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In the Story of the New Testament We Are the Romans—No Matter Who Wins the Election

By Stephen Hinerman

A number of years back, I heard something that changed my whole perspective on the gospels in the New Testament. The biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan was speaking about the narratives of the life of Jesus, so central to that Bible and how people in the church hear them. Then he made this simple observation: “We keep thinking we’re the Jesus people in the story. We’re not. We’re the Romans.” Maybe most people listening thought nothing of the…

The Non-Mask of the Red Death: A Deadly Necropolitics Hits Home

By Peter Laarman

…can seriously expect today’s champions and worshippers of a wrathful male sky god to grasp how elements of Moloch got woven into this conception of the godhead during the earliest phase of Israelite religion. Equally problematic in our particular culture: the champions and worshippers of a fire-breathing Yaweh never quite see how a cold-blooded and anti-empathic masculinist cruelty shaped this god’s North American “career,” so to speak, of sancti…

Exclusion is Causing Great Harm: A Conversation With Suspended UMC Pastor Rev. Cynthia Meyer

By Joel Pitney

…nvolved in my local United Methodist Church pretty deeply during my junior high and high school years, participating in youth programs and trips. The church helped me learn about the world. That really meant a lot to me. By the time I was a senior in high school, I had a conversation with the pastor about feeling called to ordained ministry. I was ordained in 1990, so 26 years ago. I was ordained into the Kansas East Annual Conference, which is no…

‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?

By B. Howell Belser

…f of weak ties, rather than the strong ties needed to engage in dangerous, high-risk activism. In addition, he argues that the success of high-risk activism also requires strong hierarchies with a clear leadership, chain of command, and accountability. This is not something that more diffuse social networks can provide, he observes, and so they lack both strategy and coherence. To be fair, Gladwell makes some important observations about the short…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y with gay and transgender communities,” from participating in an upcoming High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS. The United States, European Union, and Canada have protested the exclusion, which is apparently allowed under UN rules. Michelle Nichols reported for Reuters on Tuesday: Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, wrote to General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft and said the groups appeared to have been blocked for involveme…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s police officers showed up at the activists’ home. He has asked the Delhi High Court to help him get his passport and green card back so that he can return to the United States where he is pursuing a neurobiology course at the University of California. The Delhi High Court has asked his parents and state police to respond to the allegations. Bermuda: Government plans public ‘info sessions’ on marriage equality The Ministry of Community, Culture a…

Record Number of Stealth Creationism Bills Introduced in 2011

By Lauri Lebo

…n. 1. The latest is Texas’ HB 2454, which would prohibit an institution of higher learning from “discrimination related to research related into intelligent design.” “PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RESEARCH RELATED TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN. An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or penalize in any manner, especially with regard to employment or academic support, a faculty member or student based on the faculty member’…

Pence’s Religious Freedom Policy Made ‘LGBQ’ Hoosiers Sick—Literally

By Sunnivie Brydum

…bisexual or “unsure” of their sexual orientation. Researchers compared the number of “unhealthy days” reported by residents of each state, using the CDC definition of “the total number of days in the past 30 that people reported that their physical and mental heath were not good,” according to the press release announcing the study’s findings. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System does include a question that allows participants to identi…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…nd Times to come already! A savvy entrepreneur, Strandberg has bought up a number of Internet addresses including AntiAntichrist, Tribulationus and RaptureMe, in case RaptureReady.com crashes from the traffic after the Rapture. As of November 19, The Rapture Index stood at 159 down from a 2008 high of 170 and up from a 2005 low of 143. Strandberg told Newsweek that anything over 160 means “fasten your safety belts.” ++++++++++ Focus on the Family’…

How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism

By Benjamin E. Park

…s Smith’s belief in the importance of the doctrine, as well as the growing number of people initiated into the order. And though the prophet tried to stop the rumors from spreading, an increasing number of prominent figures outraged by the alleged practice were dedicated to root out the truth. Among those trying to expose the practice and its participants were Joseph’s brother, Hyrum, as well as his wife, Emma. Then, in May of 1843, in a radical r…