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Over Objections of New Arch. of Cant., UK Okays Marriage Equality

By Elizabeth Drescher

…lby will be able to continue to act out of a theological protectionism for conservative Anglicans, resisting what many Anglicans, including the Anglican Church in Canada and the Episcopal Church in the US, see as the prophetic calling of an engaged Christianity….

Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”

By Elesha Coffman

…e evangelist for soft-pedaling the idea. For example, The Baptist Pillar (“Canada’s Only TRUE Baptist Paper”) once stated that “Billy Graham has declared his allegiance with the blasphemous apostasy of our day” by preaching that hell might be more metaphorical than actual. The 1983 sermon that roused the Baptist Pillar’s ire provides an interesting comparison between spoken words that were indisputably Graham’s, published words that were basically…

Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…ries, which appears—as of this week—to be capable of taking down a Russian airliner, bombing a Lebanese neighborhood, and staging a sophisticated assault in a major Western capital. Given how badly the war on terror went, one would think more people would have learned what not to do. It’s scarier when people with influence maintain such bad ideas. 1. The glass is half-full Evidence-free ideologies such as Stalinism, Nazism & Islam are dangerous be…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ans, it is disappointing to see a politician jettisoning his principles so cheaply.” Meanwhile, Nick Duffy at Pink News suggests that some government officials would do well to take a look at their own anti-bullying guide, which encourages people to be better allies to their LGBTI friends. Asia: Growing acceptance for LGBT people; challenges within families Gavin Blair at the Christian Science Monitor reports on growing acceptance for LGBT people…

Rev. William Barber Calls Jeff Sessions Nomination A “Moral Crisis”

By Peter Montgomery

…ation. “We will stand our ground,” said one speaker. “We are not moving to Canada!” Barber encouraged people to stop saying this is the worst thing ever, citing slavery, the Trail of Tears, and the Holocaust. “We need to stop acting as though it’s strange to have to stand up,” he said. “Tell me a time in American history when you didn’t have to have a moral dissent.” “We’re in the middle of a Third Reconstruction,” Barber said, “It’s our turn to b…

Report From Paris: Who Is Naomi Klein, Religiously?

By Donna Schaper

…mother. I know her father was a doctor and that her parents immigrated to Canada in 1967, in one of the great American moral passages north. How did they and she know how to care about the people most people think are expendable? Like the Vietnamese then or the Pacific Islanders now? Exile? Neighbors? Interestingly, the Communists enjoyed no such amnesia about the other. Klein is powerfully moral in a theological way. Use of the words “sacrifice”…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…igious freedom and expanding the freedom to marry.” …“Given the increasing number of children being brought up by same sex couples, it is desirable that the state take away any social stigma against same sex parents. “Given the ageing population, the state has an interest in recognising and protecting long term relationships of same sex couples who care for each other. “Given the harmful effects of homophobia, the state has an interest in encourag…

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ut in general it is fair to say that ISIS’ days of territorial control are numbered. But ISIS has never been a movement that’s defined solely by territorial control. The enormous cyber network of participants in online chats on Twitter and Telegram, and the global audience for the slick online publications such as Inspire, Dabiq, and Rumiyah have constituted an alternative movement rivaling the size and significance of the Arab Sunni-based Calipha…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ready wreaked havoc on other European Union members, the United States and Canada.” The brief cites the widely discredited “New Family Structures Study” by Mark Regnerus. It is critical of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Lawrence decision, which overturned state laws that criminalized consensual gay sex. Australia: Anglican Diocese of Sydney Gives Anti-Marriage-Equality Campaign $1 million The Anglican Diocese of Sydney contributed $1 million to the camp…

Ross Douthat on the Brink

By Haroon Moghul

…no prior experience of religious diversity, all but forced to accept huge numbers of refugees by governments already seen as aloof and unconcerned. No person of color can sit by and watch the circulation of memes like #WhiteGenocide, or the rise of groups like PEGIDA, and remain entirely unmoved. Would the arrival of great numbers of refugees, mostly but not wholly Muslim, without any authority having any reliable indicator of who they are, or ho…