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The Loneliness of Men: A Father’s Day Reflection

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…more carefully with more issues: sexuality and identity, rape, family dysfunction and violence, school and gang violence—and more complex analyses of structural and internalized, intersecting oppressions. One week in the mid 1980s, we had three young Black young men from a foster home with a father who was a white evangelical minister. Always in dark glasses and baseball caps, the youths were seemingly hostile to the program, and inseparable excep…

Burying the Future: Youth Violence in Chicago

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…ts. Together they have marched the streets shouting for an end to the violence and have held press conferences about the impiety. Rituals follow the violence as a matter of urban sacrament: volunteers staple letter-size paper onto neighborhood trees with the big word “STOP.” Well-wishers drop off stuffed animals and flowers; and they sign, of course, large posters with handwritten prayers, outlines of hearts, and references to the supernal (like…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…bravery, indifference, and equally your fidelity to our heritage. This concept is known as tawakkul in Islam—reliance and trust in God—and explains why people take risks people in the West would never even contemplate. Because, after all, you’re only going to get flattened by an accelerating Porsche Panamera, the family car of choice here, if God wants you to, and what better way to meet your maker than relaxed after some Lipton Yellow Label? …

Common Ground: Winning the Battle, Losing the Culture War

By Chip Berlet

…ly with those of the campaigns from 1980 to 2000, there is little significance to the numbers. There are a few anecdotal blips, but there is no trend. Kerry was an unusually miserable candidate, and his numbers were below those from other years. If you look at trends since 1972, we can see blips for Carter (Born-Again) and Reagan (vehicle of the New Right); but since Reagan, the numbers do not suggest that compromise with the Christian Right even…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…man and People’s Rights “has taken on issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, topics that some may have considered too ‘controversial’ but that fall squarely within the ambit of human rights.” South Africa: Interfaith group calls on church, gov’t to denounce gender-based violence The Global Interfaith Network for People of all Sexes, Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Expressions called on the government and churches to speak out…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…She says to come on up, she’ll meet with you now. It wouldn’t be fair to cancel since you’re already here.” Fair? As I was to learn, this was true Bedi behavior. I had, quite frankly, expected a prima donna, given her stature. This is someone who had issue a parking ticket to India’s Prime Minister some time during a career that spanned police work, book writing, UN advising, tennis championships, and the Magsaysay Award (a.k.a. Asia’s Nobel Prize…

Mother (Nature) Will Eat You: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…rk Film Festival, along with about 700 other attendees. I wish I had their phone numbers; even the disgusted dozens who walked out halfway through. I’d like to call them at 3:00 a.m. and ask what they are thinking about, what they are dreaming, if indeed they are sleeping. I need some therapy. This is one messed-up film. The beauty of Antichrist is in distinct contrast to many of von Trier’s previous films. From the early 1990s until now, his film…

Our Dance Clubs, Our Churches

By Peter Laarman

…mean no disrespect to anyone else’s idea of “church” to say that the gay dance club was a kind of church for me and for thousands, millions, like me. The club was a place of grace. And there was no real disconnect when some of the younger and grander queens who ruled the dance floor would trip out, eyes blinking, into sabbath sunlight at 9 or 10 a.m. and head straight off to their real church. Praise and yet more praise for all of God’s blessings….

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…clear that this was primarily, or exclusively, politically-motivated violence. A number of commentators seem to believe Mateen was struggling with his own sexuality. But Cohen does not hesitate to assign Mateen to larger, world-historical forces: Islam is in epochal crisis. Its Sunni and Shiite branches are mired in violent confrontation. Its adjustment to the modern world has proved faltering and agonized enough to produce a metastasizing strain…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ican church experience, and marry that to the dynamism of the queer experience of that dance floor. It would be amazing. Many mainstream or evangelical churches may welcome you into the pew but never into leadership or other forms of service. You’re calling the church not simply to affirm LGBT people, but to fully accept us. I’m asking the church to dismantle that binary of “us” and “them” that sees anyone coming through the door as an other. My h…