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Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee

By Eric C. Miller

…n my life. During that time I experienced community in beautiful, powerful ways, ways that I haven’t seen the secular world able to replicate. In the evangelical community, I had friends who prayed for me daily, leaders who mentored me, a community that asked the big questions about life, death and meaning. I remember the end of freshman year, nervously packing for a solo three-month trip to China and Taiwan, where I hoped to reconnect to my herit…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…certificate in Washington state for his step-daughter and her partner. Norway: Church of Norway Won’t Let Priests Marry Same-Sex Couples This week the Church of Norway, a protestant denomination, rejected a proposal that it allow religious weddings for same-sex couples, reports Agence France Presse, even though most of the country’s bishops supported the proposal. Norway was among the first countries in Europe to grant homosexuals full rights,…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights ordering an emergency stay. Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich profiled Armet Kolesov, a 23-year-old gay Russian violinist who lives in Chicago. This spring, a day after his birthday, Kolesov recorded a 15-minute message to young gay people in Russia, and it went viral. A few excerpts: He went on, in Russian, to tell the story of growing up as the fourth of six brothers in a small town, an hour’s…

The Critical Role of Jews in Defining Modernity

By Chad Alan Goldberg

…mission to use the image and to the design department at the University of Chicago Press for creating a terrific cover with it. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? There are many excellent books by historians, philosophers, and social scientists on the representation of Jews in social thought, the backgrounds and contexts of Jewish social thinkers, and the historical sociology of Jews and their relations to gentiles…

The Real (and More Interesting) World Behind Magic in the Moonlight

By David Walker

…e had gathered during an earlier stint working at a spiritualist parlor in Chicago, and through continued communication with ex-colleagues there. Robinson died in 1918 after a rigged gun fired a real bullet during the Chung Ling Soo trick “Condemned to Death by the Boxers.” Legend has it that, upon being shot, Robinson cried out in English, thus shattering the longstanding impression that Chung Ling Soo was, in fact, Chinese (though contemporary r…

A Tea Party Case Study: Jacksonville’s Divisive Mayoral Race

By Julie Ingersoll

…e attempt the day after the election when she wrote “to…those who said the Chicago Machine wasn’t in town…explain why they were writing about it this morning if it doesn’t mean anything.” But the link she provides isn’t even from Chicago, it is a reprint of an LA Times survey of local races across the country. In another example: “The left has brought in their paid help to hold their signs. They have hired bus drivers to drive people to the polls….

Catholic Group Blasts Cardinal’s Comment Comparing Gay Rights Parade to KKK

By Sarah Posner

…e, past president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, objecting to Chicago’s gay rights parade. On Fox News Chicago, George said, “You don’t want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.” Equally Blessed charges in a statement that George “has demeaned and demonized LGBT people in a manner unworthy of his office. In suggesting that the Catholic hierarchy ha…

Kanye West’s Critique of Prosperity Preaching

By Josef Sorett

…deo. In the song, Kanye seems to embrace personal spirituality (i.e., “the way I need Jesus”) over against an explicitly racial theology (i.e. “I ain’t here to argue about his facial features”), while insisting that Jesus walks with “the least of these”—namely, “strippers, murderers, drug dealers.” We might consider the song a pop culture take on a post-black liberation theology, perhaps… In the third video, titled the “Street Version,” Kanye offe…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…urch norm to Latin mass “an error,” was more pointed in his criticism: I always try to understand what is behind persons who are too young to have experienced the preconciliar liturgy but who nevertheless want it. At times, I find myself in front of persons who are very rigid, an attitude of rigidity. And I ask myself: How come such rigidity? This rigidity always hides something: insecurity, or at times something else…. Rigidity is defensive. True…

A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter

By Daniel Schultz

…ould say it was a talk. I thought she was sort of docile, harmless—in some ways lost in that crowd. I saw her responding in a sporadic way to people’s yells and comments, so she was alert, and I guess much more than I anticipated. Our interaction was so short-lived. At first it was sympathy. Then shock. Then anger. Then a kind of furious sadness. How did your faith guide you in that moment, if it did? I’m a big fan of “Letter from a Birmingham Jai…