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The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…edding destination among Westerners but Indonesian law defines marriage as between a man and woman. According to a story from Australia’s News.com, In Indonesia, where marriage between couples of differing religion is also banned, many couples marry outside the law, meaning their union is not legal but is legitimate in the eyes of their families and friends. The controversy in this case is not the marriage itself but the apparent involvement of th…

Springtime for Ross Douthat?

By Daniel Schultz

…s for moving too fast, and supporting Mutually Assured Destruction and the Vietnam War. Most people these days look to Juergen Moltmann (even he’s kind of old-school by now), Gustavo Gutierrez, Marcus Borg, James Cone, Sallie McFague, or any number of other thinkers and theologians that Douthat does not recognize. The only people who want to bring back Niebuhr are conservatives. (I’m an admitted fanboy, but that’s about coming from the same church…

Don’t Overlook Endless War in Rise of ISIS

By Haroon Moghul

…before deciding to try it again. Hence the gap between our intervention in Vietnam and nation-building in Iraq. But what about the places where total war becomes the norm? In the first half of the twentieth century, countries like Russia and Germany, and the lands in between them, initiated or suffered extremes of war that few countries have thankfully ever experienced, or could conceive of. Iraq might be able to. Just review the last one hundred…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…n under investigation by the officials in the prime minister’s office for “promoting homosexuality” since mid-March. The organization has been trying to resolve the matter quietly, but activists in Uganda say privately the investigation could be the beginning of an ominous political turn they have long feared — that the law would work not only to destroy the lives of hundreds of LGBT individuals, but also would become a weapon used against critics…

Perhaps Islam isn’t the Only Reason Donald Trump Didn’t Recall Muhammad Ali

By Sean O'Neil

…in Ali’s famously defiant line about the draft and his refusal to fight in Vietnam: “No Vietcong ever called me a n—-r.” Sociologist Harry Edwards referred to Muhammad Ali as the “patron saint” of black athletic revolt. Indeed, Ali’s religiously-inspired sociopolitical stance had interfaith resonance. He was an inspiration, for example, to African-American Christian athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith, who famously bowed their heads and raised t…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…aving this terrible sin of slavery at its beginning, then getting a little better with Jim Crow and a little better with civil rights. It’s too easy to say, “No, things aren’t perfect, but we’ve come a long way.” We cannot dismantle what we have not named. The truth is that black people in North Carolina had more political power in 1868 than they did in 1968. We had more political power after the Voting Rights Act in 1965 than we do today after Sh…

Are the Pews Half Empty or Half Full? Lessons From 734 A.D.

By Carlos Wilton

…the Pacific behind them. Navigating what they perceived as perilous waters between the twin reefs of fascism and communism, G.I.-generation parents looked to the church for moral instruction for their children. Sunday Schools boomed along with their babies, but when those children came of age, it was straight into Woodstock, Vietnam War protests and “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” Sometime in the mid-to-late 1960s, worship attendance quietly peaked….

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rtion rights and the fact that “the family and the institution of marriage between man and woman are under direct attack from those campaigning for homosexual rights and homosexual unions.” While discussing abortion, the letter celebrates the “dignity of every human person.” But when addressing homosexuality, the letter focuses on the “dignity of the family.” The bishops say that while homosexual orientation is “disordered” it is “not sinful in it…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…od subjects from Burning Man to This American Life. There has never been a better time to explore the intersection between Reverend Billy and the kind of academic discussion Kathryn Lofton has helped to forge. This summer, Billy and Savitri published a new book, edited by Columbia University journalism professor Alisa Solomon—The Reverend Billy Project: From Rehearsal Hall to Super Mall with the Church of Life After Shopping. In it, they reflect o…

Tim LaHaye’s World: We’re Living In It

By Jason C. Bivins

…ins best known for his co-authorship of the Left Behind novels, ubiquitous between the Clinton and Bush administrations. But LaHaye not only lived through several different Americas in his 90 years, he helped shape our present moment. On the face of it, this seems an obvious, water-is-wet-ish thing to say about a public figure. But LaHaye did more than simply contribute to public discourse, or propose a particular religious perspective; he help fa…