benkong wondered aloud. “I’m afraid the pheasant is going to leave.” Before long, Rita McMahon, a former market research consultant who co-foun…