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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

…d of Friday’s constitutional referendum has featured searing testimonies designed to make the voters of this predominantly Roman Catholic nation look in the mirror. Members of many of Ireland’s most prominent families have come out of the closet in hopes of challenging their neighbors’ attitudes to homosexuality. The contest has pit the waning power of the Catholic Church against the secular-minded government of Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Reuters’…

Louie Giglio ‘White Blessing’ Incident Reveals Something Critical About Evangelical Efforts to Address Racism

By Jeremy L. Sabella

…uation—complacency at injustice or relishing cruelty, for example—can be a sign of spiritual sickness. Within this framework, giving or taking offense plays a key diagnostic role. True friends point out when we’re wrong even at the risk of offending us. Attentive spiritual leaders do the same for their congregations. Following this logic, Giglio’s initial error was in viewing the offense taken at the term “privilege” as something to be avoided. Wh…

A Moral For Holy Week 2010 in the Christian Tragedy of Mark’s Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…at all possible, to pass him by. None of the men who accompany him see any sign that anything is wrong, and so they sleep through Jesus’s clear warning of an approaching storm. Jesus is betrayed by one of his own closest followers, a man who hands him over to the crowd, poignantly enough, with a kiss. The torture to which the man is subject is revealed to us in an unblinking and shocking way. The Roman administrators go out of their way to break J…

Every Homo Reptilia is Somebody’s Sister: Doctor Who Part VI

By Gabriel Mckee

…fspring, someone’s sibling, someone’s parent, or in some other way someone significant to someone else. As a survival mechanism we have a tendency to forge relationships of blood, friendship, or ideology, and then engage in competition with others who are at best more distantly related, and in some fashion “different” from us. It is for pointing out how morality based on such allegiances breaks down that I appreciate the parable of “the Good Samar…

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

By Wil Gafney

…ticularly those which he adds to the biblical account, and the theological significance of those choices. Not every choice has the same weight in my view; some are interesting, some are amusing and some are deadly serious. One of the most interesting innovations is the idea that Adam picked up the serpent’s shed skin in the Garden of Eden and passed it down to his children as a sign of their responsibility to care for the earth. The totemic snake…

Pro-Life Tempest Over Obama’s Notre Dame Speech

By Mary E. Hunt

…things such coverage? A quick look at the Newman group’s Web site with its sign-on petition ticking like a doomsday clock is enough to cast doubt on the veracity of its claims. So what if X number of people say to rescind the invitation? Last I heard, Holy Cross Father John Jenkins was hosting the party. Obviously, this is not simply about a graduation speaker. The President of the United States is being instrumentalized in a long Catholic theo-po…

Devil’s Bookmark: How Not to Defend God

By Bernard Schweizer

…nes of rationality. For you (his brother), however, it is precisely that—a sign of irrationality. The two brothers inhabit two different worlds: in one world gods, angels, and miracles exist; in the other they don’t. So, if the two brothers talk about God, they talk about two fundamentally different things: Jimmy talks about God like he talks about his brother; his brother, on the other hand, talks about God like he talks about Dr. Jekyll or Hamle…

Scholars Upset With ‘1619 Project’ Must Abandon Vision of ‘America the Righteous’

By Peter Laarman

…ished historians whom Wilentz solicited for his letter but who declined to sign his angry screed for all the right reasons.] Sean Wilentz has a distinguished CV. He comes from a distinguished family. I still find value in Chants Democratic, the 1984 Wilentz work on the formation of working class consciousness in New York during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. But Wilentz’s drift into the what a great country this is! school of historiograp…

No Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…the book? I cannot think of an alternative title, which I think is a good sign. The title originally incorporated some of the Gullah/Geechee dialect, but that just did not work in terms of flow and feasibility of actually being able to find the book. “Talking to the dead” is the phrasing that perfectly captures the relationship between the living and the dead without compromising the active nature of the practice. So, I love it! How do you feel a…

Paranormal Vodka, Exorcists and a Demonic Doll: Welcome to Paracon, Based on the Work of the Demon-Hunters Who Inspired the ‘Conjuring’ Series

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…ox: a demon-possessed doll so dangerous it’s locked in a glass case with a sign that reads “Warning Positively Do Not Open,” yet here it sits in a casino ballroom before 5,000 fans and potential possession victims. The crowd around Annabelle is huge, so I snap a quick selfie with the doll, and Joe and I continue on our way. There are other objects in the Warren Museum exhibit, including a skull used in “Satanic rituals,” the “Necromonicin” (a ridi…