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Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…orld, our universe, not the flat earth with arcing sun of the ancient near east. A Nimbus of White Light The choice that most concerns me is Aronofsky’s creation of an all white world, in the image of God. In flashbacks to the first humans they are surrounded with a nimbus of light transparent enough to see their lily-white skins. Noah speaks of the destruction of the whole world and eventually, with great reluctance, the re-peopling of the worl…

Trump Evokes MLK at Biker Vet Rally

By Paul Harvey

…isode suggests the ways in which Trump will capitalize on the civil religious ceremonies of the disaffected. And he took full opportunity to preach to the crowd, converted and unconverted alike, suggesting that illegal immigrants receive better treatment than did veterans. We can expect six months of that red meat of American racial nationalism as the Trump train rolls on, and nearly all (Mitt Romney and Bill Sasse excepted) of the Party get on bo…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…ca’s case, we refer to Section 18 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman, thereby ruling out the possibility of formal recognition of same-sex relationships. It is a provision that has its foundation in a deep-seated, if slowly receding, homophobia that has caused us to maintain the buggery provisions, which, essentially, criminalise male homosexuality and allows the State…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…en up to me. But what I found? That speaks to all of Turkey. There are at least three kinds of religious Turks. Aligned firmly with Erdogan’s AKP, there are big businessmen, dynamic capitalists, those in the pursuit of faith and free enterprise. Then there are the Turkish shopkeepers, who we in America might call ‘Joe the Plumbers’. And finally the kind influenced by Sufism. These are impressions of course, with no hard data behind them, but the d…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…ad always argued for the existence of a binational state. The disagreement between the girls about whether they should build villages or collective farms has been their first disagreement, easily enough resolved when it occurs to them that they can have both types of settlement; they can be each other’s near neighbors and sleep over at each other’s house. Neither of them wants to live in a big city, not even a city with solar power and recycled wa…

《诺亚方舟》，保守派为何愤怒？

By Dan Mathewson

…lightened by them. Perhaps it will spark a desire, among those in both the East and the West, to share stories and engage in meaningful dialogue about the role of religion. Please read, share, and leave feedback in comments. – Shuang “Sherry” Liang 作者：Dan Mathewson 达伦·阿伦诺夫斯基的《诺亚方舟：创世之旅》，已成为永不消停的文化战争的最新角斗场。上映一周多来，有关它所引发的争议的报道终于令人欣慰地要接近饱和状态了。我相信，只需稍微关注这场争论，你就能发现已听过无数次的内容了：保守派基督徒对[请插入流行词]“很生气”。不论是格莱美颁奖礼（集体婚礼中有同志新人）、美国艺术娱乐电台、奈尔·德葛拉司·泰森（从事科学传播出名的美国天文学…

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…theless disturbing story about China’s Kargilik Mosque. According to Radio Free Asia, the Chinese authorities stripped the 16th century building of its Islamic imagery and festooned it instead with banners proclaiming, “Love the Party, Love the Country.” The destruction and desecration of the mosques is part of a larger Chinese governmental effort to expunge Islam from China. It’s directed against the Uighurs, a largely Muslim Turkic group spread…

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Avatar and the Myth of Originality

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ation out of Nothing Why do people get so unnerved when they see parallels between Avatar and Pocahontas? Or Fern Gully? Or Dances with Wolves? Or with Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s science fiction? Or even with unbridled capitalist exploitation? Much of it stems from perhaps the greatest contemporary myth: the myth of the individual human who creates out of his own mind/spirit, unshackled from all tradition, pure genius, even transcending his own…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion at the government’s hands.” ThinkProgress reported that Jennifer Jukawski, who co-hosted a fundraiser for presidential candidate Marco Rubio this week, recently served as a registered foreign agent for Gambia as part of a $45,000 per month (plus expenses) contract between the country and BGR Group. Luxembourg: Openly gay prime minister gets married Prime Minister Xavier Bettel married his partner Gauthier Destenay at the capital’s town hall la…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…rom their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned and after agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return.” [Emphasis added]. Eventually, the determined efforts by the Lakota to get the US Government to return the lands in the Black Hills drew the attention of the United Nations. In 2012, James Anaya, Special Rappo…