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How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…rs Party was, not surprisingly, completely unknown to the vast majority of Americans. Nonetheless, Ryan Lenz, the editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, told the Washington Post‘s Joe Heim that Heimbach should “be taken as seriously as David Duke.” The same article that declared Matthew Heimbach a rising star of the far-right also mentioned in passing that his racial views had “led to his excommunication from his Orthodox Chri…

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…acted with outrage. On Thursday, students flooded Providence College’s ’64 center for an open-forum/protest called “Fighting for Academic Freedom.” At the meeting, a number of LGBT students made clear that they were profoundly upset by the administration’s decision. One student noted that the college’s actions had “further alienated the LGBT community”; that Lena’s decision implied that LGBT people were not “creatures of value and worth”; and tha…

Tea Party Organizes Islamophobic Hate Rally

By Hussein Rashid

…nt, a fairly normal occurence in American civic life. I do not believe the American Muslim community should give a platform to people who support designated terrorist organizations, or espouse anti-Semitic rhetoric. The speaker in question, Amir Abdel Malik Ali, was cited by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “bigoted speaker.” In this video, however, and by all reports, none of the protestors were actually protesting the speakers. They were ye…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ormous risk by coming out as gay. András Simonyi, managing director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, and a visiting research fellow, Mihai Pătru, published a commentary at Huffington Post this week arguing that the international LGBT community has a goal but no strategy. One excerpt: It is useful to take into account the history of other human rights struggles, but this is not enough in today’s international c…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…s created a documentary which is highly suggestive, but doesn’t get to the center of the cultural importance of the internet. No one will confuse this documentary with the work of a sociologist like Sherry Turkle, but with Lo and Behold Herzog has given us a good start at thinking about how the net is pushing us to rethink our values and morals and transforming the invisible assumptions that shape the way we live and experience the world. And Herz…

Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…t, they give a nod to other religions while leaving Christianity front and center. The Christian privilege that permeates American society and politics needs to be dismantled just as much as White privilege, male privilege, and cis-het privilege in the pursuit of a genuinely democratic future. If Democrats hope to be the more inclusive party they can do so precisely by decentering Christianity as they focus on articulating a kind of pluralism that…

NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad

By Hussein Rashid

…y’ve burned that goodwill and trust. There’s a legacy of targeting African Americans that must be overcome. And while relations with other communities have improvied, the NYPD has shown that it can only be civil in order to find new ways to violate the rights of citizens. Aside from the deep, structural racism and the collusion with the CIA to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of federal and local laws, they relish in lying to the public. In…

Yet Another Survey Shows ‘Nones’ Growth at Record Levels

By Elizabeth Drescher

…GSS), which has tracked religious preference since 1972, when a mere 5% of Americans self-identified as religiously unaffiliated. The report reinforces October 2012 findings by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life on the rapid growth in the population of Nones, especially among adults under age 30. According to the report, the demographic tipping point in religious unaffiliation occurred in the 1990s, when the percentage of Nones grew dramatica…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…kers. Over the course of the next eight hours Rob Bell held forth from the center of that circle of folding chairs. He began with a walk-through of the new book, chapter by chapter. At the end of each section, Bell would ask for “requests,” and audience members would call out topics: empire building, the Eucharist rhythm, raising kids! Soon the event started to feel less like a book talk and more like a sprawling conversation. The audience seemed…

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…id—receive an uncanny reminder of the holy pictures, crucifixes and rosary-centered piety possessed by their grandparents. “Northern Idaho is a stronghold of conservative Christians of all denominations. It has long been a target of migration by those who, as local realtor Chris Watson puts it, ‘are looking for the 1950s in the 2010s.’” So how did this corner of the inland Pacific Northwest become a bulwark for a frankly anti-modern form of Cathol…