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Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

A Panamanian convert to Islam, Anais Gobea hopes to raise her two children in the faith. But she and her husband, who converted to Islam four months ago, have struggled to do this in a predominately Catholic country. Her son attends a public school in Panama City, which consistently educates him on the tenets of Catholicism. “We try to teach him Islam, but school confuses him,” Gobea told me. In a group of several Muslim children, he was asked to…

Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

The United Nations General Assembly rejected repeated attempts to do away with the UN Human Rights Council’s recently created position to investigate discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Like previous attacks on the new independent expert position, the last effort was led by the African Group of nations. The vote on the most recent effort was 65-81 with 15 abstentions. The U.S. and its US ambassador…

Obama Caves on (Another) Contraception Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…pay for contraception coverage for female employees of the non-profit as guaranteed under the Affordable Care Act. Not only does this cumbersome procedure have the makings of a bureaucratic nightmare, but most insurers are incorporated separately in each state in which they operate and often under slightly different names… and I doubt most have a dedicated office to contact when religious conservatives make their own decisions about women’s access…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…voted nine to two to allow same-sex couple to marry: Cyril Leo and Brian Isaac were the only councillors to vote against the bill becoming law. Dr Corinda Essex abstained. She said she knew her view would be controversial. “I have no objection to same-sex relationships and indeed I respect them,” she said. “I know a number of people who have entered into them. I am no way homophobic in any respect. “However I believe that can be achieved through c…

Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

By Timothy King

…lyfish” swimming in the opposite direction. The caption reads, simply, “Go against the flow.” The 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, which is being rolled out in a series of reports this year, depicts a deep shift in how Americans identify (or don’t) with religion. It’s tempting to approach the latest report, and those to follow, with attention grabbing headlines that portray the complex statistics as a simplistic counting of which way the prove…

If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts

By Andrew Aghapour

…oking for something to burn. The Martian owes its scientific fluency and unabashed pragmatism to Andy Weir, author of the novel that inspired the film, who meticulously researched astronomy, chemistry, and existing space technology in order to make it as realistic as possible. After finishing Weir’s book I was hungry for more. Luckily, Weir offers a treasure trove of short stories on his website, a number of which break with The Martian’s goal of…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ut brothers.” The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reports on a joint declaration on marriage they signed. “The family is based on marriage, an act of freely given and faithful love between a man and a woman,” it reads. “It is love that seals their union and teaches them to accept one another as a gift.” Francis and Kirill in their declaration describe marriage as “a school of love and faithfulness.” “We regret that other forms of cohabitation ha…

Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…the top for the inspiration and prayer page started by weight-loss doctor Aaron Tabor. The “Dios Es Bueno” (God is Good), “The Bible,” and “Joyce Meyer Ministries” pages all hang out in the top ten, and five more religious pages fill out the bottom half of the top twenty. In all, more than half of the top twenty most engaging pages—pages that move beyond mere broadcast messaging to share content that inspires participants to interact with one ano…

White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenters”

By Neil J. Young

…imes, Washington Post and Fox News, to name a few, all made clear time and again that a majority of white evangelicals supported Trump. It’s true that in prior election cycles the media has not been good about distinguishing “evangelicals” from “white evangelicals”—a confusion that scholars of American religion often pointed out—but coverage of the 2016 election was marked instead by a clear and consistent distinction between white evangelicals an…

New Research Links Spiritual-Not-Religious to Mental Disorder

By Elizabeth Drescher

…erable to mental disorder.” This week, the news swam the pond to appear in a number of US news outlets. The research, led by University College London professor Michael King, reveals a population of “spiritual but not religious” Brits that generally tracks to the US population of “Nones” identified in a recent study by the Pew Forum on Religion in American Life. Some 35 percent of the more than 7,000 Brits surveyed indicated that they had “a relig…