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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

…sed 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 local judgment about when is the right time to raise these issues. Sad to say, there are plenty of countries where LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] rights…

A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die

By Joanna Brooks

…s given a new wardrobe of thrift store castoffs. She had extremely limited contact with her parents and no contact with friends. There was no school except for homestudy. When she tried to run, she was beaten. And when she did not yield to a treatment regime centered around housework and group scripture study, she was made to wear a backpack full of rocks representing the “burden of her homosexuality” and stand facing the wall for hours on end. Sa…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…ave immunity even in the best of times. To carry out missionary efforts to contact such peoples now is all the more reprehensible given that the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage in Brazil. To be sure, Ethnos360’s drive to reach uncontacted peoples contravenes standing FUNAI policy. It’s also certainly a violation of international law, and it arguably falls afoul of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution itself. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that…

Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”

By Jay Michaelson

…they will someday read it. She knows, though, that for any of them to even contact her would brand them enemies of the Church. And yet, Bornstein says quite clearly that in the 1970s no one in Scientology thought of it as a religion at all. Hubbard’s teachings were regarded as infallible, but not for any specifically religious or dogmatic reason. His words were valued in the same way as, say, the New Age ‘Law of Attraction’ (formerly known as New…

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

By Timothy King

…ination. Far from being ethereal and disconnected, imagination thrives “on contact or tangible experience.” It is when we imagine the well-being and future of the place where we are the things that share that place with us that we enter into a state of sympathy. Sympathy ignites a personal concern for the well-being of that place and the things with which you share it that produces affection. But even given such advantages, my personal “return to…

Christopher Hitchens, Religious in Spite of Himself?

By Eric Reitan

…ld), and saying that we can divorce the numinous (understood as a sense of contact with something transcending the natural world) from the hierarchy and dogma of traditional religious institutions. Hitchens’ earlier comments about the numinous seem to say the former, but this comment sounds much closer to the latter. Unsurprisingly, Sewell points out that the feeling Hitchens calls numinous, “might be a religious impulse.” Hitchens says no, it’s a…

An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

By Christopher Douglas

…faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. [Fiction] writers today are our version of Hebrew and classical prophets: they try to speak to society, to diagnose our social and spiritual condition. I read Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, for instance, as the search for a Christian political alternative to the Christian Right—and so she turns to the historical terra…

Modern Mindfulness, Continued: Chade-Meng Tan Follows Up

By The Editors

…t want to give the impression that I believe mindfulness practice has lost contact with the source teachings. In fact, I believe the exact opposite: that mindfulness practice, even in its modern form, is probably as close as we can get to the foundational meditation practices taught by the Buddha himself. In the ancient collection of his teachings called the Nikayas, the Buddha taught samatha (calm-abiding) and vipassana (insight) as the foundatio…

American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016

By Richard Flory

…er urban churches—and some of those that have a longer history in a particular city—are now congregations of mostly young creative types who live in the vicinity. What will happen when urban hipster churches, like Hillsong, Oasis and RealityLA, come into contact with other churches and urban ministries? (Indeed, do they ever come into contact or do they each maintain their own spheres of involvement?) And what will become of the Christian urban pr…

Ask the Dust: Tolerant Heathens

By The Editors

…ent person. This is her choice, and fortunately she has maintained regular contact with my family. They even live in the same town as my parents, who feel about the same way I do about her choice of religion. I think that her spiritual path is her choice, she is an adult woman, she can make her own decisions. My problem is now they have two young children, ages 4 and 3, who are being raised as Witnesses. My four-year-old niece has even started ask…