Religion Dispatches
…is as global as it is local. The NAR also reaches into the US from other countries in the same way that NAR reaches other countries from the US. While this sense of global vision and mission isn’t new in Christianity, there’s much that is new in this important contemporary movement that demands attention and better reporting for the first, rough draft of history….
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…ly established Kingdom Harvest Alliance (KHA) which describes itself as “a new organism for alignment… a new wineskin that includes each one of us developing a harvest mentality for the sphere and calling we have. All wineskins usually have a seven year viability.” It’s also important for reporters to be alert to the application of the metaphor “new wineskins” to the broad mission of the movement. Leaders like Wagner envisioned undermining and rep…
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…e can’t really say with any degree of conviction that this new anthropology is either merely a symptom of the final victory of profane secularism or the first shoots of a new―although not Christian―growth of the sacred, and thus a new chapter in the history of religion in Europe itself….
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…at that time were supportive in reviews and comments (Ellen Lewin, Esther Newton and others). Other colleagues seemed surprised at my new choice of fieldwork site, but appreciative of my employment of the “old” method of participant observation. I had no direct connection with LGBT communities, but gay friends seemed very pleased with my choice and complimented me for the supportive presentation and the engaging literary style. The editor of Ling…
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…arriage – it just has to apply it to same-sex couples.” Nick Duffy at Pink New notes that the New Chapel (Unitarian and Free Christian) in Manchester recently made provision for transgender people to be rebaptized, something Wilson says he does not support, saying that “as an Anglican I think you are baptized once.” India: Supreme Court Reconsiders Recriminalization of Homosexuality On Tuesday, in what an LGBT activist called “a progressive step i…
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…als, since last week the board voted to delay indefinitely the purchase of new science textbooks that include the changes McLeroy has lobbied for. Because new science textbooks are estimated to cost $350 million, the board opted to bridge the gap between the old and the new science standards with supplemental materials. The board will review and select the materials next spring. Using supplemental materials may be something of a creationist cloak…
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…we are going to burn and send you to hell, where you all belong.” Ireland: New group promotes LGBT inclusion in Presbyterian Church The Belfast Telegraph reports on a retired lawyer’s efforts to create a group that would promote inclusion of LGBT people in the Presbyterian Church, an effort “to emulate the success of existing grups such as Changing Ireland and Accepting Sexuality, which have been operating within the Church of Ireland and the Iris…
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…. A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Emily Suzanne Clark UNC Press September 2016 __________ Paul Harvey: Your book is about a group in mid-19th-century New Orleans called the Cercle Harmonique. Briefly, can you just explain who they were, and why we should care? Emily Clark: The Cercle Harmonique was a group of Afro-Creoles, primarily men, in 19th-century New Orleans who believed they spoke with t…
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…thing. And there’s nothing new about his saying so. The Exodus was also a new thing, so new that the Pharaoh is quite right to say he does not know the god of Moses, this god who speaks for slaves. The religion Pharaoh did know, the religion of empires, was based on the repetitive patterns of nature and was thus fundamentally conservative. In contrast, the prophetic religion of Isaiah and his contemporaries posits historical change, guided by a l…
Read More…1693, a measure that he believed would establish the Church of England in New York City and the surrounding counties. New Yorkers, however, would have none of it, and they successfully frustrated its implementation in favor of religious freedom and diversity. Throughout its history New York has accommodated – and even, more often than not, welcomed – religious diversity. Yes, sometimes such accommodation came only after a struggle, as with the Gr…
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