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From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…into the densely populated Gaza Strip, roughly the size and population of Philadelphia, would’ve been a public relations disaster. That appeared to have been Hamas’ strategy, too, escalating rocket fire while awaiting the Arab and Muslim world’s intervention. The movement realized that newly elected Arab governments would have their feet put to the fire by empowered publics eager to see policy changes. Hamas even recognized that Egypt wanted to r…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…brews 13:1-2). In this passage, the Greek word translated “mutual love” is philadelphia (the word used to name various ancient and contemporary cities). This word connotes the bond that people share in a community. The Greek word for hospitality, philoxenia, means “love of strangers.” In the cosmology of ancient Christianity, a porous boundary was thought to exist between the worlds of humans and divine beings. Consequently, believers were instruc…

Attacking Obama on Religion and Race? Worst Romney Strategy Ever.

By Joanna Brooks

…Bill Maher, they’ve steered clear of anti-Mormon antagonism. And Obama has already handled the Wright matter in his widely-viewed and widely-praised speech on race and religion delivered in Philadelphia in March 2008. If GOP operatives drive the campaign towards the crossroads of race and religion, it’s Mitt Romney who has the most to lose. …

In Repudiation of its Devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican Masks the History and Responsibility of Catholic Church

By Elisha Chi

…ring presidential elections. Just as it was true a few years ago, when the Philadelphia Archdiocese issued a letter to be read at each mass, urging parishioners to contact their political representatives to advocate against extending the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases. This rhetoric of separation between the political and the religious arises again in Pope Francis’s recent apology for the atrocities committed by Catholics operatin…

Which Hogwarts House would Jesus be in? Or would He be in a Walmart Receipt?

By Michael J. Altman

…lepuff. Cardinal Justin Rigali retired from his post in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the wake of a sex abuse scandal. He has been replaced by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver. A Muslim man shot in the face by a man in an anti-Islamic rage says he forgives the shooter and tried to stop his execution. A federal judge has ruled that Dixie County Florida must remove its Ten Commandments monument from the courthouse steps. It has been ther…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for fighting to stop the legalization of gay marriage. The demonstrators, numbering in their thousands, were dressed in white and stuck large stickers reading “Marriage and family, let the people decide” to their clothes. Protest leaders speaking to the crowd on a temporary stage said “All children have the right to a mother and a father” as the rally congested the main road outside the Legislative Yuan for over six hours. In a petition letter, t…

Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

By Julie Byrne

…e diaconal ordination of JoEllen Werthman by Bishop Kera Hamilton, both of Philadelphia. Over the ten years of writing this book, they have become dear friends. I call them “my” “cover girls.” Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? I am still a huge fan of Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola, and of Mark D. Jordan’s The Silence of Sodom. Both books took huge risks of form and authorial disclosure. Both are beautifully wri…

Katy Perry’s Evangelical Hangover

By David Mihalyfy

…the larger culture include fairly few faithful evangelicals, but a decent number of people who’ve fallen away from those churches. Oddly enough, though, these latter figures tend to bear marks of the religious tradition that formed them, including a dislike of spiritual rigidity and a fervent sense of social mission. Surprisingly, Hempton sees this dynamic at work, not just in distant personages like George Eliot and Vincent van Gogh, but also in…

Beware of Yoga, Taking the Jesus Out of AA, Atheist Billboard Wars—The Sequel

By Michael J. Altman

…t claims. Could the coach’s Mormonism affect who plays quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles? Elsewhere in pro football, the Pittsburgh Steelers are a religious bunch. Star defensive player Troy Polamalu even spent four days in a Greek Orthodox monastery during the off-season. An update on the Oklahoma atheist billboard story. The sign reads “Atheism is OK in Oklahoma.” A billboard company has answered the atheists with signs reading: “Why settl…

Obama Territory

By Nathan Schneider

…m section—you’ll hear Rev. Clinton M. Miller’s voice, rising over his microphone’s threshold, calling out through the static to responses from the packed pews. Mixed in all that, these days, you’ll probably hear something about Barack Obama, or at least his echoes—”hope,” “politics as usual,” “change.” Keep walking, past the humbler Progressive Glorious Church of God in Christ, and there is a man on his stoop selling t-shirts with the big, colorfu…