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Behind New Zealand Terror Attack Is a Problem Bigger Than Islamophobia

By Murali Balaji

…lacement” trope. Indeed, white Christian terrorists like Anders Breivik in Norway, Dylann Roof in South Carolina, and now Brenton Tarrant, are self-styled (and self-described) soldiers in a fight against greater threats: secularism and pluralism. While white Christian nationalism has its roots in the United States during Reconstruction, it grew in the 1960s as the evangelical movement attracted new congregants fearful of racial and gender equality…

After Embracing Female Bishop, Pope Spins Again on Women’s Ordination

By Kaya Oakes

…formation. Women were not ordained in Lutheran churches until the 1940s in Norway, with most of the Nordic countries following within a couple of decades. (In the United States, the first woman wasn’t ordained in the Lutheran tradition until 1970.) Pope Francis has met with many female church leaders in the three years since his election. And the outreach to Lutherans, like his recent meeting with the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…use for what Lankford writes of Anders Breivik, who massacred 77 people in Norway last year, most of them teenagers: Instead of trying to prevent Europe’s “cultural and demographical suicide,” Breivik should have listened to the King of Pop. As Michael Jackson explained in his critically acclaimed song “Man in the Mirror,” sometimes the best way you can help others is to “take a look at yourself, and then make a change.” The upshot is that The Myt…

Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History

By Bernard Schweizer

…well as widespread calls for boycotts in some southern states. Ireland and Norway banned the movie altogether. I recount this history (and much more related to the theme of religion and humor), in my recent book Christianity and the Triumph of Humor, where I also trace the most frequently invoked motifs of irreverent comedy to their antecedents, some reaching all the way back to the Middle Ages. Indeed, some comical ideas surrounding the annunciat…

Why Romney Won’t Stand up to the Bigotry of Bryan Fischer

By Joanna Brooks

…s the invention of “homosexual thugs.” And blamed the genocide of American Indians on the alleged immorality of indigenous people. And, most recently, Fischer argued that the First Amendment does not apply to non-Christians, including (and perhaps especially) Mormons. That’s the backdrop against which Mitt Romney will turn the microphone over to Fischer during the Saturday morning plenary session at VVS. Not surprisingly, advocacy groups like Peop…

The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation

By Robert Marus

…th’s damage may actually leave some plaintiffs better able to defend their free-exercise rights than before. And other rulings on both free-exercise and non-establishment cases—such as in employment cases involving churches and cases involving government-sanctioned prayer—have maintained a distinctiveness for religion as a constitutional category. But other learned First Amendment scholars—such as Marci Hamilton of Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law…

Anti-Gay Forces On Offense in Europe; ‘African Islam’ Challenged by Extremists; Irish Marriage Foes & ‘Sounds of Sodomy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ernment abolished fines that were imposed on homosexual weddings in 2013.” India: Hundreds Arrested Since High Court Re-Criminalized Homosexuality The Deccan Herald reports that at least 600 people were arrested under Section 377 of the penal code – the colonial-era anti-sodomy law – last year after the Supreme Court reinstated the law, which had been struck down in 2009. Russia: Putin Makes It Illegal for Trans People to Drive The government of V…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ng to burn and send you to hell, where you all belong.” Ireland: New group promotes LGBT inclusion in Presbyterian Church The Belfast Telegraph reports on a retired lawyer’s efforts to create a group that would promote inclusion of LGBT people in the Presbyterian Church, an effort “to emulate the success of existing grups such as Changing Ireland and Accepting Sexuality, which have been operating within the Church of Ireland and the Irish Methodis…

In Russia It Is Now a Crime to Insult Someone’s Religious Feelings

By Chrissy Stroop

…sonally, I appreciate and enjoy the radically liberal American approach to free speech, including the right to blaspheme—which is of course not to say that to do so is always wise or tasteful. But, as retired history professor Anthony Edmonds of Ball State University used to quip in the classroom, a historian’s favorite hand is “the other hand.” For better or for worse, I am professionally trained as a historian. Thus, despite my respect for Ameri…

Will IRS Crack Down on Church Politicking?

By Sarah Posner

…ght legal firm Alliance Defending Freedom, claims “the future of religious freedom depends on a free pulpit to communicate fundamental, biblical principles to congregations across America” and urges pastors to “join a growing movement of bold pastors preaching Biblical Truth about candidates and elections from their pulpits.” In AU’s letter, executive director the Rev. Barry Lynn argues that “it would be detrimental for our country and the democra…