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Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…l media or the omnipresent smartphone or Pokémon Go. He’s drawn instead to online addicts and people who are convinced they have a high sensitivity to the radio waves that transmit the internet. One everyday scene, however, so fascinated Herzog that it earned a place in Lo and Behold. Behind an image of Tibetan monks staring into their phones with the Chicago skyline behind them Herzog asks “Have the monks stopped meditating? They all seem to be t…

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…past five weeks, the Harvard Business Review has run six separate articles online about the benefits of mindfulness. If anything, HBR is behind the times. Mindfulness practices have become common in the business world where they’re thought to improve performance. Advocates have pushed this kind of mental training for schools and prisons as well. They frame mindfulness in terms of self-improvement, often with specific strategic goals in mind. “When…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l declaration in support of LGBT equality on the continent,” reports Mamba Online. The group met in late August in South Africa at the invitation of Michael Adee, an elder in the US Presbyterian Church and Director of the Global Faith and Justice Project, and Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian Anglican priest and senior religion and sexuality researcher at Political Research Associates.Countries represented included Cameroon, Lesotho, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria,…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ifying the shooting, burning, hanging and drowning of LGBT people. Russia: Online LGBT support group targeted again A St. Petersburg court will hear a case on Monday charging an online group, Deti 404, with a violation of the country’s anti-gay propaganda law. It is not the first prosecution under the law for Deti 404 and administrator Elena Klimova. Kazakhstan: President expected to sign ‘propaganda’ law Amnesty International organized a protest…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d reach and out embrace people with love. At this stage it’s quite the opposite,” Olivier told Mambaonline. Colombia: Human Rights Leader Killed LGBT human rights activist Guillermo Garzon Andrade was murdered last Saturday in his home in Bogota. Activists called on the Attorney General’s office to investigate, saying that previous human rights activists’ killers have gone unpunished. Exodus International: Former ‘Ex-Gay’ Leader Marries in Oklahom…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…inners, but towards sin.” Mattingly also writes about a controversy raging online in in the U.S. Orthodox community: Ironically, Hilarion’s visit to the United States took place during a semi-public debate about this very issue, on a youth-ministry website operated by the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), which has Russian roots. At the center of the storm was an essay entitled “Never Changing Gospel; Ever Changing Culture” by Father Robert Arida….

Pagan Outrage Machine Fires Up in Response to Time Halloween Article

By Joseph Laycock

…en article amounts to tilting at windmills. The real motivation behind the online furor against Latson may be the opportunity to perform a religious identity centered around a history of persecution—all while sitting at one’s computer. Baker suggested that America’s renewed interest in Salem might be a product of the war on terror which has been used to justify the erosion of civil liberties and a culture of spying on civilians. This, in turn, has…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of the issues affecting the lives of LGBTI people across the globe. The website also highlights international and U.S.-based organizations doing and funding cutting-edge advocacy abroad and enables donations to them, with 100 percent of contributions going directly to the recipient organizations. Meanwhile, notorious anti-gay politician Vitaly Milonov announced his own plans to create an international organization, whose mission will be to “save t…

Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…rhetoric Driscoll spewed relentlessly, using the anonymity afforded by an online alias, William Wallace II: a portrait in virtual violence. Whether it is Driscoll or the men who justify the violence of MMA, the ‘matter’ of violence gets lost in (dis)embodied spectacles, both visual and virtual, that infect cultural imaginaries and affective atmospheres. In their brutality within the cage and online, Fight Church and Driscoll enact what it means t…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s included many of the paper’s own readers: Comments on the newspaper’s website were overwhelmingly supportive of the gay and lesbian people outed by the publication, including words of encouragement directed at the activists listed who ventured into the Citizen‘s comment board. In fact, at press time, there was not a single comment supporting the list on the first page of comments at the paper’s own site. Cuba: Pride celebration includes symbolic…