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Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…a revitalized political, cultural, and religious left in America. Individual ministers still possess the same freedom to speak their minds as Fosdick did—and should; though ecumenical organizations with member denominations split over controversial topics must develop common ground first. Beyond the Binary As a historian whose own research on the National Council of Churches affirms Hollinger’s arguments about the repercussions of past ecumenical…

Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…us right Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin ruled on August 10 that the law criminalizing “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” violates constitutional protections for human dignity, privacy, and equality before the law. The case had been brought by Caleb Orozco, director of United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) more than six years ago. The Chief Justice ruled that the definition of “sex” in the country’s constitution, includes sexual or…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…raditionally Orthodox countries, and the ways in which this difference reveals the limits of the conversations around decolonization, multiculturalism, and self-determination. To begin with, why does the Orthodox Church practice the full-immersion baptism of infants? In fact, how and when baptism should occur has been a point of contention and identity within the larger Christian world for at least 1,800 years. Whether or not early Christians prac…

Religion and Violence? Short Answer: “Religion” Does Not Exist in a Vacuum

By Matt Recla

…tunately, the presumption of a “true” religion requires the adherent to dismiss all competing claims out of hand, and scholarship often follows this dichotomization. This essentialization of religion, good or bad, is a theological proposition, one that has no place in public discourse. My original analogy between guns and religion is limited, and this is the point where it breaks down. If a citizen successfully intervenes to stop a crime with the…

Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…the “mudpeople” (non-white, non-Christian, non-heterosexual, non-patriarchal males) were trying to take over the country. To save the country for Christendom the righteous white, straight, non-feminist Christian males had to be shocked into reality by the force of an explosion that would signal to them that the war had begun. These were McVeigh’s ideas from The Turner Diaries, but they were also Breivik’s. “The time for dialogue is over,” Breivik…

Apoplectic about Abortion: One Woman’s Emotional Roller Coaster

By Donna Schaper

…, where even rage doesn’t protect our souls. I am now praying for my mental health as a mature woman. I am praying to learn what Jesus could do, which is to love my enemy and be good to those who hurt me. As an adult, and a woman, I know my rage is hurting me as much as it is hurting my opponents. Can I try to understand what the sex police want? Do they want to justify their bathroom behavior? Do they want their mothers to “find something?” Are…

Will Gender and Sexuality Rend The Anglican Communion?

By Becky Garrison

…on to the priesthood went through about 20 years ago the compromise motion allowing alternative bishops was an inevitable part of it. Today it isn’t.” Hence, I’m not convinced that the ordination of women bishops will create a schism similar to the Great Schism of 1064 that created a perment fissure between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. However, some US evangelicals and their traditionalist counterparts in the US and U…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…still in the offing within the system of global capital. The range of global military actions unleashed by the 9/11 attacks dramatically demonstrate the way that modern wars do not respect national borders, nor traditional regulations concerning individual rights and non-combatant immunity. There is a seismic and revolutionary potential yet to be fully exploited in the new global communications technologies. And this world, our one and only, is c…

White Conservative Christian America Not Going Down Without a Fight

By Paul Harvey

…Oklahoma recently quoted as believing that Trump was campaigning as a “racial healer”), and including the repeatedly discredited pseudo-historian David Barton and hard-right culture warrior Tony Perkins—is a grab-bag of wish lists from cultural conservatives, white cultural nationalists, and “government is the problem” supply-siders. The platform, in fact, as it is currently shaping up, while in accord with Trump’s views on immigration and “the wa…

Cyclops Baby of the Apocalypse? Another Day in ISIS Fundamentalism

By Joseph Laycock

…described in certain hadith (sayings attributed to the prophet) whose arrival signals a final battle that leads to Judgment Day. Some analysts believe the rumor is a recruitment tactic by ISIS, intended to persuade young Muslims to participate in an end-times scenario now unfolding in Iraq and Syria. While the “apocalyptic cyclops baby” could be a calculated propaganda campaign it also demonstrate the inventive nature of fundamentalist religious m…