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Is the Internet the End of Religion?

By Andrew Aghapour

…olics, Scientists questioning Protestants. We love to call ourselves iconoclasts, but we also know that no human group has unique access to the right questions, and no community stops its own intellectual development once a splinter forms. Watch the entire video for more of these gems, and weigh in on the conversation! I myself am not convinced by memetics, which usually operates through overt simplification and vague analogies, but these two cove…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Two Massacres and the Virtual Transformation of Trauma

By Shruti Devgan

…t their experiences of being a Sikh in America, tweeting and updating their Facebook statuses to express solidarity with the larger community, organizing candlelight vigils and creating online groups to spread the word about the Wisconsin attack. My most fervent hope is that just as the internet might be transforming the very notion of trauma by speaking the unspeakable in real time, it can also start addressing the very deep-rooted prejudices tha…

Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mmanuel landed on Occupy like a ton of bricks. I went to the encampment on LaSalle each morning for coffee and donuts. CTS students and I made a golden calf and carried it around at various demonstrations. I began to think about the history of encampments, like the Hoovervilles, that were tents. The idea that God is in this tent going along with the escaping slaves, I thought to myself, these tents, in that sense, are sacred because they are indic…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed to YouTube days before the peace deal plebiscite, former Inspector General Alejandro Ordóñez pointed to negotiators’ discussion of gender – specifically footage of lead negotiator Humberto de la Calle citing the differences between sex and gender during talks in Havana – as evidence that the government and the FARC “are using peace as an excuse to impose the ideology of gender.” For Claudia López, Colombia’s only openly LGBT senator and a suppo…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g the Caribbean nations in which consensual same-sex sexual acts remain criminalized. As we have noted previously, American evangelicals have traveled to Jamaica repeatedly to shore up support for the country’s colonial-era law that criminalizes homosexuality. Jamaican LGBT rights activist Maurice Tomlinson, who now lives in Toronto with his Canadian husband, recently wrote about his work to challenge legal bans on gay people entering the nations…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Nyasa Times signed by chairperson of the EPJC national coordinator Zaac Kawalala and the group’s interim national coordinating secretary Makhumbo Munthali. Recently President Peter Mutharika said the problems facing the country are signs of “moral degradation in our society” and that Malawians are “far away from God’s Commandments.” Romania: Court again delays ruling on marriage recognition request The Constitutional Court was scheduled to rule la…

Prayer vigil for Las Vegas shooting victim Sonny Melton (WBBJ TV)

No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…ived bastards intent on doing harm to others. But evil is not some impersonal, external, arbitrary force: it is the product of human choice. You can’t regulate the evil of someone who wants to kill dozens. But you can choose to make it more difficult for him to accomplish it through simple, commonsense limits on gun ownership, such as banning “bump stocks,” taking guns out of the hands of those convicted of domestic abuse or other kinds of violenc…

More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rom religious and political leaders, and could be on the verge of being criminalized if the Constitutional Court does what Islamist groups are asking. Some conservative areas already criminalize “immoral” behavior. In addition, reports BuzzFeed, “Grindr, Hornet, and a total of more than 80 other apps and websites with LGBT content face a ban in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, following a closed-door interagency summit held Wed…

For Some of Us, the Biggest Religious Event of 2016 Was the Gilmore Girls Revival

By Isabel Fattal

…lly struck by the role of the external and the social in so many of the seemingly solitary moments described. The dichotomy between individual and communal experience didn’t exist even before the Internet, and maybe that’s okay. I still watched the Gilmore Girls revival alone in my room on my laptop, but I took comfort in knowing that if Rory wound up with the wrong guy and I needed somebody to complain to, I had thousands of fans at my fingertips…

With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…if people need to talk to a therapist or something. And so that’s a big deal.” – Miles O’Brien, PBS NewsHour, June 27, 2021 On June 25, 2021 the U.S. government, under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, released a report of UAP sightings by pilots and military personnel. The report, according to journalists like O’Brien and others, creates a safe space within which to discuss matters related to the sightings of UFOs and UAPs (th…