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Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…f politics and culture in the Arab World. David Kirkpatrick’s piece in the New York Times, “Chaotic Start to Egypt’s First Democratically Elected Parliament,” emphasized the “bedlam,” “yelling,” and “chaos” of the proceedings, while much of the British press characterized the election as an “Islamist” victory. A Telegraph piece evoked a tone of apprehension at “the rise of the Islamists,” noting cryptically that it “has alarmed liberal Egyptians a…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…ecialized in migration, but became intrigued with the congregation when in New York. Moshe Shokeid, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, wrote A Gay Synagogue in New York, a study based on participant observation and interviews with congregants in 1989. The book has since been reissued twice, and Shokeid has continued to publish in related areas. Looking back across the decades, much has changed for C…

Kagan, “Jewish Bolshevism,” and the Legacy of a Nomination

By Gordon D. Newby

…oted right-wing activist, sent out a podcast warning about Kagan’s Jewish, New York background: I think the real concern is, the question has to be, is Elena Kagan still a socialist? And the reason I say that is because in her early writings, in her early life, in the formation of her political sense, it is pretty clear that she is an American socialist. She comes from that background. I grew up in New York, she grew up in New York. I’m very famil…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…ion, and return to a world where it’s possible to live out what he calls “true Paleo.” Such a world wouldn’t just be better for human carnivores. Considering humanity’s impact on the environment, Eaton argues, it would also be better for the planet. This is Paleo eschatology, essentially—a vision of the world’s final destination, rendered in the language of an idyllic past. Eaton’s vision did not go over especially well with the other participants…

Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

By Paul Harvey

…ed in Georgia in 1845, by and for slaveholders. The result was reported in breaking news Monday night: legally, the Southern Baptist Convention will keep the name it has had since its inception, but informally, churches will be allowed, and even encouraged, to use a non-legal name, Great Commission Baptists, that avoids the negative connotations of the legal name. While recognizing “Southern Baptist” was a “strong name that identifies who we are i…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e was invaluable: “He was saying, ‘There’s nothing you can do to oppose my rule. The strongest nation in the world and the strongest man in the world stand behind me.’ ” Argentina: Judges who cut sentence of child abuser resign Two judges who cut the sentence of a man convicted of sexually abusing a six-year-old boy from six years to 38 months because the boy was supposedly showing signs of being gay have resigned. Associated Press reports that th…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…mes hesitatingly, as “unconfirmed”) by NPR, ABC News, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, the Houston Chronicle, and many other local news outlets and blogs. The real Joel Osteen Ministries began to receive inquiries. The earliest official denial came from the real Joel Osteen’s Twitter account on April 8 in response to a tweet: “It is a false rumor. Pastor Joel is not leaving the church. -JOM Team,” it read. The media coverage then shifted…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ns today can and should have much to say about each and every one of these new, and truly global crises. To say something meaningful, and to say it well, will require the art of imagination that religious energies have traditionally been marshaled to inspire. It is for this reason that I hope to devote further energy and attention to the marvelous and complex overlap between religion and art in the new year. But between now and then, there will be…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…linton over the Monica Lewinsky perjury scandal.” In a recent edition of Jerusalem Report, Mike Evans, the head of the Jerusalem Prayer Team, wrote: “The question in the minds of many elderly Jews in Israel is: Will Barack Obama’s newly-appointed Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, continue his efforts to divide Jerusalem and turn Judea and Samaria over to the PLO?” ++++++++++ Busy Days for ‘eBay of Prophecy’ As if the crashing economy with its record…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…compromise.” Chicago was therefore a foretaste of what we can expect in Jerusalem as we gather in June 2018 on the tenth anniversary of the founding of this great movement and the publication of the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration. Our theme is ‘Proclaiming Christ Faithfully to the Nations’ and invitations will be going out this month. We look forward with great eagerness to another wonderful gathering as we come together in true communion un…