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

By Peter Montgomery

…ine energies can “bring for life,” adding, “Man, woman and child is of the highest order. That union cannot be mimicked by any other combination.” Bermudans voted recently to reject civil unions and marriage equality, but based on the voter turnout the question was officially considered undecided. Mexico: New national LGBT movement launches Mexico as a new national LGBT movement, The Movement for Equality in Mexico, where religious conservatives a…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s right in front of us, difference is on our iPads, in our laptops, in our phones. We hold a whole world of difference every time we open a phone. And the response to in the world around is at best insult, and so often violence, a reality which is the living experience of many you here. Welby also addressed a January gathering of Primates, which voted to suspend the Episcopal Church from questions on doctrine or policy for three years because of i…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…os) continue to be the most residentially segregated in the U.S., have the highest unemployment rates and suffer the largest wealth disparities in the country. Black youth continue to be mass incarcerated and pipelined into prisons in disproportionate numbers, while being marginalized in mainstream public school curricula. In the absence of truly democratic policies that provide equitable access to jobs, housing and education, the social and cultu…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…se of just a few years, the former Mouseketeer built his blog following as high as 10,000 unique visits per month. His writing appeared in the leading Pagan portal The Wild Hunt, and in 2013, just as his face landed on the cover of Pagans and Witches magazine, Morris felt called back to Christianity. “I’m overwhelmed with thoughts of Jesus,” he blogged, as recounted in the New York Times. “I am just going to give myself over to it, not intellectua…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…three men sentenced under the country’s anti-gay laws are appealing to the high court, the Muslim Association of Malawi has called for gay people to be condemned to death. Pink News reports that the association’s Secretary General Salmin Omar Idrussi said: “Malawi is regarded as a secular state but the country is blessed with God fearing citizens who can’t afford to deviate from God’s commandments for the sake of pleasing others who practice the a…

Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A Progressive Christian Response

By Eric Reitan

…fight. If someone had pressed into his fingers at that pivotal moment the phone number for The Trevor Project, he might reach out and hear a voice of reassurance, a voice that gave him hope for life by, in part, repudiating the so-called biblical teaching that who he is amounts to an offense against God. If he’d had a sense of belonging to a community that embraced him for who he is, maybe his hope wouldn’t be so fully shattered. But while other…

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…asy-listening radio station cut it to say there had been a shooting at the high school. The mother turned her car around and headed straight there. It was 11:30 a.m. so she knew where her daughter was: the library. She knew the very table the girl sat at. So the mother figured she would march into the school and bring the girl straight home. Their new Yorkie puppy would so happy. By the time the mother was halfway to the school the DJ had more new…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…e of 15%. Is that tolerable? Fifteen percent sucks. Fifteen percent is too high. One partial solution that I’ve heard is a universal income. The other idea, in place in Singapore, is that government takes care of the most basic things—defined as infrastructure, security, law and order, education, and housing. There will still be poor people but what is important is that everyone has the same opportunity. Right now in America we don’t have that bec…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…ary Ginger Rogers, she must do everything her male counterparts do, but in high heels and backwards. A Focus on the Marginalized The daughter of Mexican farmworkers, Minerva was born in Edinburg, Texas. She grew up in the cotton and tomato fields wondering if anyone cared about her. She heard a local pastor who preached a word of justice from Isaiah say that God cared about those who toiled on the land—that same man took action, going to the…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…al elections matter, and local politicians are often easier to access than high-ranking administration officials. So yes, participate in the Women’s March on Washington if you feel called to, and phone-bank the hell out of every preposterous nominee Trump and the Republicans riding his coattails offer. But also participate in Lobby Days organized by your favorite local advocacy group, and make it a priority to meet your elected officials. If you f…