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Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…that I’ve been to school too. And it’s disconcerting to them. And not because I know what I know, but because I really believe it, with all my heart. You’re not just talking. Right. It’s my life. I always believe that we are much more passionate about what we believe than we are about trying to destroy someone else’s belief. I’m speaking out of what I do know, what I have lived. My grandfather told me a story once. He said when you have a dollar…

Country Music Minus the Culture Wars: A Lesson from a Legend

By Paul Harvey

…elsewhere (most especially, from Northern seminaries which recruited down South and established emissary posts there). Historically, Southern music at its best—the bluesmen, the Carter family, Charlie Poole, and the corpus of the old, weird America—simply could not be tied down to any particular political message or program. This music was about a world beyond one’s control. Its occasional bromides or homilies were not nearly as convincing as its…

The Tea Party Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…ent Obama and his alleged “socialism” pre-date the Tea Party mania, and focused, earlier, on accusations that he was declaring “war on prayer.” DeMint is no secular libertarian, as many characterize the driving force of the Tea Party; he is a hardcore theocrat who believes less regulation will let God’s chosen business people make big money in the Christian nation. Tea Party or “Christian Worldview”? It was at an event sponsored by the CEO Roundta…

Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…partially agree with him—that even Gandhi primarily chose nonviolence because he thought of it to be effective, not because he was wedded to it in principle. Now, you and I may agree or disagree with that, but when that argument can be made even for Gandhi, who is thought to be the most principled follower of nonviolence, I think that in all instances it is a mix. I don’t think there is any harm in that. I would argue that maybe in the case of G…

Adventists Cancel ‘Holy Sexuality’ Confab; Egyptian Court OKs Deportation of Gays; Mongolian Trans Activist Gives TV Interview; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…DA Church told Spectrum magazine that the conference was not cancelled because of the public protest “but because of a decision made by leaders of the South England Conference in concert with the British Union Conference.” Notes Spectrum: Although the “Holy Sexuality” conference has been called off, “Coming Out” speaker and co-founder Michael Carducci is still scheduled to speak to the Youth at the North England Conference “Strong Families, Strong…

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…rector of community options at the Spearfish Family Planning clinic of the South Dakota Department of Health, says that due to limited midwifery options in her state, some women choose to give birth unassisted or in the hospital. Others cross the border to Montana, a state which recognizes the licensing of CPMs, which in turn affords them the opportunity to publicly advertise their services. But in South Dakota, she says, “there are women who aren…

Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

By Rosetta E. Ross

…f it, I did purchase and read Kathryn Stockett’s book. I was skeptical because of the title, and because I learned it was a book by a white woman about black women servants. These details immediately brought to mind thoughts of the movie The Long Walk Home (the 1990 drama starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg) and NBC’s series I’ll Fly Away. Sure, black women servants in those productions were depicted as people of character, intelligence, and…

Amid Horrors, Muslim ‘John Hancocks’ Forge Secular Sudan

By Frederick Clarkson

…ed. The agreement provided that a vote take place to determine whether the southern part of the country would be allowed to peacefully secede. But before and since the vote to secede president Bashir has remained clear about his vision of Islamic nationalism as the future of the north, as violence continues to escalate. “If south Sudan secedes,” he promised prior to last year’s vote, “we will change the Constitution, and at that time there will be…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…there by the Mugabe regime, as well as racial and inter-ethnic violence in South Africa. Nigeria has more bishops than any other Church in the Anglican Communion and some deserve consideration for the vacancy in Canterbury. Cyril Okorocha, bishop of the diocese of Owerri, was a leading evangelist in the Nigerian religious revival that began after the Biafran War. In the 1990s, he worked for a previous Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, coordi…

How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…several of which have the highest growth rates of all immigrant groups in Southern California. The state’s diverse and growing array of Muslims are thus an integral part of the collaborative movement that has put California at the leading edge of criminal justice reform nationwide. “Most of what’s been in the news about Muslims lately is not great,” said Sarah Jawaid. “What we’re doing is a counter-narrative to all of that.” Jawaid, an LA Voice o…