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Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…announced that it had produced a program titled Is Jesus God? which would air on a number of television stations (mostly religious) across the country. “It is just amazing what God has done in history, and we as Christians need to know this information because our faith is challenged,” said Dr. Jerry Newcombe, senior producer of The Coral Ridge Hour. “But it’s challenged by baseless feelings and opinions, a lot of which is based on people’s desir…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to do away with laws criminalizing LGBT and to protect their human rights. China: Trans man continues fight over firing A transgender man who challenged his firing in court is vowing to challenge a ruling that his dismissal was legal, reports the BBC. Nigeria: Foundation launches survey of LGBT Nigerians The Bisi Alimi Foundation is hoping to reach 500 to 1000 LGBT Nigerians with a survey on the impact of homophobia and discrimination on the basis…

As Gaza Burns, Jews Disagree, Protest & Pray

By Sam Kestenbaum

…ssiles Hamas has fired (2,270)—some reaching as far north as Jerusalem—the number of Hamas’ smuggling tunnels uncovered (31), the number of Israeli soldiers killed in action (29). These numbers will likely change every hour. In the weeks leading up to the Israeli invasion of Gaza and now as increasingly grisly accounts and bloody images emerge of Palestinian homes and hospitals blown apart, American Jews are conflicted—alternately protesting again…

Pastor Convicted in Lisa Miller Child Kidnapping Case

By Peter Montgomery

…d that as he drove home from the border, Mr. Zodhiates tried to call a cellphone number registered to Liberty Counsel, an evangelical legal group. That cellphone number has sometimes been used by Mathew D. Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, dean of the Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., and a leader of Ms. Miller’s defense team. The RICO filed by Jenkins includes information that RD readers learned last year from Sarah Posner’s…

Confront Death by Avoiding Fritos: The Gluten Lie, Fad Diets, & Foodie Faith

By Michael Schulson

…hings are distant enough where we are able to romanticize them. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, there’s a huge push within China to reject Traditional Chinese Medicine. This romanticization of what is outside of one’s culture, especially in order to deal with health problems, is something that is really common, and something we ought to avoid. At the same time, our culture’s eating habits seem to hurt people. Is looking outside of our own cultu…

Dear Hollywood, It’s Time to Start Making Films about Real Black Catholic Nuns

By Shannen Dee Williams

…then I am the Queen of England, the President of the People’s Republic of China, and the lost ruler of Zamunda rolled all into one. While angry reactions to remade classic films are understandable, the notion that Sister Act ever should be taken as anything more serious than Hollywood entertainment is downright ludicrous. It also cannot go unchallenged, not only for the sake of sanity, but also out of respect to the long and fiercely-contested hi…

Coronavirus Exposes the Religious Right’s Racism

By Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead and Joseph O. Baker

…those immigrants are non-white and/or non-Christian. But Kirk’s repeated “China Virus” tweets, and Trump’s powerful retweet, both connecting the spread of disease with the need to keep immigrants out, are a clear reminder that white Christian nationalism has always connected non-white immigrants with social and biological contamination. Immigration is framed as an issue of purity or contamination; a righteous body politic or pathological disease….

Grab ‘n Go – Investigative Thriller Follows Covert Efforts to Control the Source of Life But Comes Up Short on Analysis

By Peter Laarman

…to be a UAE sheik in charge of security for the Emirates and (wait for it) China. Some measure of useful exposition follows. The filmmakers want us to understand that the thing many Arab states and China fear most is instability created by food shortages. The African continent encompasses something like 50-60 percent of “undeveloped” arable land, making it the obvious target of a new scramble for Africa that echoes the original European Scramble f…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s were meant to represent a broader understanding of family: a few of the pairs were already living together, some were getting married for the second time, and one of the brides already had a child. United Nations: Human Rights Council Adopts Anti-Discrimination Resolution Last Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution against anti-LGBT violence and discrimination. From the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers: The U.S., a…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…st version of the faith? Will the Dalai Lama choose not to reincarnate? In China itself there is the possibility (as mentioned earlier) of China becoming the largest Christian nation on Earth. Finally, what are the totally unforeseen movements, religions, events, and scriptures that will emerge in the next hundred years? What syncretism will our historian note? What religions totally impossible for us to imagine will she write about? What will qui…