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Glenn Beck’s ‘Social Justice’ Heresies

By Sarah Posner

…uthority God has given the church exclusively.”) Religious liberals who protest Beck’s theological heresies would do well to recognize the dangers of his other heresies as well. It’s not enough to defend the Bible from Glenn Beck; liberals will also need to defend the role of government in creating a social safety net and a regulatory structure that protects and enhances the economic lives of its citizens. While Beck has his conservative critics,…

Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…ano a mano. The film sentimentalizes individualized competition as the greatest of risks, reinforcing meritocracy as a moral metric in a ‘free market’ system. In this sense, it is no surprise that MMA is rising in popularity—its violence not only symbolizes ‘authentic’ sport, masculinity, and bodily autonomy but viscerally recruits and emotionally seduces regardless of whether we find it right or wrong. The felt distinctions between repulsion and…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…rrective rapes’, and many attacks go unreported. LGBTQ activists have gone underground after the Bishkek office of one advocacy group was firebombed. “I get phone calls and text messages saying things like: ‘we’re gonna cut out your tongue and shove it up your ass’ and ‘you are ruining this country,” said Nika. “The new law encouraged everyone to go after us, without fear of being punished.” The police are often accused of being at the forefront,…

All the Lonely People: Holiday Blues and the Epidemic of Isolation

By Peter Laarman

…like Jesus and the Disinherited, The Luminous Darkness, and The Search for Common Ground, Thurman wrote of God’s invitation to grow into the fullness of life by paying attention to and engaging other human beings at both the micro and macro levels. Over the course of his life and ministry, Howard Thurman fashioned a theology of friendship that would serve us well today as we hunker down into our isolation cells and consort only with those who are…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…novel The Taqwacores found a publisher. In 2003, Knight was pushing out an underground novel that spoke to a generation of Muslim-American youth who had no cultural home. There were pot-smoking, praying, Qur’an-reading Muslims, who would edit out sections of the Qur’an because they were “wrong” and no one could explain the text to them. Playing with the Arabic word “taqwa” (God-consciousness) and the punk suffix “core,” Knight gave voice a segmen…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…T rights. She said she decided to enter the United States illegally after being denied a visa by the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala. She was detained upon entering the country and held in a detention center in Hutto for four months, she said. Afterward she hired a lawyer and began the process of applying for a U visa, a non-immigrant status given to victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to government or lo…

Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…human rights defenders working on sexual minority issues.” … The law has become a tool being used by some police officers and members of the public to legitimize multiple human rights violations perpetrated against LGBT people. Such violations include torture, sexual violence, arbitrary detention, violations of due process rights, and extortion. Human Rights Watch research indicates that since January 2014, there have been rising incidents of mob…

Does The Supreme Court’s Religious Composition Matter?

By Sarah Posner

…shouldn’t matter, and there most certainly shouldn’t be a religious litmus test of any kind (including a litmus test for religious belief or affiliation), I was curious enough to take a look at this handy guide to the religion of Supreme Court justices. You have to go back nearly 150 years to find the only justice — David Davis, a distant ancestor of George W. Bush — to find one with no religious affiliation at all, and all the others have, of cou…

Even Tougher Questions to Ask Mormon Presidential Candidates

By Joanna Brooks

…ief in space aliens and tossing in a gratuitous reference to Mitt Romney’s underwear. (Really? Can we not get over the underwear meme?) Keller actually proposed a very moderate line of questioning gauging candidates’ commitment to the values of a pluralistic civil society, even if that commitment cost them the votes of the religiously zealous. No more doublespeak. No more coded encouragements to extremist religious voters. No more breezily righteo…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…challenged and misinterpreted, so that the very foundation of society is being undermined. Tong’s letter argued that passage of the Sexual Orientation Discrimination Ordinance (SODO) and recognition of same-sex marriages “would force our society into undergoing a change that would turn it upside down” – and urged Hong Kong’s Catholics to vote on that basis. Since we are in such a critical situation, I urge our faithful to play an active role as t…