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Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…employer’s support when she sought asylum as a lesbian. According to Pink News, “The charity said it could not trust her to work with children because she is a lesbian.” Tumwine says she applied for asylum without coming out to her employer On considering whether to come out, she said: “I studied each one of them and the way they used to talk about gay people was not good and that made me not trust them with my problems and not only that, being C…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…wish Jenkins had drawn out some of the racial dynamics that lurk in these stories. Bradley Onishi, for example, has pointed out the ways in which a single-minded focus on abortion serves the cause of white Christian privilege. Refusal to accept vaccines derived, however remotely, from fetal cells might be an act of principled opposition, in other words—or it could be a convenient excuse for people who aren’t going to get vaccinated no matter what…

Did the Dalai Lama Just Call for an End to Religion?

By Richard Schiffman

…city to move us, and to motivate us. Perhaps that has something to do with stories—we want to know how our private stories fit into the greater cosmic narrative. The Dalai Lama seems to be saying that religion needs to work harder to bridge the gap between the story that it tells and our actions in the world. It is not enough to provide believers with a comforting world view; religion should give people tools to act upon the sacred ideals that it…

The American Right Hasn’t Adopted Children’s Rights — They’ve Redefined and Weaponized Them

By R.L. Stollar

…cially children) afraid of helping professionals. “Children can no longer trust their teachers, doctors, or the societal structures that claim to protect them,” Matt Walsh’s blurb declares. This theme—distrusting helpers—is, in fact, the main argument of Mandel and Markowicz’s book. Because helpers today have become “woke,” they argue, adults and children alike should avoid them. Stolen Youth begins with Mandel and Markowicz claiming there is “dan…

Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith

By Peter Montgomery

…rtin Luther King Jr. but of march organizers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. Rustin’s sense of integrity, grounded in his Quaker faith, meant that he was out about every aspect of his identity, even when it cost him. She says there’s a historical disconnect in some African Americans’ claim to exclusive use of “civil rights” language. When opponents of the movement at the time wanted to be derogatory, she says, they referred to the “Negro…

No Such Thing as a Great 9/11 Work of Art

By Hussein Rashid

…music of The Kominas. Musicians like Steve Earle (“John Walker’s Blues”), Bruce Springsteen (“Worlds Apart”), and Jordi Savall (“Jerusalem”), are all also attempting to tell the stories of what the world means to us now. In many respects, these works are not only reflective of society, but also aspirational, of what our world could be. I think Sullivan asks an interesting question, but it’s not the best. Art can capture a moment, but it’s also abo…

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: The Disgusting Religious Defense of Roy Moore

By Daniel Schultz

…g the nasty, so to speak, was only one element of virginity in the ancient world. As Elizabeth Johnson argues in Truly Our Sister, virgins weren’t so much people who avoided the contamination of sexuality as those who gave up their desire in order to maintain a single-minded focus on serving God. It’s only later, as the monastic emphasis on rigorous purity sets in, that virgins became those who have never taken part in vaginal intercourse. Even so…

A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…dowment established this mosque had no children of his own, and saw this structure as his legacy for the world. We’re used to monumentalism in sacred spaces, the deployment of largeness for the purposes of producing epiphanies. There is however a sustained tradition in Islamic aesthetics of smallness cultivating and sustaining piety, incorporating tiny gestures, subtle symmetries, and easily overlooked details, whose full effect is to cause us to…

Capitalism and the Anti-Modern Pope

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ecifically Catholic context, both John Paul II and Benedict XVI seem to be running from, and actually running against, the progressive spirit of the Second Vatican Council of the early 1960s, and its new “spirit of openness to the modern world.” But what these men understand as “Modern” is not entirely clear. Perhaps a better way to say this is that the target keeps shifting in papal polemics about Modernity. Whereas Modernism was associated with…

Make Aeronautic Jobs, Not Jihad

By Haroon Moghul

…d, not angry but eager, not oppositional but contributory. So I picked two news stories that should bring a smile to an economy desperate for good news. Boeing, the US’s largest airplane manufacturer, has won two jumbo deals involving the Muslim world. Both will help them compete with European Airbus while sustaining or creating thousands of American jobs—up to an estimated 127,000. That’s Muslim money buying American goods, creating American jobs…