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Are Christians Theologically Prepared to Accept Torture?

By Sarah Sentilles

…f the Independent Panel and the Pentagon on the Shocking Prisoner Abuse in Iraq, ed. Steven Strasser, (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004), xvi-xvii, xix, 25. 2. Paul A. Taylor, “The Pornographic Barbarism of the Self-Reflecting Sign,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 4, no. 1 (January 2007) 3. Steven C. Caton, “Coetzee, Agamben, and the Passion of Abu Ghraib,” American Anthropologist 108, no. 1 (2006): 120. 4. Joanne Wypijewski, “Judgment…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…platform statement or a treatise. We issue declarations. We ask people to sign our statement; join our remonstrance. And, just as massive rocks along the shore repel the pounding waves and reduce them to mere mist, our adversaries—especially our religious adversaries—pay not the slightest attention to our remonstrance or declaration, no matter how rock-solid our reasoning. I am not proposing that we stop arguing, because I don’t think we can….

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…to the proposition that reading the Bible explains George W.’s war against Iraq? This would be strange, to say the least, but we could say the same for subway ads that quote Muslim scripture beside scenes of terrible violence, as if all we need to understand the one is the other. One sure sign of an Islamophobe is this: you need only remove a few words here and there and their argument pertains with equal vehemence to the West, or Christianity, or…

Evangelicals Fire the Future: Rich Cizik’s Resignation

By Robert P. Jones

…Cizik’s abrupt ousting from the NAE after 28 years of service is one more sign of the struggle for the soul of an evolving American evangelicalism. Recent public opinion data points to the need for the current leaders to rethink their certainty about what constitutes “evangelical values”—especially if they care about not alienating the next generation. Rich Cizik has been no stranger to controversy during his long tenure at the NAE. In early 2007…

Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…appily ignore what the leading lights are saying—and that’s if the leaders sign on. Other methods have their own problems. Denying gun-rights advocates the sacraments is a non-starter. Divesting from gun manufacturers might have some effect, but I have to think that churches have already committed to this through socially responsible investment funds. Continuing: witnessing to the effects of gun violence tends to be discounted. The Sandy Hook shoo…

Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017

By Peter Laarman

…, I know: these hints and gestures are baby steps at best. But they remain significant in the context of a ginormous institution that was self-asphyxiating for so many decades. Plus Francis is slowly but surely reshaping the College of Cardinals—the ultimate “electoral college” from a Catholic point of view. 5. No peace without justice. There is no sign of diminishing energy, and in fact there is strengthening determination everywhere, to move for…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…versial of his campaign promises. On Friday afternoon, just two days after signing an order directing the Department of Homeland Security to build a wall along the Mexican border and increasing the number of border officers, the president signed an executive order that, according to the New York Times “suspended entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocked entry into the United States fo…

Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…because she wants to change God’s creation. She needs the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); this is her solution,” said a commentator on Ettounsia’s website. ISIS reportedly stoned two homosexual men to death in Syria November last year. An interview with Tunisia’s grand mufti, Othman Battikh, in which he declared that sex reassignment surgeries are sinful in Islam, was also played during the show. Battikh noted that “corrective surgery” was…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…us freedom’ will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Christian supremacy or any form of intolerance,” wrote Martin R. Castro, Chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, in his closing remarks on the commission’s recent 300-page report on “Peaceful Coexistence” between nondiscrimination principles and civil liberties. “Religiou…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…bishop at the time, because of his marriage. It meant he lost an offer of promotion within the NHS, something he argues amounts to a breach of equalities law. Sean Jones QC, for Canon Pemberton, read the tribunal an email from the Church of England’s communications office highlighting the case. Pink News has more from the tribunal. Taiwan: Taipei begins partnership registration The city government of Taipei began accepting registrations from same…