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World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ivil servants who married same-sex partners abroad. Alfred Chan, the South China morning post reported that the chairman of Hong Kong’s Equal Opportunities Commission, said he thinks he “can do better in terms of fighting for the legal protection and rights of sexual and ethnic minorities. When 11 parents with gay sons and daughters tried to join a “marriage market” in a Shanghai public park where parents seek to find partners for their children,…

The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…that we have a mandate to “win the future,” which apparently means beating China or whatever the next great power may be. We have a national fixation on China; it’s not a coincidence that the scolding of Amy Chua, the self-professed “Chinese Tiger Mom,” about the weak parenting philosophy of middle-class Western parents, touched off waves of self-flagellation on the one hand and defensive rage on the other. Our national results might be interprete…

Conservative Christian Anti-Abortion Hero is Neither Christian nor Anti-Abortion

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…u, a Chinese-born Christian and close friend of Chen who heads Texas-based China Aid, which lobbies for religious freedom in China. Chen would not oppose “voluntary abortion,” Fu said, since Chen’s focus is on “the rule of law” – on making China a society that respects its own laws, which are routinely flouted, and on promoting the human rights and dignity of its citizens. Chen is a leading light in the weiquan, or rights protection movement, lega…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ot progress through stages. And curiously, no one so much as ever mentions China.) The Cord of Love Honoring God as worshiped in every tradition: this seems the central insight Jesus achieved already in his youth. When challenged as to which of the Ten Commandments was the greatest, according to Dowling’s gospel, Jesus refused the question: “I do not see a greatest of Ten Commands. I see a golden cord that runs through all the Ten Commands that bi…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…ept an ‘abstracted’ science? And what does abstract science do for us? The number of nuclear bombs used by the West outweighs the number used by the entire planet. Muslims did not invent nuclear weapons, nor have they used them. (Let’s pray that stands.) When Saddam Hussein was our ally, he unleashed chemical weapons on Kurds at Halabja, the only confirmed instance of a Muslim regime using chemical weapons. Even considering the possibility of Assa…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…the story, she returns home, opens Google India, and tracks down the phone number for the sweet shop her grandfather mentioned. Within seconds, she has called the store on her smart phone, and Yusuf’s grandson—who answers—has likewise opened Google to research visas for a reunion too long denied. We can understand the implications of this storyline by putting it into conversation with its longer historical context. The logic of the plot—that Googl…

Magic in the Air: How Intellectuals Invented the Myth of a Mythless Society

By Jason Josephson Storm

…on that gave birth to the academic disciplines. I’ve also uncovered that a number of famously “modern” intellectuals held unusual religious/spiritual beliefs that that their later followers and even critics tend to be unaware of—and might be pissed to discover/have exposed. Still, I’d rather be controversial than uphold a misguided status quo! What alternative title would you give the book? I had always meant for the title to be “The Myth of Disen…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…as a pro-Israel alternative to the long-dominant American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Despite Stutman’s optimism about synagogues as the locus for difficult conversations about American Judaism’s most contentious topic, few rabbis believe they are able to create a space where conversations can take place without participants’ fear of recrimination. Rabbis are “terrified” of talking about Israel, said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…paign: A National Call for Moral Revival and Union Theological Seminary’s Kairos Center, which jointly sponsored the conference. Nosie, who now leads Apache Stronghold, an organization that seeks to “battle continued colonization, defend Holy sites and freedom of religion,” thanked Campaign co-chairs Rev. William Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis for what he called “the opportunity.” “The reason I say opportunity is because I believe we have ne…

Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

By Mary E. Hunt

…ost other Christian denominations have done with good results. My own deep reservations about the women’s diaconate come from its very nature as a recipe for a woman’s job in a patriarchal culture. Surely it shores up the current system to have women handling all of the everyday work—visiting the sick, caring for children, helping the abused, teaching religious education, which they do already—so that the men can get on with the preaching, teachin…