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God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

…ur identity, whether it’s slave or free, ultimately fades away and we have new dignity, status and value in Christ—so we ended up in that liberating trajectory on the issue of slavery even though the New Testament doesn’t explicitly condemn it. In the very same passage it talks about how male and female is something that doesn’t affect people’s status when we’re baptized in Christ, so I argue that hierarchy and gender in marriage is not intrinsic…

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Terminal 5 is a Product of the New Post-9/11 Realities

…terminal, Terminal 5, has recently been opened at Fiumicino, an antiseptic new structure standing at some considerable remove from the other four terminals I knew. It is linked by shuttle bus, but they come infrequently, and the ride is a long one. Terminal 5 itself seemed empty, institutional, and almost eerily silent. Terminal 5 is a product of the new post-9/11 realities. To be sure, many European airports have long segregated US-bound and Isra…

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“1913: Seeds of Conflict”: New Doc Explores Little-Known History of Palestine

…to take root in Palestine. But that same social context also gave rise to new Arab newspapers such as El Carmel and El Palestine, around which coalesced a collective Palestinian identity. These papers openly challenged the Zionist project (not the “Jews”) and warned the Arabic-reading public of an ensuing confrontation. As Rashid Khalidi argues in his book Palestinian Identity (2009) Loeterman suggest that Zionist and Palestinian identity emerge…

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Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40

…d inaugurate new religious visions. Of the book’s Reformation context, the New York Review of Books’ Marina Warner noted that: [T]he new focus on reading the Bible led to a resurgence of interest in stories of direct divine intervention, and Protestant Europe in the sixteenth century saw a “boom” in compendia of miracles… The Monster Manual is likewise a product of its time, an expression of the secular age. One of its accompanying texts, Deities…

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An Extravagant Welcome For All: Believe Out Loud, a Faith-Based LGBT Campaign, Launches

…p says that he enthusiastically welcomes Believe Out Loud as a “tremendous new movement that will give these conflicted clergy friends better opportunities to raise their voices in support of love, hospitality, and justice for all people.” The Uncertain Middle A major strength of the new campaign is that it builds directly a very large and recent quantitative study of clergy attitudes that was conducted by Robert P. Jones of Public Religion Resear…

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Robert Bellah’s Powerful Legacy: A Mixed Blessing for Religious Studies?

…trange that Bellah believed his recommendations amounted to anything truly new, much less something as perplexing as a “new religious consciousness.” Stranger still is why Bellah would use such tendentious language at all; especially when he must have known how many red flags it would have set off among his political enemies on campus. Thus, when we take such talk of a department of religious studies being the breeding grounds for a “new religious…

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Synod ‘Fight for Soul’ of Catholic Church, Flap On English Translation of Key Report; Anti-Gay Law Advances in Kyrgyzstan; Global LGBT Recap

…se people, guaranteeing to them a fraternal space in our communities.” The new version asks if the church is “capable of providing for these people, guaranteeing … them … a place of fellowship in our communities.” The first version said homosexual unions can often constitute a “precious support in the life of the partners.” The new one says gay unions often constitute “valuable support in the life of these persons.” In nearly all cases, the first…

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Ron Paul’s New Place in the GOP

…overbial “voice in the wilderness,” Ron Paul’s world is about to change. A new Rasmussen poll finds that 74% of Americans strongly favor a plan to audit the Federal Reserve, something Paul has advocated for years. He plans to push such a plan as the new chair of the House Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee that oversees the Fed and its monetary policy. Reportedly Republican leaders had planned to put someone else in that position but appointed…

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Chauvin Verdict isn’t a Turning Point in Equal Justice, But it Does Suggest a New Political Norm

…, the former president, almost certainly without knowing it, established a new assumption that’s unlikely to undo itself any time soon, an assumption that not only understands that the work of liberty and justice for all is ongoing, but also that the Republicans’ lies are no longer worth accepting or overlooking. The world saw Derek Chauvin squeeze the life out of George Floyd. No lie could hide that. The world saw the former president try to sque…

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‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

…nment social policies Right-wing apocalyptic Christians who fear a Satanic New World Order Nebulous conspiracy theorists who fear a secular New World Order Nationalistic ultra-patriots concerned that US sovereignty is eroding. Xenophobic anti-immigrant white nationalists who worry about preserving the “real” America. These grievances are interacting in a global economy often eager to accommodate corporate interests. And now we add in the fact that…

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