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Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…ocacy and even participation in social clubs. According to a report by the New York Times’ Adam Nossiter: Activists said the mob violence was a sign that the new law appeared to have given mobs license to act on widespread antigay sentiment in Nigeria. “The government has given a go-ahead authority to mob jungle justice,” said Mr. Orazulike of the International Center for Advocacy on the Right to Health. “This is unacceptable. You can’t attack peo…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…déclassé. The sort of subject left to supermarket tabloids like The Weekly World News, which in 1996 breathlessly declared, with tongue only partially in cheek, “Airline Pilot Photographs an Angel!,” between a blurry “photo” and a pull quote informing readers that the “FAA launches top secret investigation into incident.” To those who dismiss any sort of faith in angels, they belong to a category that also includes ghosts and UFO abductions, clair…

A New Book For Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity

By Brian Bantum

…interaction with the world that spoke to the beauty and pain of our bodied lives in this world. But it needed to be a story that could help them see how vital our bodies and our differences are to a loving God, and how racism and sexism are two examples of how human falleness distorts the beautiful possibilities of our lives together. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? When I think about our current political, so…

Right Wing Morality is Costing the Church of England Dearly

By Linda Woodhead

…rms, even in liberal societies. I don’t believe it’s that clear-cut. It’s true that religious authorities have taken a “post-liberal” turn since the 1970s, but the growing rise of “no religion,” first in Europe and then the USA, is in part a reaction against this. The idea that your average Anglican in Britain yearns for “stricter” religion is demonstrably false. They would, however, have preferred a church which was more responsive to their moral…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…ussing abortion with clients; and move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It’s hard to overstate how potent the Israel issue was with this audience. Each time it was mentioned it drew cheers and standing ovations. Staver, while he was awaiting Gingrich’s arrival, discussed his recent private meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him “the Ronald Reagan of Israel” and added, “we need people who are running for off…

Election Reporters: Here’s Why Simply Descriptors Like ‘Christians’ Can Have Enormous Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…” so much so that they would no longer need to be politically engaged. The New York Times did a bit better [emphasis mine]: At the end of his speech, Mr. Trump urged the religious crowd to vote in November, suggesting that if elected he would address their concerns sufficiently enough that they would no longer need to be politically active. Earlier, he had lamented that conservative Christians do not vote proportionately to their size, a complaint…

Wild Goose Festival’s (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians

By Kristin Rawls

…antagonism toward the church. Toscano remarked that these discussions sometimes felt “like the parents talking about what to do with the unruly children.” Also overlooked was the failure to include gender identity in the Festival welcome statement. Minister Shannon Kearns later wrote, “as a transgender person, I must say that my community was pretty much invisible on the main stages.” He added that “almost no [out transgender] person spoke from a…

UPDATED: Oklahoma Personhood Bill Not Dead…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…can leadership didn’t so much care that lobbyists were trying to do an end-run around the speaker and floor leader with their discharge petition. But regardless, in short order Rep. Mike Reynolds was quoted in the Tulsa World saying that “a major state organization has said [SB-1433] will make Oklahoma look like a backward state.” (To me, that sounds like the state Republican party, but obviously that’s just a guess because vague language is vague…

Hoax Underscores Urgency for LGBT People in Uganda

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ternational Affairs noted, the hoax is a call to LGBT advocates around the world to redouble their efforts to foster full acceptance of LGBT people everywhere in the world – and most especially where they face the prospect of violence and death on a daily basis. ”This story is a wakeup call for all of us to ensure that something like it will never actually happen. The climate of fear and intimidation created by the Bahati Bill by external organiza…

Oklahoma Supreme Court Unanimously Blocks Personhood Ballot Initiative UPDATED

By Katie Toth

…people to repent and give up everything in the name of faithfulness. Not a new theme, but one with real resonance, especially among young people. (Now compare that to the web presence of Oklahomans for Life.) It seems like some kind of realignment may be in the works, but it’s too soon to say who will be aligned with whom. UPDATE: According to a Personhood USA press release, the organization intends to appeal the decision at the US Supreme Court l…