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Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…dy and that is morally wrong.” But, using your wife’s death to score a few cheap political points against a group of people you hate isn’t “morally wrong”? But wait, there’s more! Garlow also uses his dead wife to point out just how fake the relationships between living, loving gay and lesbian partners really are. He talks about the delight he experienced being married to his wife, something gay and lesbian people certainly couldn’t have, right?…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…he early afternoon, cameras in hand. It is not uncommon for tourists to outnumber monks in the debate courtyards during this time. This is obviously disruptive, making a spectacle out of a serious educational pursuit. Monastic response to the Chinese government policy of limiting monastic enrollments is at least in part the result of a clash between the secular, materialist, security-concerned worldview of the Chinese state, and the religious, tra…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…tails ties to the Reichsbürger milieu. Experts attribute the stark rise in numbers to a heightened awareness and the agencies’ attempts to reduce the number of unreported cases. The conservative Minister of the interior of the previous Merkel administration, Horst Seehofer, had always refused to conduct a study of right-wing sentiments in the police and military, in spite of the warnings of social scientists who urged him to commission one. For ye…

Dominion Theology, Christian Reconstructionism, and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Julie Ingersoll

…onstrutionism than the “frozen-chosen” Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC). North even dedicated his book Unholy Spirits (Dominion Press, 1986) to Bob Mumford of the Shepherding Movement and 75 Bible Questions (Dominion Press, 1984 and 1986) to Bob and Rose Weiner, founders of Maranatha Campus Ministries. The Pentecostals never really embraced post-millennialism but blended dominion theology with their pre-millennialism. Less explored, though, is t…

Israel’s New President and Intolerant Judaism

By Sarah Posner

…e you disparaged, with stunning insensitivity, the dominant religiosity of North American Jewry, our Reform Movement. I’m hoping that you’re ready to update your harsh and rather unenlightened views of our dynamic, serious and inspiring expression of Judaism that animates almost 900 congregations representing over a million and a half North American Jews. Jacobs goes on to enumerate the ways Reform Jews love and are dedicated to Israel — evidence…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the 19th century when modern-day Italy came into being. The community now numbers between 25,000 and 40,000 believers, mostly in the north of Italy. Malta: Marriage Equality Law Takes Effect A marriage equality law went into effect in this officially Catholic country on Friday, September 1. Chile: Marriage Equality Law Introduced President Michelle Bachelet introduced marriage equality legislation last Monday, which ABC notes was a week after the…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…aying for it. You will have to find your own way, says the neighbor to the North to the Neighbor to the South. “Never impose on others what you would not choose yourself,” said Confucius. “Regard your neighbor’s gain as yours and your neighbor’s loss as yours” said Lao Tzu. “Expect from others what you did to them,” says Seneca. “What goes around comes around,” says my mother. Many other people just use the word “Karma.” What you put out is what y…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…n of the Episcopal Church,” McCain said in October 2007 of his move to the North Phoenix Baptist Church. “I came into that church, I sat down, I got the message of redemption and love and forgiveness, and it resonated with me. I found going to that church was beneficial to me in my life.” He “got” the “message of redemption.” He’s been “going” to church. These are claims of some acceptance and presence, but not the conversion or holy abjection fre…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…Arabic numbers are called ‘Indian numbers,’ and why, in the West, ‘Indian numbers’ are called ‘Arabic numbers.’ In India they’re just known as numbers. No matter what they’re called, I think we can all agree they make life a lot easier. 2. Coffee Muslims invented coffee, and coffee is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies. At best it goes cold. In fact, one of the reasons coffee took off is because religious Muslims preferred the beverage for…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…cross-dressers) population was an accepted Hausa subculture in the Muslim north. As a Muslim Bori practice, the yan daudu’s religious ritual is traditionally practiced and celebrated among its most marginalized populations, like sex workers, and gay, bisexual and transgender men. Since January, however, the group that was surprisingly driven underground is now being unearthed and actively pursued for punishment and persecution by murderous maraud…