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Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…that it simply cannot ordain women because Jesus did not do so, that the “deposit of faith” does not include it, that the “unity of the church” will be broken, and various other theologically discredited notions. He does so with the patience and equanimity of someone who has been mouthing these same old ideas for some time, come what may. I can imagine that he might, at a later date, just as easily say, “As we have always and everywhere taught, i…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…d institutional Christianity to endure, direct revelation had to stop. The Deposit of Faith was complete with the death of Jesus’ apostles, eye-witnesses to his resurrection. Since then, individual believers may receive intimations of the divine through visions or by other means, but these are personal experiences with little or no meaning for the larger community of Christians. Still, as with other institutional policies on private behavior, chur…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…ly practiced) all still have variations on the same British anti-gay penal code. Yet, although EHT might explain the infiltration of law and official politics in colonized Muslim societies, it doesn’t explain precisely how colonial homophobia transformed the everyday cultures of ordinary Muslims. Consider the late nineteenth-century reformist Indian Muslim scholar, Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi. This religious luminary was hardly a member of the Anglici…

Religious, Spiritual, and “None of the Above”: How Did Mindfulness Get So Big?

By Nalika Gajaweera

…ategically employed a scientific language to translate Buddhist ideas into Western contexts. They did so to challenge European impressions of Buddhism as nihilistic, passive, superstitious and ritualistic. In embracing science, they positioned Buddhism as rational and centered on the individual. Moreover, the inviolable truths of Dharma embraced and surpassed Western science, making Buddhism superior to the colonial religion of Christianity. The p…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…verts his general appreciation for Christianity’s generic contributions to Western culture into a sectarian story. For Holland, the most consequential, yet paradoxical, image inscribed into the Western imaginary was that of the suffering, dying crucified Christ. By contrast, an imperious, triumphant risen lord (or Christ Pantokrator) dominated the religious imaginary of the Eastern Empire. This new Western focus on the suffering, crucified Christ…

Is Putin a ‘Real’ Christian? To Understand This Conflict We Need to Ask Different Questions

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and Robert Saler

…nknowable, sometimes even to the believer themselves. Furthermore, using a western (passively Protestant) conceptual framework for understanding Orthodox religiosity reenergizes longstanding orientalist assumptions about the political sophistication of Christianity outside of the West. The Western imagination is shaped by suspicion of Elmer Gantry-like appeals to religious sentiment for political gain. This, of course, takes place against the furt…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s. Vasadze’s vehement attack on the West “did not easily resonate with all Western conference-goers,” writes ErasiaNet’s Lomsadze, “who saw their gathering as designed to promote an evangelical message of Christian love and the need to fight ‘Satan’s lies’ to preserve the sanctity of a traditional family.” Georgia’s Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II welcomed what WCF says were “more than 2,000 delegates form more than 50 countries.” A WCF press release s…

In Russia It Is Now a Crime to Insult Someone’s Religious Feelings

By Chrissy Stroop

…readers than the Pussy Riot trial itself, which caused a sensation in the Western media. (In my opinion, the most nuanced coverage of the events associated with Pussy Riot can be found here, in a piece that I readily admit I wish I had written myself.) The protection of religious believers’ feelings has been enshrined in the Russian Civil Code for quite some time, but making it a criminal offense to insult the feelings of religious believers coul…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…ke Christianity or Islam, are generally understood, at least in our modern Western identity matrix, as matters of belief and conscience. What’s interesting is that anti-Semites consistently push Judaism toward the racial end of the pole. There’s a history of anti-Semites denying that Judaism is a religion (instead, it’s an ideology, or a legal code, or an international cabal), and emphasizing definitions of Judaism rooted in physical heritage. Thi…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ople think and remind the church that there are passages in the Bible that promote love.” Part of Kotlolo’s artillery in this bid were posters scrawled with Biblical text such as “Love thy neighbour as you love yourself” and “But he who loves God is known by God”. Another protester, Geoffrey Ogwaro, a human rights advocate specialising in LGBTI rights with the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law’s Centre for Human Rights, said: “We are saying th…