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“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…because I like to know what people who are not me think. I spend a lot of time listening to Glenn Beck. I spend a lot of time listening to Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly. There are actually these right-wing media sources making fun of the theory that terrorism and climate change are linked. But that is absolute truth. The loss of farmlands in the Indus River valley in Pakistan and India have led to the displacement of entire generations of young me…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…n, who has warned LGBT people against becoming “provocative,” and with any number of European populists who promise a return to a mythical “traditional” past. Gessen notes that a year ago she wrote that she believed Trump would target the LGBT community ”because its acceptance is the most clear and drastic social change in America of the last decade, so an antigay campaign would capture the desire to return to a time in which Trump’s constituency…

The “One True Christian” of His Age?

By Susan Stinson

…thout distorting or denying parts of their culture that were ugly in their time and have left us terrible legacies, such as the practice of slavery. Is there anything you had to leave out? Yes. My four previous books all centered on the lives of fat lesbians, and when I started writing this novel, I was struck by how the intense experiences of revival, the intimacy of pastoral care, and the terrible conflict that developed between Edwards and most…

Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

By Mary E. Hunt

…a recurrence, especially under a less accommodating pontiff. This is not a time to say that anyone won or lost, nor to claim, as in the well-intentioned but naïve and patronizing editorial in the New York Times, that “Pope Stops Investigating the Good Sisters.” No, if anything the women religious and their colleagues stopped the pope’s men. I have every confidence in the integrity of the LCWR women and their commitment to function on their own ter…

Communion or Disunion?

By Mary E. Hunt

…holic sun but it is real. The dissing of Ms. Johnson also reminded me of a time when I gave a lecture on immortality, suggesting, like many feminist theologians, that when we die perhaps we become part of the compost of new life. My respondent was the highly respected theologian Jesuit John McNeill, expelled from the Society of Jesus for being openly gay. Not a young man at the time, John fairly sprinted to the podium to explain to the audience wh…

Sympathy for the Devils: I Was a Pastor to Trump Supporters

By Daniel Schultz

…know about them—the thing I learned too late, unfortunately—was that every time something changed in their lives, it changed for the worse. And I mean just about every stinking time. These were the people who got screwed over by job offshoring, or by technological advances that always seemed to result in three people doing the work of five. Their town developed entire industries, only to see them leave for greener pastures. Some members of the con…

Material(ist) Girl: A Philosopher Argues Against the Soul

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…and the nature of that extremism. We see it in politics, religion and sometimes those two go together and sometimes they don’t. All you have to do is think about those Communists in Russia and in China who did such unbelievably terrible things for years. How can that be except that they somehow fervently believed something that was preposterous? I think there are sociopaths, but I think there are also people who overcome their sense of compassion…

Eddie Long off the Cross in Time for Easter?

By Anthea Butler

Reports are swirling on Twitter and the internet that the Bishop Long mediation case has been, or is about to be, settled. Judge Johnny Panos met with media on Friday afternoon, saying that mediation between all the parties has been “difficult” but that a settlement is close, perhaps in the next few days. Reports say that mediation sessions have lasted all day into the wee hours of the morning, even until 3 am. If the mediation is completed durin…

Is the Metaverse the Hero We Need to Rescue Us From Suffering and Enchant the World?

By Robert M. Geraci

…rful, but far from perfect. We’ve been imagining perfect worlds for a long time (“since the dawn of humankind” as so many undergraduate papers would have it), and technological solutions have an inherent believability to them. So each time our metaverse dies, we wait for an opportunity to resurrect it. The “angels” of venture capitalism and Corporate America have every reason to encourage this cycle—and maybe someday the resurrection of the metave…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…i Shmuel Eliahu stated that“we need to cure this disease.” Yet at the same time, Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Jerusalem pride parade that his government treats all human beings equal. It’s time for a reality check. Israel has a serious problem when it comes to LGBT rights… Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, a head of a leading pre-military academy, made headlines last week when he criticized the IDF for educating soldiers to “accept gay perverts.” He continu…