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Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…nal House of Prayer (IHOP) movement based in Kansas City, and he makes the most of it. Dominionist Lou Engle describes Africa as a “firepot of spiritual renewal and revival,” and be believes Uganda has a special prophetic destiny. Engle has tried to distance himself somewhat from the infamous “kill the gays” bill that is pending in Uganda’s legislature, but here he is on film, at his TheCall rally in Uganda, standing with speakers calling for pass…

Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…nd slavery that reside at the center of the Juneteenth holiday. One of the most comical aspects to what I have come to call the ‘Juneteenth conundrum’ is who is greeted by whom? In 2021, while at a summer solstice festival that happened to coincide with Juneteenth I recall with sheer amusement as two well-meaning, culturally sensitive White women approached tepidly to ask if they could wish me and my companions (all Black) a “Happy Juneteenth.” Ou…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…troyed Western economies through invaders, sacrificed Western blood to its most freakish contents, and which tries to supplement Aristotle with the anti-racist baby. And just like Joe Biden, neoliberalism has no juice left in the tank. Like Biden, it is dying… And at the Last Judgment, this name is not legion, but loser. He closed with a schmaltzy version of völkisch, fascist kitsch, which draped itself in the robes of the Ancient world: Let me te…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…enver-based organization that advocates for physician-assisted death. “For most patients, and for people who are not theological doctrinal experts, that is a distinction without a difference,” she said. In practice, the choice of whether to take one’s own life in the case of a terminal illness or wait for death to come, whether naturally or through some method of pain management, will be a personal choice for most people, with little consideration…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rs these examples: It doesn’t even measure what it claims to be measuring. Most of the children examined in the paper were not being raised by parents in a committed same-sex relationship — whereas the other children in the study were being raised in two-parent homes with straight parents. They also note: “The paper inappropriately compares children raised by two heterosexual parents for 18 years with children who experience family transitions — l…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…of abortion and euthanasia and excludes poverty and the environment.” The most aggressive revisions the bishops did make to “Faithful Citizenship” were to beef up references to their opposition to same-sex marriage, which now total nine, changes that National Catholic Reporter blogger Michael Sean Winters notes “clearly are designed to make it lean more to the right and to the GOP.” The final straw was the leadership elections. Four candidates fo…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…uth Colin B. Chapell University of Alabama Press September 2016 What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Theology and belief matter to how people view not only the world around them, but how adherents view their own identity. I know that this may sound simple, but we so often forget this. Indeed, I would enlarge that statement to say that the values people hold dearest change how they understand their own identity. If academic achi…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…couples, both in intent and in practice. The lesbians in the study were almo*]}*st painfully egalitarian—in some cases putting money in jars and splitting everything down to the penny in a way, Schwartz says, that “would have driven me crazy.” Many unmarried heterosexual cohabitators were also careful about divvying things up, but lesbian couples seemed to take the practice to extremes: It was almo*]}*st like ‘my kitty, your litter.’” Gay men, like lesbi…

Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead

By Gary Laderman

…history does shed light in the darkness, and the history of Halloween, as most readers here know, is primarily about collapsing the boundaries between the living and the dead. Most accounts begin with Samhain, a pagan holiday that marked the beginning of winter but also celebrated the migration of the dead to the next world. The pre-Christian Celtic cultures throughout Europe, Ireland, and England understood the period around November 1 as not ju…

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

By Andrea R. Jain

…’s yoga would improve Iyengar’s physical state. It did. Iyengar became the most famous among the yoga prodigies and teachers to have studied under Krishnamacharya. After studying for three years with his guru, Iyengar moved to Pune, where he developed his own postural yoga system that was informed by Krishnamacharya’s approach and techniques as well as increasingly refined biomedical understandings of the body. Beginning in the 1950s, Iyengar attr…