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Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…date on more than 2,000 reported killings of transgender people around the world in 2008-2015. India’s Humsafar Trust released a short video that delivers an anti-discrimination message in one and a half minutes. Two days before TDoV, Nisha Ayub, Director of SEED Malaysia, received a 2016 Woman of Courage Award from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry; she is the first transgender woman to be honored with the award. Human Rights Watch and others ha…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…gies. I think the reason for that is the Protestant preoccupation with the Word, and they get the Word out however they can. For a long time it was print. In the early 20th century it was radio. By the forties it was television. Both continue, of course. Now, among conservative Protestants, it is very sophisticated uses of internet and video media. Again, there’s that whole trajectory that begins with Luther and comes down all the way through it….

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…Author’s note: Afghan-led organizations to follow and support include Enabled Children’s Initiative and Art Lords, and the news agencies Ariana News, EtilaatRoz, Pajhwok News Agency, Tolo News, including the women-led Sahar Speaks and Rukhshana Media. This is not an exhaustive list….

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…led the UN Family Rights Caucus. Discourse about the family is now the fulcrum of a major struggle over the human rights of sexual and gender minorities at the UN. In this struggle, American conservatives are claiming ground globally that they are losing locally in the national shift towards marriage equality. Do it for the families The rhetoric of the “Declaration on the Rights of Children and Their Families” is crafty, if not particularly well-c…

“Mass Graves, Child Soldiers” and a Crusading Army of International Evangelists

By Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Randal L. Hepner

…ritical of what one vicar termed the “false hopes” being delivered by this international crusade team. CfAN claims to take the Gospel into some of the world’s most remote and dangerous places, and Gulu town does not fail in that regard. As Kolenda wrote in a blog post on Day One of the crusade: “Mass graves, child soldiers, mutilations, rape, murder, and genocide are words that come to mind when one thinks of this place.” There was a corresponding…

Christian Schools International v. University of California

By Lauri Lebo

…tely prepared for science courses.” The 9th Circuit upheld the lower court ruling for summary judgment. In its ruling, it said: The district court correctly determined that UC’s rejections of the Calvary courses were reasonable and did not constitute viewpoint discrimination. The plaintiffs offer no facts or evidence to disturb this conclusion. UC’s rejection letters and internal meeting notes demonstrate that UC denied approval not because the co…

Why the Obama/Hillary Clinton Approach to Middle East Peace is Doomed to Failure

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…te cease-fire in Gaza when he is sworn in as president, and 2.) Convene an International Peace Conference to resolve the Israel/Palestine struggle. He now seeks to have that ad republished in the Washington Post and other media. You can read, sign and/or donate to the ad here. Unfortunately, the Palestinian state likely to be produced by these negotiations will be neither economically nor politically viable. Barak and Livni will not have the power…

What Does the ‘Traditional Family’ Have To Do with Pussy Riot?

By Gillian Kane

…by proponents to be morally reprehensible. These ideas are not confined to Russia. Indeed, Russia is one of many countries supported by international conservative and religious groups that are increasingly asserting that the fundamental unit of society is not the individual but the family, with help from the church. These traditional values, as proposed in the initial draft for the Human Rights Council by Prof. Vladimir Kartashkin of the Russian F…

State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…r Robert A. Seiple, who first made his name as the head of the evangelical international aid and development agency, World Vision; before that, he was president of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Seiple then became the first US Ambassador for Religious Freedom in 1998. Ultimately Seiple resigned his position as ambassador after it became clear that he was facing down a far more powerful faction that demanded that the US take a highly confron…

The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…age into to the social and intellectual currency of world defined by distributed authority, collaborative interpretation, and communally-regulated improvisation that simultaneously affirms, resists, challenges, and repurposes available resources. Truly engaging the digital world from this perspective promises, as has been the case in every reformation, to turn the institutional Church around in ways, we can only hope, that revive the radically cou…