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Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…urch in America (RCA) in 1857, but for us the schism was still so real and palpable that it was as though it had happened yesterday. We were First Reformed (RCA) people, and my dad would privately refer to the CRC zealots as “the cutoffs” and the “holier-than-thou” crowd. (And it should be said that in the Village of Oostburg—pop. 965 when I was attending Oostburg HS—there was real competition for the holiness crown, because we also had an Orthodo…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t visit by a Dutch head of state with the group, which is “advocating for a ban on discrimination against LGBT people to be included in the constitution.” India: New Delhi’s pride parade AP reports on Sunday’s New Delhi pride parade: Rituparna Borah, an activist, was not very hopeful, saying that the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not supportive of gay rights. “We have yet to have an inclusive society,” she said….

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…ched at the end of this summer, Kreeft’s larger point has resonated with a number of religious leaders. Echoing Pope John Paul II’s prediction that third millennium could be marked by a unified Christianity, Kreeft predicted: “The age of religious wars is ending; the age of religious war is beginning: A war of all religions against none.” Ultimately, the WCF doesn’t draw the numbers of other global alliances like the World Social Forum. In 2007, f…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…tion” of black people ruled out normal social intercourse—widespread emancipation without separation of the races was unthinkable Although “degradation” was first used to describe the condition of enslaved Africans, by 1810 the term was also being applied to Native Americans. And while a number of enlightened whites believed that the natives of this continent had nobler natures than white people, the problem (again) was that they had been rendered…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…elebration in Dhaka on April 14 because Islamists had threatened to attack participants. The advocate with whom the Blade spoke on Monday said that Roopbaan was also targeted. More from Human Rights Watch: The killings follow a spate of recent targeted attacks on writers, educators, bloggers, and editors who promote liberal and secular ideas that radical groups believe are against Islam. The killings of Mannan and Mahbub brings to nine the number…

Céad Mile Fáilte: Open Hearts, Shifting Power Paradigms, and the Irish Same-Sex Referendum

By Gareth Higgins

…itudes continue to move toward the affirmation of LGBT people, and this is partly an example of the public reaction to how clearly institutional religion has failed to meet the needs or answer the questions most of us have. Religion in the Republic of Ireland cannot avoid this any more, and even the Archbishop of Dublin says that he knows the Church needs a “reality check.” In the North, however, where space to talk about these things was squeezed…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed that a continued ban on same-sex couples marrying is a condition of its participation in a governing coalition. The second-largest party, Sinn Fein, has been insisting on marriage equality, but the DUP’s Jim Wells insisted, “Peter will not marry Paul in Northern Ireland.” Nigeria: Mass arrest of men celebrating gay ‘wedding’ Police arrested 53 young men who celebrated a gay wedding, reports Associated Press, “and charged them with ‘belong to a…

Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?

By Peter Laarman

…material known as the Davidic Court History, the narrative itself is very spare, but it is spare in a way that lets a great deal of characterological variation to come to the fore. To say, for example, that the character of Jacob/Israel is an ambiguous character becomes rather an understatement as layer upon layer unfolds. The same, of course, with the uber-ambiguous figure of David himself. We are compounded, the Bible seems to say. We are all co…

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…student noted that the college’s statement was “hurtful” and brought back past issues with self-image. It “kind of put me on square one,” they said. One professor, described as “conservative,” wrote on the faculty’s email listserv that, “it would take a person with a stone-heart not to be moved by [the LGBT student’s] sense of injury that the college they call ‘home’ would act this way.” When I spoke to Corvino on the phone Tuesday, he seemed to…

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

By Sarah Posner

…ation but to make a “Passover offering.” Seven is a biblically significant number, the number of completion and perfection, and in this spring of 2007 the Praise-a-thon began on Easter Sunday, the seventh day of Passover. If you make the Passover offering, Munsey claims, God will give you seven blessings: God will dispatch an angel to lead miracles; rid you of your enemies; bless you with prosperity; heal you; give you longevity; give you an inher…