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Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…ove us all without internecine warfare into a very spiritual world, a very new world. From the vantage point of the broader group of religious progressives, those with whom we differ come first into view as potential partners and not presumed enemies. 2. Incivility vs. Good Faith. Another unfortunate mark of the posture of this segment of the new religious left is its snarkiness and, at times, sheer incivility. This take-no-prisoners mentality is…

Religious Liberty…For Bishops

By Tom Davis

…, not between religious and secular ones. When I was a seminary student in New York City in 1958, the public hospitals of the city would not distribute contraceptives, though there was no law against it. The politicians didn’t want to upset the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York. But when a Jewish doctor working in a public hospital tried to fit a diaphragm for a Lutheran woman the hospital administrator told him it was not allowed. In the ensuing…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…aditional values” activists – as “skinheads, Cossacks, veterans, Orthodox crusaders, scary squadrons of angry mothers, and more than a few politicians….” In Washington, DC this week, American religious right supporters of Putin’s anti-gay policies, led by the World Congress of Families, held a press conference to talk about their 2014 summit which will be held in Moscow in September. Speakers from the WCF, the conservative Catholic C-FAM, and Conc…

Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e calls himself “Timur Bulatov (Isaev), social activist”. …Mr Bulatov told Russian news website Tayga.info that he had “rescued” Russian children from 65 “immoral” teachers. Zambia: Report on emotional trauma and suicide among gay men Prudence Phiri at Global Press Journal writes that suicide is “a common end” for gay men in Zambia, where homosexuality is criminalized. It’s a crime to be a homosexual here. Many people in Zambia’s lesbian, gay, bis…

The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…ort, six-minute film at the new National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, but for an analogous controversy seventeen years prior about a film on Christianity’s relationship to antisemitism at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. At present, 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels has refused to consider any edits that would add the context and definition suggested by the museum’s Interfaith Advisory Group. He told…

Is “Racist” Jesus Lawsuit Against The Met Already a Success?

By Andre E. Johnson

…ing that the Met receives “millions in taxpayer funds,” Justin Joseph, the New York City resident who filed the federal lawsuit, argues that this makes it “government speech” and that the government should not support speech that is racist. Annie Armstrong, writing for the Creators Project posits: Joseph’s case raises the question of whether museums ought to edit their displays to evolve with the sentiments of contemporary audiences…[This] case ur…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…law. The justices said the decision is up to legislators. More from the Jerusalem Post: It was stated in the verdict that because the Israeli law sees the rabbinical courts as the only authority when it comes to Jewish marriage in the country, the appeal is wrong in its basis because the High Court is a civil court, not a rabbinical one. “Essentially, the petitioners are asking from the court to recognize same-sex marriage via legislation, despit…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nnot simply “nudge off” the LGBT community. More from Joe Williams at Pink News: Arun Jaitley says that the country must reconsider the “conservative” ruling made by the Supreme Court in 2013, as it ignores the needs of “millions of people” across India. “When you have millions of people involved in this (gay sex) you can’t nudge them off,” he stated. He added that India’s approach to gay rights needs to be modernised, arguing that the law would h…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…ermines the “sanctity and permanence of marriage.” A 2018 resolution on spousal abuse states that “spousal abuse dishonors the marriage covenant and fundamentally blasphemes the relationship between Christ and the church,” but fails to clarify whether the church’s recommendation for a woman’s “separation” from an abusive husband can take the form of a divorce. As long as the SBC clings to doctrines in favor of women’s submission and against divorc…

‘Joel’s Army’ Is Already Here: The Obscure 20th Century Religious Movement That Profoundly Influences The Right’s Cosmic Battle

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…man have dominion’—he transferred it over.” “We are not peripheral to the world,” she said. “The world is peripheral to us—the Church! The Church!” She insisted that God “did not give the world authority, he gave all authority in heaven and on Earth to his Church.” A different kind of example comes from Earl Hixon, a leader in the small Pennsylvania-based Global Community Network. Hixon has established what he calls a “Strategic War Room in Londo…