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End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the government, has alienated many former believers. The recent crisis in Ukraine has also exposed a potentially dangerous split in the millennium-old institution. Keating writes that during Communism, “treatment of the church ranged from brutal oppression (the imprisonment or execution of priests and the destruction of churches) to co-optation (many church leaders in the late Soviet period were KGB plants).” But even, so, he writes, “for Orthodo…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…official backing for its 2014 Summit in Moscow after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, but the meeting went ahead and WCF officials and American Religious Right activists such as Brian Brown still attended. One of the organizers of the 2015 summit is Janice Shaw Crouse of Concerned Women for America, who has lavished praise on Putin’s Russia for resisting “western LGBTIQ fascists” and suggested that Islamic jihadists are righ…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…lis affair, was decided in 1913 in the Russian Empire (specifically modern Ukraine), where anti-Jewish pogroms frequently followed the scapegoating of Jews by state actors. (These nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pogroms also resulted in many Jews emigrating to the United States, where treatment was better, but they were still very much second-class citizens.) While the jury acquitted Mendel Beilis himself, its members made a point of insis…

Why Moscow Wants to Crack Down on Foreign Funding for Minority Religious Orgs

By Diana Dukhanova

…used to investigate clerics publicly opposed to Russian military action in Ukraine, the foreign funding bill could work to preemptively silence criticism of the State from a religious standpoint. Likewise, just as the anti-extremism law has been used to investigate Jewish schools on seemingly non-existent grounds, this new bill would establish legal grounds for the federal investigation of suspect religious groups under the guise of alleged financ…

Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…nces to Gamergate, pizzagate, and “wamen,” as well as allegations that the Ukraine war is being fought so that Jewish people can buy the land. Violent ideations are implied in the posts. For example, he states that “any journalist” saying that there is no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election “should be dragged out into the street and shot.” Under a “Spirituality” tag are posts discussing quantum mechanics and consciousness; gnosticism; and…

The Kremlin and the Church: Russia’s Holy Alliance

By Konstantin Petrenko

…r many evangelicals took part in the 2004 Orange Revolution in neighboring Ukraine. These days, many religious groups are at the mercy of local authorities that feel pressured by the Orthodox bishops to restrict the ministry of other churches. Such restrictions have become common after the Russian government adopted the 1997 law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations.” Promoted by the Orthodox Church and directed specifically against…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ience. While many mainstream Republicans have responded to the invasion of Ukraine—including deadly Russian attacks on civilians and press—by employing the Tucker Carlson tactic of “anti-anti-Putin” rhetoric, the attendees of AFPAC didn’t even bother to mask their admiration for the Russian dictator. Shouts of “Putin, Putin, Putin!” could be heard from the crowd during Fuentes’ speech, a sentiment he affirmed. It’s important to note that he’s not…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Crimes reports that police in Beirut are using messaging apps on the cell phones of arrestees to try to entrap other gay men. In related news, the smartphone app Grindr, which allows gay men to find each other, announced it would permanently disable an option that allowed people to see their distance from other users. There have been reports that police in Egypt and Iran have used Grindr to hunt and arrest gay men. Jamaica: Activist Drops Challen…

Fear of a New Jewishness

By Jacob S. Dorman

…ssian Jews like my own ancestors come not from Russia but from Belorussia, Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania. But the historical persecution that shaped Ashkenazi Jewry, and subsequently the great majority of Jewish immigration to the United States, South Africa, and elsewhere, was by no means the only or the normative condition that Jews have known in the course of history. In fact, the models of Judaism and Jewishness developed relatively recently…