Religion Dispatches
…Korean, Kuna, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Quechua (Peru), Quiche, Quichua (Ecuador), Russian, Samoan, Swedish, Tagalog, Tongan, and Ukrainian. Translators will also do their work in real time for local congregations in Albanian, Bislama, Cakchiquel, Estonian, Icelandic, Kiribati, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mam, Nivacle (Chulupi), and Tzutujil. And translators working in Amharic, Efik, Fante, Igbo, Lingala, Twi, and Yoruba will reco…
Read More…ort of action, of controlling a woman’s body, is simply male penis worship run amok. These ladies, who call themselves Niqabitches, have done a great service in showing the inherent contradictions of the law, rather than just stating them. Perhaps one of my favorite parts of the video is when the female police officer, who will be required to ticket them in the near future, asks to take a picture of them. Sarkozy’s ban may have inadvertently creat…
Read More…hris Mooney, three names at the center of this often-heated debate, are participating. For those who want to watch it live on line at 5 p.m. today (eastern standard time), the video stream is here….
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…h who attended ex-gay ministries and later self-identified as LGBT still struggled. No matter how many years separated them from their experiences as young people in churches, the beliefs of their upbringing and their own same-sex desires still felt irreconcilable. By focusing on bullying, Exodus Youth and its supporters avoid the truth that their organization endorses insidious forms of hatred cloaked in the language of compassion. Religious orga…
Read More…it to end the policy was brought by the Log Cabin Republicans and Phillips ruling came after a two week trial last July. The US Department of Justice has 60 days to appeal the ruling—and could do so since President Obama has been clear that he wants Congress to repeal the ban instead of having it done through the courts. That’s the same argument made by the religious right—who fear that ending DADT will, among other things, strip chaplains of thei…
Read More…The objective of the Nazi regime was virtually identical to the agenda of today’s ACLU: Contain the voice of the church within the four walls of its buildings, turning them into nothing more than echo chambers, and punish any effort of church leaders to make their voices heard in the public square. Far from being stupid about what the First Amendment does or does not say about religion and the separation of church and state, O’Donnell was willing…
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…th offers of work and food. Before the first execution scene, we watched a video drawn from news broadcasts. It emphasized images of (white) US combat soldiers (in an army that is disproportionately working-class) and clips of floods ravaging people’s homes (in a year when thousands have lost houses to foreclosure). Finally, the recession came up at the Tribulation Trail’s last station, called “Counseling.” As is standard practice for hell houses,…
Read More…ery was built. At the Pyramid. It’s one of the most peaceful spots in Rome today, famous in part for the number of famous poets and visual artists who have found their final rest here. Keats is buried here; so is Shelley. Both men are buried next to close male companions of the road who poignantly elected to spend their eternities very far from home, but in the material proximity of their friends’ earthly remains. It is a deeply touching image, th…
Read More…atter-day imperilment of the US Constitution. (Someone even made a YouTube video morphing LDS Church founder Joseph Smith’s face into Mike Lee’s.) Lee won in areas strongly hooked into the mainstream suburban LDS base such as St. George and Provo, while Bridgewater hoped but failed to win by holding metropolitan Salt Lake City and rural Utah. So while some may paint this as another Tea Party victory, Lee’s win in fact returns Utah to an old and fa…
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…e one of the most profound and significant things you ever do.” “Biblical fruitfulness is the opposite of what today’s culture promotes. Our culture actually celebrates barrenness.” Even to the women who marry into the Wilson family, their roles are clear. Colton Wilson’s wife Anna tells us, “Because I love God I love my husband, regardless of whether or not I have feelings of affection for him in a given moment.” “The command to love him is just…
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