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Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…“At least seven countries — Australia, Bangladesh, Germany, India, Nepal, New Zealand and Pakistan — permit citizens to choose an option other than male or female on their passports.” More from ABC: The Attorney-General George Brandis had warned a defeat would result in delaying same-sex marriage in Australia for years to come. But the Federal Opposition says the plebiscite would have resulted in harmful debate against the gay and lesbian communi…

Expelled Ugandan Bishop Ministers to LGBT

By Richard A. Lindsay

…e tolerant Anglican churches in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, suggesting that the center of the ‘true’ faith—that is, the faith that is still discriminatory towards LGBT people and women—is in Africa and the developing world.” “The African voices that have dared to stand up against overwhelming spiritual, societal, and governmental pressure, like Bishop Senyonjo, Canon Gideon Byamugisha, Bishop Desmond Tutu…

Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…sor of Religious Studies, Retired, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand +Harvey Stark, PhD Candidate in Religion, Princeton University +Seval Yildirim Assistant Professor, Director of Center for International and Comparative Law Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA +Linell Cady, co-director of ReligionDispatches, Franca Oreffice Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Relig…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…sts ranking among the top 10 in religion in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. In January 2012, he became a #1 New York Times bestselling author heavily promoted by his publisher, until Mars Hill removed this designation from his bio following revelations that he had paid ResultSource, a marketing firm that “creates”bestsellers. At present, Driscoll seems to have been dropped by his agent, and his relationship with his current…

This World Refugee Day, Rising White Nationalism Meets the Largest Refugee Population in History — Which is No Coincidence

By Sara Kamali

…hite nationalist who killed 51 people in an attack on a pair of mosques in New Zealand to the two American white nationalists who killed 22 people at an El Paso WalMart and 11 at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh—articulate this danger, also called The Great Replacement Theory, as the reason for their heinous acts. Most recently, the white nationalist killer of 10 Black shoppers in Buffalo cited The Great Replacement theory in his own manif…

Church of Jedi Takes Advantage of Turmoil

By Gabriel Mckee

…oup claims 30 members in the UK, but has links to similar organizations in New Zealand and the United States. The Darth Vader attack occurred while some of these members were filming a lightsaber battle in their backyard. Arwel Wynne Hughes, wearing a garbage-bag cape and swinging a metal crutch (lightsaber), leaped into the yard shouting “Darth Vader! Darth Vader!” He struck Barney on the head and punched his cousin, Michael Jones, on the leg. In…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…each diocesan bishop in the United States, and every bishop in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom and South Africa has received the offer of a download. Each member of the Council of Cardinals, its secretary, and Pope Francis has received a copy, along with the original Italian-languages essays. If the hierarchy will consider what history really says, perhaps they will think about whether they need to restore the tradition of wom…

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…had been tweeted by Virtual Abbey the night before. That took me into the New Zealand Book of Common Prayer, with a brief sojourn into the tragedy that is Lindsay Lohan, who, frankly, could use some time reflecting on the “Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,” if you ask me. Then, while responding to my student I thought I should probably scan posts by other students and, well, there went the next hour. Okay, honestly, I forgot w…

Na’vi and Goliath: Palestinian Protesters Dress as Avatar Underdogs

By Shalom Goldman

…s an Israeli who trained for a decade in American studios before moving to New Zealand where he joined the team that made Avatar. Similar enthusiasm about Cameron’s film was voiced in the American Jewish press. In The Forward, the popular and culturally astute New York Jewish weekly, regular columnist Jay Michaelson wrote a January 22 piece titled “Taking Avatar Seriously: Environmentalisms, Spiritual and Practical,” describing the film’s philosop…

Are there Atheists in Foxholes?

By Andrew Aghapour

…Furthermore, we should keep in mind that these labs weren’t testing the “foxhole” reactions of Christians and Atheists, but rather the relationship between death reminders and religiosity polls in a group of undergraduates living on an island. The jury is still out on the Foxhole Question, but it is quite interesting that Agnostics were more likely than Atheists to waver when prompted with death cues. Perhaps it’s the Agnostics we should be studyi…