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The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…eauty, The Grateful Dead’s Ron “Pigpen” McKernan wrote about this kind of flailing, discombobulating loss that often welcomes us when we cross the threshold from adolescence to young adulthood. Pigpen’s “rider” has departed for an unknown place. He’s lost her number and can’t find it. “Directory don’t have it, central done forgot it.” And he’s desperate to reach her, if for nothing more to make sure she’s “doing it right.” It’s clear in the song t…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…were visitors to the region displaces attention from local concerns. The relative lack of attention to those who call Uttarakhand home is perhaps even more distressing because it reenacts the ways in which the health of local communities has in recent decades taken a backseat to the development of infrastructure for visitors, the building of hydroelectric dams, and logging projects. Particularly since Uttarakhand became a separate state (first as…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ing out as gay. András Simonyi, managing director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, and a visiting research fellow, Mihai Pătru, published a commentary at Huffington Post this week arguing that the international LGBT community has a goal but no strategy. One excerpt: It is useful to take into account the history of other human rights struggles, but this is not enough in today’s international context, overwhelme…

Yes, It’s Worse To Be Gay in Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

…c level of bravery. The law that passed in June—which is, I think, best explained as cheap populist scapegoating—has served to activate and embolden widespread homophobia, which seems to me to have been previously often latent (the homophobia I encountered in Vladimir 10 years ago was none too aggressive). Phenomena like “Occupy Pedophilia” have appeared on the scene. Although it’s hard to say exactly how common anti-LGBT violence is in Russia, it…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…uild a church in Colorado Springs than the rapid population boom fueled by cheap land that would lead to a new free market Christianity political power base in the Western United States. In less than a decade, Haggard built one of the most influential megachurches in the nation. Not Everybody Loves a Comeback Story Today, Haggard and his wife Gayle jet set nearly every weekend to speak at emergent churches across the nation with a well-worn script…

Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism

By Anthea Butler

…even have the courtesy to check Trayvon’s phone for his mom and dad’s telephone numbers because it’s just a black criminal’s body to them. While Zimmerman the trigger man slept in his bed, the police ordered a drug and alcohol test for Trayvon’s lifeless body. A black body that was representative of evil against the whiteness of George Zimmerman. I hesitated to write about this story, because there are many good stories about Trayvon and his pare…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…direct our lives into fighting the capture of our religion by those who, claiming Islam, have nothing to offer the future but barbarity. Ameena Meer_________ I was born in India, but raised in America. The great advantage for us growing up in the United States was the ability to develop our own identity. I was brought up an Indian Muslim. There were so few of us Indians in the U.S. then that if you saw a woman in a sari on the other end of the…

“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…erformative works to appear in living memory.” Dramatic words for the Gray Lady. Giving Godhead Dylan Krieger Delete Press August 2017 And a shock, surely, to the small press that had produced the volume. Orders placed in the wake of that review’s publication were filled just this month, an interval that only furthered expectation regarding Simmons’s claim that the poems here went “places I have never seen any poet go before” and that through “the…

Heterosexual Martyrs and Gay Saints: Did AIDS Coverage Clear the Way for LGBT Equality?

By Diane Winston

…uninterested in the gay community and assumed their view reflected the population-at-large. The only stories that roused them were marked by sensationalism or conflict. As the dimensions of the AIDS epidemic emerged, these two themes—gay libertinism and religious condemnation—became frames for seeing the disease as a moral as well as medical problem. Even stories that were not about religious responses to AIDS often evoked the moral/medical axis….

Vatican Reverses Anti-Liberation Policies in Mexico

By Ruth Chojnacki and Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…2000, 341 of Mexico’s 800 deacons served the Diocese of San Cristobal, the largest number of deacons in any Catholic diocese in the world. Vatican suspicion of Bishop Ruiz’s liberationist pastoral strategy resulted in a failed attempt to remove him in 1993. The deacon program came under particular scrutiny after the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, with reports that Maya catechists defied the bishop and enlisted in the indigenous rebel army. In…