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LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hts Campaign’s annual dinner, at which he said he thought the Church might change its mind on same-sex couples marrying the way he had changed his own mind on the issue. The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson reports that Kaine recounted that “as a result of his Catholic faith, he had a ‘difficult time with the idea of same-sex marriage,” but that changed during debate over an anti-marriage constitutional amendment campaign, which passed with 57 per…

Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

…CCS Co-Founder] Howard Moody did that was most important was, when the law changed in New York State so that you could get an abortion, he organized the referrers who were mainly clergy at that point and said to the doctors who wanted to charge $500, he said $350, that’s it. He was able to do an action economically that protected poorer people. How does the task of pastoral care change for clergy if abortion is re-criminalized in many states? It’s…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…r every day, even if we don’t realize that it’s been asked of us. Time has changed, but other transformations are in our future. In the decade ahead, the effort to bring affordable, high-speed internet to rural and developing regions will be a major project. A few players—Facebook (using drones) and Google (using balloons)—are leading that effort. Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page are the railroad magnates of their day, building a unive…

Did Jesus Help Ghanaian Women with Birth Control?

By Allie Carter

…quire much more than the grim statistics about mortality rates in order to change sexual behavior – they need access to contraceptives (practically unheard of in some of the small villages I worked in), decision-making skills, communications skills (like assertiveness, for example), not to mention that one from my 7th grade health class wall – self-esteem. All those skills and more come into play on family planning issues as well as in HIV/AIDS pr…

What Role do Feelings Play in Conspiracy, Racism and Climate Denial? Welcome to Phoning It In, Episode 1

By Megan Goodwin

…e a weave—they’re a cat’s cradle; they’re all linked together. So when you change how somebody feels, you’re changing how they think. And when you change how they think, you’re changing how they feel. That, in essence, is persuasion. MPG: Is it right to understand that in terms of showing folks what their personal stakes are in climate crisis? DOS: Sometimes. There are a lot of different ways that we need to be talking to people [about climate cri…

Good News Bad News

By Amina Wadud

…en be the majority, but actually it is changing. Those who are part of the change, or at the very least, interested in the change, form a different kind of relationship with it as a whole. Of course, work on Islam and gender falls into this category of progressive. Maybe for no other reason than the idea of gender as an arena of discourse, or part of identity, is a new. Sure, lots of people want to return us to the old patriarchal constructions of…

A 14-Point Rebuttal to The Nashville Statement from a Straight Cis Christian Man

By Eric Reitan

…r gender identity will fail. What’s more, as those who have survived such “change efforts” attest, any change that does occur is merely behavioral—little more than an attempt to escape abuse by adhering to conservative norms through repression and self-denial, rather than undergoing some religious revelation that prompts a lasting internal identity shift. If you say that every same-sex relationship is sinful, consistency demands that whenever it f…

Combat Soldiers & Clergywomen: Problematic Equality

By Mary E. Hunt

…eeds to be done pastorally and argue the details later. This is how social change happens. Laws are made and changed in response to already existing situations, not to fantasies. There are plenty of differences between these two cases. Those who promote women in combat probably do not want to change the fundamental nature of the military. Women priests already exist through ordination processes that parallel the official one, and plenty of Catholi…

A Whole New Ball Game: New Book Rethinks the History of Religion in Sport

By Daniel Grano

…ld serve as a powerful way to understand foundational social and political changes taking place in sport. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Religion is a source of crisis in sport. What I am mainly pushing back against is the idea that sport is “religious” insofar as it provides an escape from politics. This argument takes a couple of basic forms, depending on one’s perspective. Academics or popular critics interested in rad…

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…he didn’t understand why young adults—the millennials—were leaving the mainline denominational churches for the contemporary non-denominational worship centers. He argued that when he was a young adult, the late 1960s and early 1970s, that his peers stayed at their churches and forced the change. Obviously, times are different and sentiments have changed. Parker went on to remark that “Black millennials are extremely innovative and easily find alt…