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The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…rld and find glittering skyscrapers in a vibrant Australian democracy. But travel the Muslim world and it seems each country is a variation of the other in all the wrong ways: corruption, instability, underperformance. It’s depressing. It makes you doubt yourself. It makes you think that the current malaise lasted backwards through time, like you really do belong in that static museum display. It makes you think there’s something wrong with your f…

Big Ecumenical Gathering Marks Multi-Faith Presence at Paris Climate Talks

By Donna Schaper

…edral in Paris. About 300 relatively humble big wigs— those of us with the travel budget sufficient to make it to Paris—attended the celebration of Multi-Faith Presence at COP 21 and Reception. We have a tilt towards the Niebuhrian, which means, theologically, that we understand doing some bad, like flying, can result in some good. Most of the people in the room were good at jet lag if bad at carbon emissions. GreenFaith, the OurVoices campaign, t…

Former RNC Chair Comes Out

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…York City-based private equity firm, KKR. “Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I’ve told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they’ve been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that’s made me a happier and better person. It’s something I wish I had done years ago.” The entire interview is filled with Mehlman’s regrets at not coming out soo…

Murdering Sleep: Madoff and MacBeth

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ed the high life they both led—the multiple homes on three continents, the travel, the nouveau glamour of it all. But when it all came apart, Ruth Madoff posted most of the $10 million bail to get her husband home, and she has stood loyally by him even at the apparent expense of her relationship with her two sons. She has suffered a “Leona Helmsley style” demonization since then, which has reduced her to sad, incognito forays in disguise to the ma…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…October, the evangelical non-profit Liberty Counsel arranged for Davis to travel to Romania, where she called marriage equality an attack on religious freedom and used her own story to urge voters in an upcoming national referendum to support a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman. Despite the fact that more than two dozen countries have embraced marriage equality, the argument that religious objections shoul…

A Brief History of Olympic Flames

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…lways have been, and probably always will be. The famous 2nd-century Roman travel writer, Pausanias, reported that the desiccated corpse of an armored hoplite was found in the rafters of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia when it was re-roofed, indicating that there were actually pitched battles waged inside the sanctuary in antiquity. The modern Olympics have also often been sucked into that same vortex, wittingly or no, in the short 108-year compass…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…3 were black. And shortly before our trip, the NAACP issued its first ever travel advisory for black people headed to Missouri over heightened police tensions and discrimination. Last month, when former police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted on charges of murdering black motorist Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011, St. Louis residents flooded the streets outside City Hall. They were soon confronted with police, and 80 of them were arrested. Some off…

NPR “Ex-Gay” Report Neither “Fair” Nor “Balanced”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…people for “therapies” that can destroy them psychologically, while buying tickets to Toscano’s shows might result in some good belly laughs, but no pressure to convert. What makes this story so shameful, though, is how the true message is completely glossed over in the pursuit of finding out who is “right” and who is “wrong.” Both Wyler and Toscano are Christian men who were given the message early on in their lives that being gay or lesbian was…

The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

…on to efforts to curb gun violence and to call out the bigotry in Trump’s travel ban and his deportation/wall-building schemes. But this is a mostly symbolic “me too” response (no offense here to a powerful #MeToo movement that arose with zero help from the religious quarter). The same with campaigns on climate change, homophobia, and sustained effective work against our thoroughly racist criminal in-justice system: banners waving, the religious…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…s worldwide still criminalize homosexuality, and it seems likely that this number will grow. There already are efforts to duplicate Russia’s anti-LGBT “propaganda” laws in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and there are attempts to emulate Nigeria and Uganda’s new laws in other African countries. With a single decision by the Indian Supreme Court in December, homosexuality was recriminalized in a nation home to 1.23 billion people. Dominoes are goi…