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Amid Reality-TV Gimmicks and Xenophobic Rhetoric, Trump’s SOTU Appeals to Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…anks to Christian Reconstructionist influence on curricula. https://twitter.com/julieingersoll/status/1224886176429084677?s=20 https://twitter.com/julieingersoll/status/1224900693112369154?s=20 Trump’s subsequent appeals to his white evangelical base were more obvious. Right after touting the confirmation of new federal judges on his watch, including “two brilliant new Supreme Court Justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh,” the president boaste…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ed violent acts in the past or are known for violence-inciting speech. The number of crimes committed by Reichsbürger has risen over the last couple of years, reaching 1,011 in 2021, including 184 violent crimes, and 500 currently own weapons legally. In 2016, a “Reichsbürger” shot and killed a police officer. During a protest against Covid-19 restrictions in 2020, several people managed to enter the Reichstag building of the German parliament and…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…suggests how far the Tibetan clergy and the Chinese government are from a compromise. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policy in regard to Tibetan monasticism must undoubtedly be seen as the historical legacy on the part of Chinese (and perhaps, more generally, East Asian) polities to (micro)manage institutions at all levels of the culture: to bring them under the bureaucratic control of the state. Among the various types of institutions, religious…

A Startling Number Believe You Can Be Jewish Jesus Follower; Why It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds

By Michael Schulson

…Jesus isn’t messiah material for religious Jews. So, at first glance, that number seems staggeringly high. A full third? Once you delve into the numbers, though, 34% doesn’t seem quite so high. Really, Pew has asked an excellent question—a question that reveals the full tangle of ambiguities and inconsistencies that surround the topic of Jewish identity. First, some background: when the researchers at Pew set out to conduct this survey, they quick…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d transgender) children. After thousands of views and comments, web host 56.com abruptly removed the film, citing instruction from SARFT (the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television). Fan’s administrative lawsuit, accepted by the No.1 Intermediate People’s Court in Beijing on September 14, seeks satisfactory answers about the truth of that claim. Taiwan: Presidential candidates support LGBT equality Pink News reports…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…er, is the next line: “Open the doors, off with the shoulder-straps, join us in a taste of freedom.” Translation via http://eng-pussy-riot.livejournal.com/ — (Project team: Agnes Parker: translation/Eja Werner: coordination)…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…ople. In fact, this is exactly what “social justice” means. From dictionary.com: “the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within a society.” A recent study by philosopher Jeremy Stangroom may shed some light on why some atheists’ definitions of social justice don’t seem to include the religious. He found that 32% of atheist respondents felt that “they are not morally obliged to help somebody in severe need in India, even though to do so w…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…for all Muslims or Arabs. I know people of good will from different faith communities who want peace and reconciliation, who want our communities to be able to return to their homes and live in security and shared prosperity. But right now, hate is speaking louder than hope. And right now, hate is stamping out the Nuba people. Let us abide in the Lord and transform this current situation from hate to hope, together. I think most of us in the U.S….

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…back loops. What happens next? Old fertilizer is a negative feedback loop. Compost is a positive one. Complex systems thinking, which knows that even the rich are just a part of the picture. Nesting governance, decisions made locally and then nested. Encouraging ongoing learning. The resilience of the skateboarders will save us. The world’s leaders may not. Many of them are too invested in what I call the static quo. I’m not going all the way to h…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…ed and morally corrupt. The reality of the North-South dynamic is far more complex—there is cross-pollination these days between Christian traditions in the Global South and in the developed world, with African evangelicals aggressively moving to develop their own missions in Texas, Ukraine, Moscow, and elsewhere. The original Counter-Reformation did not originate in Europe’s developing colonial holdings but, rather, in the European Catholic Churc…