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Be Prepared: Preachers’ Daughters, Episode Eight

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r home—much to her parents’ dismay. She also attended a drag show at an all-ages club in Chicago. And Olivia Perry was asked by her parents to give a testimony at a church-sponsored youth campfire. And it’s at that point that I want to introduce you to Molli and Caleb, two youth who attended the campfire in question. Olivia designed an exercise for the youth that predictably brought some youth to a very vulnerable place. This is not necessarily a…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ster Feder and Maged Atef report from Cairo that IbrahimMonsour, the editor-in-chief of the Tahrir News, a leading liberal newspaper, told them, “These are instructions from the state apparatus” to cover sex scandals and other “silly” issues. Monsour said he believed the government wanted coverage of arrests for homosexuality and other “morality” charges in order to distract from political stories that could expose how the government had betrayed…

The Law-less Legacy of Global Capital

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…of his time; his novelty lay in bringing the hidden logic of the new paper-and-credit economy to light. But Law’s views were even more radical—money is what it enables, nothing more: Money is not the value for which goods are exchanged, but the value by which they are exchanged: the use of money is to buy goods and silver while money is of no other use. You see his point. Paper money is no more than credit, in that it enables the exchange of good…

RDPulpit: Nature Worship: A Primer

By Rex Weyler

…d our own communities. We must adopt personal and social strategies that re-sanctify nature and re-localize society. We don’t need superheroes, but ordinary heroes and common decency. Humanity requires large-scale change, but eventually, change comes down to the daily choices and actions that make large-scale change possible. We must act as if the age of ecological enlightenment has arrived. Here and now, on Earth Day 2009, we might begin this tra…

‘Almost Like Praying’: The Religious Work of ‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

By Spencer Dew

…entity. Just as Boricuas have come together since the storm, here celebrity-stand-ins join in rough harmony, taking turns at the mic. As Andrew Boryga wrote in the The New Yorker: “At a time when it’s hard for Puerto Ricans not to feel like the entirety of their island is being forgotten by the federal government and by parts of the media, the song rings with pride, and the haste in which it was put together by big-name artists speaks to the effor…

McCain’s Prosperity Preacher

By Sarah Posner

…ore their viewers, “and you will reap a harvest.” The harvest in our winner-take-all economy, of course, goes to the televangelists, many of whom live in elaborate mansions, drive luxury cars, and travel the globe in private jets–all evidence, they insist circularly, that God in fact wants His anointed ones to be wealthy. The six televangelists under investigation by McCain’s fellow Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) for possible violation of their c…

Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent ‘Abuses’

By Emma Cieslik

…Archbishop García-Siller that the messages be taken down, Foster released a 17-page document arguing that, “If it is true that a usurper, intended to subvert the faith, is on the throne of Peter, are we to obey him and those under his dominion when they command unjust actions?” Just three days later, Archbishop García-Siller released a letter, in line with this new Vatican guidance, clarifying that these messages contained false teachings. García-…

The Three Qualities Marking the Capitol Assault as Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…where the members of the House of Representatives were sequestered. The 35-year-old woman, Ashli Babbitt, had flown to Washington from her home in San Diego at the behest of Donald Trump who urged his supporters to interfere with the electoral vote tally. She had served for twelve years, including being a security guard for US Air Force bases, and had risen to the rank of Senior Airman. Her husband, who remained in San Diego, described her as an…

Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico

By Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…medals they had taken from his pockets. For more than twenty years, in the 1970s and 1980s, this same city was one of the most important centers for Roman Catholic Liberation Theology in Latin America. Now, today, after two decades of a conservative turn orchestrated by Rome, the Diocese of Cuernavaca, and the Mexican Church more generally, has been rendered impotent to address the complex social and economic problems that underlie the traffic in…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…s image to portray a large, black male (read as ‘thuggish’), rather than an 18-year-old high school graduate about to start his college career. With hashtags (#IfTheyGunnedMeDown), Black Twitter immediately drew attention to the lack of media consciousness around how certain images, e.g. those marked by smiles and graduation caps, rendered Brown as humanized and valuable, while other images and discourses aligned him with a thuggish persona clearl…