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Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…n edited and condensed version of our conversations, which took place over phone and email. FEBRUARY 2017 Since the election, how has your relationship with white evangelicalism shifted? Sundays are hard. The last few months, as the temperature has turned up, I just get angry when sermons don’t address the injustice and violence in our country. I do not want to leave the first church that ever felt like a home to me. I’ve spent my entire Christian…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…n probably the best known American example, 19th century Baptist preacher William Miller proclaimed that Jesus would return between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844. When Christ did not appear, Miller and uncovered a mistake in his reasoning and offered a revised date: October 22, 1844. It became known as The Great Disappointment. Such are the risks of prophesying a specific date. Since their emergence in the 1950s, UFO-religions have also shown…

Is Bart Stupak As Marginalized As He Claims?

By Sarah Posner

…kid who knows that his parents aren’t going to let him hold his breath until he turns blue. And like those parents, the Democratic Party knows at some level it will have to give into him because, despite the bishops and the Stop the Abortion Mandate coalition, it has enabled the growing anti-choice contingent in the party. Stupak was elected in 1992 — before anti-choicers were explicitly sought out by the party leadership. According to the Times…

The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

By Hugh B. Urban

…ion about his bank account, credit cards, home address and social security number—was illegally retrieved, and that he was subjected to surveillance and phone-tapping. The church, meanwhile, countered that Behar’s article was a slanderous, sensationalist attack on a legitimate religious organization and part of a much longer history of misunderstanding and persecution that this religious minority has faced since its inception. In keeping w…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…ed unprecedented attention. Mayor Mick Cornett has already received 450 emails and phone calls opposing the event. Archbishop Paul Coakley has also condemned the event and called on Catholics to protest if it moves forward. Daniels, naturally, has expressed delight that his antics are finally provoking Church officials. This newfound energy has nothing to do with Daniels and everything to do with the events of last May. An online petition features…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…, what is there to catch us if we don’t assimilate? And not all of us are willing to assimilate. We do love and appreciate the culture of African people in this country, Latino people… who still hold on to culture that makes them feel comfortable. It’s cornbread and a warm kitchen and a table at your momma’s house. That’s the feeling that you get. And when you don’t have that in a neighborhood, the assimilation is tough. So it’s as though the move…

Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

By Frances Kissling

…decision not to use communion against legislators who vote for pro-choice bills. There is no canonical or theological error in their actions. There are no formal teachings on how best to prevent or reduce the need for abortion. Most Catholics legislators say they agree with the church’s moral view that abortion is objectively wrong, but have an obligation to respect the views of all religions. They have long taken the currently fashionable view th…

Planned Parenthood ‘Stung’ By Lila Rose

By Bill Berkowitz

…eared at her side during an interview with conservative TV talk-show host Bill O’Reilly.” She is also receiving support from the Washington, DC-based CRC Public Relations, a firm “that represents conservative clients and had a hand in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign that targeted Democrat John F. Kerry during the 2004 presidential race.” Although she was hesitant to talk to the Times about the funding of Live Action Films, the group she…

How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

By Sunita Viswanath

…y after. Often, these rumors spread via Facebook or WhatsApp. Soon, a mob will gather. They will destroy homes, shops, and places of worship belonging to the minority community. Law enforcement will often turn a blind eye, or in some cases, actively participate in the violence. Finally, violence in one country ignites retaliatory violence in another. We saw this recently, where attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh led to attacks on Muslims in Tripura….

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iven access to various discounts provided to family members, such as on mobile phone contracts, according to the city. Malaysia: Censorship board reverses itself, allows showing of Beauty and the Beast Disney reported that “Beauty and the Beast” will be shown in Malaysia even though it resisted censors’ initial demand that a scene with a brief “gay moment” be removed. Tourism Minister Seri Nazri Aziz had said it would be ridiculous to ban the film…