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

By Peter Montgomery

…the Status of Women. Also last week, the Trump administration dropped U.S. participation in hearings being held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Philippines: President cites Catholic heritage in backtracking on marriage equality President Rodrigo Duterte, who has become infamous for a wave of extra-judicial killings carried out with his approval, said during his 2016 presidential campaign that he would consider signing legislation…

Friending Pope Benedict on Facebook?

By Kate Childs Graham

In April 2005, just after the death of Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict sent the following text message to Italian mobile phone users: “Let us go forth in the joy of the risen Lord and trusting in his permanent help.” JPII had been texting Italians with a “thought of the day” while he was still alive, so Benedict was simply carrying on this tradition. Pope Benedict has more recently used text messaging to communicate with attendees throughout thi…

DeMint Uses Christian Reconstructionist Mailing List To Raise Money For Angle

By Julie Ingersoll

…Reid in November. DeMint apparently does not think the Reconstructionists are an irrelevant fringe movement, as many others seem to think, since he’s paid money to email them and apparently expects that it will be worthwhile….

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…ry . . . . President J. Reuben Clark, who referred to the Constitution as ‘part of my religion,’ also said that it was not part of his belief or the doctrine of the Church that the Constitution was a ‘fully grown document.’ ‘On the contrary,’ he said, ‘We believe it must grow and develop to meet the changing needs of an advancing world.’ That was also the attitude of the Prophet Joseph Smith. That would have been a helpful tidbit for Wills’s colum…

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…undreds of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, humanists, and others who participate in an interfaith peace walk. This week, several local groups sponsored an interfaith prayer vigil to stand in solidarity with Muslims and particularly Syrian refugees who have been unfairly associated with actions of an extremist minority. Despite the frightening rhetoric spewed by leading presidential candidates, Americans all across the nation are taking a sta…

Jesus, Please Take Away These Feelings

By Nick Street

…t was no exception. How closely does the experience of God Box protagonist Paul mirror your own? I put a lot of myself into Paul. Like me, he’s a Mexican immigrant but wants to bury his heritage, the same as he buries his gay sexual orientation. That was me growing up. Paul’s struggles to accept himself in The God Box were my struggles as a teen. One of the most riveting moments in the play is the attack on Carlos, who’s the only out gay kid at hi…

Forgiveness

By Amina Wadud

…and then subsequently read the book, I had a long discussion with a Jewish participant. We were not comfortable with our perception that the Christian paradigm of forgiveness did not seem to require any expiation. We were doubtful that forgiveness and reconciliation could occur just on the part of some benevolence from the one(s) offended. We were not sure that you could just “overcome them with our capacity to forgive.” So I listened to her, disc…

The Sacred and the Dead: Ten Writers on the End of an American Adventure

By The Editors

…Jim Burklo The Dead sang, plucked, and pounded inexorably onward toward a palpably approaching ecstasy with no knowable when, where, or how… #7 : I Love You More Than Words Can Tell by David Vanderveen It takes humility to admit that we don’t have the answers, that our models aren’t truth itself and that the palaces we build to the religions we’re born into are failed, broken and must be burned. #8 : Deadheads Are Not a Deviant Subculture by Debo…

Seeing What They Wanna See: Religion Surveys Reflect Surveyors

By Nathan Schneider

…. Kosmin and Keysar’s ARIS uses a much larger sample than Baylor—54,461 compared to 1,721—and it has been conducted over almost two decades, while Baylor’s first numbers come from 2006. Because researchers will inevitably craft their survey according to their own interests and assumptions, the ARIS doesn’t give respondents a list of religious identities to choose from. Instead it asks, simply, “What is your religion, if any?” and categorizes the r…

Obama’s Pastor “Dream Team”

By Peter Laarman

…ttract.” Stupid me, I hadn’t really thought of this at all. Sunday morning paparazzi and the damage done to any worshipping community that would try to bear with it: the security issue, the resentment of the gawkers when the Firsts don’t show up, the sheer impossibility of their even attempting to have a regular worship life. Yet imagine as well the impossibility of what Obama is doing now, if Goodstein’s report is to be taken on faith. Five (coun…