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‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

…s. The Ministry of Education began training district education officers on new sex education guidelines that “exclude any mention of homosexuality or sexual minorities.” The new policy contradicts South Korea’s support for Human Rights Council resolutions calling for an end to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. South Korea has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention to Eliminate all forms of…

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The Revelation of Kurt Andersen: With ‘Evil Geniuses’ a Media Mandarin Discovers Plutocracy

…st ambitions in completely undoing the premises and core principles of the New Deal and the postwar social compact. They accomplished this feat in just 30 years of concerted effort. Andersen shows us how they did it through sins of commission but also sins of omission: quietly declining to renew key regulatory provisions, dropping cost-of-living indexing for recipients of various public benefits, letting the real value of the federal minimum wage…

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Is Eddie Long Preparing For a Confession?

…sounds like someone trying to prepare their loved ones for some difficult news. Will New Birth congregants accept more revelations about their beloved “Bishop”? The people I encountered today were either sold out to Bishop Long, or looked a little stunned that they didn’t hear a strong denial. Doubt may begin to work on the hearts and minds of the faithful if the allegations mount, and the time to trial drags on. Finally, and perhaps most worriso…

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Chabon, Safran-Foer, Krauss—the “New Yiddishists”—Don’t Speak Yiddish

…ge-conscious American Jewish community when his work began to emerge. The “new Yiddishists,” who speak, at best, a pidgin version of the intimate old language, have been roundly embraced. The Jewish establishment, facing a crisis of attrition, is overjoyed that these young people chose to engage Jewishness in their work, and is happy to reward them with prizes and fellowships. There is nothing wrong with this, if we can do no better, but as a cons…

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Insert Provocative Title Here: The New Media Landscape

…Gets Religion,” Walsh notes that even as reporting staff are being cut at newspapers, major players like the New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press are producing more coverage of religion in the news. How do they do it? Walsh examines the Post’s “On Faith” section as an example – a joint venture with Newsweek that features the perspective of heavy-hitters such as Elie Wiesel, Deepak Chopra and former Iranian president Mohammad Khat…

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Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

…it enables liberal Zionists to remain “troubled and yet committed.” Not a new reality, a new story What Hartman is trying to do in his essay is make liberal Zionists relevant again; to make them part of a conversation that now largely excludes them. He argues that liberal Zionists should simply ignore the anti-Zionist “untroubled uncommitted.” While I disagree with his assessment that much of that group traffics in antisemitism (certainly some do…

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A Time to Break Down, and A Time to Build Up: Reinventing Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans

…the first week. In Case of Katrina: Reinventing the Church in Post-Katrina New Orleans Ellen Blue Wipf & Stock August 4, 2016 My heart was breaking, too, since New Orleans is my home. My son was in the city as a first responder during the storm, and his family’s home had to be bulldozed. The fear and grief were very personal for me. Yet living and teaching in Tulsa gave me the distance that allowed some level of objectivity that UMC people living…

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Vatican’s New Media Evangelizing Strategy Can’t Save it from All The Bad News

…ia and its head, Pope Benedict, have not been able to stem the tide of the news cycle about the sexual abuse scandal, nor has the biggest newsmaker in the scandal used media effectively to convey a coherent message to Catholics that is sincere, contrite, and constructive. Even more disturbing is the eagerness to use media in order to evangelize, while demonizing legitimate reporting on the sexual abuse stories. In late April, it was revealed that…

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Heterosexual With Issues: Haggard’s Self-Hate

…, hugging and roughhousing with male congregants, riding a scooter through New Life’s sprawling lobby. Then it all implodes, his ruin narrated in news clips. We see a church leader reading a letter from Haggard to his crying congregants: “There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life.” In an archaic-seeming settlement agreement, the church pays Haggard severance, but “banishes” him…

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How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’

…aditionally views America as the site of the Garden of Eden and the future New Jerusalem, a new Holy Land. Just as early Christians believed Rome existed to facilitate the spread of the Christian Gospel, many Mormons today believe the United States exists to facilitate the Restoration. Furthermore, many American evangelicals believe American exceptionalism derives from the fact that America has been given a special mission from God. In addition to…

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