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Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…y do have those rights and let them be.” The representative of the British High Commission told the conference that the British government was proud to stand up for the rights of LGBT people everywhere, by promoting tolerance and non-discrimination and addressing discriminatory laws – especially those that criminalize homosexuality. The first comment on the news story comes from a pastor arguing that homosexuality should be criminalized as a “crim…

What Did the Puritans Have Against Christmas?

By Bruce David Forbes

…re victory, claiming that their side had won the War on Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgUaXo9URCM Whatever the recent skirmishes, this kind of controversy is not new. American disagreements about the celebration of Christmas reach back to the nation’s colonial beginnings—where ironically, it was a Christian group, Puritans, that offered the discouraging words. When the Church of England broke away from Roman Catholicism in the 1500s,…

Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting

By Mary E. Hunt

…ut for most Western women the piece is a bad parody of what not to do! The come-hither approach does not entice most women. It is no wonder that the Council took down the English-language video almost as soon as it went up. Nancy Brilli is probably ruing the fact that she cooperated. Moreover, what small sliver of the population has the time, energy, technology, and/or inclination to make such a video? Most of the world’s women are too busy findin…

Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again

By Candy Gunther Brown

…ditions, as interpreted by wealthy European Americans, and often target low-income, “inner-city” African Americans and Latinxs. “Secularized” programs extract, and potentially distort, cultural resources in a manner that can be critiqued as cultural theft. Marketers take what they see as the “essence” of another culture’s traditions, leaving behind what they dismiss as mere “baggage.” Ironically, positive orientalist stereotypes that equate Asian…

American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope

By Mary E. Hunt

…three vows understood as narrowly as possible, and strict conformity to top-down community governance. Their views are now advanced by the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (which it seems the Vatican has in the wings to eclipse LCWR when the doctrinal probe is completed). CMSWR recently published a book of essays, The Foundations of Religious Life: Revisiting the Vision. Complete with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, the five essays read…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…magazine, a highly influential evangelical publication, got in on the guilt-by-association dunking: https://twitter.com/andrewtwalk/status/1496482488130191368?s=20&t=BCVMOzDYWxTc8c9hU2_7iQ One Southern Baptist pastor even used the slur “tranny” in his tweet about the situation: https://twitter.com/NateSchlomann/status/1496553688759943169 Eventually, Denny Burk, a pastor and a professor at Boyce College, the undergraduate institution associated wit…

Jesus for Atheists (and Agnostics, and Nones, and Everyone Else)

By Tom Krattenmaker

…book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? That would be the new book by Robert P. Jones, The End of White Christian America, which I find to be so important, engaging, well-informed, and helpful in the attempt to understand what’s going on our society these days. What’s your next book? I don’t know. I’m open to ideas! After all, the idea for Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower book was gifted to me, so why would the next one be…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…up with a better example to illustrate a major theme of David Neiwert’s latest book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right. There has been much discussion of the culture of incivility lately, epitomized by the recent indecorous outbursts of Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson (R-SC) during President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress, tennis star Serena Williams toward a linesman at the US Open, and rapper Kayne West…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…tions between the government and the Catholic Church are contentious, asUCANews.com reports. Defending all minority rights, including LGBT equality aside from marriage, is seemingly a position with which leading Catholic voices seem comfortable. Regarding Uganda, where many religious leaders have backed the harsh anti-gay law passed by parliament just before Christmas, Archbishop Michael Blume , the Papal Nuncio to Uganda, responded to a letter of…

After Westboro: The Trouble With “Tolerance”

By Cody J. Sanders

…ace? Troubling Tolerance Even as churches like Westboro continue their hate-filled protests, other anti-gay groups like Exodus International are beginning to qualify their speech in very peculiar ways. Alan Chambers, president of Exodus, is reported to have said, “All the recent attention to bullying helped us to realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while treating their neighbors as they’d like to be treated,…