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Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…a administration’s stance on Israel-Palestine. Mostly what you hear in the news are words like “betrayal” of America’s friend Israel. But scratch beneath the surface — not even very far — of Israel’s “friends” Hagee and Beck, and you’ll find conspiracy theories about what making peace with the Palestinians means. Peace treaties are negotiated by the Antichrist, who will attempt to annihilate Israel; Christ will return, “bringing the armies of heav…

New Vatican Document Good News for Poor, Bad News for Tea Party

By Daniel C. Maguire

…l will know that you are my disciples” (John 13:35). This document is good news for the poor and bad news for the Tea Party. It says we need globalized solutions for globalized problems; it favors a market economy but not this one; it calls for “supranational authority,” a healthy, non-tyrannical “world political authority” to tame the greed games that strip the poor and gorge the rich; it calls names, deriding “neoliberalism,” the Neocons’ Credo,…

Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e calls himself “Timur Bulatov (Isaev), social activist”. …Mr Bulatov told Russian news website Tayga.info that he had “rescued” Russian children from 65 “immoral” teachers. Zambia: Report on emotional trauma and suicide among gay men Prudence Phiri at Global Press Journal writes that suicide is “a common end” for gay men in Zambia, where homosexuality is criminalized. It’s a crime to be a homosexual here. Many people in Zambia’s lesbian, gay, bis…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ansgender people but a basic failure to understand the emotional logic of Trumpism.” Trump got elected on the promise of a return to an imaginary past—a time we don’t remember because it never actually was, but one when America was a kind of great that Trump has promised to restore. Trumps shares this brand of nostalgia with Vladimir Putin, who has spent the last five years talking about Russian “traditional values,” with Hungarian president Vikto…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…urch Lost Its Soul?” emblazoned on its cover. Taken together, the Time and Newsweek Catholic stories of the late 1960s and early 1970s suggest that, after nearly a half-century, the newsweeklies’ tendency to affirm the power of the Church had given way to boldface questioning of its unity, legitimacy, and relationship to civil authority. After the 1960s the newsweeklies cut back on coverage of all religion, and Catholic coverage was no exception….

“Debt” is a Spiritual Word

By Donna Schaper

…ing about a trans-economic life. Don’t tell the media, but there are other news stories besides the rise and the fall of the stock markets. Whisper that some people don’t even have stocks and others have way too many, and both groups of people find themselves often moved to pray: “Forgive us our debts—the ones we owe to the poor and don’t pay—as they forgive us,” the rich might say. The poor might say, “Forgive us our resentment and anger against…

Beliefnet Readers: Are You Really Offended by the Word “Feminism”?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…a non-trivial number of readers of Beliefnet out there are offended by the word feminist. They don’t just disagree with certain tenets of feminism (which is far from monolithic, btw). They don’t just think, “Eh, that’s not really my thing, but whatevs, I like the site anyway and there are zillions of other people to read there. Oh, say! I think I’ll take the ‘What religion are you?’ quiz again just to see if I’ve changed.” They don’t have an argum…

Reza Aslan’s Missed Opportunity

By Micha'el Rosenberg

…, neither of which is the same as when it comes from Lauren Green on a Fox News production. My frustration with Reza Aslan in no ways mitigates her wild unprofessionalism in this interview, nor her profound misunderstanding of the difference between confessional writing (the sort of work I do when I prepare a sermon for synagogue, for example) and academic research (the very different norms and assumptions in effect when writing an article for a p…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…t transparent enough to see their lily-white skins. Noah speaks of the destruction of the whole world and eventually, with great reluctance, the re-peopling of the world—which seems to be all white. As origin stories Genesis and Enoch are not scientific texts, but they do have their own logic: earth brown humans are crafted from the brown earth humus and from them descend peoples of all nations. The ancient Israelites who crafted and preserved the…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in the pool of Brewster and Satawake’s official residence that a Dominican newspaper published. “We view this invitation to public homosexuality as an indecency and a lack of decorum that shames the modesty of the majority of the Dominican population that neither shares in homosexual practices or practices their sexuality in promiscuous environments,” it says. The Blade reports that dozens of pro-equality activists and advocacy groups released the…