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“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace

By Franklin Strong

…t amazing soccer play I’ve ever seen. Another moment came in the sixteenth minute of the most recent final in Vancouver. This one was less about the stakes and more about one player’s Federer-like command of the occasion. I mean, Carli Lloyd’s third goal, the one where, breaking free from a defender near midfield, she looked up and, noticing that Japan’s goalkeeper was stationed too far forward, sent a shot over that goalkeeper’s hands and right i…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al burden needs to be shared internationally. But putting that aside for a minute, when the first waves of Syrians started coming into Turkey, their legal status was not recognized. They were called “guests.” There is no such thing in law as guest. Asked about the experience of gay and trans refugees, Kara said: Syrian refugees include Christians, Alevis, Sunnis, and Kurds. These groups experience many layers of discrimination. For instance, the S…

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

…a, Antioch and Russia changed their minds about attending at the very last minute (less than two weeks before the opening of the council), especially when absolutely nothing had transpired in the meanwhile! The current mood in Crete is peaceful and determined. The Churches that have arrived for the official opening are already working on the draft message to be published at the end of the council. They are, of course, also saddened that some Churc…

What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

“Americans never move until the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour. The fifty-ninth minute is now upon us.” —Matilda Joslyn Gage, “The Dangers of the Hour” (1890) If America is currently being “taken back” and made “great again” we seem to be landing somewhere in the late 19th century. It’s easy to say that great strides have been made toward racial and gender equality in the last 150 years, yet one can’t help being struck by the parallel di…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s in Chicago. This spring, a day after his birthday, Kolesov recorded a 15-minute message to young gay people in Russia, and it went viral. A few excerpts: He went on, in Russian, to tell the story of growing up as the fourth of six brothers in a small town, an hour’s drive from Moscow, where his father was a deacon and his mother was a youth pastor at the Pentecostal church. “In my family,” he said on the video, “I often heard that all gays shoul…

Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

By Bradley Onishi

…ting Trump? The threat was serious enough for the president to make a last-minute speech at the Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C. last weekend. For a man who often seems to operate according to instinct more than strategy, this was a calculated move. He needed to shore up his support among his most devoted base. In his speech, the president explained his policy change in Turkey and Syria as a choice to bring home American troops. “I don’t thi…

Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to listen to this sermon that was a thirty-minute apology, and then a ten-minute why it’s wrong to be gay. So, I’m starting to see these pastors apologizing for what they’re about to say. They seem to know, instinctively, that what they’re doing is wrong. There has been a lot of criticism about you from the far right, like Ken Silva (a New Hampshire pastor who runs Apprising Ministries). How do you respond to that criticism, or do you? I used to…

Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars

By Paul Wallace

…g hate us.” Like it or not, Stewart’s opinion matters. I suspect his three-minute jab did more to moderate the discussion and alienate the outliers than anything Beck or Huckabee could ever dream up. 7. Nidhal Guessoum, astrophysicist, for reminding us that, in the minds of nearly 1.6 billion people, “science and religion” does not mean “science and Christianity” The creationism-science debate is leaving American shores. It is being held in Arabic…

Time is on Our Side

By Amina Wadud

…rs of the imsak, which means the cessation of eating with an additional 20 minute buffer. I’m not one of them. The reasoning behind imsak is to be sure NEVER to be eating at the time when the fast should have begun. I did observe it in my younger more literalist days, but over time and with five children, now adults, whom I helped through their first of many fasts, I really got closer to Allah’s mercy. I recognized that 14 seconds too long on that…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…ersonal that way. You dream of possibility, enwrapped in the process. Each minute an opportunity for equalization, victory or loss; yet each minute fleeting all the same. Seeing the human body at work on a football pitch, however, can also be pedestrian, taking place year-round on every continent, every zip code. It is a game, proven by its global appeal, which defies socioeconomic standing. Therein lies further emphasis of the World Cup’s importa…