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Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ps, which The Local says is “common practice in Protestant churches across Europe.” At least one of the partners must be a member of the church. More on the Waldensians: Founded in the 12th century, the Waldensian Church preached the Christian Gospel in the countryside and was persecuted by the Catholic Church. The world’s oldest Protestant community founded some 350 years before Luther’s reformation, Waldensians were repressed by the civil and re…

The Critical Role of Jews in Defining Modernity

By Chad Alan Goldberg

…According to this view, the modern/traditional dichotomy has its roots in European encounters with the non-European world. These encounters were undoubtedly one matrix, but not the only one. My book argues that the historical relationship between Jews and gentiles is another background condition for the production of this dichotomy. Furthermore, this background condition was chronologically primary and not reducible to European colonialism, imper…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…f unity” theme. There were also, of course, some less-spinnable moments in Europe, bickering over NATO and the Paris Agreement on climate change, moments which led to the characterization, by an unnamed State Department official, that the President acted like “a drunk tourist… Loud and tacky, shoving his way around the dance floor.” Of this, too, there were photographs, and video clips. Much has been written on Trump as a “reality TV president,” f…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hose close to the Kremlin have been expanding their outreach to members of Europe’s far-right, ranging from directing funding to France’s National Front party to inviting Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party to visit the Crimean peninsula, allowing the West’s far-right an opportunity to support Moscow’s claims to Ukraine’s peninsula. As if to make Michel’s point, the same day his report was posted, globe-trotting anti-gay activist Scott Lively posted…

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

…and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, there were a large number of hostels for the poor (sponsored by Christians, Jews, and Muslims) stretching across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The common denominator of these institutions is that they did not rely upon political boundaries to relieve suffering. The religious traditions of hospitality, refuge, and sanctuary created the vibrant multiform culture of diversity, welco…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…ussia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. In most European countries it was understood as a show of solidarity with Russia, and an affront to the European commitment to help Ukraine in their defense against invasion. UK: “Gangstery” in the EU It isn’t quite clear why James Orr, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge University, spoke as an expert on foreign policy and NATO at an afternoon panel titled “…

Female Breadwinners=Death of Civilization, Says Fox Panel

By Melissa Weininger

…aditional Jewish wife, and in many Jewish households in nineteenth-century Europe (and many ultra-Orthodox communities today), women were the primary breadwinners, a role considered essential to the maintenance of a vibrant, stable, ethical society. The highest value of the community was Torah study, which was only open to men, and only possible as a vocation to those men whose wives were women of valor, maintaining market stalls and small busines…

Vatican’s New Media Evangelizing Strategy Can’t Save it from All The Bad News

By Anthea Butler

…ation, dedicated to rekindling the faith in the developed west, especially Europe and North America. If you can’t handle your bad press and scandals, how can you effectively evangelize? Besides, “the West” has already been evangelized by the media’s damning coverage about the failure of the Church to protect children against sexual abuse. The fact that this Council is even a consideration is laughable, given the clumsy way in which the Pope’s lack…

Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…eld in the heart of the Bible Belt. FSM also gained significant support in Europe. In 2007, FSM appeared in a Council of Europe report on efforts to teach creationism in schools. Success has altered the polemics of FSM as Pastafarianism has become closely aligned with the so-called “New Atheist” movement. Henderson once remarked, “I don’t have a problem with religion. What I have a problem with is religion posing as science. If there is a god and…

Holy Spit: Why Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spit at Christians?

By Shalom Goldman

…less people to express contempt. In the thinking of many less-acculturated European Jews—particularly in Eastern Europe—spitting or cursing was a way to express disdain for a religion which sprang from Judaism and then persecuted it. The official Israeli Rabbinate (to whom the members of the Ultra-Orthodox communities don’t profess any loyalty) has condemned the assaults. Last year the state-appointed Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Yonah Metzger, called t…