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Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…ocacy and even participation in social clubs. According to a report by the New York Times’ Adam Nossiter: Activists said the mob violence was a sign that the new law appeared to have given mobs license to act on widespread antigay sentiment in Nigeria. “The government has given a go-ahead authority to mob jungle justice,” said Mr. Orazulike of the International Center for Advocacy on the Right to Health. “This is unacceptable. You can’t attack peo…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cted in April of killing a teenager at last year’s pride celebrations in Jerusalem has been sentenced to life in prison plus 31 years. The convicted murderer, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, had only weeks before the killing been released from prison after a ten-year sentence for stabbing three people during a pride march in 2005. Moldova: Human rights activists fight proposed propaganda law Human Rights Watch released a letter to legislators urging…

Fox News: Mormons “Obviously not Christian”

By Joanna Brooks

…presidency), Fox News has sabotaged him time and time again by suggesting that despite his own profession of Christianity, President Obama is not really Christian, but rather Muslim—quite a crime, in the eyes of Fox viewers. Now, as Mitt Romney runs for president, Fox News is sabotaging him by suggesting that despite his own profession of Christianity, Romney is not really Christian either. Because when Fox News says “Christian,” Fox News means “…

Conservative Christianity’s “Come to Jesus” Moment in Wake of Elliot Rodger Shootings

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…tation of Christianity, this is the natural, God-ordained role and how the world operates. Within the PUA world, the man as leader and provider is again a mix of how they believe the world ought to operate—PUAs frequently suggest that if they are financially successful, they deserve to be “scoring” with “hot bodies” and express anger and frustration when that does not happen—yet also what is wrong with the world: women, whom they repeatedly portra…

I Call BS on Nun Reality Show

By Gwynne Watkins

…can’t shake the image of a casting director going into trendy bars and recruiting potential nuns, just like Rock of Love recruited wannabe Bret Michaels girlfriends who had never even heard of Poison. <iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/zwW0WWjNujE?feature=player_embedded” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown, Ohio, posted this video to explain discernment. Think it can compete wit…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…distributing scriptures. The ABS subsequently moved into a new building in New York City, and resumed its work: “Scriptures needed to be distributed. Morality needed to be restored. And the United States needed to be returned to its biblical heritage.” Into the 1970s, the ABS sought to “reassert its historical connection to Christian nationalism” by realigning itself away from mainstream Protestants and more towards conservative evangelicals. This…

The Eternal in the Blink of an Eye, Chris Marker (1921-2012)

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…released it as the feature-length Twelve Monkeys). At the outset we learn World War Three has occurred, nuclear bombs have been dropped, the end is at hand. A band of underground survivors experiment with breaking out of history, hoping to live on, somehow, into the future. Humanity’s hope rests with the ability of a single man to remember an image, an image of a face, an image that enables him—with a drug-induced haze—to slip back and forth in t…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…of universities like Duke, Princeton and Drew as well as local churches in New York and Washington, D.C. Some of these organizations have continued the service in successive years. Duke Divinity School’s Office of Black Church Studies has officially sponsored the service titled “Seven Last Words: Strange Fruit Still Speaks” (a reference to the Billie Holiday song “Strange Fruit” about Jim Crow lynchings in the South), and it is now a staple of the…

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…follow my meaning.) This year, Ramadan comes in August. A lot of my fellow New York Muslims dreaded the approach of Ramadan in the summer, to say nothing of this year’s unbearable humidity. But I was worried about Ramadan for months now, and for another reason. When the first sliver of a crescent moon is sighted, it marks the beginning of a new month (or a new year). Some Muslims have adopted calculation in advance, choosing to figure out the mont…

The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…graphical is the feeling of alienation; of being Jewish when you’re not in New York. Because some of the things I experienced in different countries, like these characters did, where, when you leave your enclaves, like New York and L.A., and you go to places like London or Warsaw, it’s still kind of weird to be Jewish. It’s just not that big of a deal in a lot of cities in America. But when you go abroad, you realize it’s a different thing to be….