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Even Amid Controversy, ‘My Soul Still Sings,’ Says UMC’s First Lesbian Bishop

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ons coming up; the generations coming up will not tolerate a closet,” she explained, a hint of excitement in her voice. “[This generation] will not tolerate people being pushed to the margins, because they have encountered a God who says, ‘come to me, all of you—there is room for everybody.’ And they’ve seen the value of each person.” Juxtaposed with the current political environment, where violent exclusion and hateful accusations of neighbors be…

Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…what gets lost when Shabbat is framed as a lifestyle choice. The practice exists in the context of a rich, sometimes arcane, set of ritual practices, communal obligations, legal traditions, and philosophical arguments. For Jewish communities of all kinds and levels of observance, part of practice is reckoning with that (often inconvenient) context. And even when given a modern spin, the sabbath tradition can be harnessed toward more radical ends….

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…man, among other reasons, have all failed to convince powers there, that sex between man and a woman is superior. Sadly, in the West it has reached a point of no return. To get into power and stay there in the government, church, private corporations, local government and associations, one must support and glorify issues of interest to what they fashionably call Lesbianism, Gayism, Bisexualism and Transgender (LGBT). Fortunately, Africa is still p…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ie “has also raised hackles elsewhere”: In neighbouring Singapore, where sex between men is technically illegal, the Anglican Church has issued a warning to parents over the film. In Russia, it has been given a 16+ rating and, most recently, it has also been pulled from Kuwaiti cinemas. Honduras: Trans activist runs for seat in Central American Parliament A transgender activist is running for a seat in the Central American Parliament; she won enou…

The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…. During the selling of the Iraq War and the broader “War on Terror,” for example, both neoconservatives and radical Islamists were invested in the widespread perception of an imminent existential threat to Western civilization. Both were invested in a Clash of Civilizations scenario, and both relied on the power of the apocaplyptic vision to build support for their causes. The anthropologist Kathleen Stewart writes that contemporary American cult…

Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. He has argued that homosexuality “is not biological, it is unnatural.” Sex between men is a crime punishable by up to life in prison. The Health Ministry has also announced that it was suspending the provision of HIV and AIDS services being offered by at least 40 health centers that the government said were “promoting homosexuality.” Council of Europe: Human rights commissioner calls for legal recognition for same-sex couples The Commissioner fo…

In Trump’s America, a Reminder of Our Prophetic Past

By Peter Laarman

…s commitment (parallel to Dorothy Day’s) to create and live within a real existing community of saints. In Thurman’s case, that real existing community was the interracial Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, which he left a comfortable position at Howard University to co-found in 1944. Civil rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer, who had no formal education other than Bible study beyond the sixth grade, might at first glance seem to…

Prayer vigil for Las Vegas shooting victim Sonny Melton (WBBJ TV)

No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…the wrong problem. It’s true, for example, that the SHARE act—that’s the noxious plan to expand the availability of silencers and armor-piercing bullets—has been put off. But that’s only a temporary matter of optics. SHARE will be back, and other ways of keeping America armed to the teeth will be introduced. No demonstration, no email petition, no call-in campaign to Congress will finally solve the problem of easy access to guns, because the polit…

But What Did We Learn? Hate-Watching the First Clinton/Trump Debate

By Candace E. West

…w But did we learn anything new from it all? I think tonight’s debate was exactly what we should have expected after the three-ring circus that’s gotten us here. Afterward, NBC’s Nicole Wallace said: “In the sum of the performance from each, she certainly looked more presidential. I’m just not sure that’s the standard by which we’re going to pick the next president.” Tom Brokaw agreed, saying that he didn’t think anybody would be changing their vo…

#HijabiLivesMatter: The Burkini Ban, Black Hair and the Meaning of “Natural”

By Shaina Hammerman

…eSuisParis and be believed. This is because, as one of the women interviewed in the Times made explicit, “My heart is 100 percent French, but it feels like I have to prove my ‘Frenchness.’” As a white, Jewish woman in liberal San Francisco, there is a chasm between my experiences of privilege and the discrimination felt by Muslim Frenchwomen and black Americans. This is why The New York Times was right to share the actual words of Muslim women. Bu…