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Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…last year argued against marriage equality in a 2012 lawsuit at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights brought by three Chilean same-sex couples. Morocco: British Gay Man Released from Jail A 69-year old British man who had been sentenced to four months in prison in Morocco for homosexuality was released after 20 days. According to the BBC Ray Cole was vacationing in Morocco, visiting a man in Marrakech he met on the internet. Police reportedly…

Kosher Nukes: Israeli PM Consults with Radical Rabbi on Iran Strike

By Shalom Goldman

…u’s jingoism and Yosef’s apocalyptic messages are a powerful combination. Let us hope that along with their ‘partners’ in Tehran they don’t manage to take us all to the brink of war—and beyond….

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…State University, describes the hybridized practices adopted by some Asian Americans. He sees how Vietnamese Americans create home shrines that blend the traditional—a single photo of an ancestor beside assorted fruits—with a touch of “Americanization,” such as adding significant ornaments or a photo montage that personalizes the shrine. Meanwhile, second generation Korean American churches practice a distinct form of simultaneous spoken prayer, w…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…or the LGBT community in Jamaica: some claim that homosexuality is a North American import, and thus not part of Jamaican tradition and culture. However, American evangelical churches play a strong role in importing and exacerbating homophobia in Jamaica. Lewis explained that since the 1970s, American evangelical churches have become entrenched in Jamaican society and are no longer viewed as outsiders. In contrast, advocacy on behalf of the human…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…tiny community of Messianic Jews, whose efforts, in turn, are supported by American conservative Christians. To the extent American evangelicals are supporting the growth of Messianic Judaism in Israel, it appears to be far more focused on bringing Jews to Christ than challenging Israel’s abortion laws. The Messianic Jews focus their efforts on another American export: the crisis pregnancy center. But the crisis pregnancy center is not the phenome…

American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope

By Mary E. Hunt

…ly but collegially to the Roman men that they are an integral part of what American Catholicism looks like. That will be their legacy, enhanced by finding common cause with all of their sisters. Note: Image is from “Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America,” a traveling American history exhibit opening May 16 at the Cincinnati Museum Center, documenting the sisters’ contributions to shaping America’s health care, educational and social justice…

Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…t be to be included. But Islamophilia can also perpetuate the interests of American militarism: American Muslims’ military service and love of country become prerequisites for inclusion. The terms of such inclusion were never laid out more clearly than by Bill Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention: “If you’re a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together, we want yo…

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…one else stopped showing up.” A PRRI poll showed that 42 percent of Muslim Americans approve of same-sex marriage. To many younger American Muslims, the benefits of allying with other marginalized groups on issues such as LGBTQ inclusion and immigration reform seem clear. But institutional Islam has not kept up. Many Muslim American leaders, organizations and institutions are working to broaden the sphere of engagement. Muslim American organizatio…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…until he had second thoughts about how that kind of language played out in American politics. In 1952 Niebuhr wrote The Irony of American History, during his early Cold War phase. In the film, Bacevich presents his customary contention that this book is the most important work ever written on American foreign policy. One probably has to be a Niebuhrian realist to admire it that much. Certainly, Irony belongs in the canon of foreign policy realism….

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…ristian requires pushing through the racism—deadly in so many precincts of American life—of an American Christianity that has colored Christ white towards claiming a God that looks more like home. For white Christians, it means pushing through what may feel safe—inherited privilege and blindness—to leave home and migrate towards images of God that do not look like us. Andre Johnson: Not only have we not achieved the post-racial society that so m…