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“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…respectability politics in favor of direct protest, hoping to afflict the comfortable and rattle the complicit. He has also increasingly embraced social media as a tool for changing perspectives, using the #JusticeForJesus hashtag to tweet modern retellings of the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus through the lens of the Black Lives Matter movement. Rev. McBride, center Ferguson has taken a fraught place in the American imagination. The small neigh…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…here will be no Easter, there will be no Christmas.” She also defended her committed religious adherence. “Some say Christianity should not come into politics but we’re human beings. If we believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and it’s in this Bible, we should be able to say that,” she said. Participants in a “Straight Lives Matter” rally in Sydney were outnumbered by police and counter-protesters. Meanwhile, ballots have reportedly b…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…cluded in the ad, and that’s exactly what I’m addressing.” https://twitter.com/martynlenoble/status/880285143105118208 https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/880287503265280000 Most Americans root their moral precepts in faith, or at least they say they do. And Americans are practical universalists in some important senses. They like to think that “God is bigger than those things which seek to divide us,” as Rev. Traci Blackmon preached today; that…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…elopments, Cardinal Pell, has a page on Xt3.com, and invites Catholics to “come online and become one of my friends.” This year’s World Youth Day also included a new feature, a “digital prayer wall,” to which participants could text-message from their cell phones and post their requests for others to pray with them in public view. GodTube, a non-denominational Christian answer to YouTube, also includes a digital prayer wall, available online at an…

Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, prejudice and bullying will end.” He continues, “In this sense, the LGBT community has led the way ahead of faith communities – which should be inclusive, but sadly aren’t.” Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar and actress Emma Thompson also support the campaign along with faith leaders Reverend Kelvin Holdsworth of the Scottish Episcopal Church and Islamic scholar Amanullah De Sondy. Philippines: Bill to Boost Police Protection for LGBT People Advan…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…. Yet when they accepted that day, there were told the park was busy. From comingoutsbp.com via Google translation: The scheme worked like this: LGBT action organizers reported that on July 9 at the entire territory of the Champs de Mars (including the area of Hyde Park) is planned carrying out of mass event “St. Petersburg reserve” a military equipment exhibition. The Committee suggested that an alternative date – 10 July. LGBT activists agreed o…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…minatory laws – especially those that criminalize homosexuality. The first comment on the news story comes from a pastor arguing that homosexuality should be criminalized as a “crime against God and against the Holy Bible.” Columbia: First Same-Sex Couple Registers Overseas Marriage Two men made history this week as the first same-sex couple to officially register their marriage, which was celebrated in Spain in 2013. They men had been turned down…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…ey’re finite beings with finite imaginations. But there’s some wonder that comes with trying. Some satisfaction that comes with meditating on pi, reciting its digits like a mantra. Cliff Pickover, a math and science author and the editor-in-chief of the IBM Journal of Research and Development, says that pi’s endless stream of numbers must contain all possible numerical representations. If you calculated pi long enough, you’d eventually find the wo…

Was it the Russians or God? Evangelical Leaders Working Out the Kinks with Trump’s Transition Picks

By Chrissy Stroop

…ctor James Comey, knew that Russia had hacked both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee but only leaked Democratic documents, and that they suppressed this information, apparently for purely partisan reasons. However, with the exception of a handful of Republican leaders such as Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, this has not stopped Republicans from denying Russian interference. Trump himself deflected on…

Time’s Up For Politely Anti-LGBTQ Christianity: The Truth About “We Want to Be Known By What We’re For, Not What We’re Against”

By George Mekhail

…age. Anything to ensure we remain “good” in the eyes of a watching world. “Come as you are” and “Everyone is welcome!” are great examples that sound nice and allow us to avoid being accused of what we’re “against,” but again, they’re often simply untrue. In reality, these empty platitudes usually mean: “You can totally come to Sunday Services and give us money. But if you identify as LGBTQ, forget about working here or being affirmed. Oh, and if y…