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Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…were the same people doing the same thing. Because the spontaneity of the Spirit in allowing the Spirit to move freely, and in and through your body, in and through your mind, with songs. The free-style worship, the celebration, the movement away from the bulletin, the program. You have a gospel background. It was right after I met you that I was reading Kalefa Sanneh’s New Yorker article in which you talked about how church choirs have always be…

Finding the Missing Airliner with Coconuts

By Joseph Laycock

…“binoculars” made of bamboo. These ritual implements allowed the bomoh to spiritually “search” for the plane. Many Malaysians have expressed outrage over the bomoh’s attempt to help. Jakim, the Malaysian government’s department for Islamic development, released a statement that the Mat Zin’s ritual contradicts Islamic teachings and practices. Twitter accounts have bemoaned the incident as an embarrassment to Malaysia and called for Ibrahim to be…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in the province in 2014. In Jakarta, the nation’s capital, police arrested 141 men in a raid on a gay club. From the New York Times: Analysts said the arrests in Jakarta were part of enforcement efforts by the police before Ramadan, the monthlong holiday in which observant Muslims fast throughout the day. Tobias Basuki, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, said the police appeared to be formally taking on a…

Make Aeronautic Jobs, Not Jihad

By Haroon Moghul

…d, not angry but eager, not oppositional but contributory. So I picked two news stories that should bring a smile to an economy desperate for good news. Boeing, the US’s largest airplane manufacturer, has won two jumbo deals involving the Muslim world. Both will help them compete with European Airbus while sustaining or creating thousands of American jobs—up to an estimated 127,000. That’s Muslim money buying American goods, creating American jobs…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…rican Muslims were able to separate Islam from its practitioners, giving a new generation—or at least enough of us—a sense of ownership deep enough to support an agenda of reform and renewal. My own struggles with my faith and community weren’t very different; I cared and care about my faith, but in the process of trying to help, I badly wounded myself. Sometimes the way you get hurt points the way forward. Even after I wrote up my essay and sent…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…shootings in 2009: that of Nidal Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist who killed 13 servicemen and women and wounded 29 at Fort Hood, Texas, and George Sodini, who killed 3 women and wounded 12 at a Pennsylvania fitness club. Both men had no friends, work issues, difficulties meeting women, and felt victimized—Sodini by women and Hasan by his fellow soldiers for being a Muslim. And both men intended to die. Sodini shot himself before he could be stoppe…

Why the Disappeared Malaysian Airliner Brings Out the Paranormal

By Joseph Laycock

…help find the missing airliner by using the power of remote viewing, a form of ESP….

With the Pope at Ground Zero

By Anthea Butler

…ester NY, who lost his daughter Jean, a flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11. Mr. Roger said he hoped the pope would say prayers for the place, for the people, and for his daughter Jean. Praying at a unlighted candle next to the prie-dieu Pope Benedict XVI used on his visit, the Pope offered those prayers silently while looking at the south pool of the memorial. The 9/11 site has become not just a memorial or a museum—it is a pilg…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…e away territorial demon spirits from Colorado Springs. Two years later, in 1999, the new paradigm came to the Wasilla Assembly of God via a video that was described in the Christian Science Monitor article “Targeting cities with ‘spiritual mapping,’ prayer.” In the opening sentences of her story, Jane Lampman asked, “Can the ‘spiritual DNA’ of a community be altered? That’s the question posed in a Christian video called ‘Transformations.’” Lampma…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…behind.” A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department called reports of renewed extrajudicial killings “troubling”: Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, on Sunday published the names of 27 men who it said authorities shot to death in the Chechen capital of Grozny on Jan. 26. The Washington Blade has not been able to confirm reports that some of the men who were reportedly killed were gay. The Russian LGBT Network, a Moscow-based advoc…