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Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine

By Chrissy Stroop

…tion to being the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, New York City is, of course, one of the country’s most LGBTQ-friendly urban centers. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has bullied states governed by Democrats and played politics with the federal distribution of medical equipment needed to protect healthcare workers and treat coronavirus patients. Under the circumstances, already-valid mistrust of Samaritan’s Purse is ampl…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…an extremist ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed a 15-year-old girl to death at a Jerusalem Pride parade. Homosexuality is a taboo topic in Iran, where gays and lesbians can face lashings or death sentences if convicted. Human rights groups estimate that over 4,000 gays have been executed since the Islamic Revolution. Famously, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a crowd at New York’s Columbia University in 2007 that “in Iran, we don’t have h…

Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit

By Haroon Moghul

…understand Islam. Lou Engle’s world is alien from my New England roots and New York life. I’d attended churches before, but nothing like this. We need to know where this fear and hate come from, what its intentions are, and who it appeals to. But as the day approached, Engle’s connections to a network of right-wing activists and political Christians came into focus. From the involvement of US Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin (who has helpfully compare…

The Immorality of Immortality

By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

….B.S. Haldane, J.D. Bernal and Aldous Huxley—although their imagining of a new and better world through a centrally imposed vision was invalidated by the horrors of WW II. In the 1960s, however, more optimistic futuristic scenarios were articulated by science fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Stalislaw Lem, and later Bruce Sterling, Greg Egan, and Vernor Vinge. In the 1960s the futurist Fereidoun M. Esfandiar…

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…rty University in 2015. But unlike the Gipper, who spoke only of freedom, Cruz used the word liberty thirteen times. The shift back to liberty has also been championed by the Tea Party and popular libertarians like Ron Paul, who launched his Campaign for Liberty and affiliated student group Young Americans for Liberty during the 2008 presidential campaign. BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith picked up on this shift 2014 when he made the case for a…

The H Word

By Shalom Goldman

…ctims of the Nazis. Another Biblical word, ‘Shoah,’ denoting total catastrophe, was used (in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish circles one heard the word ‘Hurban,’ or destruction, the word used to describe the destruction of the First and Second Temples of Jerusalem). When the word ‘Holocaust’ was suggested, some Jewish scholars objected to its theological connotations, for it seemed to imply that those Jews murdered constituted a type of sacrifice to God, an…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mmering differences regarding ministry with gay and lesbian individuals. A new rule aimed at fostering trust among church decision-makers ended up facing considerable distrust and pushback. Advocates for LGBT inclusion in the church have protested and asked for a public apology for the way the debate has unfolded. New Zealand: Anglican Synod Fails to Approve Marriage Blessings for Same-Sex Couples Gay Anglicans and their allies were upset after an…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…ve a future, Ron Moore reveals we have a very deep past (Did you catch the New York Times’ bungling of the timeline?) Since none of you, as I do, teach journalism, this may seem incidental—but it goes to the heart of what made BSG a knockout series and may do the same for Caprica: the shows’ embedded humanism. Whereas most TV dramas are good guys versus bad guys, BSG and Caprica probe the passions that enliven us. The pull of temptation, the cost…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…Boston Globe announced it would be pulling the plug on Crux, the Catholic news website it launched in 2014. Crux was headed by John Allen Jr., a veteran church reporter who had previously written for National Catholic Reporter, CNN, NPR and many other outlets, most of them operating independently of the Catholic church. Allen has also written several books about the Vatican, including a 2000 biography of then-cardinal Ratzinger that was seen by m…

Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse

By Michael Schulson

…going to live for eighty years, or whatever, and perish? Now look at this world. This is a world where Donald Trump is leading in the polls. It’s a world full of nuclear weapons. It’s one where there are at least some people a bit anxious about the future. All my friends had kids anyway. They were like, Oh you have a good point, but I’m just gonna do it. Also on The Cubit: A conversation with the Transhumanist Party’s first presidential candida…