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Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…of AIDS/HIV globally and the epidemic’s history and current status in the United States? Internationally and in the USA, HIV and AIDS share a common denominator—poverty. No, not everyone who is HIV positive is poor, but there is an incredible coincidence of persons who suffer from both. Take a world map and note where hunger and malnutrition are most abundant. If you superimpose on that map the places where the HIV and AIDS pandemic are most ramp…

Clueless in Gaza

By Shalom Goldman

…blishment of the state, but one would be hard pressed to learn this in the United States. One reason might be that we in the United States don’t have as strong a tradition of public intellectual dissent as do other, older societies. Within Israel, a younger state, there is a tradition of political engagement that its European founders brought with them to Palestine. As in Europe and Latin America, Israel’s most prominent writers are also public in…

Leaving America to Marry

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…w while we were there. But, my second reason is deeper. I believe that the United States will be forced to recognize international same-gender marriages before they deign to recognize those performed within its own borders. The reason will be economic instead of religious. In a 2006 paper, University of Colorado law professor Laura Spitz argues that because of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) it may become impossible for the United…

Persecution of Ugandan Bishop Continues In United States

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hose donors might not belong. With its attacks on Senyonjo, IRD blends its international and domestic agenda. IRD spokesman Jeff Walton said in a press release: “Not content to compel Americans to surrender to their agenda of constantly fluid notions of gender and sex, liberal Episcopalians who resent Africa’s traditionalist beliefs now want the U.S. government to compel poor African societies to bend to permissive, secular Western mores.” Ah, yes…

Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

By Bill Berkowitz

…anced across, gender, race, and ethnicity. We met people from England, the United States, Libya, France, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, the Netherlands, Germany, Chile, Turkey, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Qatar, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, the Russian province of north Ossetia, Indonesia, South Africa, Morocco, Japan, Israel, Jordan, Italy, and Spain. They took us into their virtual communities, houses, and mosques, invited us to fatwas, too…

Pop-Eye: Global Jesus on Film

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…imagined on film, and that would be to contrast an American Jesus with an International Jesus. Kind of a New American Standard Bible translation in comparison with a New International Version; the stories are similar but told from differing perspectives. I am here imagining some future Lenten season when we can cue up a series of Jesus films made outside of the United States, and by so doing realize the plurality of Jesuses—the ways Jesus might b…

Obama Changes Course on Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…ions, arguing that “Several recent incidences of violent extremists in the United States who are committed to fighting here and abroad have underscored the threat to the United States and our interests posed by individuals radicalized at home. Our best defenses against this threat are well informed and equipped families, local communities, and institutions.” This statement comes under the heading of countering radicalization. While I have no doubt…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…seems strange at a synod on the family. None of the 16 experts is from the United States; 10 are from Europe (including five from Italy), three from Asia, and one each from Mexico, Lebanon and Australia. “There are more laypeople among the 38 auditors, including 14 married couples, of whom two are from the United States. Many of the observers are employees of the Catholic church or heads of Catholic organizations, including natural family planning…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…iting disproportionately from the rights of her image, many members of the international community—the United States’ white military industrial complex and White Feminist Majority in particular—have regarded Afghanistan merely through the point of view of war rather than as a nation of diverse peoples, a plethora of cultures, many histories, and multiple geographies—and have certainly benefited from positioning themselves as White Saviors. Afghans…

Reports of the Death of the Episcopal Church are Greatly Exaggerated

By Becky Garrison

…of England. Also, the Archbishop is an official patron of Greenbelt UK, an international social justice and arts festival that draws close to 20,000 international visitors each year. Such developments point to a phoenix rising from the Anglican ashes. One has to wonder why the media ignores initiatives endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury—choosing instead to profile a group of errant evangelicals, who are riding roughshod over centuries of chu…