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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

By Peter Montgomery

…o the retired pope Benedict to “step forward and preach the unadulterated truth.” The truth, he added, is that homosexuality is wrong, and taking a so-called non-judgmental approach to it can only encourage its growth. “There is something worse than murdering a child,” Levin said. “Because, as the Talmud says, when you kill someone physically you don’t touch them spiritually. But when you lead a person into heinous sin, you kill them spiritually i…

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…

Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology

By Alana Massey

…, refrigerator-magnet platitude to the non-devout but it is a theological truth to adherents of the Prosperity Gospel in Nigeria. When a majority of Muslims worldwide believe that poverty and wealth are predestined in accordance with the Hadith of Gabriel, there are significant limitations on how effective it will be to upsell bootstrapping in business, education, and politics. Dissecting the Exodus story might be an interesting academic exercise…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…President Yoweri Museveni. The recent showdowns over anti-gay laws — from Russia, in the run-up to the Olympics, to Uganda and Nigeria in the new year — followed a period in which some of the largest and wealthiest nations in the world granted federal recognition to same-sex couples’ marriages. The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Brazil are just the largest nations that granted national recognition to same-sex couples’ marriages in the…

Conservative Christianity’s “Come to Jesus” Moment in Wake of Elliot Rodger Shootings

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…tation of Christianity, this is the natural, God-ordained role and how the world operates. Within the PUA world, the man as leader and provider is again a mix of how they believe the world ought to operate—PUAs frequently suggest that if they are financially successful, they deserve to be “scoring” with “hot bodies” and express anger and frustration when that does not happen—yet also what is wrong with the world: women, whom they repeatedly portra…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ack Church Studies has officially sponsored the service titled “Seven Last Words: Strange Fruit Still Speaks” (a reference to the Billie Holiday song “Strange Fruit” about Jim Crow lynchings in the South), and it is now a staple of the programmatic calendar. These venues give opportunities for black millennials to craft their own public theology and hear public theology that is directly designed for them. If the numerous think-pieces and essays on…

The Eternal in the Blink of an Eye, Chris Marker (1921-2012)

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…released it as the feature-length Twelve Monkeys). At the outset we learn World War Three has occurred, nuclear bombs have been dropped, the end is at hand. A band of underground survivors experiment with breaking out of history, hoping to live on, somehow, into the future. Humanity’s hope rests with the ability of a single man to remember an image, an image of a face, an image that enables him—with a drug-induced haze—to slip back and forth in t…

I Call BS on Nun Reality Show

By Gwynne Watkins

…can’t shake the image of a casting director going into trendy bars and recruiting potential nuns, just like Rock of Love recruited wannabe Bret Michaels girlfriends who had never even heard of Poison. <iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/zwW0WWjNujE?feature=player_embedded” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown, Ohio, posted this video to explain discernment. Think it can compete wit…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…risoned) and civilians. A southern version of the ABS loved to recount the stories of heroic bible-carriers breaking Union naval and land blockades to distribute the holy texts. “The writing of an institutional history requires that the historian use the institution’s records as his or her major primary source. This can lead to rich material that might otherwise be inaccessible. It can also, and inevitably, push the work in certain directions.” Du…

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…he question back to the audience member, to which he replies that he isn’t running for president and wants to hear what she thinks, Haley offers a word salad: I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are. And I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people. It was never meant to be all things to all people. Government doesn’t need t…