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LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…licals have not widely adopted the Religious Right’s economic platform. “Silva and Rousseff both call themselves socialists and push for robust welfare programs.” Yet similarities with the “religious right” abound. Brazil’s evangelical faithful have turned their opposition to gay marriage and abortion, which are both illegal here, into key national political issues. Funded by the tithes their followers are asked to pay, the more successful evangel…

Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween

By Maxwell Grant

…nvironments like shopping malls or blocked off streets with an army of adult supervision, lest any genuine evil intrude. It’s an odd thing to try to control a holiday that emphasizes our lack of control, and to keep evil pleasantly fictional by insulating ourselves from the fact that it is not. As a father, I’m all for it. But as a pastor, I’m not sure that a well-intentioned reminder of the love of Jesus and the power of his Word, dropped in my t…

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

…2010. In comparison, Pew estimates 94% of Latin Americans identified themselves as Catholics in 1950. The decline comes despite the 2013 selection of Argentine-born Pope Francis , who has proved enormously popular with Catholics world-wide. Many had hoped a Latin American leader atop the church would stem the slide in the region, which is still home to more than 425 million Catholics. “Catholics love Pope Francis,” said Neha Sahgal, a senior resea…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…nizing, and often they evangelize precisely in ways that distinguish themselves apart from the other faiths. But the Protestant work ethic runs deep in both evangelical and Mormon culture, as does deep commitment to faith convictions that the outside world may not understand. The gathering signals that some Vatican leaders recognize that banding together to support marriage as between one man and one woman may be a smart strategy going forward, es…

Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…ican Life spin-off Serial, which just wrapped up its first season. Over twelve episodes Serial untangles the 1999 murder trial of Adnan Syed, a 17-year-old Baltimore Muslim who was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Serial probes pre-9/11 American attitudes towards Islam, which played a significant role in Adnan’s unjust imprisonment. We at RD became obsessed with the podcast, and even live-tweeted the finale. If you haven’t listene…

Jesus Backs Gender Equality at the Oscars

By Evan Derkacz

In her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress, Patricia Arquette called for equal rights for women, specifically calling for wage equality… …which, as many noted, had Meryl Streep and J-Lo (among many others) shouting vehement amens… …yet one Twitter user noticed yet another endorsement of Arquette’s call… Rare photo of Jesus blessing Patricia Arquette during her acceptance speech. pic.twitter.com/C4nr8Pp9Az — Tim Lyzen (@TLyzen) Febru…

Is Accreditation of Religious Institutions a “Farce”?

By Eric C. Miller

…ng’s position offers a counterpart of sorts to that of University of Pennsylvania English professor Peter Conn, who wrote in an editorial for the Chronicle of Higher Education that the accreditation of religious institutions amounts to a “farce,” and that the imposition of doctrinal fidelity through signed faith statements necessarily undercuts the academic freedom of faculty at such institutions. While Dayspring argues that Christian schools shou…

An Evangelical (Millennial) on the Canterbury Trail

By John Schmalzbauer

…zed by Martin Luther King, Jr. and George Wallace and Billy Graham.” In Evolving in Monkey Town (set in her hometown of Dayton, Tenn.), Evans describes her transformation from the “girl who knew all the answers” to an earnest spiritual seeker. While technically a member of Generation X, Evans identifies “most strongly with the attitudes and ethos of the millennial generation.” Like many millennials, she is skeptical of large institutions, includin…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…ea. Gateway Church, in Texas, urged parishioners to post a selfie of themselves with someone they’d brought to church, as part of the #EasterYourSelfie campaign. At least one church actively discouraged selfies, though. 3) Hashtagging to Calvary One advantage of hashtags: you can string a series of tweets into a kind of narrative. For example, in the days leading up to Easter, Campus Crusade for Christ tweeted Jesus’ progression to the cross, unde…

Rand Paul’s Messianic Campaign Video Shouts “Yes I Can!”

By Gareth Higgins

…ets some help from the average Joe or Josephine, relying on their higher selves to keep quiet about who he really is. That’s what I like about Spider-Man. He lives among ordinary people, and comes to understand what the philosopher Dallas Willard meant by the “range of his effective will.” Presidential candidates have to believe (or pretend they believe) that they can save the world, even though we know (and they know) that they can’t. And it’s to…