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“Reconciliation” With Indigenous People is Comforting For Many Canadians, But is a Christian Concept Up To The Task?

By Pamela Klassen and Joseph Wiebe

…endship. Being treaty people requires challenging the falsehoods seeded by stories that tell of “civilization” emerging from tamed wilderness; it also requires listening to and reading the words of Indigenous peoples. Reading books like Maria Campbell’s Half-Breed, Eden Robinson’s Son of a Trickster, or Harold Johnson’s Two Families is one place to start. Reading the news can be another way to listen, but you have to work much harder to find stron…

Taking Aim at Religion Itself, Apostles Prime Networks For Real-World Violence

By Frederick Clarkson

…in their way.” It should be noted that, while it may be the most accurate word to describe his actions, Trump was not charged with treason, and death is not a punishment for the crimes for which he stands accused. Some NAR apostles and prophets, including Hood and the brothers Sheets, say that God speaks to them through dreams. In Hood’s dream, he says, he was with several apostles in a “command center” at the Oasis Church. The date was January 7…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…ead the church, and others are to lead in the world, in order to bring the world under the rule of Jesus or the “Kingdom of God.” This “reformation” operates a lot like a Amway organization, with certain apostles, who are connected to churches having an area that they preside over; others are “apostles” because they have achieved success in the “world.” Sarah: I’m really glad you brought up the entrepreneurial/multilevel marketing aspect of this…

World AIDS Day: Sacralizing Change

By Susan Henking

…alls us, whether ourselves religious or secular, to refuse the role of religion in perpetuating hatred and inhumanity, to focus on a role for religion in social justice for all, and to share in the work of world transformation aiming for a world in which World AIDS Day is no more. Some say setting aside a day to remember and mourn the millions who have died and the millions with AIDS/HIV is itself sacralizing—let us hope that it is sacralizing hop…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on the World Council of Families and its promotion of anti-gay policies in Russia and around the world, as well as religious conservatives’ rhetorical opposition to “gender ideology.” This week Political Research Associates released an article on WCF’s global reach and how “a seemingly innocuous definition of the ‘natural family’ is being used as the basis of new laws to justify the criminalization of abortion and LGBTQ people.” With its doctrine…

Pope Says Forgive Women Who’ve Had Abortions

By Patricia Miller

…bortions—and the implications are unmistakable: cool Francis is once again breaking with tradition on hot button issues of sexuality and taking the church in a more progressive direction. But Francis’ move raises questions that reflect on both his popular image and the battle over abortion within the church. The first is whether, when you dig below the surface, Francis has done anything new or whether the media is once again being overly generous…

You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

By John Stoehr

…nnected to your hand is not necessary to sensation (i.e., experiencing the world around you). In other words, the old understanding of how the brain works doesn’t make sense here: that your senses, in this case touch, send information to the brain for processing, which yields consciousness. Given the results of the rubber hand illusion, consciousness is not inside you, sealed off and hidden from view. It’s inside you vis-à-vis outside you. It sugg…

Conservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nections. Connections came to me because I am Orthodox,” he says. In other news from Russia, activists filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights over the government’s rejection of their application to hold a marriage equality rally in Moscow, one of dozens of event requests rejected in the name of the country’s anti-gay “propaganda” law. India: Talk Show Sets Record Straight — Yoga No Cure for Homosexuality In India, where LGBT peo…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iated the wedding of two men in Badalona, Spain, last Saturday. At Morocco World News, Karla Dieseldorff writes, “An image of Taleb dressed in hijab, next to the newlywed couple at the city town hall has made the rounds on social media networks stirring outrage and receiving all kinds of comments.” Fátima Taleb, 39, is the first ever Muslim woman to be elected councilor in Guanyem Badalona, in eastern Catalonia, Spain, according to Spanish newspap…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…SBC, signers of the Danvers Statement include the Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, conservative Presbyterians, and men like John Piper, Wayne Grudem, and Mark Driscoll (the disgraced former pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle). Another branch of anti-feminist complementarians, Capitol Ministries, conducts a weekly Bible study in the White House. Ralph Drollinger, the founder, also teaches his doctrine in most of the state capitols and…