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If There’s any Retaliation at Next Month’s EuroPride Festival in Serbia it’s Likely to Have Orthodox Clerical Blessing

By Katherine Kelaidis

…leansing of Kosovar Muslims. These positions are made palatable to certain Western audiences as a result of their common belief that the acceptance of LGBTQ people poses a threat to society. An acceptable violent homophobia is used as cover for forms of violent xenophobia that Westerners might find less easy to publicly endorse. In this landscape neutrality is not possible. Those who silently support the most egregious anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and acti…

The Kremlin and the Church: Russia’s Holy Alliance

By Konstantin Petrenko

…influence of new religious movements has led to unfounded accusations that westerners are bribing Russians into joining their sects or, worse yet, recruiting them to work on behalf of foreign governments to destabilize the country. The anti-Protestant rhetoric escalated after many evangelicals took part in the 2004 Orange Revolution in neighboring Ukraine. These days, many religious groups are at the mercy of local authorities that feel pressured…

Falling in Love With the Earth: Francis’ Faithful Ecology

By Jacob J. Erickson

…is in the final eight paragraphs. After charging the cultural influence of Western Christian thought, White then argues for an equally religious response. “Possibly,” he offers, “we should ponder the greatest radical in Christian history since Christ: Saint Francis of Assisi.” The 13th century saint, who preached to birds and wolves, who referred to cosmic and elemental entities like fire as “Sister” might serve as a model, White argued, for a dif…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Queen M. “The new government believes that sex work and homosexuality are Western-adopted behaviors and can easily be eradicated, and thus declared war on these communities.” The backlash against the LGBT community, which began around March 2016, is “taking place in the context of a broader crackdown on freedom of expression and association in Tanzania,” with civil society and journalists also being targeted, says Neela Ghoshal, a researcher in t…

A Moral For Holy Week 2010 in the Christian Tragedy of Mark’s Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s year the Christian feast of Easter will be celebrated by the eastern and western churches on the same week, an unusual calendrical event that creates a singularly ecumenical moment for Christian reflection. Of course, in Rome, the story of the Passion that culminates in the Crucifixion-and-Rising this weekend takes place under an unusual cloud of witnesses. Gary Laderman’s provocative question in this week’s RD — what do Christians actually beli…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…to protect life, the family and the innocence of children. At a time when Western governments are moving backward to a pagan worldview, Russia has taken a leadership role to advance the natural family. Desmond Tutu: God Weeps Over Church’s Obsession with Sexuality Bishop Desmond Tutu appeared on the National Public Radio program On Being with Krista Tippett on Sunday. At the end of the interview, Tippett asked Tutu about the divisions within the…

5 Reasons That Cartoons Are the 21st Century’s Great Metaphysical Playground

By Ilana E. Strauss

…inscrutable for non-experts. And God help you if you’re trying to compare Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy to theological texts to anthropological journals about Siberian Shamanism to neuroscience to quantum physics. It’s a nightmare. Cartoon writers bypass all these problems by showing you directly what they’re thinking about. In cartoons, you don’t have to box ideas into familiar divides or argue over definitions. You don’t need to know…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…echoed by Rush Limbaugh, now promises, “Islamists, in particular the anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood, seem poised to take power throughout the Middle East as a result of riots that have already toppled one Arab regime and are threatening others, in what some are calling only the latest wave of an Islamic ‘tsunami’ sweeping the globe.” Oh, and look! The Brotherhood has learned its tactics from Bill Ayers and Code Pink. Don’t you love living in a f…

Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

By Beatrice Marovich

…the profundity and brilliance of the conceptual work that was done in the Western world for more than 1500 years, when it was dominated by the discipline of theology. But we don’t want to reduce post-Christian criticisms of Christian idolatries to mere anti-faith, either. It wouldn’t do justice to the depths of the agnostic and atheist traditions which are, themselves, deeply prophetic traditions. Still, I think it’s important to stay mindful of…

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…Syria Creates Over 300,000 Refugees; the frustration of rebels waiting for Western military support brings them closer to al-Qaeda extremists. 9. Malala Yousufzai, Pakistani Teenage Education Activist Escapes an Assassination Attempt by Taliban. 10. Brazen Taliban attacks in Afghanistan/Pakistan cause over two thousand deaths—but they still participate in negotiation talks in France and Qatar. 11. Boko Haram, Radical Islamists in Nigeria, Increase…