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Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…Carson, author of Silent Spring. She said, “The Control Men, which is what Carson calls them, thought they could just get rid of insects and not butterflies. They didn’t realize that everything is connected and that the way they killed song birds was by killing insects. They didn’t understand that we little people are part of the world too. They still don’t understand that. But we will help them understand that with our beauty and our dignity and…

How Will We Teach About Sikhism After the Tragedy?

By Laurie Patton

…tation to all to come and worship, in a concerted effort to welcome and educate America about their traditions. Hospitality is a key element o the Sikh tradition. All four doors of a gurdwara are meant to be open, symbolizing the fact that everyone, regardless of faith, is welcome. The Sikh tradition of langar is perhaps the most dramatic symbol of radical hospitality: every visitor to the temple is fed in the “guru’s free kitchen.” Langar is base…

In Praise of Failure: Is Defining Religion Such a Good Idea?

By Ivan Strenski

…cting faithful. That yoga instructors often stage classes with joss stick incense burning, mutterings of bad Sanskrit, all done reverentially with hands folded in anjali mudra give fearful Christians all the evidence they need to press their case. And, in case to case, this congeries of practices may speak of a yoga that is, in fact, more than an aid to suburban fitness. It might be a fitness practice striving to become a religion? But, as with pr…

Perhaps Islam isn’t the Only Reason Donald Trump Didn’t Recall Muhammad Ali

By Sean O'Neil

…tance had interfaith resonance. He was an inspiration, for example, to African-American Christian athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith, who famously bowed their heads and raised their fists in protest of racism on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics. It took time, though, for Ali to become a national hero. Indeed, he’s been embraced more widely in retirement than during his boxing career, since many conservative white Americans had once balked…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…xuality as treatable disease A Chinese student has sued the Ministry of Education because textbooks in the college library defined homosexuality as a sickness, including a book published in 2013. China decriminalized consensual homosexual activity in 1997; the Chinese Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality and bisexuality from its diagnostic manual of mental disorders in 2001. Russia: Pride celebration banned, Pride movie OK with ‘explicit’…

Pope Francis, the Bouncer

By Anthea Butler

…erty. It is not only his Jesuit identity, but his identity as a Latin American Catholic. I believe that there is a very important takeaway from Evangelii Gaudium and its reception: Pope Francis is a Pope, unlike Pope Benedict XVI, who wants to engage the world, but also to critique the world. And he is not waiting for the traditional Urbi Et Orbi Message of Christmas to do so. While some see the exhortation as calling for drastic reforms in the ch…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…eoriented our vision toward the dominant race of mass killers: Murderous insanity can infect any community, and maybe that leads people to call these senseless acts of random violence. But of course they are neither senseless nor random, and the vast majority of such incidents here involve white men. Racism holds a terrible logic, for a concept with no grounding whatsoever in science or morality, yet too many white people don’t see any patterns. I…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the length and breadth of Africa for centuries, so this 21st century American campaign is just the latest in a long line of foreign influence. From gay marriage to abortion rights and birth control, the last decades have seen huge strides in the west towards minimising discrimination and encouraging equality. Hatred still exists, but public opinion has experienced a sea change towards accepting difference. The Rev Jackson George Gabriel, the cura…

Episcopal Church Removes Bishop Who Split Following LGBT Inclusion Vote

By Elizabeth Drescher

…arolina is the fifth to succeed from the Church, following the Dioceses of San Joaquin in central California; Fort Worth, Texas; Quincy, Illinois; and Pittsburgh, PA. A pastoral letter from Jefferts Schori to members of the Diocese, however, made clear that The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, as with other dioceses voting to secede, “continues to be a constituent part of The Episcopal Church, even if a number of its leaders have departed.” S…

Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rch” was an initial investor in Bain Capital: So we started a new business called Bain Capital. The only problem was, while WE believed in ourselves, nobody else did. We were young and had never done this before and we almost didn’t get off the ground. In those days, sometimes I wondered if I had made a really big mistake. I had thought about asking my church’s pension fund to invest, but I didn’t. I figured it was bad enough that I might lose my…