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Ban on Female Genital Cutting in Somaliland is Progress, But Success Relies on Working with Religious Leaders

By Chelsea Garbell

…cle, anthropologist Bettina Shell-Duncan relayed an experience in Northern Kenya where she was discussing FGC with women from the Rendille ethnic group. “These women were my very good friends, and they were covering up their faces to not show how repulsed they were by the idea of somebody being uncircumcised and delivering a baby. They were, you know, revolted.” The power of this practice is invisible, but it voices the animating narrative in the…

Not a Review of Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?

By Nick Tabor

…he University of Arizona. After a stint of teaching at Harvard, he went to Kenya on an assignment for the Peace Corps, which convinced him that he wanted to put his work in the service of his values, instead of just his income. He didn’t particularly care about marrying. As he explains in Brother Astronomer, he felt a strong sense one day while praying that it was time he joined the Jesuits, whose avowed mission is to “find God in all things.” Aft…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ainst the devil.” Ocamb points to a 2007 interview with the Dallas Morning News: “My grandparents had practiced traditional religion before they became Christian. Now, in African traditional religion, if I had an attraction to a male person, that is considered as an abnormal thing, a spiritual problem. … Now, when my grandparents met the English, who introduced us to the Christian faith, they read the Bible to my grandparents, and said, look, this…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…olitical and media attention. Following the hearing, Bishop Andudu flew to New York to join human rights groups in urging members of the Security Council to take action. News organizations led coverage of their press conference with the Bishop’s call for intervention by the Security Council. Sudanese exile and human right groups organized a rally across from the UN. Hutson and the Bishop spoke along with a woman named Gedila Musa, a Nuban expatria…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

Newsweek/Daily Beast reporter Jamie Reno published a provocative interview this week with Sue Emmett, a direct descendent of Brigham Young and a former LDS Church member, that plumbs controversial aspects of Mormon faith and culture, including the status of women in the faith and a tendency among some Mormons to manage the way they speak with non-Mormons about complicated aspects of our history and religious practice. Flagging concern about how t…

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…partheid in the southern regions of the colony despite promising to uphold newly-won civil rights for African Americans as part of the “Compromise.” Thus the lie that “we aren’t racist” proved useful in the furtherance of the white nationalist cause and anti-Black violence as far back as 1877. Men, who only a decade earlier wore the uniform of the Confederacy to fight to preserve the traditional power relationship between white men’s boots and Bla…

Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…rticle details, the answer to that question is essentially “yes.” The dire news comes as no surprise to anyone who’s opened a newspaper recently: jobs are vanishing, the banking system is teetering on the precipice, the auto industry may be beyond redemption, and even the recently-passed stimulus package might not put things right. In my own little church of about 125 members, we have two people who have been laid off, at least three whose hours h…

A More Perfect Union

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…th the church in Nigeria, at the 1978 Lambeth Conference, according to The New Yorker. While the United States has approximately 2.2 million Episcopalians today, the center of Anglican gravity is neither here where Robinson resides nor in Britain with the Archbishop, but in Africa just as Adetiloye predicted. The approximately three million members in Kenya and nine million in Uganda do not begin to approach the 20 million in Nigeria, making Peter…

Rick Warren and Homophobia in Africa

By Sarah Posner

…dy read Kathryn Joyce’s interview with the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, author of the new report, “Globalizing the Culture Wars,” you should. It’s vitally important stuff on how American evangelical leaders have succeeded in exporting — and validating — homophobia in Africa. About Rick Warren, Kaoma notes: “In America Warren says ‘I love gays.’ In Africa, he says it’s not a natural way of life. He’s said, “I can’t say this in America, but I can say it in Afr…

Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…what UN Ambassador Nikki Haley had in mind when she pledge to ‘unabashedly promote American values.’” C-Fam has teamed up Russia and anti-equality African and Islamist nations to try to undermine the Council’s newly created independent expert, who is charged with investigating discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. CNN reported this month on the ways that Donald Trump’s travel ban and suspension of refu…