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Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

By Chrissy Stroop

…whereas befriending someone who’s different so you can deliberately try to change them–particularly if you plan to try to change something central to their identity–is objectification, and therefore unethical. In any case, no matter how you slice it, proselytizing is not the same as me telling a friend they should try my favorite sushi place or arguing that, for example, voting for Republicans is harmful and unethical. https://twitter.com/robinbri…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…eeply poignant. Satyamev Jayate declares in its advertisements that it has changed the way people think. This episode on queer identity may well live up to those lofty claims and we can only hope that it does, because Satyamev Jayate did something radical: it presented queer identity as something normal. Because news flash: normal is exactly what it is to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or straight. As psychiatrist Anjali Chhabria put it…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y, even the liberals don’t agree with this.” The progressive church has to change first and then the moderate churches have to change next and once that’s happened, then it’s possible to even start the conversation in conservative churches. That’s where I feel like we are right now. In that sense, I feel like what I’m doing is just an extension of the groundwork that’s been laid and it’s probably the best sign of respect I can give to everyone who…

Falling in Love With the Earth: Francis’ Faithful Ecology

By Jacob J. Erickson

…and not wildly) about the contents of the letter: its portrayal of climate change, its reflection on the human causes of climate change, its reflection on planetary science, its depiction of human life and sexuality, its understanding of everything from fossil fuels to water to biodiversity. (Yale’s Forum for Religion and Ecology assembles some of the best of that content here.) As I read through Laudato si I saw much of the speculation confirmed….

Are We Entering the End Times for Mainline Seminaries?

By Elesha Coffman

…her Roman Catholic or inter- and non-denominational seminaries. “Even when change has been a long time coming, and even when change has been part of an institution’s history, the end of a seminary as its constituents know it is painful.” Legacy funding can only go so far, however, with enrollments dropping 24 percent in the past decade. Episcopal Divinity School still held $53 million in investments, plus its campus, at the time of its announced c…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…and marginalizing their children. If the dynamic between parent and child changes, then there are seeds for change in the wider Muslim community. Many people expect dialogue and debate to begin with Imam and mosque leaders, but these will be the last to change their attitude and practice. Change will start first within the hearts of LGBTIQ Muslims, and then within their own families. I have heard some anecdotal evidence from email correspondence…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…wer is that at the level of teaching and structure nothing—but nothing—has changed this year. 2. Women and Gays A second difficulty flows from the first, in that nothing has changed for women or LGBTIQ people with regard to Catholicism during the early months of this papacy. Nor is there much prospect on either issue given what the pope has said publicly. Regarding women’s ordination, Francis has been clear: “On the ordination of women, the Church…

Turning Students into Citizens, Religious Studies Edition

By James Miller

…responsible choices under this unprecedented condition? In short, climate change is a game-changer for the whole of higher education. Laurie Zoloth realizes this, but Ivan Strenski does not. Strenski advocates a model of higher education rooted in the disciplines of the 19th century. In this model the goal of a religion department is principally to train scholars of religion and not to engage in social activism. The same would be true for economi…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…led to quell our nuclear nightmares. In somewhat the same way that climate change denialism functions today, the Atoms for Peace campaign merely divided public opinion, allowing some to sleep easy and the most knowledgeable people even more distraught and fearful. Events like the recent reactor meltdown in Northeastern Japan can bring even the sleepers back to the edge of anxiety, and then there’s the persistent fear that a nut job or a terrorist…

UNESCO on Religion, Culture and SOGI in Asia; Orthodox Family Sues to Stop Cremation of Israeli Trans Woman; Struggles of Iraqi Queer Activists; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the family time to appeal. Mormon Church: Mass resignations after anti-gay policy change More than 1,000 Mormons and their supports rallied in a Salt Lake City park on November 14 as part of a campaign of mass resignations following the release of new anti-gay policies that prohibit the baptism of children of gay couples. Organizers told Reuters last Sunday that about 1,500 people had resigned. Church officials urged people to think twice. A Churc…