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Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…aw a “prayer-shaming” liberal attack on faith itself, which is twaddle. As usual, Twitter’s done this to death, and then some. I’m less interested in the prayer-vs.-action debate itself, though, than in how it usefully frames another question: if not prayer, what? It’s easy to see that political leaders could be instituting meaningful reform of American gun laws. Closing the gun show loophole would be a start. So would strengthening background che…

How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?

By Christel Manning

…y of life. There are also unchurched believers, like Jefferson Bethke of YouTube fame, who “love Jesus but hate religion.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY There are spiritual seekers who embrace bits and pieces of various traditions and don’t want to commit to just one. And there are Nones who are just plain indifferent to religion. What ties these diverse worldviews together is a deep commitment to what I call “worldview choice”—a bel…

The Pope and the Culture Wars

By Patricia Miller

…On the eve of the Pope’s address to congress, RD Senior Correspondent Patti Miller spoke with NPR partner station KPCC about the effect on the culture wars of “[t]he most politicized pontiff in contemporary history.” https://soundcloud.com/religion-dispatches/papal-politics-how-pope-francis-stirs-the-culture-wars-in-dc…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…,” a volume of speeches from last November’s conservative interfaith colloquium sponsored by the Vatican. Among the authors are Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church, Russell D. Moore of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and President Eyring, First Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormon Church: Affirmation holds international conference Affirmation,a group for LGBT Morm…

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

…nce 2003, but incidents of discrimination, harassment and violence are not uncommon—primarily due to a lack of education and the influence of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Mamikon Hovsepyan is the director of Public Information and Need for Knowledge (PINK) Armenia, the leading LGBT rights group in the country. “We are focused on LGBT human-rights protection and advocacy, and we use all the mechanisms—mostly international organizations—to bring c…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…chair and former governor of Mississippi, likened the Councils to an innocuous neighborhood association, saying in 2010, “Up north, they think it was like the K.K.K. Where I come from, it was an organization of town leaders.” (Barbour is also not offended by the Confederate flag.) Moore has elicited comparisons to Alabama’s segregationist governor George Wallace, following his pledge to defy a federal court ruling invalidating Alabama’s ban on sa…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o, the openly gay Cuban-American poet who read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, composed and read a poem for the ceremony reopening the U.S. embassy in Havana. Guatemalan photographer Eny Roland Hernandez’s large-scale portraits of LGBT people taken in Denmark and Guatemala were posted around Copenhagen as part of the city’s pride celebration. The International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has begun publishing in serial f…

Watch John Oliver Satirize IRS’ Lack of Church Oversight

By Becky Garrison

…ence of abuse in any church environment lacking adequate accountability structures. Even though the church formally dissolved in January 2015, the distribution of their assets remains buried beneath a myriad of LLCs. (For more on that, go to wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com.) Even should a church be reported for financial misconduct it would hardly matter since the IRS hasn’t investigated a single church case in over five years. Furthermore, as re…

Unbeknownst to Richard Dawkins the Feminist Revolution in Islam Has Already Begun

By Jerusha Tanner Lamptey

…om the supposed twin “prisons” of Muslim men and Islam. Muslim women continuously navigate these multiple tensions in our pursuits of equality, egalitarianism, and justice. We do this without forfeiting our diverse and deep connections with the tradition; through critical challenges to sources, interpretations and laws of the tradition; with creative and constructive visions of the tradition; and without succumbing to Islamophobic and anti-Muslim…

Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform

By Xarissa Holdaway

…an 70 percent believe that incapacitation is the only sure way to prevent future crimes, and more than three-quarters believe that the courts are too easy on criminals. This appears to be true not just for capital-C crimes like murder and terrorism, but smaller crimes, including procedural, immigration, and drug-based felonies, few of which are violent. Nolan notes in his memoir that many of his prison companions were non-violent drug offenders an…