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Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ics the group discussed was “the persecution of Egyptian Christians by Islamic extremists.” The Southern Poverty Law Center reports: The FRC post did not address el-Sisi’s dictatorial policies toward his own citizens or the draconian policies currently being enacted toward LGBT people and their supporters, including a proposed law that dictates prison sentences for those who engage in homosexuality, those who support it, and media that “promotes”…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…d Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26 years old Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 years old Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old Cory James Connell, 21 years old Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 years old Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25 years old Presente. And to those who have not been named yet, but we fe…

Why Notre Dame’s Contraception Flip-Flop Undercuts Bishops’ Religious Freedom Claims

By Patricia Miller

…nd presumably this information was transmitted to their insurers by some administrative means, be it a phone call, email or letter. So after years of fighting the mandate, and accusing women’s health advocates and public health official of not understanding why it was a violation of their faith for their insurer to provide birth control that they neither arranged nor paid for, Notre Dame basically turned around and said “never mind.” What happened…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…these banks and Al Qaeda-type bad guys. Read the founding theorists of Islamic economics, in fact, and you’ll find a decidedly pacifist tone. A Golden Age, in Theory From the view of Islamic law, writes Umar Chapra, a leading economist in Saudi Arabia, “while economic growth is essential, it is not sufficient for attaining real human well-being.” Rather, we depend on “spiritual health at the core of human consciousness, and justice and fair play a…

Shukr: Gratitude

By Amina Wadud

…before. By the time my sister was born I was already living away from my family for academic purposes and never really had a chance to bond as sisters until about five years. I am grateful for the gift of closeness that Allah gave us for her last days. My first year in California she spent her vacation with me during Ramadan. She loved the fast. She and I and Nicole were the only Muslims in our neighborhood fasting together and with our families t…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…lag was flying outside Sam Alito’s beach house in New Jersey after the storming of the Capitol—not for a few days, but seemingly for months. The photos that can be found on Google Street View (I’m not joking) are from July, August, and September 2023. As previously reported by Bradley Onishi and Matthew Taylor in Religion Dispatches, the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, originally from the Revolutionary War era, is no ordinary historical flag. It’s been c…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…itical infidelity. In an age when there is no higher value than being open-minded, comedy might be the most politically subversive means to any end. Cartoons are blasphemy, comics are pundits. And don’t let any of this suggest to you, for one moment, that you won’t enjoy watching a genuinely hilarious, goofy, and tender movie. As for the plot itself, it’s simple. McCarthy’s CIA analyst Susan Cooper is bureaucratic wallpaper given an opportunity to…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…some polls the combined total equals or even outscores the economy as the number one issue on the voters’ minds. Two out of the three campaigns are actively pushing the war back onto center stage. Hillary Clinton recently said: “Since we now know Sen. McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that.” Well, we may not all know it yet. Apparently Obama and his people…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…s an issue of morals — right versus wrong. We cannot stand idly by as extremists in Congress and the administration further enrich the wealthiest few at the expense of the sick, the poor and working people. Together we can awaken our nation’s moral conscience. It’s significant that Rev. Barber is connecting with the broader religious left movement, something we haven’t seen much of lately. I’ve been wondering when someone would try to roll out the…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…an Authentic Religious Left,” the Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, an associate minister at Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, critiques the idea that Wallis represents the religious left or even the prophetic tradition of social justice: Despite his popularity, Wallis and his Sojourners/Call to Renewal organization do not engage or take seriously the discourse of those it claims to serve—i.e. the poor—a discourse which is best embodied by the radi…