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Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…after I’d written the History of God and they were very cross with me for using the word “God.” So I asked them, “You’ve not all left your churches in order to establish a new orthodoxy, surely?” We have this awful tendency to make rules and boxes instead of opening up and deconstructing a little bit what we mean when we say God. And there’s value in that. So there is a sort of fundamentalism there in the secular world. That is very prevalent in…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ican county clerk Kim Davis, who became a Religious Right folk hero for refusing to provide marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling, recently spent nine days in Romania on a speaking tour designed to drum up support for a referendum to put a man-woman-only definition of marriage in the country’s constitution. Davis and Liberty Counsel VP Harry Mihet, who accompanied her on the trip, met with “f…

Sarah Palin: Bus Tour of Destruction

By Anthea Butler

…and a dinner invite! Having Franklin Graham add that “Daddy feels God was using her to wake America up,” fits right in with that “Queen Esther for such a time as this” spiel. Graham’s imprimatur on Palin’s religious status will go a long way with her followers. The icing on the Palin party cake, perhaps, was hearing Pat Robertson describe her book on the 700 Club as “This is one gorgeous cover, this picture is unbelievable.” Both evangelical icon…

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

By Daniel Schultz

…of a man to disciple her awakening sexual lusts. In any sane world, anyone using such a line of reasoning would immediately die of shame. But of course, we don’t live in a sane world. We live in in the darkest timeline, where Republicans have no shame, least of all Roy Moore, who was seemingly attempting to fundraise off the story just hours after it broke, claiming in bold print that “the forces of evil are on the march in our country“: We’re in…

Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons

By Jacob J. Erickson

…e insects serve as indicators of healthy ecologies and biospheres, they’re using terms like “ecological catastrophe,” “environmental apocalypse,” and “Armageddon.” When you consider how little and mystified our knowledge of the insect world actually is, we don’t even know fully what’s been lost. Folding this study into the other news unfolding in the sixth great mass extinction, where fifty percent of animal life has disappeared in the last forty…

Why I’m Not An Organ Donor

By Kristel Clayville

…cal.] Me: I know, but it’s kind of a big decision. They are my organs. I’m using them. PLOF: But you can’t take them with you. Kidneys are like money that way. I mean, you don’t need them after you’re dead. Me: True. I won’t need them. But is it impossible for someone with all of her organs to go through the eye of a needle? Oops, I mean get to heaven? PLOF: Are you that religious? Me: No, of course not. I don’t think we need our organs for some k…

‘Almost Like Praying’: The Religious Work of ‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

By Spencer Dew

…ble Puerto Rican culture, Miranda also implicitly critiques another famous number from that musical. “America” famously features dueling visions of the exceptional imperial state and the far-flung colony: the “ugly island,” “Island of tropic diseases./ Always the hurricanes blowing, / Always the population growing . . . / And the money owing, / And the babies crying, / And the bullets flying.” That song goes on to cast doubt on the reliability of…

Puerto Rico Prays for Truth: Reporter David Begnaud’s Sacred Mission

By Spencer Dew

…of them had died—ignoring or denying or simply not understanding that the number of dead was already underreported and already growing. He joked about the effect of this disaster on the budget before posing for a photo op in which he tossed paper towels into a crowd, action he defended in an interview on Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian network, reminiscing about the softness and beauty of those paper towels. The catastrophe, after all,…

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n Egypt to “stop arresting and harassing people suspected of homosexuality using trumped-up ‘debauchery’ and ‘inciting debauchery’ charges.” Security forces rounded up at least eleven people in the days following a September 22, 2017 concert in Cairo at which young concertgoers waved rainbow flags, a symbol of solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people, a defiant act in a country known to persecute gay men and transgender…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…n on a Hasidic-owned building during that time said, “We need AFFORDABLE housing!” After the the December 19 protest passed through the neighborhood, one Hasidic man who wouldn’t give his name said that blaming dress code for the removal of the bikes lane “is just bullshit.” He is disappointed with how his people have been portrayed in news reports about this issue and insists that safety was a genuine concern. That’s what nearly everybody walking…