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Our Father, Who Art Our Mother: The (Open) Secret Queer History of God

By Mark Sameth

…nly to old and young alike in public. Just a few years later, a non-Jewish French scholar by the name of Guillaume Postel acquired some portion of the Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, from the printing house of Daniel Bomberg in Venice and began translating the work into Latin. Postel was arrested by the Vatican (not for translating the Zohar, but on a charge of heresy) and imprisoned for a time. Before 1566 he had written “The Treasure” (Le Thrésor d…

Have White Evangelicals Finally Lost Control of the Narrative?

By Chrissy Stroop

…at followed the Atlanta spa murders. Never-Trump conservative pundit David French made a dubious and unconvincing attempt to dissociate purity culture from Christian “orthodoxy” on sexuality and gender, as if the balls and rings and pledges themselves are the only real problem, rather than the underlying theology that gives rise to such creepy and obsessive practices, not to mention the predominance of disinformation heavy, shame and guilt inducin…

Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

By Paul Harvey

…society through the voices of spirit mediums. In doing so, they drew from French thinkers and historical experiences (including everyone from Rousseau, Robespierre, and Lamennais to the French and Haitian Revolutions), and applied those to the construction of what they referred to as “the Idea”—a republican society that would achieve liberty, equality and fraternity even in an American society burdened by slavery and racism since its birth. New W…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y shunned liberal bishop; Vatican nixes trans godparent Jacques Gaillot, a French bishop who was demoted by Pope John Paul II for his liberal views – he has been nicknamed “the Red Cleric” — met with Pope Francis on Friday, reports David Gibson for Religion News Service. According to a report by Agence France-Presse, Francis initiated the meeting. The meeting came just one month ahead of a highly anticipated global meeting on family life at the Va…

What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…hat plowed into a celebratory crowd watching fireworks on the beach of the French Riviera city of Nice, killing more than 80 people. “He didn’t pray, and liked girls and salsa,” the neighbor continued, according to a press report in the British newspaper, The Independent. Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a French citizen who lived in a town near Nice, had been convicted of petty theft on several occasions, and was never seen in a mosque, according to other info…

Big Ecumenical Gathering Marks Multi-Faith Presence at Paris Climate Talks

By Donna Schaper

…ll be the goal and the devil will be in the details about enforcement. The French leadership has been very strong. At last night’s gathering, the Pilgrims who had walked from Rome to Paris as a witness showed up and led us in song. The Lutheran World Federation was almost as popular as the Pilgrims, based on their decision to only send people under 30 as their delegation. I was trying to figure out if they wanted to scare them to death or prepare…

Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer

By Katherine Kelaidis

…Australia’s immigration minister canceled his visa in the public interest. French officials are now saying that unless he reverses course and gets vaccinated between now and May he will be similarly banned from the French Open. For his part, Djokovic has publicly expressed distrust of vaccinations since at least April 2020. He’s also comfortably in the majority in his native Serbia, where less than half of the population is fully vaccinated, leadi…

Does Violence Always Win?: Learning From René Girard (1923-2015)

By Martha J. Reineke

…ly, and Spain acknowledged as much; and, in the country of Girard’s birth, French president François Hollande eulogized Girard as a “passionate intellectual” whose ideas now “mark the history of thought.” Girard’s profound impact on multiple fields is such that, upon his election to the Académie Française in 2005, he was hailed as “The Darwin of the Human Sciences” by fellow honoree Michel Serres. Girard’s career included many honors: two Guggenhe…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…ricans,” a designation which other colonial powers such as the Spanish and French, and indeed English settlers in the South, reserved exclusively for the Indians. For a long time there was an ambivalence about the Puritans. Indeed their own intellectual descendants—the New England transcendentalists and the radicals of the American Renaissance—viewed their inheritance with a wary eye. Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was in the line of the dreaded Judge H…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…hrough London, the capital of the 19th century’s colonial superpower. (The French did not appreciate this arrangement, Ogle records. One deputy in the French chamber even introduced a bill to set France’s time to “Paris [time] minus nine minutes and twenty-one seconds,” which just happened to coincide with the master clocks in London.) A spirit of universalism animated this transition. You can’t have global time without some notion of the global….