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“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…r broader culture. Consider the work of Sophie Calle, for instance. The French conceptual artist—whose most recent work, begun this summer in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, involves a grave for the secrets of visitors to that site. That piece, evoking notions of confession and absolution, mortality and temporality, sinks a spade into a whole cluster of theologically fraught ways of thinking and being, raising—as Jack Neudorf pointed out in Art For…

After Mumbai: Winning the Global War on Terror

By Mark Woodward

…es that revenge was one of the motives for the attacks. One of the consequences of this cycle of violence is that Mumbai is now a highly segregated city, so much so that Hindus now refer to traveling to a Muslim area as “going to Pakistan.” For its part, Pakistan has encouraged and supported Muslim insurgent and terrorist groups in Indian-controlled sections of the disputed province of Kashmir and other parts of the country. Starting the Blame Gam…

Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism

By Anthea Butler

…even have the courtesy to check Trayvon’s phone for his mom and dad’s telephone numbers because it’s just a black criminal’s body to them. While Zimmerman the trigger man slept in his bed, the police ordered a drug and alcohol test for Trayvon’s lifeless body. A black body that was representative of evil against the whiteness of George Zimmerman. I hesitated to write about this story, because there are many good stories about Trayvon and his pare…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ial presence of LGBT people or even deny their existence, forget the tolerance their ancestors preached centuries ago. Abu Nuwas in the ninth century or Shaikh al-Nafzawi three centuries later depicted in their works the tolerance of the Arab world towards any sexual minorities. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria recently threw a gay man from a tower to his death. The Williams’ Institute’s Andrew Park, also writing at Huffington Post, counts elev…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…morning. September 11 put an end to the long 1990s when, as it is nearly inconceivable to imagine today, the biggest problem in our post-Communist, unipolar world seemed to be Monica Lewinsky. I had long planned to become a corporate lawyer. Two years later, I enrolled in law school only to leave within months. There were many reasons why, but among them was this: I could no longer go down the path I’d imagined, a quiet professional life in subur…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…h in Colorado Springs and the National Association of Evangelicals and an unceremonious exile to Phoenix, Arizona. Haggard fancies himself the rebel bucking authority, and bringing Christ’s true message to the masses. “I’m gonna be like Paul,” he tells me, relishing his new itinerant role. “This is insanity but I’m gonna to do it.” The fallen pastor’s own Road to Damascus is taking place just off Interquest Parkway in Colorado Springs, a city refe…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…low compared to global-scale disasters of recent years, but there is a wrenching poignancy to what is happening in Uttarakhand right now. Many of the forces that frame daily life in South Asia are suddenly on display like a raw wound: the wages of development and globalization, the power of the natural world, divine agency, altruism, self-interest, and the political nature of both government action and religious ritual. The immediate impact of th…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…connection, once burning with possibility and joy, began to cool, as cell phone calls dwindled and numbers eventually changed or were disconnected. As our shared realities drifted apart in their likeness, like Pigpen, I also turned to technologies that promised connection to try to tamp down the yearning and temper that sense of loss. Where Pigpen called up the trusty telephone operator, I did my pining alone, with only the camaraderie of a searc…

A Secret Family History Shows “Regular” Life Under the Reich: Sarah Wildman on Paper Love

By Sarah Posner and Sarah Wildman

…y, week to week, year to year, under the Reich. What was striking about the search for one woman, was, in some ways, was realizing I needed to learn how to ask the right questions. Indeed: I needed to reconsider what those questions were, and where and of whom to ask them. Once I realized i had to shed a lot of my preconceived ideas on the period, and of my own family, I understood that despite how much i had read and traveled, in search of this w…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n the controversy, suggested the emergence of an Orthodox-Evangelical alliance. Here’s how he concludes: I know that some of the Orthodox with whom I e-mail have been watching Rome under Pope Francis, and, fair or not, are concerned that it is caving to modernity on sexual issues. Having seen so many Mainline Protestant churches yield to liberalism, and then begin falling apart, is part of the reason for grave concern by these Orthodox priests and…