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Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…relationships – those who judge, criticize, blame and stigmatize everyone else except themselves.’ ‘They consider themselves as judges of the people and try to criminalize all forms of sin, to confirm the supposed “purity” of their lives and their own sinlessness, and forget that … we are all in one way or another people of sin and of the fall.’ Romania: Orthodox Church Supports Constitutional Initiative on Marriage The Associated Press reports t…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ic, a mostly Muslim nation of 31 million. Yan was helped by living in the relatively cosmopolitan city of Tashkent, which he says is a world apart from the countryside when transgender people can be raped and killed with impunity. “Their parents, family won’t even interfere,” Yan says over a steaming cup of tea. “Because they think it is a sin, a crime against God.” The LA Times notes that homosexuality is still a crime in Uzbekistan, and that the…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…ined in an interview. “And so I didn’t make the title ‘The Life of Pi’: I deliberately left out the definite article. That would have denoted a single life.” Similarly, the 1998 thriller Pi revolves around Max, a mathematician who tries desperately to find an equation for the universe, a pattern in the seeming randomness. One author even points out that, if you convert the Hebrew letters in one of the names of God to their numerical equivalents an…

Body of Work: Remembering Daniel Berrigan, 1921-2016

By Michele Somerville

…e, still, today). I was Catholic under protest. Educating myself about my religion helped—I read books about Catholicism, a little theology, encyclicals, a few biographies of saints and Church doctors. I developed a bizarre fascination with the Canon Code. But mostly, writing helped me stick with being Catholic. Reading poetry by Catholics and Catholic poetry—the poems of Daniel Berrigan were both—helped the most. That Berrigan was a poet, that he…

‘Politicized Religion’ Doesn’t Explain Evangelical Support of Donald Trump

By Daniel Miller

…holars (e.g., Talal Asad, José Casanova, Charles Taylor, Saba Mahmood, and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd) have argued, the delimitation of the social spheres of religion and politics, and the boundary between them, is socially-constituted, variable, and constantly contested. This does not mean that “there is no such thing” as religion or politics, or that one term can simply be collapsed into the other; it means that what counts as religion and politics…

Declaring a Theological State of Emergency: Trump’s Ignorance Must Not Be Ours

By Mary E. Hunt

…s. Because the content of these statements is focused on a specific world religion, I believe that scholars and activists of many religions need to step forward in concrete, educational ways. Theologians must be among the first responders on this one. And we need to start at the beginning since Mr. Trump’s ignorance of the Muslim faith mirrors that of many Americans. “Islam” has become a code word for terrorism. In fact, it is the name of a monoth…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…ience, and then you add to that DNA, which has been called things like the code of codes, the holy grail. We give it this kind of supernatural significance. So, I think it’s a combination of being a society that values data, being a society that equates progress with scientific development, and being a society that thinks that genetics—in part because DNA comes from you, from us, from we—is the ultimate information, the ultimate data. It’s like th…

How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…ould argue that it’s the other way around. At ORU, modern technology is merely catching up to evangelical Christianity’s longstanding tradition of monitoring student bodies. The Student Body at ORU Students at conservative evangelical universities today can generally expect two things: to receive a good liberal arts education and to have their behavior heavily regulated. Though codes of conduct may vary, evangelical universities like ORU, Liberty…

I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

By Megan Sweas

…r-married adults say it’s important to them to find a partner with shared religious and moral beliefs. Most secular dating sites allow you to list yourself and search others by religion, but there are dating services that cater specifically to Christians, Jews, or Muslims. And, of course, there are many shades of “Catholic.” St. Monica parishioner Molly Harrington, who isn’t involved in YMA’s dating scene, signed up for CatholicMatch.com during Le…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…transition as well as liturgies for same-sex weddings. As reported by The Telegraph’s religious affairs editor John Bingham, Wilson is a leader of a new campaign by pro-LGBT Anglicans, the LGBTI Mission, pushing for liberalization of church teachings on sexuality, an effort that runs counter to pushback by conservative Anglicans that resulted in the recent suspension of the Episcopal Church USA from the Anglican Communion. . The new campaign group…