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“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…s amount to the equivalent of however many billion sightings. I think that number was inflated. But it doesn’t matter much. What’s the difference between ten billion views and, say, one billion views? It’s all bad. It’s just this question of magnitude. It’s a little bit like you’ve seen the tip of the iceberg, and someone tells “You know, 90% of it is underneath.” I had a similar experience when I was working on my first book, Communities of Viole…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…night dancing with, someone who I had spoken to just a week before on the phone, her laughter weakened but still familiar. When I thought about her ashes being scattered around Boston I felt a momentary panic. Where could I ever go to find her again? Last week, just in time for the Feast of All Soul’s Day, celebrated each year on November 2, the Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a new Instruction regarding the…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…phobia and other forms of hate are normalized does worry me. Even as Trump flip-flops on his promise of a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” Stephen Bannon’s appointment to the post of Chief Strategist and rumors of Frank Gaffney‘s appointment as National Security Advisor certainly do not herald a brighter day. And even though the president-elect now demands that his racist and homophobic supporters “Stop it!”, th…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…over the past decade. That fact, combined with the increasingly apparent influence of Vice President-elect Mike Pence in making staffing decisions for the administration, means we can’t afford to buy the oft-repeated claim that Trump is actually the most pro-LGBT Republican president in American history. (And to be clear, that’s not a particularly high bar to clear.) Even so, I’ll admit that I don’t believe the president-elect gives much thought t…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…ncing to create a makeshift shrine, because the building is still sealed off from the public. At the Lake Merritt vigil this past Monday, attendants were asked not to bring candles out of respect for those who had died in flames. Instead, they brought glow sticks and cell phones, and for several hours, the sky above the lake lit up, not in the orange, red and yellow of fire, but in eerie shades of blue. Oakland wore the color of grief….

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…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 feel comfortable doing so, introduce them to your family, and force them to look into the faces of the real people their d…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…aw-making in the U.S.—not faith. As long as that’s the case, people will deflect, deny or find excuses for their racial tribalism, no matter how religious they are. The herrenvolk have exquisitely woke consciences—but only for the people who look and talk like them. They lump the others into the category of “the undeserving poor” and seek to cut their benefits, a story going back at least to the New Deal. The idea that faith can dislodge this kind…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…igorous attitudes on matters of human sexuality, and future North-South conflicts are only to be expected. The chief difference from the present is that the southerners will enjoy ever-larger numbers. Divisions within the Catholic Church fall far short of the passions that have driven a North-South schism within the Anglican Communion, but that is a troubling precedent. Serbia: Far-right politician embraced by IOF for anti-LGBT diatribe calling fo…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…e of the word “marginalized” and the dominant narrative among some conservative Christians like Eric Metaxas who feel Keller is being “bullied,” Figueroa was incredulous: “Keller? The guy with a platform and money and prestige and influence? One of the biggest theological influencers in the evangelical and Reformed worlds? I’m sure that he’s not going to miss that $10,000, and there’s certainly not a shortage of platforms for him. And PTS isn’t ev…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ay protests. Last year, several gay men were abused, beaten, and forced to flee their homes after the U.S. embassy in Abidjan posted a photo of them at an event for victims of a nightclub shooting in Florida and identified them as members of the “LGBTI community”. Germany: Government plans to overturn convictions under sodomy law Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet approved legislation “to quash the convictions of 50,000 men sentenced for homosexua…