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Crossing Denominational Lines to Reprimand “Freaky Fraus”

By Kathryn Joyce

…in the UCC for hosting the ordination of several Catholic Womenpriests, an international initiative to ordain women priests that is unrecognized by the Catholic hierarchy, on July 20 at the Church of the Covenant in Boston, a church associated with the UCC and the Presbyterian church. The womenpriests did not pledge obedience or chastity, and also generally take liberal positions on gay and reproductive rights, with one newly ordained woman descri…

Terror is as Terror Does

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he Christian inspired Just War tradition, as well as more recent canons of international law. And now the plot thickens, as terrorists appear in the unlikeliest of places. Nuclear weapons refuse to make this distinction. Pretty much all weapons of mass destruction are terroristic in this precise sense. And it is the linkage of terrorists with weaponry we have not yet recognized as terroristic that arguably places us in a moral position which is un…

Is Obama the Antichrist? Why Armageddon Stands Between the President and the Evangelical Vote

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…ithful living in the 1930s and ’40s, to support Rooseveltian liberalism or internationalism was to be complicit in the rise of the Antichrist. In the late 1960s, evangelicals once again faced growing state power in the form of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” while simultaneously witnessing the apparent evaporation of cherished American values. They responded by reverting to apocalyptic jeremiads. This was most evident in the runaway success of Ha…

Do We Owe Human Rights to the Christian Right?

By Austin Dacey

…an amendment, introduced by Norway, observing that the primary concern of international law is the rights of individuals, not collectives, and that individuals need protection from violations of their rights perpetrated within families. Resolution A/HRC/29/L.25 is, in the words of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, or C-Fam (designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an “anti-LGBT hate group”), a “big win for traditional family…

‘Brazil’s Trump’ Bolsonaro Lost — But Anti-Democratic Movements Seldom Accept Electoral Defeat

By Craig Johnson

…ely silent on all social media, raising concerns that he might try to defy international calls to leave office and instead deny the election’s results á la Trump. *** This weekend, October 30, the voters of Brazil will go back to the polls for the second time in less than a month in their runoff election. Since Brazil has many political parties there are a lot of runoffs after the first round eliminates many smaller candidates and members of less…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…hey began exporting the product from Colorado Springs to both the domestic American market and internationally at an astonishing rate. It was as newfangled as Henry Ford’s Model T had been and, like Ford’s car, it quickly became established, even ubiquitous, on every continent but Antarctica. In 2009, one can now watch YouTube video footage of Christians from all over the earth practicing the same, very new form of the faith that features the blow…

Ghana’s LGBT Population Safe From Persecution, But Not Prosecution

By Warren Throckmorton

…debate and not her personal views on the matter. For months, Ghanaian and international observers have been seeking a clear statement of policy from the administration of John Atta Mills concerning homosexuals in the West African nation. Recently, Western Region Minister Paul Evans Aidoo called for the arrests of those suspected to be gay in order to test Ghana’s current law against “unnatural carnal knowledge.” In response, a coalition of human…

Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

By Mary E. Hunt

…f 17,200 plus Catholic women that was fed into the Synod conversation. The International Survey of Catholic Women: Analysis and Report of Key Findings is an important read. Results highlight that even women who are very critical of the church value their Catholic identity; there’s general consensus around the need for reform; the centrality of abuse in its many forms is a major concern; and that there is a stark rejection of clericalism in every f…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…time for the global dissemination of yoga, since it witnessed the British-American counterculture and the lifting of immigration restrictions to much of Western Europe and the United States, resulting in an influx of Indian gurus ready and eager to deliver yoga to a counterculture grasping for something radically opposed to what they perceived as the puritanical, body-negating Protestantism of their upbringing. Iyengar was a part of a much large…

Massacre of Jesuits in El Salvador: 20 Years Later

By Richard Amesbury

…t to reduce inflation and lure foreign investment, El Salvador adopted the American dollar as its official currency in 2001, and in 2003 it signed on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). But the fruits of recent economic growth are unequally distributed, and it is estimated that half the country’s rural population lives below the poverty line. Speaking in a public forum on Saturday, the UCA’s current president, Jose María Tojeira, S….