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Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…lation that imperils gay life and livelihood, perhaps? Will we see strange new coalitions of gays and ex-gays opposing homophobic bullying? Or even stranger new dividing lines between gays, straights, and ex-gays who uphold the centrality of marriage as an institution and queers and others who support new experiments in social organization—a possibility recently postulated in a recent New York Times op-ed by former gay marriage opponent David Blan…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…The Unlikely Disciple, then, comes to seem like the expression of a brave new world and, in it, a new way of writing about religion in this country. It’s not the first book of the kind, but it struck me as the first to fall so comfortably into the time and place. We no longer need (since we are all “we” now) to muckrake and expose the other. Now, the necessary work is understanding, compromise, and shared humanity. These cozy themes have always w…

How an Ancient Story of Renegade Rabbis Caught With Black Market Technology Can Help Us Navigate ChatGPT’s Apocalyptic Aura

By Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld

…generations would gain access to unprecedented riches of learning, as each new scholar’s wisdom could be passed on to new communities. The Talmud is a heavily edited literary compilation, not a record of a single conversation, so even though it’s presented as a live issue in the story, the very fact that readers are encountering the tale in the Talmud—a work literally made possible by the technology in debate—means that writing down rabbinic teach…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…ts reassurance that the Catholic church will stand up for them. In a Daily News op/ed, Dolan described immigrants as “a gift” to New York and stated that Trump has shown a lack of concern for immigrants. And New York’s Archbishop has said nothing about deportation. Dolan’s language has indeed been mild compared to other Catholic leaders in America. Cardinal Blaise Cupich in Chicago recently told priests that if I.C.E. arrives at a church without a…

Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…istration will be subject to “Project Push Back.” Equality Forum 2009: Bad news and good news for the Rev. Donald Wildmon’s boycott happy American Family Association. The bad news? In Philadelphia from April 27 to May 3, Equality Forum—“a national and international nonprofit 501(c)(3) GLBT civil rights organization with an educational focus”—will present Equality Forum 2009, in collaboration with 65 nonprofit organizations. Scheduled are 34 panels…

Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…re bound by ideals and a set of values.” Tri-Faith America joins a list of new books on religion and American society at midcentury that reformulate the entire era. Whether it was Matthew Avery Sutton showing how Fundamentalist Christian conservatism and nationalism was made, in part, through the technological and cultural innovations of the former Canadian-faith-healer and career divorcée Aimee Semple McPherson just outside of Hollywood, or Darre…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…member’s bill on the issue was voted down by a vote of 58 to 14. Bolivia: New gender identity law gets approval and protest Members of a Christian organization protested against the approval of a new gender identity law. Colombia: Gay couple married in Cali for first time Two men became the first same-sex couple to get married in the city of Cali. The country’s constitutional court approved marriage equality on April 7. South Korea: Judge rejects…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…migrants who are alienated from the traditions of their parents but don’t feel accepted, for one reason or another, by the country of their birth. So precisely because it is a kind of “born-again” form of Islam, very pure and global, it’s not tied to any particular tradition. So yes, it is a new form. Pure and religion don’t really go together, in practice, do they? Except new religions—they can be very purist. You see that in Christianity too. If…

Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…and a rabbinical intern at a Conservative movement-affiliated synagogue in Newark, New Jersey, raise serious concerns about the intersection between mainstream Judaism and Hebrew Israelites.” The language represented in this passage reveals not a concern with intersection but contamination. Once again, if this is simply an issue of unaffiliated clergy presiding over services of a member congregation, why make the distinction between “mainstream Ju…

Don’t Blame Secularism: Reading Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion

By Jeffrey Feldman

…f current events built up from multiple perspectives divided roughly among news departments. Each news department is incomplete, but taken as a whole the news organization assembles a foundation of information that is broad and accurate enough to help the public understand events and make decisions. Should there be a religion department adding to this fact base in every newspaper? I imagine most editors would want there to be—in an ideal world whe…