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Why Won’t the President Say “Islamic Terrorists?”

By Paula Cooey

…ent in order to achieve power or control. More specifically, terrorism has come to mean perpetuating violence on civilians, making it distinct from other exercises of violence to achieve power—for example, military combat. Assuming this somewhat loose definition (without reference to who the terrorists are and who the civilians might be) leaves open questions of what kind of power is exercised and to what end. These questions lie at the heart of “…

Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…her gun advocates. The nearly 1:1 correspondence there is truly sickening. https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/672407664421400576 Others, including myself, pointed out that at least some of these charges were tone-deaf, and that there’s more to prayer than commonly thought. The Atlantic‘s Emma Green, and many conservatives, saw a “prayer-shaming” liberal attack on faith itself, which is twaddle. As usual, Twitter’s done this to death, and then s…

How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?

By Christel Manning

…like Jefferson Bethke of YouTube fame, who “love Jesus but hate religion.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY There are spiritual seekers who embrace bits and pieces of various traditions and don’t want to commit to just one. And there are Nones who are just plain indifferent to religion. What ties these diverse worldviews together is a deep commitment to what I call “worldview choice”—a belief that religious and secular worldviews are ex…

The Pope and the Culture Wars

By Patricia Miller

…On the eve of the Pope’s address to congress, RD Senior Correspondent Patti Miller spoke with NPR partner station KPCC about the effect on the culture wars of “[t]he most politicized pontiff in contemporary history.” https://soundcloud.com/religion-dispatches/papal-politics-how-pope-francis-stirs-the-culture-wars-in-dc…

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

…llying. The Duke of Cambridge indicated he would confront those behind any comments and comfort the victims. David Coburn, a member of the European Parliament from the right-wing UKIP party said this week that he believed Muslim refugees fleeing into Europe from Syria and Iraq may, in the words of BuzzFeed’s Jamie Ross, “be part of ISIS and will attempt to change the British way of life.” “Many of these people, as we’ve heard, are ISIS,” he said….

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…arginalization and lack of opportunities force many transgender women to become sex workers; as such, they become even more vulnerable to violence and abuse—including by the police. Discrimination in healthcare is routine for LGBT people, and transgender women in particular often face ridicule and rejection from hospital and clinic personnel. Faroe Islands: Gay Marriage as a campaign issue Voters in the Faroe Islands, which have been autonomous fr…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…tion, saying in 2010, “Up north, they think it was like the K.K.K. Where I come from, it was an organization of town leaders.” (Barbour is also not offended by the Confederate flag.) Moore has elicited comparisons to Alabama’s segregationist governor George Wallace, following his pledge to defy a federal court ruling invalidating Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage earlier this year. Moore ordered probate court clerks, who issue marriage licenses i…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…has absorbed millions of refugees, among them sexual minorities who have become outcasts from their own communities. In a Middle East that is becoming increasingly divided along political, religious, and ethnic lines, eclectic Istanbul offers a rare chance to cut across these invisible borders – the type of opportunity the recently formed group LGBT Arabie has jumped on. “There are hundreds of us here,” says the group’s co-founder, Nader, a 25-yea…

Watch John Oliver Satirize IRS’ Lack of Church Oversight

By Becky Garrison

…the prevalence of abuse in any church environment lacking adequate accountability structures. Even though the church formally dissolved in January 2015, the distribution of their assets remains buried beneath a myriad of LLCs. (For more on that, go to wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com.) Even should a church be reported for financial misconduct it would hardly matter since the IRS hasn’t investigated a single church case in over five years. Furtherm…

Unbeknownst to Richard Dawkins the Feminist Revolution in Islam Has Already Begun

By Jerusha Tanner Lamptey

…going on. For those who genuinely ask “What can we do to help?” the answer is simple: Muslim women need allies. But allies are not saviors, disparagers, or dictators. Allies listen with depth, humility and compassion. Allies amplify the voices of others, rather than their own. And allies come to the table with a respect for the humanity, diversity and agency of those they wish to support….