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As a Queer Catholic Woman I Had High Hopes Before the 2023 Catholic Synod on Synodality

By Emma Cieslik

…n October 9, I allowed myself for the first time in many years to feel optimistic. I smiled at pictures of Pope Francis welcoming LGBTQ Catholic advocates Sr Jeannine Gramick and Outreach director Fr James Martin, finally feeling that this could be our moment, my moment to find a home in the Church that had raised me. I felt that little sacristy door slightly creak open as I fumbled to dial the phone to call my mom. Was this it? Sadly, no. My exci…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ernment planned to do anything about LGBT rights abuses. He was answering amid bursts of seemingly uncontrolled laughter. “Burma is not like the West. Gender issues are not important,” he said. (The recording of the phone call can be heard at the end of the documentary Life in the Shadows: Silent Suffering in Myanmar’s LGBT+ Community.) Win Htein has become well known among foreign journalists in Burma for his cantankerous dismissal of questions a…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…of… interaction” in digital communications betrayed a lack of practical familiarity with social media. Just a few years ago, I might have read and learned from Parker Palmer’s insights on media and violence, very possibly online. But it would have been all but impossible for me to engage in a synchronic and asynchronic conversation with two dozen or so people from various walks of life from Arizona to Ithaca to India on Parker’s reflections and q…

Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…pastored several rural churches before serving as an Associate Conference Minister in Missouri and a Conference Minister in the Southwest. Dorhauer has been active in social justice concerns throughout his career, most recently focusing on immigration, private prisons, the environment, and marriage equality. Dorhauer earned a Master of Divinity degree from Eden Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary. He wil…

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

By Michael Schulson

…in the era of PTSD. Not Adolescence, But War Suzanne Collins grew up in a military family. Her father served in Vietnam when she was a small child. He dreamed of the war for the rest of his life. As a child, Collins would be awakened by his cries. Some critics read the Hunger Games trilogy as a parable of adolescence and its struggles. But, Collins told the New York Times Magazine in a rare interview, “I don’t write about adolescence. I write abo…

For Clergy Who Ministered Through the AIDS Crisis Covid is Both Eerily Familiar and Puzzlingly Different

By Lynne Gerber

…Refuge, a UCC/Metho-Bapti-Costal church, and leads The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, a global community of churches committed to radical inclusivity. With AIDS, she recalled, people who looked sick were marginalized “because of the position that the church took that if you have this dirty disease you’re a dirty person. But in this particular environment it’s the church that’s the dirty person. It’s [coming to] church that can make church pe…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…Geller famously objected to the teaching of the Arabic language because it might lead to Islamist indoctrination. It might also, Little Syria tells us, lead to literature, music, and community. We begin the tour standing on the edge of a tiny pocket park between Greenwich Street and the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the south, the building of which in the 1940s destroyed most of the last residential buildings via eminent domain. In th…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…audience members to make quick assumptions using the quickest, stereotypic misunderstandings about the minority group in question. We saw the same during the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson and the media’s use of his image to portray a large, black male (read as ‘thuggish’), rather than an 18-year-old high school graduate about to start his college career. With hashtags (#IfTheyGunnedMeDown), Black Twitter immediately drew attention to the lack…

Fear, Guns, and the (Unwinnable) War Against Death: A Letter to My Fellow Americans

By Beatrice Marovich

…enemy of God has made people so afraid of death that it’s turned them into militants who mindlessly wage an unwinnable war against death? What if this faith that death and its friends are the enemy is just killing us all? Death is terrifying. And we should protect one another from it. It’s one of the greatest things we can do for one another. But in the end you, and I, and all of the people we adore and despise, will die. I don’t want any of us to…

Pennsylvania Rep. Says Contraception Mandate Is Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…the contraception coverage mandate?” the first things that popped into his mind were bodies, death, fire, and smoking twists of metal. Maybe he thinks that the only people who have ever experienced a truly grievous affront to their agency and well-being are these three groups: 1) victims of the Pearl Harbor attack; 2) victims of the 9/11 attacks; and 3) the boss who thinks Unitarian Stella from accounting shouldn’t be using birth control and by gu…