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A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…on his sleeve. None of the fifteen blocks of the Pyramid of Success, for example, are about religion; the mortar was patience and faith (“through prayer,” as he wrote). Family, faith, and friends were the three most important things to him. He never imposed his Christian faith on anyone, only insisting that his players “have a religion and believe in it.” Coach was a pluralist long before many of us had heard of the term. Of his own faith, one of…

Is Football a Pro-Life Sport?

By Marian Ronan

…Desmond Tutu and Kathleen Sibelius respectively, also over questions of sexual orthodoxy. The problem with paying all this attention to the Catholic culture wars is that a person risks missing other significant events. Did you know that the National Football League is in a genuine crisis? On May 16, offensive linesman Jacob Bell resigned from the Cincinnati Bengals for fear of sustaining long-term brain injuries if he continued playing. On May 2,…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…people were consciously playing with art, symbol, and ritual in order to explore, expand, and reinvent the boundaries of late-modern culture. Burning Man started as an impromptu gathering among a handful of friends on a San Francisco beach in 1986 and was moved to an obscure corner of Nevada called the Black Rock Desert in 1990, where it eventually grew into an internationally renowned event that draws close to 50,000 participants annually. For…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…love and support for other people,” says Mormons Building Bridges member Susan Dortsch, “and I was the one who was blessed.” Several LDS marchers expressed humility about their role in the parade, recalling the LDS Church’s history of opposition to LGBT rights as well as long-standing efforts by members of more LGBT welcoming denominations in Utah who had not been given an equal share of the limelight. “It was a great sign of forgiveness,” said Ja…

As a “Cult Leader” Disgraced Pastor Mark Driscoll Does Not Rank

By Jesse James DeConto

…rity, and his sins were PG-rated corruption compared to Seattle Weekly’s sexy list. Over at getreligion.org Julia Duin suggests you can’t expect much nuanced religion coverage from the alternative newsweekly, which barely covers the subject. Driscoll might have had a cult-leader personality, but, as Duin says, what he was preaching was “hardly esoteric.” Driscoll’s is a prominent “New Calvinist” Gospel, popularized by Reformed Baptists like John P…

Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…to a great degree, about competing interpretations over the same set of texts. Nor is this exclusive to the region. Many Muslims I speak with are deeply, almost existentially, anguished about what they see happening in Syria and the wider region, about the tearing apart of Muslim-majority societies, the rise of groups which outdo al-Qaeda in violence, the continued victories of regressive dictatorships over nascent democracies and populist uprisi…

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

…becoming the fifth country worldwide to legalise same-sex marriage, homosexual sex and relationships is a topic completely ignored throughout school teaching.” United Kingdom: LGBT equality advocates named to House of Lords Members of the House of Lords are either hereditary peers or life peers appointed by the government. Among 45 life peers announced this week are a number of LGBT equality advocates including the Lynne Feathersone, a former Lib…

Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?

By Austin Dacey

…se that this notion of rights grounded in dignity was adopted by Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII and through them, by the world. In a 2014 article, “The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity,” he claims it is “self-evident that the prominence of this notion in wartime, including its connection to rights, was due to the Pope more than all others.” Even the U.N. Charter, he says, registers papal usage, “for there is no other obvious source.” Moyn’…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…em together in a same-sex love story, the novel reminds readers that homosexuality has existed for centuries in every society and culture. In the New York Times, Andrew Siddons examines the plight of American Foreign Service officers whose same-sex spouses cannot get long-term visas in countries that do not recognize same-sex couples’ marriages. The story says, that about half of State Department positions “are effectively off-limits for Foreign S…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…ar progression of android development has resulted in synths who match or exceed human dexterity and capability enabling them to take over a number of jobs, from waiters to nurses to 9-1-1 operators. Low-skilled workers have been displaced en masse, spawning the “We Are People” movement. But Humans isn’t concerned with the politics of this world so much as it is with the emotional toll it might take on a middle class family like the Hawkins, who p…