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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…rld a more miserable place,” said the Rev. Hong Jae Chul, president of the Seoul-based Christian Council of Korea. He called Kim’s remarks “cursed and deplorable.” Russia: Move to Declare Same-Sex Marriage Unconstitutional Member of Parliament Igor Zotov has reportedly begun collecting signatures to amend the Russian Constitution to say that “Motherhood and childhood, family and marriage as a voluntary union between a man and a woman are under the…

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Great Moments In Bipartisanship: Bible Edition

By Daniel Schultz

…ere.” They are held indefinitely until the government can convince [http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1172939.html Palau to “temporarily resettle” them]. [Exodus 7]: Moses, Pharoah agree in a spirit of comity that Israelite exodus will be postponed until visa, employment issues can be resolved. Slaves receive tax rebates and low-interest loans for purchase of straw, mud. Egyptian stock market climbs on news of record profit…

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Jews and Christians for Santorum?

By Sarah Posner

…azis: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Mass. Hysteria www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook According to the group’s press release, Gary Cass, a protege of the late D. James Kennedy and the founder of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, is also a member of Jews and Christians Together. Cass’s “commission” claims that Christians undergo terrible persecution…

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Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween

By Maxwell Grant

…to Halloween. The movement began in 2002, and the organization’s website, www.jesusween.com, doesn’t appear to have been updated since 2012. But it’s still worth talking about, and not because it fits with the famililar “Ain’t those Evanglicals kooky?” meme. More recently, actor Kirk Cameron urged Evangelical families to approach Halloween, not quite as “Jesus Ween,” but along similar lines: You should have the biggest party on your block, and yo…

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In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

…rsecution, because of natural human difference, has not gone away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtekphm2ipM Too often, we try to forget our histories of genocide. It is too gruesome to remember that the Aborigines of Tasmania no longer exist, or that the Atlantic slave trade perpetrated unspeakable horrors. Even when we memorialize recent and catastrophic events like the Holocaust, Bosnia, or Rwanda, it is with a shake of our heads and the wond…

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7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ed by The New York Times called “Transgender, At War and In Love.” https://www.facebook.com/Ireland.Logan/posts/10214301296633323?pnref=story   …or leaders of the service branches to which he just issued orders… It appears that the White House and the Pentagon are playing a game of “hot potato” with reporters seeking further explanation and comment on the sudden about-face in policy. https://twitter.com/samstein/status/890281954574303232 Meanwhile…

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Rev. Rob Lee Lost Congregation For His Anti-Racism Speech: Here’s Why He Should Have Packed His Bags First

By Daniel Schultz

…it is the reality of working respectfully in community. Go to top https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YaZs6HRInY Go to top So I’m not in favor of demanding Christians take particular social stances as a mode of pastoral ministry. To be very clear, it’s the “demanding” part that’s problematic here, not the idea that the Christian faith entails certain views on social equality. It does. And America very much needs leaders who can articulate the urgent…

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Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…cts? Concert/art performance at The Fremont Abbey via Cocoa Dream (https://www.flickr.com/photos/haoli/) It tends to be churches, I think, because their costs are lower and the buildings are often beautiful. If somebody came to me and said, “Hey, I’ve got this blank warehouse, and we need to activate it with arts organizations and nonprofits, but I need to make ten grand a month,” I’d immediately say, “I’m sorry that’s probably not going to work.”…

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In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…rd numbers: in 2011 alone, according to the federal government database at www.usaspending.gov, Catholic Charities received over $753 million in federal funding. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has not, as the president promised on the campaign trail, reformed faith-based funding to ensure, among other things, that groups receiving taxpayer aid do not discriminate in hiring. It seems that there is a more compelling argument to be made that fed…

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#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

…United States did to yoga, which was make it expensive and bland. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVcvL8kg0nM/?taken-by=trapyogabae “I would be lying if I said we’re honoring the Bhagavad Gita because we’re not. Appropriation is real, and I question my own motives as well because I know that’s not what I learned in India. And I wonder what my guru thinks when he finds me online since that’s not what he taught me. We used to fight about these things.”…

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