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After Michael Jerryson (1974-2021) Nobody Will Ever Look at Buddhism the Same Way

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…n. Quite the opposite. Because Jerryson lived and worked with Buddhists in Mongolia, Thailand, and elsewhere, he felt a kinship with the Buddhist community and an admiration for its tradition. But Jerryson was also a scholar with enormous intellectual curiosity. As he explained in a 2010 essay in Religion Dispatches (later republished in the Utne Reader), “Monks with Guns: Discovering Buddhist Violence,” initially he came to Thailand to study Budd…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…ht find that your data is free to share with anybody. And of course you’ve signed yourself in, you’ve signed in your children, you’ve shared your vulnerabilities. Charles mentioned mental health, but it’s not just mental health, it’s vulnerabilities in general. After all, as a European, it’s interesting to watch how churches in the States, they fill every need. You have preschool, you have a couple’s night, you have childcare, you have all this st…

The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? Paradise Lust Author Explains…

By Nathan Schneider

…tive. One of my favorite seekers, Tse Tsan Tai, tried to prove Eden was in Mongolia by virtue of the fact that Iraq was just too ugly. “Would God choose to put paradise in such a corner of the world?” A preacher lobbying for Ohio said that Eden didn’t have to be in Asia just because people thought it was; the Bible doesn’t say “Asia,” it just says “East.” He’s right about that. I’d be curious to know if the proofs of God you’ve been looking at hav…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the plebiscite if members of parliament will not be bound by its results. Mongolia: Interview recounts gay man’s coming out LGBT Amantuukh published an interview with Tulga, a gay man who was born in Ulaanbaatar in 1980 and raised during the socialist period. In the story of his gradual coming out and discovery of other gay people, he talks of attempting suicide as a teenager after reading a World Health Organization publication that had been tra…

You Are Not Your Star Sign

By Spencer Dew

…nd accident rates, which led to some confusion around whether astrological signs are part of the underwriting process,” the statement reads. “Astrological signs have absolutely no role in how we base coverage and set rates. Rating by astrology would not be actuarially sound. We realize that our hardworking customers view their insurance expense very seriously. So do we. We deeply apologize for any confusion this may have caused.” All of which was…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…Economist even recently argued that Putin’s foreign adventures were not a sign of strength, but of desperation, and mapped out areas which might one day secede. But Russian intervention wouldn’t just be bad for Russia. Russia has inserted itself into a conflict that appears so confusing as to be confused for interminable. More troops won’t fix the civil war. They may just make it that much worse, and that much more global. Which is, again, what I…

Sarah Palin Favorites “Jesus Against Obama” Church Sign

By Lauri Lebo

…f, saying, “This is my new church.” Her favorite was to a link to a church sign that said, “Blood of Jesus Against Obama/History made 4 Nov 2008, a Taliban Muslim illegally elected president USA Hussein” The sign is outside the church of Pastor James David Manning, who once held a trial declaring Obama ineligible to be president because he says he wasn’t born in the US and who refers to him as a “pimp” and “long-legged mack daddy” in sermons. Befo…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in Taiwan, where the Constitutional Court ruled last month that the civil code restricting marriage to ‘a male and a female’ is unconstitutional. The Court gave legislators two years to amend the Civil Code. The article says, however, that “the Court’s arguments for same-sex marriage were not entirely straightforward and left room for further interpretation”: It could be that this was due to the Court’s desire to cool down the same-sex marriage d…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…r non-religious counterparts. “I do not doubt that many ministers are paid significantly less than what their commitment and skill level would suggest. This is an unfortunate truth that applies to many devoted and talented employees in service professions,” Crabb wrote. “However, the manner in which Congress alleviated a financial burden on a group of religious persons was neither required by the free exercise clause nor prohibited by the establis…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l Justice Reform “has lambasted the Aceh administration’s Islamic criminal code bylaw, or Qanun Jinayat, saying it could potentially provoke discrimination and over-criminalization of LGBT communities and other vulnerable groups.” The Aceh province is governed by the conservative Islamist legal code. Notes the Jakarta Post: Qanun Jinayat imposes criminal sanctions on both Muslims and non-Muslims found to have consumed liquor, dated in public or ca…