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Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

…iage Equality Bill Opposed by Evangelical Lawmakers Equality activists are promoting new marriage equality legislation, which is backed by deputies from different parties, though one of the lawyers supporting the bill acknowledged that it might be blocked by evangelical lawmakers who have to date prevented other attempts. Tunisia: Court Jails Students on Sodomy Charge Last week a court sentenced six male students to three years in jail after ssubj…

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It’s Not the Name It’s the Theocratic Vision — THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’S PR PROBLEM

…ght transgenderism, if we frame it as an attack against your children” The new 12-region structure of a leading New Apostolic Reformation network. On a practical note, Pfeiffer also announced the new national structure of USCAL, which will be the body that seeks to more methodically deliver on their religious and political vision. They aim to take a less top-down, more bottom-up approach to “reformation,” and emphasize the local church. He and oth…

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#OpenTheseDoors: A Movement to Turn New York’s Closed Churches into Shelters

…ngry and betrayed. The archdiocese, after all, is the largest landowner in New York: what would be done with these properties? Answers were not forthcoming. When news trickled out that the archdiocese had spent $175 million dollars to restore St. Patrick’s Cathedral in advance of Pope Francis’ visit to New York, anger tuned to bitterness. And with Cardinal Dolan’s history of having shifted diocesan funds around during the sex abuse scandals when h…

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Religion and HIV/AIDS: When Interfaith is Not Enough

…hem less apparent by making them seem exceptional. So, with regard to this new effort in New York, we must ask: What does this new coalition bode for the future? Will our willingness to celebrate this new interfaith effort sideline us from the equally important effort to refuse to support callous religious opposition to sex education? To condom distribution and needle exchanges? To inclusion of LGBTQ persons? To the real illogic of wishful thinkin…

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Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations

…Nominated to lead the world’s most powerful military, the 44-year-old Fox News host served as a National Guard officer in Iraq and Afghanistan and served at Guantanamo Bay, the detention operation known for its flagrant human rights violations whose expansion he’s called for. Hegseth’s severe lack of qualifications for the Defense Secretary position is matched by his fervent commitment to the ‘war on woke’ in the military, unquestioning support f…

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Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews

…l but the most far-right fringes of the institutional American Jewish landscape. Instead, it appears to be led entirely by Christian nationalists. At the helm of the National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism are Mario Bramnick and Luke Moon, among the most influential movement builders of the Christian Zionist Right. Florida-based Pastor Bramnick is a leading apostle of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), a militant Pentecostal and Charismatic d…

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Trump the Totem: Like Other Fascist Leaders, Trump has Turned from Man to Symbol — And That’s the Danger

…his sex scandals, he doesn’t confuse male and female.” Also, see “From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict“] Sociologists have used the term “totem” to describe the way symbols come to have a powerful unifying effect among groups. This week, it struck me that this passage in Emile Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life vividly captures the internal dynamics of the circus-like Trump e…

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The ‘Jezebel Spirit’ Isn’t (Just) Bible-Based Misogyny, it’s a Literal Demon — So What Happens When They ‘Stop Tolerating’ It?

…ce that Jezebel represents. But for those who agree theologically with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement, the truth is far more complicated and threatening. The NAR is a grouping of loosely-affiliated charismatic churches and religious leaders—often termed “prophets” or “apostles.” As Frederick Clarkson writes, it is “the largest religious movement in recent American history, [and] has unabashed, undemocratic, and well documented politi…

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The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

…Following the October 7th Hamas attack that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis, news reports frequently mentioned escalating American antisemitism. Many of these are well documented and unequivocal incidents: street attacks on visibly Jewish people, bomb threats at synagogues, and a return of rhetoric like “Zionist Occupied Government.” But looking more closely at the coverage, these narratives believe one particular type of antisemitism is of paramoun…

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A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy

…to see the SBC finally publish its formerly secret “database” of alleged abusers within the organization—a decision most likely spurred by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News’s bombshell 2019 investigation revealing over 700 victims of sexual abuse within the SBC over the past two decades. To Brown, the sway evangelical faith leaders have over the power brokers of the Republican Party spells sure disaster. “When people talk about tu…

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