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CERN: Where Particle Physics Collides with Human Sacrifice (Apparently)

By Joseph Laycock

…e pay for conspiracy theories. Since the end of World War II, government research facilities have become to modern folklore what fairy realms and the underworld were to earlier people: a mythic realm that exists just beyond our normal world from which comes dangerous creatures and fabulous powers. Before conspiracy theorists warned that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider was being used to revive the Egyptian deity Osiris or open a portal to hell, C.S. L…

Gaza Reading [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…aign in Gaza, which began on Wednesday with the killing of Hamas’ military commander, Ahmed Jabari, and air strikes on the group’s long-range rocket launchers, is a gamble — and one that Israel might lose.” Gershon Baskin, who was negotiating a cease fire with Ahmed Jabari before he was assassinated, was on Democracy Now this morning, during which he lucidly explained the civilian fear on both sides. (Starts 20 mins in): Israeli journalist My…

Electionpocalypse, Part II: The Mythical Jewish Vote

By Sarah Posner

…lude what from this? That Jewish Democrats can engage in Islamophobic guilt-by-association tactics as well as Republicans? This was a clumsy attempt at pushback against Republican charges that Obama is insufficiently “pro-Israel.” But the out-Israel-ing each is the stagecraft of self-preservation for an audience that has other things on its mind. There is no “Jewish vote.” Jews vote. A small number of them vote for Republicans. Most of them vote f…

Did Francis Just Blindside Conservatives on Women’s Ordination?

By Patricia Miller

…of these early women deacons was unclear, which is what he would have the commission study. The Women’s Ordination Conference, however, noted that “decades of research on this topic has already been published by renowned feminist voices,” including Gary Macy, Sister Christine Schenk, and Phyllis Zagano. WOC also disputed Francis assertion that women deacons couldn’t preach because they aren’t in Persona Christi, saying it “rejects this flawed int…

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…group MassResistance, which has boasted in recent months about helping anti-equality activists in Mexico and launching a new chapter in Nigeria. Last Tuesday, the group wrote about the assistance it is providing Christian groups who are opposing the advance of marriage equality in Taiwan. BuzzFeed, the polling firm Ipsos, and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law collaborated on a survey of public attitudes toward transgender people in…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…o the machinery of conflict, but don’t want to sustain exchange programs, educational cooperation, or international visitors programs at nearly the same pace. We have the chance to; most Muslim countries, on the other hand, are too poor to do this. Such efforts will push open the door open for a new narrative to enter, one which doesn’t see the West and Islam as opposites, but as overlapping worlds. There’s nothing inherently impossible about this…

‘Let It Be Unto Me’: Akin, Rape, and the Early Church

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…y absurd but also morally wrong and deeply offensive. RD: Dr. Laqueur, you open your book Making Sex with the story of an “interpretive chasm” separating two versions of the same story; the first told in 1752 and the second in 1836. A monk is told to keep watch over the body of a girl whose family believes has recently died, but instead forces himself upon her sexually. In the morning, it turns out that she is not dead, but was just in a coma. In…

More Myth Than Fact: Kushner and Ivanka Changed Trump’s Mind on LGBT Discrimination

By Sunnivie Brydum

…mebody being able to do that.” Watch Posner’s Democracy Now appearance to get up to speed on the shifting landscape of LGBT rights and so-called religious freedom under President Trump….

Close Encounters

By Amina Wadud

…om the Netherlands sent notes from the conference I missed in Berlin, ending this weekend. In his note he gave me a quote from our mutual friend Nasr Abu Zayd that described hajj as macro-communication. Communication of what? Of the divine shared by more than three million people, at the same time, in the same place. May it be so. …

Religious Leaders Accuse Conservatives of Misleading Public on Contraception

By Katie Toth

…erstand what’s available to them now and to ask for those things when they come to open enrollment periods with their employers,” said Knox. While the ruling comes into effect in August, many congregants will begin to see their new health care benefits later in the year or even January, when their employers enter into open enrollment periods, he explained. *update The Guttmacher Institute also spoke out against anti-choice lobby groups today, wi…