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Just What Kind of Revolution is Francis Calling For?

By Silvia Alves Fernandes

…but not a shot of cachaça [a popular hard liquor].” Without essentializing Brazilian culture, anthropologists such as Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Roberto DaMatta have observed that Brazilians value very highly informality, the personal touch, the affective force and cordiality of friendship and kinship ties, and the intimacy of home as a space of human warmth, authenticity and safety against the competitive, impersonal, and cold world of the str…

Will Francis’ Statements on Women and Gays ‘Make a Mess’ Inside the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…itutional church will permit much of it remains to be seen. In a speech to Brazilian leaders gathered at the Municipal Theatre (Rio de Janeiro, 27 July 2013) Pope Francis spoke about social problems. He advised the civic leaders to “dialogue, dialogue, dialogue” as the most effective way to deal with the injustices that set off large-scale demonstrations in Brazilian cities earlier this year. He noted that this is how democracy works, though he de…

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…can Party’s path is historian Heather Cox Richardson’s argument in How the South Won the Civil War, that while the South technically lost the Civil War they’ve actually long won the PR-war fought in the aftermath, in memory culture—from the prevalence of the “Lost Cause” myth to the image of the cowboy holding a torch for rugged Western individualism and “States’ Rights” used by Goldwater and Reagan, to the image of the South as a peaceful society…

Mitt Learns to Say “Y’all” as Primary Heads South

By Joanna Brooks

…ellum South (2011). Tell me about the history of Mormonism in the American South. Mormon missionaries went to the South within a couple of years of the founding of the LDS Church in 1830, so there have been Mormons in the South from the earliest years of the Mormon movement. Of course, a lot of Southern converts picked up and moved westward to Utah in the late 1840s and 1850s. And the LDS missionary program shut down in the American South during t…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f Catholic organizations, including natural family planning organizations. South Africa: “Open Mosque” Generates Threats; Leaders Shrink from LGBTI Human Rights Advocacy Today a mosque in South Africa will invite men and women, people of different strains of Islam, and openly LGBTI people to worship together. Its founder calls it South Africa’s first gender-equal, non-sectarian and interracial mosque. Not everyone is welcoming it opening. Despite…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…te segregation and economic favoritism. When I spoke with Rothstein on the phone, he underscored the long-term effects of this last policy. During the 1940s and 1950s, suburban subdivisions were built in St. Louis, and throughout the country, using federal loans stipulating that no homes be sold to African Americans. Priced at about $125,000 in today’s dollars, these were affordable—with a mortgage—to working class families, black or white. Yet bl…

Can a Greek Monastery Be Ground Zero of Global Financial Meltdown?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Paleologos. After some confused negotiating, the monastery’s title to the lake was confirmed by the Greek state in 1998. Then things turned strange. The monks at Vatopaidi sought to make a deal, trading what was for their purposes a worthless lake that generated no income into commercial (or at least commercializeable) real estate that would. By the time they had finished with their full-court press in Athens, the monks at Vatopaidi had been awa…

Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…active in Asia, Australia, Canada, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Africa, South America, Ukraine and the US. CIGN envisions the church as “God’s instrument to establish and extend God’s Kingdom until the literal coming of Christ to reign over all the earth.” Towards this end, CIGN believes that “God has entrusted the church the solemn Biblical responsibility of being the conscience of society, culture and government” and therefore i…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…active in Asia, Australia, Canada, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Africa, South America, Ukraine, and the US. CIGN envisions the church as “God’s instrument to establish and extend God’s Kingdom until the literal coming of Christ to reign over all the earth.” Towards this end, CIGN believes that “God has entrusted the church the solemn Biblical responsibility of being the conscience of society, culture and government” and therefore…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…erican Episcopalian guides drove East from Denver to Louisiana, up through South Carolina to Washington DC. ______________________ RD: A number of American human rights experts have said that the killing and forced displacement of the Ngok Dinka people from Abyei in May, and their replacement by the Arab, northern-aligned Misseriya, constitutes “ethnic cleansing.” Is ethnic cleansing part of what is happening in Kadugli? Since 1983, many Nuba peo…