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A Matter of the Heart: Talking to Gay Christian Rocker Jennifer Knapp

By Kristin Rawls

…we like to watch the car wreck, but the negative experiences really are outnumbered by the positive ones. The biggest story out of this for me has been how much overwhelming support and acceptance I’ve had, not only as a person of faith who is also a lesbian… But so many people who aren’t personally affected by this have said, “It doesn’t make sense that we wholeheartedly reject people because of who they love and experience the fullness of joy wi…

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…on Memorial Church in New York City) and write on the ribbon what you will miss most when the temperatures rise too far to permit the earth’s amusement. You can enjoy headsets, which allow you to understand the Iranian who is talking about how he saved wetlands or the Sudanese woman who went from 28 women in an agricultural cooperative to 5000. You can learn about resilience in one lecture after another. What is resilience? Here’s what the Equator…

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…e College’s ’64 center for an open-forum/protest called “Fighting for Academic Freedom.” At the meeting, a number of LGBT students made clear that they were profoundly upset by the administration’s decision. One student noted that the college’s actions had “further alienated the LGBT community”; that Lena’s decision implied that LGBT people were not “creatures of value and worth”; and that Providence had “directly defied the pope’s ecumenical red…

The Jihadi Revolution is Dead (But Bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Kill It)

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…nd the dissemination of YouTube types of videos showing graphic acts of US military destruction in Islamic countries and calling on the faithful to respond. The jihadi idea of cosmic war provided a strategic legimitization of violence by the implicit promise—as a leader of Hamas once told me—that if one is fighting God’s war, one could never lose. God always wins. Tahrir Square is a profound anti-jihadi lesson, and its significance has spread arou…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…ng faster than the earth’s population and faster than Islam. Wagner’s cell phone rings mid-lecture; a Hank Williams ringtone. The class laughs. In fact, it’s probably an act designed to loosen them up. A pro with five decades of public speaking under his belt, C. Peter Wagner is the “convening apostle” of the International Coalition of Apostles. He’s also the presiding Apostle over a prayer network originally formed, in 1990, as the “Spiritual War…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…ere not companionship-based. They were economic arrangements. Okay, that’s number 1. Number 2, let’s say that your wife didn’t provide you with a male offspring. A man could take another wife and another wife and another wife until one of them did. This is the “sanctity of marriage” that is being protected. Are you kidding me? Wow. Okay, so that’s Old Testament. Then along comes Jesus. Well for those of us who follow Jesus, I always like to point…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…law. “In fact, this draft law is much worse than its Russian counterpart,” Michael explains. “It imposes a criminal penalty of up to one and a half years of imprisonment.” The bill, which is supposed to address “the formation of positive attitudes towards non-traditional sexual relations,” has already had its second reading in parliament, and a third and final reading is expected soon. “There is a coalition for justice and non-discrimination of wh…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…soul. That outcome is probably also decided, but religion still seems determined to take as many casualties as possible on the way out. Yes, the evidence for evolution is overwhelming. Yes, creationists are wrong and they can be quite dishonest. But what outcome is this that is probably already decided? That “science will win” and “religion will lose”? Unless I am wildly mistaken, that is the subtext of the remark. I suspect the war, to employ the…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…o oppose marriage equality. The president of the Mexican Council for the Family(ConFamilia), Juan Dabdoub Giacomán, told CNA that he clearly sees in the defeat of the PRI the influence of the “protest vote” that pro-family and pro-marriage advocates called for in the country. After Peña Nieto announced he would promote a constitutional reform to recognize gay marriage throughout the country, as well as amendments to the Federal Civil Code to allow…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…ion that would change nations. The following year, seeking to assist the family of Rami Ayyad, a Christian bookstore owner who was killed in Gaza, she traveled to the Ukraine and visited with Henry Madava, a pastor there who is Zimbabwean by birth. Bourland says that God had already given Madava the information that Bourland was going to tell him about a martyr. When she told him of her efforts to assist Ayyad’s family, she said, Madava was ready…