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Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…lingworth, “Cha…cha…cha…changes: A journey with Aladdin,” Melody Maker, May 12, 1973 Crowd: Will you touch, will you mend me Christ? Won’t you touch, will you heal me Christ? Will you kiss, you can cure me Christ? Won’t you kiss, won’t you pay me Christ? Jesus: Oh, there’s too many of you, don’t push me Oh, there’s too little of me, don’t crowd me Heal yourselves! —“The Temple,” Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) • On July 3rd, 1973, Bowie ceremonially…

The Pope, The Chef & Krampus: Merry Yikesmas!

By Peter Manseau

…hat he’d hoped to air is a bit of mischief that would have elevated the No Reservations holiday special from simply very good to subversive classic. In homage to the stop-action ghost of Christmas specials past, Bourdain made his own Krampus Carol, complete with a horned demon licking the faces of children before he beats them with a stick: It really is a hoot, especially if you grew up, as I did, on the Island of Misfit Toys. But more than that,…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…nd signed by at least three-fourths of all the adult male Indians” (Article 12), the Act of 1877 was not a treaty but simply an Act of Congress illegally abrogating the promises made nine years earlier. The various bands of the Lakota have fought the theft of the Black Hills since they were run out by miners and soldiers of the US Army. Finally in the 1920s, a case was filed with the Indian Court of Claims, but it wasn’t until 1980 that the Supre…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…non-violent civil disobedience against the British Empire. We all live on reservations Toward the end of the evening, the panelists sought to transcend the ways that race has been used to divide people against one another, and to recognize and grapple with our often multiple racial identities. Rev. Barber noted that he’s White, Tuscarora (a Native American tribe) and African American, and has had to “recover from some deep hatred” from the time t…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…been clawing its way out. Activists say that two devastating hurricanes in 1989 and 1995, as well as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, contributed to “the end of this queer cultural renaissance in the Virgin Islands,” along with “the religiosity of the islands.” “They still have these preachers out there that preach fire and brimstone,” said one business owner. Anglican Communion: More disconnect between Canterbury and Africa The Archbishop of Centerbury an…

Poets and Preachers: How Black Literature Blurs the Lines Between Sacred and Secular

By Josef Sorett

…he black aesthetic of the 1960s) as the title. While I ended up borrowing “Spirit in the Dark” from Aretha, I think “That Spirit Is Black” would have worked just as well, and I did at least use Stewart’s phrase as the title for chapter six. How do you feel about the cover? I’m very proud to say that the artwork for the cover was a collaboration between Oxford’s design team and my wife, who used charcoal on paper to make the image onto which [Oxfor…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lations will face a maximum sentence of 100 lashes or pay a maximum fine of 1,000 grams of pure gold or face 100-month imprisonment. The ICJR says it regrets the impact of the implementation of Qanun Jinayat in Aceh. This case will increase the stigma against LGBT people in the province, it further says. Tanzania: Profile of activist struggle with anti-LGBT crackdown NewsDeeply’s Women and Girls profiles Queen M, a transgender woman who is “fighti…

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…to not drum for an hour and a half while we pray. Do you know of a similar service in Israel, tied to the July 14 protests there? Nope. I’m sure there was davening three times a day among the Orthodox participants. Since, as you point out, Yom Kippur is not just about individual repentance, but collective repentance, do you think participating in the Kol Nidre service amid the Occupy Wall Street protest could change the way people interpret the me…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…were the same people doing the same thing. Because the spontaneity of the Spirit in allowing the Spirit to move freely, and in and through your body, in and through your mind, with songs. The free-style worship, the celebration, the movement away from the bulletin, the program. You have a gospel background. It was right after I met you that I was reading Kalefa Sanneh’s New Yorker article in which you talked about how church choirs have always be…

Do Dogs Have a Soul?: Taking “Creaturely” Life Seriously

By Beatrice Marovich

…ogmatic about terms.) Many assume that the exclusion of other animals from spiritual things, or spiritual realities, is simply par for the course in monotheistic religious traditions. And yet, creaturely experience itself is derived from the basic categories of monotheistic theology—it is a form of experience that originates in a cosmology dominated by a creating creator and populated by its creatures. Granted, within monotheistic thought there is…