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Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield

By Kaya Oakes

…field: For me, the journey of being a failed missionary means that I never managed to convert anyone to becoming a white, westernized Christian just like myself—and what a good thing that turned out to be! When I was young and thought I knew everything, I started off working with East African refugees with the goal of converting them. But as I got sucked into their lives and spent more and more time with them (it’s been over a decade now) I transi…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…n lead to despair and a deep sense of loss. On the other hand, if they can manage to reconnect with their faith in a personal and spiritual way, this can give them great endurance, resilience and hope which are all necessary virtues to survive the hardships that they face. It certainly has worked that way for me. The second hope I have is that the book will be read by the Muslim parents family and friends of LGBTIQ folks. The book lays out an alte…

Vietnam, the Analogy

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ice of some of his closest staff advisors. Well after his assassination, in 1966, President Johnson significantly upped the military ante, and the troop numbers, committing the US to an all-out land and air assault; that was when the staggering casualties, on both sides, commenced. The analogy as I have set it up paints President Obama in the role of John Kennedy, young and charismatic and new to office, receiving some pressure from his military a…

Bishops More Welcoming To LGBT, But Not to Women

By Patricia Miller

…address the bishops were advocates of natural family planning—just like in 1964, during the Papal Birth Control Commission. The difference is, in 1964, the Catholic couples were light years ahead of the bishops in their attitudes about contraception. Altough they had been selected because they were members of conservative family organizations, they told the bishops that natural family planning didn’t work and put extraordinary strain on marriages…

Toward a Literature of Abuse

By Donna Freitas

…bolic items she’d place inside a paper lunch bag, designed to help parents manage this transition of seeing their little three-year-old kids go off to school for the first time (the parents used to cry way more than their kids, Mom used to say). As I remembered this, I began to wonder, what if my mother had made me my very own survival kit for after she died: what would she have put in it and why? And what, in my experience of mourning her death,…

What Makes Mormons Weird?

By Joanna Brooks

…he blonde Ken-doll phenotype many ascribe to ethnic Mormons (descended from 19th-century English and Scandinavian emigrants), our conservative politics, the carefully crafted and highly standardized language Mormons learn to use to both protect our beliefs and describe them to non-Mormons—and the radical innovativeness of Mormon beliefs in living prophets, eternal marriages, new books of scripture creates its own problems for the Mormon public ima…

The Night of Power: Laylatul Qadri

By Amina Wadud

…madan is the night of Power, and part of the ten day i’tikaf is to be in a spiritual state of readiness for this auspicious occasion. But there is no certainty which night it is because of some mess up from the companions at the time when the Prophet intended to tell them which night, and it was forgotten. So, like with the actual sighting of the new moon, I put this down to the place where we have to be really really on top of things and cannot j…

Do Catholic Responses to Stem Cell-Derived Covid-19 Vaccines Open a Door to a New Era in Health Care for LGBTQ+ and Others?

By Marianne Duddy-Burke

…least 32.7 million people have died of AIDS through 2019, and approximately 1.7 million people become infected with HIV annually. Since early in the HIV/AIDS pandemic, science has proven that use of condoms is a key preventative measure that drastically reduces transmission of the virus. Yet to this day, Catholic health care programs, which manage 26% of the world’s health care services and in many places are the only accessible health care provid…

RDEpistle: Open Letter to Sean Hannity

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o problem, anyway), can rant about how disgusting homosexuality is on pages 156 to 157. (Many thanks to your editors for the index.) I would call you a hypocrite, but if you’ve become a true believer, I guess the label no longer applies. I hope you are not too far gone, your conscience too eaten away with greed, to understand the violent and vile object lesson that Mr. Adkisson has provided for us in Tennessee, because it’s a lesson you need to le…

Murdoch’s Anti-Semitic Tweet

By Sarah Posner

…ently anti-Israel in every crisis? —Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) November 18, 2012 Peter Beinart quickly reacted: The implication is that Jewish media owners do indeed let their Jewishness define their Israel coverage. That’s why the coverage is “consistently” anti-Israel in “in every crisis.” It’s just that journalistically, their Jewishness expresses itself as hostility to Israel. Why? Murdoch doesn’t say but given that he has publicly equated…