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Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…s significant temples throughout Mexico and Central America, as well as in Chile, Colombia, Spain, and, of course, the United States. California alone has around 40 churches, and there are major congregations in Houston, Atlanta, and New York City as well. Along the way, LLDM has been able to take advantage of a broader growth in Latin American Protestantism—a trend that has tended to favor pentecostal movements. According to Pew Research Data, on…

Mortal Combat: Risk in the Winter Olympics

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…must have on-call in such a time. An earthquake of stunning intensity hit Chile at the tail end of these Games, making it impossible for the Chilean contingent to return to their damaged airport. Thus they too remained for the Closing Ceremonies last night, if far from festive in mood. The risk of holding Winter Games so late in the season, and in such a temperate marine climate proved to be greater than anticipated; the weather was perfect for s…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…ed a campaign against “gender ideology,” which they said was being used to promote acceptance of homosexual relationships and the idea that “a person can voluntarily decide for themselves whether they are a man or a woman.” Among other things, the bishops charged that the World Health Organization and a European anti-domestic-violence effort were sowing sexual confusion among youth. Critics argued that church officials were using the campaign as a…

Should We Believe ‘Bombshell’ Report on Pope’s Knowledge of Sexual Abuse?

By Daniel Schultz

…l abuse, but that a former Vatican Secretary of State “notoriously favored promoting homosexuals into positions of responsibility,” and that McCarrick somehow helped maneuver liberals into episcopal positions. The agenda becomes clear: Viganò and his supporters don’t want increased tolerance for gays in ministry, and they blame them for the sex abuse crisis. Viganò says as much directly: The homosexual networks present in the Church must be eradic…

Blood for Oil

By Peter Laarman

…nd their families: from the diamond mines of Africa to the copper mines of Chile to the hideous suffering surrounding coal mines just about everywhere. I need hardly mention the appalling and chaotic conditions that still prevail in the despoiled Niger River delta. Lisa Margonelli reminded us in a Sunday New York Times op-ed that we deceive ourselves when we talk about curtailing our own oil extraction for environmental reasons: all we do by decli…

Letters to the Editors: On Gandhian Nonviolence

By Ira Chernus

…eing strictly nonviolent, creating justice, making a better world for all, promoting freedom, and advancing personal spiritual growth were all merely different ways to describe the very same process. Could it really be true? so many people wonder—and worry. Because if it is true, it should be the path everyone would want to follow. Yet so few of us do. If it were true, we would have to ask ourselves why we don’t follow it. We would have to put our…

How Does Mormonism Shape Romney’s Foreign Policy?

By Joanna Brooks

…demographics, but essentially values-neutral and centered on defending and promoting the interests of large institutions that reward loyalty. We’ve seen this institutional loyalty-centered approach to foreign policy from LDS people in decision-making positions before. It was Jay Bybee (a lifelong Mormon and returned Mormon missionary who served in Chile during the Pinochet coup) who supervised and signed the 2002 “Torture Memos” effectively author…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…ncreasing number of people, that boat of Peter has sailed. For example, in Chile where a major scandal unfolded such that all of the bishops were allegedly forced to tender their resignations, the numbers are plummeting. Ten years ago, 73% of Chileans called themselves Catholic. Today that percentage is 45 with reports that in Latin America as a whole numbers are down 20% in the same period. In Switzerland in November 2018, six prominent progressi…

Podcast: Eboo Patel on Islam, Pluralism, and the “Faith Line”

By Robert P. Jones

…sm: In my mind, I’m part of the story of America, I’m part of the story of India, and I’m part of the story of Islam. It was in the Holy Qur’an, which is the book that animated my ancestors, that I found the fullest description of that and that I found language that I considered home…. I love America because it gives me, the child of immigrant Muslim parents from India, the chance to participate in its progress and to carve a place in its promise….

Would Gandhi Disband Occupy?

By Ira Chernus

….” Gandhi had the luxury of facing one huge evil—the British occupation of India—just as earlier U.S. social movements organized around resisting racial segregation or the war in Vietnam. One big target does have its advantages. But Gandhi saw his opposition to British rule as merely one part of his larger program of “constructive work.” (Here again Desai errs, claiming that “the more mature” Gandhi shifted his focus from politics to constructive…