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What do the January 6 Commission, Covid Deaths and Gun Massacres All Have in Common? God’s Chosen

By John Stoehr

…Republicans in the United States Senate filibustered this morning a bipartisan House bill that would have created an independent ideologically neutral commission to investigate the January 6 sacking and looting of the United States Capitol. The United States Congress created such commissions after the Oklahoma City bombing in the 1990s and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Along with being good for democracy and patriotism, a commission…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…lace in Lo and Behold. Behind an image of Tibetan monks staring into their phones with the Chicago skyline behind them Herzog asks “Have the monks stopped meditating? They all seem to be tweeting.” But the power of the internet is not in a few addicts who can’t pull themselves away from their screens, rather it’s in its omnipresence. Herzog avoids the everday aspect of the net (and attendant statistics) looking instead for the colorful and odd ind…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…forces behind anti-marriage-equality movement BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder and Diego Olavarría published an in-depth story on the backlash to marriage equality, which has included rallies across the country over the past month. This was not simply a spontaneous backlash to the president’s proposal. This was an event more than a year in the making, coordinated by a network of conservative groups who wanted to amend the constitution to reverse marriage…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…e platform to see a world less so. It is a human event that allows for any number of sins from the calendar of human frailty. You can bask in the craft of Leonel Messi, who manipulates the ball like a marionette to puppet; but you cannot be free of the ego of coach, villain, and Saint, Diego Maradona, pacing the sideline, looking for an opportunity to abscond with the limelight. The glaring example for this year’s tournament comes in the form of a…

Barna Plays God, School Board Boot Camp, and the Birth of the ‘SAGECON’: Day 3

By PRA Staff

…olitics of today’s GOP, and cites J.D. Vance, Blake Masters, Kari Lake and Diego Morales as praiseworthy GOP candidates in the upcoming midterm elections (despite the supposedly nonpartisan nature of the Pray Vote Stand summit). Panelists encourage the audience to “connect with local Hispanic communities and their churches,” and to celebrate that “we are consolidating the Hispanic conservative movement—whether Anglos or African Americans, we need…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nssexual Catholics are ineligible. Indonesia: ‘When sexuality meets faith’ Diego García Rodríguez, writing in the current issue of Inside Indonesia, speaks with members of the Youth Interfaith Forum on Sexuality (YIFOS), which was created in the wake of two incidents in 2010. In one, a group of conservative Muslims occupied the hotel where an international LBGTI conference was scheduled, and in the second, conservative Muslims attacked an internat…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…sus as the Man of Sorrows in front of the bewildered Pope. The Nahua noble Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin fashioned this breathtaking version of the scene for Pope Paul III, combining the Aztec style of amanteca featherwork with the Catholic narrative. Jesus is surrounded by the Arma Christi, which serve as pictograms, stylized representations that convey the larger meaning of his suffering. To his right a Jew, a figure no Aztec person could have enc…

Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point

By Andrew L. Seidel

…fetish of their choosing. But they should not do so with a government microphone, and not on the taxpayers’ time and dime. We’ve seen plenty of divisive prayers from the conservative side. Often deliberately so, wielding prayer like a cudgel. The Pennsylvania legislator’s Jesus-laden, jaw-dropping prayer uttered to intimidate the state’s first female Muslim legislator. A preacher echoed this prayer, telling the Virginia House of Delegates that “ev…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

….” The school teacher was Mr. Batra, a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist organization. As early as 2001, Mr. Batra has engaged in political and legal measures to affect educational curriculum through his organization Shiksha Bachao Aandolan Samiti (Movement to Save Education). For Mr. Batra, Doniger’s malicious act was her portrayal of a history of Hindus replete with eroticism, women, and unorthodox v…