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Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ith the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference, the University of California Press blog republished “Why Do Some Countries Disapprove of Homosexuality? Money, Democracy and Religion,” which was originally published on The Conversation earlier this month. The article was written by Amy Adamczyk, a sociology professor at City University of New York and author of National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes Across the Glo…

“He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…of the state at age 16. Now a second-year law student at the University of California Los Angeles, Kendall has spent the better part of the past decade vocally opposing conversion therapy, and joining with state and congressional leaders who have sought to outlaw the harmful practice on minors. “Someone’s death is always a tragedy for those who loved them, and I do not intend for his friends and family to read my words,” Kendall told RD. He contin…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…ing a large percentage of nonreligious young adults. Only 31% of adults in California attend some form of weekly religious worship, and most of the victims of the Ghost Ship fire were in their 20s and 30s, making them statistically more likely to be agnostic, atheist, or another of the identities often collected under the category of Nones. The fact that most of the people on site were artists, and many of them also LGBTQ, meant that any chaplains…

Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

By Julie Byrne

…fter its founding, the Imani Temple welcomed an “Old Catholic” bishop from California to consecrate Stallings to the episcopate, so that Stallings could ordain priests and sustain the movement. So after my first book was finished, I started hanging out at Stallings’ C Street cathedral. I slowly realized that independent Catholicism included not only the Imani Temple and the “Old Catholic” California bishop, but literally hundreds of small jurisdic…

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…ar flowering of a potent culture of anti-union conservatism among Southern California’s evangelical and parachurch movements was entirely self-created and not simply the result of solicitation or manipulation by that era’s business leaders. Say it again: religion did this to itself. It lost its critical edge, investing far too much in the potential of individual compassion rather than collective justice action. Lehmann notes that during the tumult…

If Modesto’s Public Schools Can Teach World Religions, It Can Happen Anywhere

By Jonathan Homrighausen

…, San Francisco, New York. They are always astonished when I name Modesto, California. I spent much of my childhood and early adult life in Modesto, a city in the Central Valley, aka the “Bible Belt” of California. So Joseph Laycock’s recent article in Religion Dispatches profiling that course and interviewing Sherry McIntyre, one of its teachers, hit me on a more personal level. I took Sherry’s world religions and world geography course as a fres…

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

By Maren Haynes

…laboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California Though initially only accessible to the very wealthy, the telephone soon proliferated, and with it, a promise of relational immediacy—no longer did a person need to wait days or weeks to communicate by exchange of letter or telegram. The telephone promised a pathway out of our isolation and loneliness. In 1926, Arthur Pound sung its praises: “We who are still you…

Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics

By Kaya Oakes

…pointed by Popes Benedict and John Paul II. Bishops in Albuquerque; Davis, California; Minneapolis, and Berkeley, California* have removed priests and entire religious orders from Newman Centers and replaced them with diocesan priests or younger priests. The reason is often listed as a fall off of student attendance at those parishes. What is not as often publically addressed in these staff turnovers is that fact that campus ministries are expecte…

Marriage Equality: Race, Family Values, and the 99%

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…estyle choice, a sin in the eyes of God and “white” deviance. In 2011, the California State Assembly passed a bill requiring that the contributions of LGBT communities and historical figures be taught in K-12 classrooms. There is little evidence that this well-intentioned law has any teeth, as Ellen DeGeneres is the only prominent lesbian most high school students seem to know and most dialogue on homophobia never progresses beyond a token lesson…

The Sacred and the Dead: How an Iranian-Jewish Angeleno Discovered Her Tribe

By Saba Soomekh

…(And yes: we all went together to the Santa Clara shows—the Dead’s last in California a week before their last concerts ever in Chicago over the July 4 weekend.) The author (in front, left, wearing the hat) and some of her Deadhead friends from high school days at the Dead’s show in Santa Clara, Calif., last weekend. Photo courtesy of the author. When it was time for me to choose a college, it wasn’t a difficult decision. I chose the University of…