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

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…ull communion relationships with major Black Methodist denominations (i.e. African Methodist Episcopal, 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 mini…

A More Perfect Union

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…national and global competitive religious marketplace? “In 10 years, when African bishops come to the microphone at this conference, we will be so numerous and influential that you will have to recognize us,” said Joseph Adetiloye, a retired official with the church in Nigeria, at the 1978 Lambeth Conference, according to The New Yorker. While the United States has approximately 2.2 million Episcopalians today, the center of Anglican gravity is n…

#OpenTheseDoors: A Movement to Turn New York’s Closed Churches into Shelters

By Kaya Oakes

…usa, Italy, where thousands of migrants have died making the crossing from Africa. In that speech, the Pope said that empty convents and monasteries “should not be turned into hotels by the Church to earn money … (the buildings) are not ours, they are for the flesh of Christ, which is what the refugees are.” Gargamelli adds that the church, as a property owner, has a “social responsibility that comes with that. Buildings,” she says, “belong to the…

Looking at Libya, and at Ourselves

By Hussein Rashid

…y. But it now appears that the attacks against American interests in North Africa had little to do with the racist, oddly pornographic film about Muhammad, but was part of a coordinated Al-Qaeda plot to avenge the death of one of their own. We have become so conditioned to assume that Muslims are so sensitive to slights that they have no regard for human life—a contradiction I cannot understand—that we collectively assumed that the film was the pr…

The Strategic Caution of the Muslim Brotherhood

By Zaid Hassan

…the events in Egypt to the Iranian Revolution of 1979: The events of North Africa have a special meaning for the Iranian nation. This is what has always been known as the occurrence of Islamic awakening as a result of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. In a swift response, the Muslim Brotherhood rejected the comparison: The MB regards the revolution as the Egyptian People’s Revolution not an Islamic Revolution… asserting that the Egyptian Peop…

Christians are ‘Jerks,’ The New Scopes Trial, Pastafarians’ Rights

By Michael J. Altman

…its second mass wedding of the year. The Rev. Sun Myung Moon married 7,200 South Korean and foreign couples. The end of the world might be farther off than once expected, at least according to the Mayan calendar. From Qumran to dot-com: the Israel Antiques Authority and Google are working together to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them available to the public. Finally, did the Berenstain Bears become practicing Christians? *This post has b…

Williams Boards the Ugandan Johnny-Come-Lately Express

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to pressure from anti-gay forces in the Anglican church – notably those in Africa like Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola – and marginalizing the Episcopal Church in America for their bold moves in accepting gays and lesbians in all levels of church leadership. So, it’s not surprising to find Williams making such a tepid statement on matters of such import – it seems to be part and parcel to his overall modus operandi, as evidenced by his comment i…

How Biblical ‘Chosenness’ Has Justified Violence, Misogyny, and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

By Peter Laarman

…with it. Ours is a settler-colonial society, but so is (or was) apartheid South Africa. These two Calvinist-formed juggernauts of racial violence and displacement were both self-anointed New Israels where, as in “old” Israel itself, a sense of divine chosenness and murderous force unleashed against indigenes have been linked inextricably. For that matter, one might wish that Coogan had specifically invoked the term “settler colonialism,” especial…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…laying. “It’s one of the only countries in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region that does not criminalise being LGBT+,” said Khalid in an interview. He is the founder of My Kali magazine, the first LGBT+ friendly webzine in Jordan, and one of the first in the MENA region. He identifies as gay. “Most of the countries in the MENA region want to reach that level. And it’s already given to us,” he added. Yet, half-a-century since legalisatio…

Dear Amazon Prime, I’m Not a Racist, But Why Are You Destroying My Precious Middle-Earth With Black Hobbits?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…abbot Hadrian—described by the 8th-century English monk Bede as “a man of African race”—came to England, helped establish the Church of England, changed the cultural trajectory of England and had an impact on the rest of Europe forever. Big deal, I changed my car battery last weekend, where’s my wiki page? The fact that the 13th-century English Domesday Book has a literal depiction of an average medieval Black man drawn into the manuscript doesn’…