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Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…xual and transgender citizens in this way.” In the story Carlos Parra, aka Paris Galán, “the country’s best known drag queen and a prominent gay rights campaigner,” calls Bolivia a relative beacon of light in a region plagued by homophobia and violence against gay and transgender people. More from the story: Predictably, the gender identity law has met with stiff resistance, not least from the Catholic Church. There have been protest marches, part…

The God of the Holocene Epoch Is Dead: Religion’s Fatal Flaw

By Daniel C. Maguire

…then we have produced since industry boomed two centuries ago. The feeble Paris 2015 accord hoped to limit the heat-up to 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise above pre-industrial levels. Many climate scientists see that as a pipe dream and predict a rise to 4 degree C. As one scientist put it, the difference between 2 degrees and 4 degrees is human civilization. Scientist James Lovelock sees humanity reduced to 500 million people within a centur…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…, enabled him to teach yoga in London, Switzerland, the United States, and Paris. Before Iyengar and other entrepreneurial yogis popularized it, yoga had moved from the counterculture of Indian ascetic renouncers, to the counterculture of turn-of-the-century American practitioners of tantra, to the counterculture of Transcendentalism and metaphysical religion, to the counterculture of proponents of physical culture. It wasn’t until the 1960s tha…

RDPulpit: Why I am going to Iran

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and members of the French Parliament in Paris in an effort to build an international, interfaith coalition to prevent a war against the precious people of Iran. The hope for peace and the freedom yearned for by my great-great parents, I carry with me to Tehran. Ultimately, this delegation is not for the government of Iran but for our own government. We are attempting to model what it means to talk directly with t…

A Life After Death Double-Feature: Eastwood’s Hereafter and Noe’s Enter the Void

By Jay Michaelson

…and prostitution, whereas the characters in Hereafter live in upper-class Paris, middle-class San Francisco, and the most caring and engaged child welfare system the world has ever known. But the differences are more than skin-deep, especially when it comes to religion. Hereafter goes out of its way to demean traditional religion (and esoteric nonsense) en route to its reluctant affirmation of the afterlife—if the film were a person, she’d be “sp…

Claude Lévi-Strauss: Meeting the Myth

By Chad Seales

…, reexamine the Lévi-Strauss of the text, and return to the question of comparison. All comparisons are fraught with danger. But are all comparisons necessarily mythic, or at least allegorical? Do they require some kind of imagined connection between different people in different places and different times? And what facilitates those comparisons? If not the mind, is it some kind of materiality, of objects, language, rituals, or habits? Lévi-Straus…

Faith in Public Life Responds: Common Ground Gets Results

By Katie Paris and the Faith in Public Life Team

…an radio ads in November calling for common-ground solutions to reduce the number of abortions, including preventing unintended pregnancies, pro-choice RH Reality Check observed, A notable shift has occurred in the political discourse about abortion this year. After decades of bitter partisanship and nasty wedge politics surrounding the highly controversial issue of abortion will this election cycle be remembered as a turning point for the politic…

If The National Prayer Breakfast Is Apolitical and Nonsectarian, Why Is It Used to Question Obama’s Faith?

By Sarah Posner

…e, sometimes used as a weapon. From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris, we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith, professed to stand up for Islam, but, in fact, are betraying it. We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism — terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subjecting women to rape as a weap…

How Do We Talk About Islam After Charlie Hebdo?

By Asma Afsaruddin

…sion course with the West (and vice versa), the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris served to do just that. Add to that the continuous carnage being wreaked by the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (or Da‘ish) under the banner of a revived “caliphate” and there can be little doubt, it seems, that Muslims are increasingly devolving into killing machines motivated by blind rage. Such a phenomenon is furthermore understandable because Muslims su…

If Kirill’s Bizarre Sermon Blaming War on Pride Parades Comes as a Surprise, it’s Time to Learn the History

By Katherine Kelaidis

…sees the center of Western power and culture moving from Rome to Madrid to Paris to London to Washington. It is, however, a view of history, not shared by everyone. As we painfully found out in the early part of this century, different civilizations have different narratives of the past. Failure to understand the Islamic view of history was a grave fault of the Western powers. Today the same could be said of the Orthodox view of history. For examp…