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Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…ling from India to Egypt seemed to offer a fairly simple way of linking my south Asian heritage with the history of the regions where Islamic jurisprudence came of age. A less tangible motive also helps explain the book’s trajectory. Although it is no bad thing to recognize the diversity and benign qualities of Muslim life—and I hope my book does that throughout—I thought it crucial to focus on points of friction, because those are the matters tha…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…Prequels Tattooine’s a real city, in Tunisia, which is a real country, in Africa, which is a real continent trying to become the country it is regularly confused for. Now you know why Jedis and Sith look that way—their robes are a reflection of North African culture. The lightsaber, unfortunately, was not our idea. “Hospitals” by Emory Banker 12. Hospitals The first hospital was founded in Cairo, and Muslim hospitals once even included wards for…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sodomy itself. It should be noted that the LGBTI community in Zimbabwe and Africa has played a significant role in HIV prevention campaigns and in the fight for access to affordable treatment for all those on the African continent living with the virus. The conference has “strengthening the interaction between the public health, science and human right approaches in the control and elimination of HIV and associate diseases” as one of its objective…

Douthat’s Criticism of Pope’s Restriction of Latin Mass Is Fascinating; It’s Also Ahistorical and Has Been Used Before

By Massimo Faggioli

…Lefebvre. Lefebvre was a French archbishop who had served in colonial West Africa. During Vatican II he was one of the leaders of a minority deeply opposed to the reforms. After Vatican II he started a schismatic group, the Society of St. Pius X (sometimes referred to as SSPX). The illegal ordination of bishops by his group gained him excommunication in 1988, and still today the Society of St. Pius X is the most relevant anti-Vatican II group. In…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…e outnumbered by the more conservative regions of the church, primarily in Africa and the Philippinnes, and to some extent, the American South. Yeah. That’s the crazy thing about this whole thing. What’s happening in our denomination right now is that we’re realizing we’re a global church. Early Christian missionaries went to the continent of Africa and the Philippines and Christianized people with a very, very conservative brand of Christianity….

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…heartbreak, yearning and hope—has been similarly explored by those who see Africa as a home. Diverse as Americans imagine themselves to be, and as fractured (and fractious) as our history is, it can be difficult to conceive of what homeland really means, especially for Black Americans whose own family histories have been obscured by the horror of the Middle Passage, slavery, Jim Crow, and institutionalized racism. “As a consequence of growing up h…

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

…of the globe not usually associated with Orthodox Christianity, from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and from North America. In and of itself, such a universal gathering represents a singular and significant event in the life of the Church demonstrating the new global reach of Orthodox Christianity. The council should focus the attention of the Churches away from solely parochial and local concerns to a broader perspective on Church life. Nonetheles…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…ortrayal of the EU as a cultural bully is echoed by anti-LGBT advocates in Africa, including WCF’s Africa representative Theresa Okafor, who supports harsh anti-gay laws in African countries as necessary to protect the family against the “Trojan horse” of the sexual revolution. At last year’s WCF gathering in Salt Lake City, Okafor denounced “the West” for pressuring African nations to legalize abortion and “yield to sexual orientation and gender…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hen it responded to reports that pastor Blasius Ruguri of the East-Central Africa Division had publicly supported Uganda’s anti-gay legislation, which would have sentenced gay individuals to death in some cases. Instead of condemning homophobia, the GC doubled down on its condemnation of homosexuality while also claiming to be “strongly opposed to acts of violence, hatred and discrimination against a person because of his or her sexual orientation…

It Is Time For American Orthodox Christians to Protest Russia’s Persecution of LGBT

By Katherine Kelaidis

…raditionally Orthodox lands to the far corners of the globe: Canada, South Africa, Australia and the United States. Thus Orthodoxy emerged in the United States as an immigrant church, the church of Southern and Eastern European immigrants, as well as Arabs—all of whom occupied the lower rungs of America’s all-important racial pecking order. Consequently, respectability and assimilation quickly became important goals of these communities. This long…