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Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…getting away from that community. I think my life was just so deeply intertwined with them that even though I wasn’t attending church anymore, I was still “doing life” with them and I couldn’t completely leave until I just up and moved away. I’m still a member there officially. I still think of it as “my church.” I think it was just that it was too painful to keep going. There wasn’t a final straw or a moment when I decided I couldn’t take it anym…

Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…el good through this ancient spiritual wisdom! Shabbat certainly resonates with an affluent urban zeitgeist that’s anxious about tech addiction and the erosion of work-life boundaries. To be sure, it’s not like the sabbath concept has never before been adopted by non-Jews (see: Christianity, History of), and syncretism is probably as ancient as religious practice itself. Jewish practice itself is always evolving. Still, it’s worth asking what gets…

Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nterim executive director Robert Hoffman had been engaging in conversation with fellow attendees without incident, and members of their team handed out pamphlets, until they were all escorted off the premises shortly before noon on Wednesday. “There was nothing about our time here that was aggressive, protest-like, or disruptive,” Robertson said. “We refrained from using words like ‘bigot’ intentionally. We were here as registered guests, particip…

Eclipseville, USA: The Birthplace of ‘Little Green Men’ Proudly Hosts The Point of Greatest Eclipse

By Matthew Bowman

…ity, birds will stop singing. Chickens will, eerily, stand on one leg. The wind will change direction and odd shadows will flicker across beaches. Annie Dillard describes how colors become wrong and landscapes devastated. It is not terribly surprising that ancient Americans offered human sacrifice to save the sun as the sky darkened, nor that medieval Catholics flocked to confession when an eclipse approached—and nor even that, as Reilly describes…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Grozny before this year’s purge against gay men. Bula, handed me his cell phone, showing me a picture of himself with a broken nose and a black eye. “This happened in Moscow where I was hiding after I fled from Grozny. I was attacked by two Chechens who came to look for me. After that I escaped to Western Europe in 2016.” Even then, the threats continued. “A few days ago,” Bula said, “the police came to my parent’s house in Chechnya. They demande…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sets. But the media can’t be trusted entirely, for it is notorious for its flip-flops. What further deters LGBTQ people is the lack of a network. There are no gay marriage bureaus. Or any gay bars worth their name in Indian cities. Gay parties are not held as frequently as they used to be before, due to police raids. A mere amendment of the law is not going to make things great for us. Rao calls on the Hindu nationalist BJP to look to pre-colonial…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…ng pro-independence insurgency in Aceh in August 2015. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has yet to challenge these regulations. Tanzania: Some of detained human rights lawyers deported Three South African human rights lawyers with the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa, who were among 13 human rights activists detained and charged with “promoting homosexuality,” were deported: Local police chief Lazaro Mambosasa said they had been “promot…

Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

By Mathias Clasen

…do you feel about the cover? I love the cover. I took that picture myself (with my cell phone), and the press did a great job with the layout. The picture is of a hallway in Dystopia Haunted House, a big haunted attraction in Denmark. I’m doing some scientific consulting for them and have also done two large-scale quantitative research projects on recreational fear in the haunt, so it seemed only appropriate to use an image of one of their sets. I…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…e world’s Catholics were in Europe, but by the middle of this century that number will fall “to perhaps a sixth.” Geography is not destiny, but it is only natural that prelates from one part of the world will tend to speak for the traditions with which they are most familiar, which might well differ considerably from other regions. We saw early signs of this when the family synod was held in Rome in 2015, when the Church’s (mainly European) libera…

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

By Patricia Miller

…ll now continue to provide contraceptives” and, therefore, the university “will not interfere with the provision of contraceptives that will be administered and funded independently of the University.” So basically Notre Dame just signed on to what the “accommodation” would have done in the first place—their insurer will administer and fund contraceptive coverage after being informed by the university that it no longer planned to do do. And presum…