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Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

By J. Kameron Carter

…k church at its best testifies to emergent and non-exclusionary sociality, contact, and touch. Communal feeling, or feeling commune-ion, blackness is an alternate sanctum, an otherwise sanctuary, an ecology or constellation of joyous practices of re/assemblage-amid-disassemblage. Quantum communions, quantum solidarities. Orlando’s Pulse is this too. This is a moment for unequivocal black church and queer/ LGBT solidarity because antiblackness and…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…ro-life dissident.” Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a well-known anti-abortion crusader with a longstanding interest in China and this case in particular, has been in contact with Chen. Smith claims that U.S. officials refused to let him talk to the dissident while he was at the embassy. Chen made his dramatic appeal to Congress at an emergency hearing of a commission chaired by Smith. Smith has been trying to cut funding to the UNFPA for decades. Romn…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…that they plan to visit their campuses, Higgins explains, and that initial contact often opens the door for a conversation between Soulforce and campus thought-leaders once the Equality bus arrives. But not always. “Through e-mail,” Higgins says, “we’ve had students [at other schools] say that they’ve watched us from the library window but they didn’t have the strength to come outside. That’s why sometimes we need to walk on campus even it means b…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…-theological works of the 20thcentury. With that, please don’t hesitate to contact me with questions, concerns, or invitations to discuss this with a larger group, at www.johnslattery.com. Citations of major quotes from Teilhard: “Do the yellows…”: Günther Schiwy, Teilhard de Chardin: sein Leben und seine Zeit. 2. (München: Kösel, 1981): 105. “I hate nationalism…” : Günther Schiwy, Teilhard de Chardin: sein Leben und seine Zeit. 2. (München: Kösel…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uardian of the person with whom they are accused of having same-sex sexual contact or is in a position of “authority over” them. The news agency further reported the measure is nearly identical to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act the country’s Constitutional Court overturned last month on a technicality. “This bill is part of the rising tide of homophobia in many African nations, whose government leaders are working to deny the rights of their LGBT…

Barna Plays God, School Board Boot Camp, and the Birth of the ‘SAGECON’: Day 3

By PRA Staff

…grandchildren, neighbor’s children, and any other kid they might come into contact with. In his words, “it doesn’t matter who the children are. Recognize you can disciple them.” Biblical worldview Barna then sits down with Tony Perkins and Marc Nuttle, a longtime evangelical political strategist, to expand upon the importance of a biblical worldview. Tony remarks that promoting and spreading biblical worldviews is of utmost importance. Indeed, tha…

What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…tly non-affiliated citizens, the United States began to get religion in the 1800s. The latter half of the century saw a dramatic rise of right-wing Christian movements that lobbied for Sabbath “blue laws,” the prohibition of alcohol, prayer and bible teaching in schools, immigration bans, and, most egregiously to Gage, the call for a constitutional amendment that would rewrite the First Amendment and eliminate the separation of church and state. A…

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…r Bill DeBlasio sent the NYPD to break up a funeral procession in which thousands of people packed the streets to mourn Rabbi Chaim Mertz. Meanwhile, pastors in Kentucky and Texas have sued to prevent the “unconstitutional application” of restrictions that violate church members’ religious freedom. Rev. Tony Spell of the Life Tabernacle Church near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has repeatedly disobeyed Gov. John Bel Edwards’s stay-at-home orders by hold…

Praying in Fear

By Shabana Mir

…w “strict” you are. If you are very sick, or otherwise unable to pray (any number of reasons could be cited) you can “make up” the prayer afterward, though it is better to make every effort to pray on time. (The writer usually falls on what her spouse would call the neurotically-regular side of the scale). Menstruating women do not have to pray the ritual prayer (a sheikh cites this state as one of “deep prayer”). If you are away from home, too, y…

Religious Conspiracy Theories About Giffords Shooting Emerge

By Sarah Posner

…r’s website since October 25, 2010, suggests that the two may have been in contact more recently. As this case unfolds, you certainly need to know these facts.” Will this half-baked conspiracy theory about a Giffords-Loughner connection (which appears to be promoted in an effort to dispel any notion that Loughner was in any way influenced by right-wing rhetoric or ideology), and the addled contention that gun control causes genocide, radiate furth…