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Will Francis’ Statements on Women and Gays ‘Make a Mess’ Inside the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…t I watched enough live coverage to get a feel for the scene at Copacabana Beach. Whether I wanted it or not, I probably earned the plenary indulgence promised to his Twitter followers! These Vatican people think of everything from age to age. Rio was a happy place for a pope’s international debut. The date was set several years ago so his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, had been expected to make the trip. Luckily for the kyriarchal church it was…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of hope. And this will add pain on top of pain.” Davies reports that Foley Beach, who heads the Anglican Church in North America, a collection of conservatives that has split from the Episcopal Church, was invited to attend the gathering by Archbishop of Canterbury Welby to avoid a boycott by conservative bishops. In a note written after the vote, Beach complained that the sanctions, while strong, “are not strong enough, and to my deep disappointm…

A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…the Unitarian Universalists. The UUs were active in two locations. A large number claimed a major downtown intersection, where 23 of them grabbed hold of a giant flag saying Arizona Human Rights, stood in the middle of the street and refused to leave. Those who chose not to get arrested stood on the sidewalks nearby cheering them on. The group sang songs, repeated chants and offered a powerful witness to the city of Phoenix. Those on the sidelines…

The Sacred and the Dead: I Love You More than Words Can Tell

By David Vanderveen

…g more fully ourselves as the years pass. Together. Mark grew up in Laguna Beach, Calif., and after college, returned there to start his own family. One of the many things he taught me was the importance of place. Where you choose to live matters. My old friend and I ended up living across from each other on Brooks Street in Laguna, a few blocks from the Pacific, one of my favorite spots in the world. The beach at the end of our street is famous f…

“American Values” and “Standing With Israel”

By Sarah Posner

…fall afternoon, John Cougar Mellencamp’s “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” and the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ U.S.A.” blared from a stage designed for a photo opportunity for a political figure yearning to be on a dais with the iconic white dome as a backdrop. The crowd was smallish, as these things go, a few hundred people at most, but the people who showed up for Concerned Women for America’s and Mike Huckabee’s Stand With Israel rally came with plenty of ent…

Oil Spill Blues: Prayer, Science, and Grassroots Activism

By Lauri Lebo

…day at 6 p.m. and say a prayer for “Grandmother Earth.” He asked Landry, a southwest Louisiana songwriter and emerging grassroots activist, to introduce his campaign to communities in the region, including Indian Nations such as the Choctaw and the Houma. “People in southern Louisiana are people of faith,” Landry said. “Even if you don’t believe in God, it still can bring people together.” While President Obama, in his much-debated Oval Office Add…

New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

…family estate in Kennebunkport, Maine. This led to the famous walk on the beach that George W. Bush says “planted a mustard seed in my soul,” and to his supposed rebirth as an evangelical Christian. That was the accepted narrative in the media and throughout the evangelical world for years. But Graham later told a journalist that he does not remember the encounter; and to another said he does remember a walk on the beach—but not, apparently, any…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…me?… [but] even I was a fabrication. In this new world, I could stand on a beach—but could I taste the salt hanging in the breeze? Feel the sand crunch beneath my feet? Dip my toes in the water and shiver from its coolness? All that I saw and experienced relied on memories that I had from my other life. This place could only create an approximation of a beach. It was up to my mind to do the rest. Faced with the emptiness of an existence that was o…

Weeks After Turkey’s Failed Coup, Thousands Have Been Arrested Over a Book

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ly sponsored by a Hizmet interfaith center, the Pacifica Institute of Long Beach, California, and two academic institutions, the religious studies department at Cal State University, Long Beach, and the Bayan Claremont Islamic School in the Claremont School of Theology. At the Claremont occasion, I mentioned to one of the Hizmet sponsors that I would be in Turkey that summer and had planned to meet with refugees fleeing ISIS-held territory in Iraq…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

…ich, and Andrew Anglin. TST-Santa Cruz announced their adoption of a local beach. Locals described being “shocked” that Satanists would clean up a beach but were not averse to the idea. Menstruatin’ with Satan art by Tina Scott. http://christina-scott.com TST-Arizona had a falling out with the local branch of the YWCA over their “Menstruatin’ with Satan” drive. The chapter had gathered so many feminine hygiene products for the local YWCA that the…