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Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…: Anti-marriage equality governor allows law to go into effect without his signature Governor Eddie Calvo, who long resisted marriage equality, allowed marriage equality legislation to become law without his signature. The legislation was passed to bring Guam law into accord with the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling. Governor’s spokesman Julius Santos said Calvo has made it clear he would not stand in the way of progress, but his reli…

From Yes We Can to Yes, We Did!

By Anthea Butler

…ince 2000. He would protest on behalf of the veterans of multiple tours in Iraq, who are returning home to find foreclosed homes and poor job prospects, and wrestling with post-traumatic stress syndrome. He would rail against the collapse of the financial system, foreclosures, and the many businesses, large and small, on the ropes. He would call for a new poor peoples’ campaign. And he would ask aloud what happened to America, and not just the Ame…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…esh met and developed their agenda in the U.S.-run prison at Camp Bucca in Iraq. And if we are going to talk about violence and terror, we must not forget the wisdom of the late Coretta Scott King: Poverty can produce a most deadly kind of violence. In this society violence against poor people and minority groups is routine. I remind you that starving a child is violence; suppressing a culture is violence; neglecting schoolchildren is violence; di…

No Such Thing as a Great 9/11 Work of Art

By Hussein Rashid

…ld have been written close to 2001, but in 2007, after looming failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, a sense of distance, and desire to try to make sense of the changing world, Hamid’s book provided a window we were finally getting ready to look through. While Hamid’s work was very much based on the world of foreign politics and policy, with implications in the domestic space, other authors choose to focus on the American experience. After 9/11 we see…

Revisiting Hagar, The Woman Who Named God

By Charlotte Gordon

…he Woman Who Named God? What sparked your interest? In 2003, I heard the Iraq War described as a conflict between the sons of Ishmael and the sons of Isaac, which disturbed me so much I went back to the Bible to read the Abraham story for myself. I was struck by the strong women in the story, Sarah and Hagar, and was surprised that I did not know more about Hagar in particular. Also, I was interested in discovering more about my own religious he…

History in the Making: Religion, Race and Gender in the Presidential Election

By Peter J. Paris

…ubject their religious viewpoints to the democratic process of debate as designed by our Constitution. Obama’s faith motivates him to give priority to the claims of the weakest and most vulnerable members of our society: the unemployed, sick, disabled, children, and the elderly. Doing justice for all provides substance to the American dream—health care for all, improving the quality of public education, redistribution of a portion of the wealth co…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ectly aligning the church in such a contentious fight. In an interview, Monsignor Galantino said he recognized that the government has the right to establish laws that prevent discrimination against all people but that he opposes the current bill because he believes it equates civil unions with marriage and because of the clause allowing stepchild adoptions. He agreed that there were “different visions” within the Catholic Church on how to engage…

No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”

By Haroon Moghul

…f in the world. From 1980-1988, Iran fought a war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, which was backed by the Gulf Arab monarchies, especially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Now, it is not inaccurate to claim that the Saudi Arabian-Iranian rivalry is one of the most toxic in modern Muslim history, that both regimes are in different ways profoundly odious influences on the Middle East and Muslim politics, or that their involvement of America and Russia, r…

Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair

By Peter Laarman

…n Hawke, who’s only too well acquainted with death—the death of his son in Iraq, the death of his marriage, and his own impending death from what he rightly surmises to be an undiagnosed cancer. Rev. Toller both has and has not lost his faith. Like writer/director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation of Christ), and like the Bible’s Jacob, Toller still wrestles with God and thus also with the inescapable question of theodicy: i.e., if G…

Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

By Bill Berkowitz

…of people around the world more so than we are in theirs. Even the War in Iraq seems distant and not as much of a reality in the U.S. as much as it is in the Middle East. Our work was a bona fide listening effort. We went into communities in Second Life that either self-identified as Muslim or were self-declared efforts to better understand Islam, and we asked people about their stories. In the end, this project was about storytelling. What peopl…