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Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gee Board of Canada decided this week to grant refugee status to gay athesist student Hazim Ismail. More from the CBC: Ismail said his family, who are Muslim, disowned him and stopped paying for his education last year after learning he is gay and an atheist. His story became public after a GoFundMe campaign was launched in December to help pay his tuition for the rest of his semester. He said he once thought of returning to Malaysia and trying to…

Thank You Breitbart, For The Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…itics” more like white, Christian, Italian-Americans or brown, Muslim, Pakistani-Americans? This isn’t really a question the essay sets out to answer, but it’s revealing, isn’t it? American Islam is tremendously variegated, as indeed is the conservative movement, as the essay itself reveals. But do all American Muslims cluster together, culturally and politically, because they are Muslim? Is their (our/my) Islam more important than anything else?…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…n I received the heart-wrenching news of the passing of queer Latino theorist, José Esteban Muñoz, I was unsettled by the loss of someone else who wrote about our experiences as a queer Latino people. I found comfort in his words in that time and I turn to them again today: I have proposed a different understanding of melancholia that does not see it as a pathology or as a self-absorbed mood that inhibits activism. Rather, it is a mechanism that h…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…ming to them, Let my persecutors be shamed, … bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction! (Jer. 17:18) … Therefore give their children over to famine; hurl them out to the power of the sword, let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle. May a cry be heard from their houses… (Jer. 18:21-22a) Kendrick, like Jeremiah, fantasizes about r…

The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience

By Michael Schulson

…s a “possibilian.” What does that mean? How is that different from an atheist or an agnostic? My personal view is that we know far too much at this particular moment in history to buy into the details of anybody’s particular religious story, and yet we know far too little to commit to a version of strict atheism, where we pretend like we have it all figured out, and that science gives us all the tools that we need to have a full understanding of w…

When Auschwitz Becomes a Poké Stop

By Karen E. Park

…émon and ignore the news.’” What news is she talking about? The murders of Sterling and Castile and the Dallas police officers. She is referring to the news of death. But in a matter of days Pokemon Go has changed our relationship with death. This is new territory. For years now we have been able to escape our physical spaces with our phones. But Pokémon Go doesn’t just allow us to avoid a “real” place in favor of a “virtual” one. It has instead t…

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…followed, nativist rioters burned down several Catholic churches including St. Augustine’s, its rectory, and a library containing thousands of books. By the time it was over, around twenty-five persons were killed, and hundreds were injured. Military troops finally put an end to rioting but few Protestant Christians spoke out against the nativists as their movement grew. For instance, in the archives of a Protestant church right across the street,…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…echnologies. In this instance, we point to George W. Bush, who was able to stop stem cell funding for seven years, essentially because of his religious views. We want to make it law that you’re not able to go against science just because it violates a cultural or a religious perspective. Another very important issue is that there’s not enough funding for some of the great technologies that are out. It’s crazy the nation spends ten times the amount…

“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…on their side. The Kurds were not given any assurances, and fearing the worst most of them slipped away that night in the darkness to safety. They heard that those who stayed were divided into men and women’s groups. The men were killed and the women were taken into slavery. Is It About Religion? Or About Power? I talked with another fellow, a Syrian Christian pharmacist who had in fact stayed in his Syrian village after it had been taken over by…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…y Andreasen’s work). In 1952, the first-ever edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders included an entry for gross stress reaction. In the DSM-II, the entry was removed. “The most plausible explanation for the omission is that the concept was closely linked to warfare and combat, and DSM-II was written in a peaceful era,” writes Andreasen. The timing could not have been much worse. America’s involvement in the Vietnam Wa…