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Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…er Sophia runs the socialconservative group European Dignity Watch and was listed as a participant in the Political Network for Values summit in December. Conservatives use the term “gender ideology” as a rhetorical device for denying the existence of transgender people, in much the same way that many deny the existence of people with a homosexual identity. This shows up in the use of terms such as “people with same-sex attraction” by those who wa…

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

By Michael Schulson

…lry; it’s a representation of your intimate relationship with the industrialist drumbeat that is standard time. Timekeepers call central clocks “master clocks,” and others “slave clocks.” Through Thompson’s lens, these expressions look all too descriptive. It’s a potent analysis. Standard time does allow for new negotiations between individuals and groups. It allows authority figures to shape the schedules of people—to make them, in a word, discip…

Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween

By Ed Simon

…ards’ self-excoriating understanding to that of the contemporary fundamentalist who makes everyone an inhabitant of that place but himself. In an increasingly disenchanted world it is horror that provides some of our most common experiences of the transcendent (for we must remember that Lucifer himself descended from heaven). What film is more suffused with a sense of the holy and the radical otherness of the sacred than The Exorcist? In that way…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…exas and Oklahoma in this group). Most of the others are from Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Idaho, with a remaining smattering of members from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, and New Jersey. They of course would deny that there is any racial agenda, but it is the state legislative counterparts of these very same folks who have worked overtime to restrict voting rights, opt out of Medicaid participation under Obamacare, and wreck t…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…lmost 50,000 members in Missouri alone in that time, another 45,000 in New Mexico, and Florida, 12,000 in Washington D.C. Reading through the data, the conclusion seems inescapable: over the last half of the 20th century, the Southern Baptists enjoyed remarkable success in expanding out of their traditional turf. But in the early part of this century, that momentum stalled, and now they’ve started to give ground back. Were it not for the growth in…

Hicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm

By Timothy King

…ists, socialists, and vocal critics of organized religion. Scott Nearing’s list of published papers includes titles such as “Why I Believe in Socialism,” “The Rise and Decline of Christian Civilization,” and “Oil and the Germs of War.” Thoreau famously contended that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” To his mind, many farmers fell into this category. Farming, like any other form of work, could deaden one’s soul. Yes, the Immokalee…

Pat Robertson Warns Yoga Will Have You Speaking Hindu

By Andrea R. Jain

Pat Robertson, the notorious and influential television evangelist and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, is not new to the yogaphobic maelstrom that has been brewing for as long as Western Europeans and North Americans have been familiar with yoga. In the last couple of decades, largely in response to the widespread popularization of yoga, yogaphobia has shot to mainstream attention as socially conservative, high-profile Protestant e…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…s atop the Egyptian goddess Hathor. We are told that “the idols of ancient Mexico are represented by some debris and photographic reproductions.” But there is, in fact, one bias exposed by the scene—there are no Christian images present. No Virgin Mary, no Son of God, no Saint John the divine. An inclusive assemblage functions to exclude. *** In his recent book, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, the French Philosopher Bruno Latour bemoans The We…

Conservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hat discussion. This is exactly what Pope Francis wanted… “Unlike we journalists, he has not obsessed over the language of the report but has been much more focused on the process. He set the tone at the beginning by encouraging the bishops to speak freely. At the end, in summing up the synod, he showed that he had been listening carefully, and like a good Jesuit discerning the Spirit in the process…The synod was a big win for openness and for Fra…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…n (rural, small city, large city), and socio-economic class. Russia: Journalists arrested, but not anti-gay protesters or Orthodox extremists The Olympics in Sochi got underway with the arrest in St. Petersburg of LGBT activists carrying a banner that read “Discrimination is incompatible with the Olympic movement,” quoting Principle 6 of the Olympic charter. Protesters were later released. Amnesty International has drawn attention to the case of E…