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Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…efugee stranded by Trump freeze on resettlement Last week we reported that Turkish police had targeted LGBT activists who tried to defy a government ban on Istanbul’s planned pride celebration. IGLYO has shared reflections on the day from Hakan, an activist with the KAOS GL organization. Also, the New York Times reported from Istanbul on the story of Mohammed, a 26-year old Iraqi: For Mohammed, an Iraqi civil engineer, the cruelest experience of h…

Power Up: Turn Off the Cell Phone

By Daniel Schultz

…plugged-in lifestyle doesn’t really get at the heart of the issue. I think the Amish, of all people, have it right. It’s not so much about what you as an individual are doing or not doing, as the effect technology has on the community: Why not make life easier and just put [a phone] in the house? “What would that lead to?” another Amish man asked me. “We don’t want to be the kind of people who will interrupt a conversation at home to answer a tel…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…ability of cell phones to be used for impure activities, some Jewish cell-phone users have requested so-called “kosher” phones. The idea is to offer conservative Jews a phone that is free of “corrupting influences” of the sort that are already avoided by ultra-orthodox Jews through a ban on television and some radio. Reuters reported in February 2008 that Bezeq Israel Telecom launched a new “kosher” landline phone service, which will block calls…

A Brief History of Olympic Flames

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…1976 to set up an electronic link and thus, merely by pushing a button in Greece, to kindle a fire in Canada). But who came up with this idea? Not Coubertin, and not the French. No, the Olympic flame was invented by none other than the Nazis, no strangers to the power of ritual in the mass. The modern Olympic flame was first cultivated at the Altis of Olympia in 1936, then carried overland by runners from Greece to Germany (the event in Leni Reif…

Will SCOTUS’s New Zeal for “Neutrality” Affect its Decision on the “Muslim Ban”?

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…o concerned with clearly biased government religious expression in Town of Greece. As Justice Kagan’s powerful dissent outlines, in that case “the Town Board select[ed], month after month and year after year, prayergivers who will reliably speak in the voice of Christianity” and thereby “infuse[d] a participatory government body with one (and only one) faith, so that month in and month out, the citizens appearing before it become partly defined by…

Cronus, Chronos, and Christ

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ods. Hesiod tells us (126ff) that Mother Earth and Father Sky bore a large number of children, among them Ocean, and Hyperion, and Memory, as well as the goddesses Theia and Rhea (later on, Earth bore the Cyclopes and other Giants as well, according to Hesiod, though later authors would disagree with almost every aspect of these divine genealogies). The youngest of the sons of Earth and Sky was also the most rebellious: this was Cronus. And so be…

Greek Abbot Arrested for Role in Financial Scandal

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…arrested, inspiring sympathetic demonstrations by religious supporters in Greece, and cries of outrage among his political allies in Russia. It is too early to say what all of this will means, but the astonishing complicity of a religious institution—and a monastery, no less—in real estate wheeling-dealing and international politics is intriguing. And to be sure, Father Ephraim was not working alone. He made his deals with government officials i…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…acher. Jesus trudges on through Assyria and Babylon, then comes at last to Greece. He expressly wishes to study Greek philosophy (“full of pungent truth,” 44:1), but here the same pattern of disappointment continues. Jesus is welcomed by the Athenians, much as they will welcome the Apostle Paul some decades later, and they invite Jesus to share his teaching. He is introduced to the priest Apollo, “Defender of the Oracle,” but he learns nothing fro…

“Saints Are Only Human”: Leaving the Church, But Heeding this Pope’s Lessons

By Elizabeth Colmant Estes

…slogans about immigration reform. On line I heard that parishes with large numbers of undocumented immigrants had received many tickets. No outside food or water, statues, gifts or selfie sticks were permitted. Despite 10,000 folding chairs, most of us would have no choice but to stand. Once in my appointed place behind the last row of seats, I found myself in a community of fellow pilgrims, lottery winners from local parishes, nearby colleges, an…

Will Istanbul Ever Be a Part of the European Union?

By Haroon Moghul

…int that’s more relevant: there are more people in Istanbul than in all of Greece. Let’s say Turkish membership talks go forward, and enough Europeans are convinced Turkey won’t dilute whatever it is they want Europe to be. By the time Europe gets over its economic crisis and Turkey clears its hurdles, this country may well be more populous than Germany, making it the largest in the EU. Would Europe be okay with that? The Turks I’ve talked to so…