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Marriage equality comes to Slovenia, continues to spread in Mexico; Civil Union legislation approved in Sicily, debated in Peru; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…big difference.” However, she acknowledged that the list of jurisdictions contacted was limited and included many whose marriages and civil partnerships are recognised by the UK. At present the Government Equalities Office has no plans to contact all countries to urge them to recognise UK gay marriages and partnerships, though Swinson said the Foreign Office had encouraged British diplomats to raise the issue. “They obviously make a degree of loc…

Hicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm

By Timothy King

…tage or journey of self-discovery, as Thoreau had. Watching as inflation siphoned away nest eggs tucked into savings accounts in the 1970s led to a large-scale interest in investing in the tangible asset of land. The Nearings taught their acolytes how to invest in soil and get one acre to produce enough food to feed 30 families. Broad economic and social forces offer a partial explanation for why innovators and experimenters such as Thoreau, Borso…

Talking Salsa with Douglas Hofstadter, Enigmatic Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach

By Eliot Raynor

…grandparents excited me. I said I’d love to, and we set it up for March of 1975. I ran up immediately to the bookstore in downtown Regensburg and bought a grammar of Polish, and I went through it from head to toe and did all the exercises, and I got extremely excited about it. I was playing piano at the university. I would spend an hour a day practicing various pieces. It was all extremely intense. Just amazing. And so the day came when I was lea…

Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right

By R.L. Stollar

…ademic purpose. For Christian homeschoolers, however, debate serves both a spiritual purpose and a sociopolitical purpose. The spiritual purpose is evangelism. Sarah Pride, a homeschool alumna and daughter of homeschool leader Mary Pride, explained in an article for Practical Homeschooling that debate “prepares young communicators for the specific purpose of serving Christ.” Debate thus becomes a means to accomplish the Great Commission—the idea t…

Is Monsanto Satan? The Pleasure and Problem of Conspiracy Theory

By Alan Levinovitz

…act, dialogue is inadvisable, because the deceiver is so powerful that any contact risks corruption. Best to avoid it entirely, lest you end up like Bill Nye, the Science Guy, who changed his mind on GMOs after visiting Monsanto. Under most circumstances, the reasonable explanation would be that Nye was persuaded by argument and evidence. But for those who believe in Monsatan, the better—the only—explanation is that Nye was coerced, just as the be…

How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?

By Chrissy Stroop

…tate in late February” and acquired a helicopter for the purpose of making contact with uncontacted tribes, according to reporting by Sue Branford for Yes! Magazine. Headed by Larry M. Brown and a member of the Forum of Bible Agencies International (along with better known organizations like the Jesus Film Project and Wycliffe Global Alliance), Ethnos360 focuses on converting “unreached groups.” It also happens to be precisely the organization wit…

Bulgaria and Orthodox Church Cancellation of Louvre Exhibit is Classic Authoritarian Move

By Katherine Kelaidis

…the exhibition, entitled ‘Art and Culture in Bulgaria between the 16th and 18th Centuries,’ would take place in the Louvre’s wing devoted to Islamic art. Church officials announced earlier Monday that they would not loan those objects promised for the exhibition which were in Church custody. Bulgaria, like many other parts of the Orthodox Christian world, was part of the majority-Muslim Ottoman Empire for most of the early modern period. The exhi…

Again, Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

By Patricia Miller

…cs are going to figure out that the change they have been waiting for isn’t coming at all. Correction: Thanks to Bridget Mary Meehan of the ARCWP for letting us know that rather than 160, as a previous version of this post specified, there are in fact over 180 in the International Roman Catholic Women Priests movement….

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…not try to connect with the public. The question of whether or not to make contact is generally met with a blatant prohibition or, at the very least, with ominous warnings. Those of us who nonetheless choose to live dangerously—to do public scholarship—challenge this model because we are convinced that connecting with the public, though admittedly dangerous, is a potential source of power, a mode of dismantling dominant systems of oppression. It i…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…not try to connect with the public. The question of whether or not to make contact is generally met with a blatant prohibition or, at the very least, with ominous warnings. Those of us who nonetheless choose to live dangerously—to do public scholarship—challenge this model because we are convinced that connecting with the public, though admittedly dangerous, is a potential source of power, a mode of dismantling dominant systems of oppression. It i…