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Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means

By Katherine Kelaidis

…common in the Orthodox Christian world, even beyond Russia. Unfortunately, Western media have all but ignored this element of Russian propaganda, in no small part because the history itself is so foreign to its audience. They (understandably) want to report the news, not give a lecture in Eastern European history. At the same time, this oversight speaks to a larger problem in how we report on and discuss the role of history in current events, part…

Female Breadwinners=Death of Civilization, Says Fox Panel

By Melissa Weininger

…h society was abnormal and unnatural and needed to be brought in line with Western bourgeois values in which women remained in the household while men earned. Contemporary ultra-Orthodox communities, still vehemently rejecting the bourgeois Western values of enlightenment, continue to insist that the “natural” arrangement of the household is for women to work outside the home to support their scholar husbands. Nature, it seems, takes many forms. T…

How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…s invested in a very specific historical narrative. Within this narrative, Western civilization has been felled by attack from without and decay from within. The only hope for its continued survival is a stubborn insistence on resistance, a hunkering down behind the barricades. The two great historical empires that embraced Orthodox Christianity, the Byzantine Empire and the Russian Empire, both provide plenty of fodder for anyone seeking preceden…

Halloween, Evangelicals, and the Macabre

By John W. Morehead

….” The evangelical association of Halloween with contemporary Paganism and Western esotericism and witchcraft gives further pause. Evangelical ministries will frequently address witchcraft during the month of October through radio programs, websites, blogs, and newsletters. Unfortunately, the portrait they paint tends to rehearse various mischaracterizations, including a confusion of witchcraft with Satanism, accusations of ritual sacrifice, evang…

Ugandan President Complains West Pressured Him To Back Away From Anti-Homosexuality Bill

By Sarah Posner

…e Council Meeting, and describing how the subject of visits and calls from western leaders, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have been “gays.” According to a report in the Ugandan newspaper New Vision, Museveni claimed he told Western leaders that the bill was the sole work of parliament member David Bahati (a member of Museveni’s NRM party, and also of The Family) and that he had not even had a chance to discuss the bill with him. Mu…

The American Right Hasn’t Adopted Children’s Rights — They’ve Redefined and Weaponized Them

By R.L. Stollar

…embrace the language of children’s rights, they are using that language to promote their anti-child agenda. These efforts have been successful on many fronts, opening opportunities for the American Right to promote their ideology around the world and even in spaces like the United Nations. A pair of recent books from some familiar voices on the Right epitomize key elements of this new strategy. They’re all groomers Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are E…

The Sexual Threat to Fundamentalism

By Michelle Goldberg

…omosexuality worldwide. (The United States, predictably, was the one major Western nation that refused to sign). Such pressure from the developed world lets anti-gay leaders cloak themselves in anti-imperialist righteousness, in which gay rights become a decadent Western imposition that poor countries must be protected from. The Vatican justified its opposition to the declaration by saying that it would “pillory” countries that ban homosexuality,…

Olympics 2008: Ignoring History

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…as I say, doubled back on themselves to show how very fluent they were in western forms of ritual representation as well. These Opening ceremonies have been clearly invoked many times since — in Barcelona, in Atlanta, and even in Sydney, where gestures to indigenous ritual form took center stage. In Athens, by contrast, something else was staged, a bold celebration of the Greekness of these Olympic Games, and a marvelous historical walking tour t…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…a portion of the Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina’s satirical essay about Western writers, “How to Write About Africa.” He mocks the common sketch of elephants: “Elephants are caring, and are good feminists or dignified patriarchs. So are gorillas. Never, ever say anything negative about an elephant or a gorilla. Elephants may attack people’s property, destroy their crops, and even kill them. Always take the side of the elephant.” It’s a complica…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…poradic than in Uganda.” Iraq: Activist says anti-LGBT violence sparked by western intervention Amrou Al-Kadhi, an Iraqi living in the United Kingdom, wrote a column this month saying that deadly violence against LGBT people in Iraq had “escalated dramatically” since the Western invasion of the country in 2003. From his commentary in The Independent: Humanitarian reports estimate that between 2004 to 2009, 680 people have been murdered due to gend…