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A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…So was Mother Emmanuel AME. So are the drone attacks on civilian homes in Afghanistan. So is the carpet-bombing of cities. But we have empirical proof that the Southern slave and Jim Crow states, where the great majority of African Americans and many Latinos live, are ripe for a new Southern Human Rights Moral Strategy. This new demographic in the South feels a deepening need for relief from the pain caused by extremist politicians who vote again…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s Prepare Shelters for Gay Refugees and Migrants NBC News reports that LGBT groups in Germany are preparing shelters for gay refugees and migrants in the wake of reports of violence, including rape, against migrants from Iraq and Syria, “where ISIS militants are targeting or killing homosexuals.” Afghanistan: Petition Calls for Legal Protections for Religious, Sexual Minorities A change.org petition is calling for changes in the laws of Afghanista…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…hose lives have been damaged or destroyed by American military actions. In Afghanistan, the US required Navy Chaplains to give Koran lessons to citizens in an effort to cultivate particular understandings of Islam. A program called Voices of Religious Tolerance had US Marines taking Afghan elders and politicians from Helmand Province on a “collaborative influence program” tour to Amman, Jordan to learn about “life in a religiously tolerant country…

Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians

By Bradley Onishi

…sters they looked at me in disbelief. Despite my reasoning that the war in Afghanistan was leading to the deaths of innocent people and that more support for the poor, for single parents, and for education all seemed to align with Jesus’ message, my spiritual elders always repeated the refrain back to me: abortion is murder. Alone in the booth, the billowing voices and squeaky sneakers on the wood floor and exasperated sighs from nearby voters fel…

The ‘Fake Christian’ Deflection and Contrarian Concern Trolling: How Not to Write about Evangelical Authoritarianism

By Chrissy Stroop

…observers’ eyes. In addition, with the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and the rapid takeover of the country by the Taliban, white evangelicals’ status as the most anti-immigrant, anti-refugee religious demographic in the United States is receiving renewed attention. https://twitter.com/socofthesacred/status/1427973457703211012?s=20 With respect to Afghan refugees specifically, it should be noted that the National Association of Ev…

Why Obama for the Nobel? A Nudge? A Reminder?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ly what political message was intended. It is, he argues, an anti-surge-in-Afghanistan award.. Maybe. I’m less certain of how to read this decision as there are many ways to go. And perhaps a quick survey of several recent Nobel Peace Prize recipients who were also political figures may offer a longer historical view of the matter. Surely the most dramatic award in recent memory was the 1978 decision to recognize two men: Anwar al-Sadat and Menach…

Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…ground sustained arguments in favor of ongoing military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; domestic spying programs; and the adoption of policies like the one that recently invoked to deny Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a reading of his Miranda Rights. Binary formulations, regardless of content, erase complexity. When we cast the Tsarnaev brothers as “the worst elements of our communities” who should be “separated from the rest,” we have desensitize…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…et how important this war, coming after the Soviet Union’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent implosion, was for radical Islam’s vile narrative. When bin Laden issued his first statement after we went to war with the Taliban in 2001, he drew a line connecting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Serbian war on Bosnia, and then connected the latter with the United Nations in a vast conspiracy against Muslims—that was why, he said, UN…

Is Army’s New “Humanist” Designation Just Semantic Hooey?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ather than “Agnostic,” “Atheist,” “no religious preference,” or “none”—the codes previously approved by the Army Chaplaincy for service members with non-religious beliefs and practices. The new faith code is significant in a number of ways. First, for Bradley and Humanist service members, it means that their existential disposition and associated practices are designated in their military records with language not shaped primarily in opposition to…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…is may be the first time news has broken of women being arrested under the codes’ prohibition on lesbianism in Malaysia, said Justice for Sisters’s Thilaga Sulathireh. Scotland: Clergy Leaving Church of Scotland; LGBTs Debate Leaving UK The Scotsman reports this week that two more clergy members have left the Church of Scotland in protest of the denomination’s “continuing drift” from the Bible, including the naming of gay clergy. They have applied…