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Ironies & Bright Spots for Gays in the Christian College World

By L Marston

…iving the most attention this fall occurred at Azusa Pacific University in California, a Christian university with an undergraduate enrollment of 5500. In September, a faculty member who had been in the theology department for 15 years came out as transgender, to be known as H. Adam Ackley rather than Heather Clements. Although Azusa had no written policy barring transgender faculty, the university sought and received Ackley’s resignation. His las…

Meditation is Not Religion or Spirituality—It’s Technology

By Jay Michaelson

…t the cover? I’m taking the fifth on this one. The cover art by Cryptik, a California-based street artist, is awesome. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? One of the models for this book is Jack Kornfield’s After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, which is one of the few books to take the developmental path seriously, and which also has an awesome title that is itself a powerful lesson on the dharma. I also have been rer…

No Religious Left “Split” On Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption

By Sarah Posner

…Susan Russell, Senior Associate Minister at All Saints Church in Pasadena, California, attended the White House signing today. Ball, said Russell, “got it wrong.” Ball cites the abandoned effort of Sojourners’ Jim Wallis to send a letter to Obama urging the inclusion of an exemption, as well as the letter organized by former Obama campaign and White House staffer Michael Wear, signed by 14 religious leaders, as evidence of this alleged division on…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n of the society has been distorted to such an extent that the US state of California approved a compulsory course on historical accomplishments of representatives of sexual minorities. I think you see for yourself how the topic is promoted in the international media. A reasonable question under the circumstances is what to expect next?” Tasmagambetov continued. His speech concluded to say that education should be based on building a society capab…

Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)

By Peter Laarman

…isis is going to shake old ways and old assumptions to the foundations. In California, where I live, I can already see stirrings of radical environmentalism among groups like a congregation of fairly well-off Presbyterians in Newport Beach. The further test will come when the full-on catastrophe actually arrives—e.g., severe famines in many parts of the world, huge hunger-driven migrations, and the exposure of poor people in the U.S. to a horrific…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…equality. A measure to repeal a state constitutional marriage ban in Baja California was introduced in the state Congress, generating protest from the Citizens Front in Defense of Marriage Between Man and Woman. Serbia: Liberal Democrats form pro-LGBT Human Rights Council Last weekend the Liberal Democratic Party announced the launch of a Human Rights Council in Belgrade last weekend, which is committed to supporting LGBT rights in Serbia. The Co…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…rans* student to live in student housing appropriate to his gender, and at California Baptist University, which expelled a trans* student from its nursing program in 2013 for alleged fraud because she chose the “female” box for “gender” on her application for admission. Both trans* students sued their former schools, but courts largely sided with the universities in both cases. With the urgency created by the most active forms of anti-LGBTQ discri…

Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

By Stephanie Gaskill

…ton in particular was known for his ability to cite entire sections of the California legal code from memory, educating African Americans about their rights as they were arrested. The underlying principle of Panther patrols was that the members of black communities should be able to actively supervise the police in their own neighborhoods. Feiden Santana’s decision to record and release the video of Walter Scott’s murder recalls the spirit of such…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…is week 68 same-sex couples in Tampico were awarded an amparo. And in Baja California Sur, the chief judge of the state’s high court proposed new provisions he described as “advanced, visionary and realistic” to harmonize state family law with judgements of the federal courts. Meanwhile, the city council of Mexicali filed a legal motion challenging court orders against the city’s ban on marriage by same-sex couples. Iran: LGBT Activists respond to…

Conservative Evangelicalism’s Gender Role Rift: Whither Women?

By Jacob Lupfer

…ngelical powerhouse, the Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Southern California, addresses the Vatican conference Humanum: An International Interreligious Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man and Woman, in November 2014. Photo via Flickr/Humanum IT. Traditionalist evangelical elites may have overreached. Now, in light of the preferences and necessities that undergird evangelicals’ egalitarian family arrangements, leaders will have to con…