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‘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…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…l rounds into the front door. No one was hurt. • July 4, 1886, Charleston, South Carolina. During Sunday school, Emma Connelly shot and killed John Steedley for “circulating slanderous reports” about her, even though her brother publicly whipped him a few days earlier. • April 12, 1887 Watertown, New York. Edwin Bush, a student a the Potsdam Normal School committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. • June 12, 1887 Cleveland, Tennessee. Will…

Episcopal Church Removes Bishop Who Split Following LGBT Inclusion Vote

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rical status and spiritual authorities comes after his announcement of the South Carolina Diocese’s disassociation with the Episcopal Church in November. “We have moved on,” he declared in an address at a special convention at which members of the Diocese voted to sever its ties to the Episcopal Church. The Diocese’s departure follows the Triennial General Convention’s decision last July to affirm access to ministry to transgender Episcopalians i…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…e security checkpoint and duty-free shops. Like an enormous breaker at the beach, the crowd threatened to sweep up virtually everybody in the terminal. I was first stunned, then joined others in crouching between the benches. I waited there until an official-looking man in plain clothes told us to empty the terminal. People began running in panic, dropping their belongings as they ran. We went down a staircase and waited outside for a while, befor…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…ur audience. This oversize sample inadvertently gives away the credit card number of some eight-five million men, most of whom live in Egypt. ⬆ Earlier on this day, I saw a South Asian gentleman crossing an eight-lane highway while drinking a cup of tea out of a white ceramic mug. He took his time, pausing between lanes to let cars whiz by (at roughly 70 miles per hour) and took measured sips to pass the time, enjoying his hot and fresh caffeina…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…cost of true discipleship. The price it was called upon to pay was all too cheap…We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale; we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition…Was there ever a more terrible and disastrous instance of Christianizing the world than this? It’s regrettable, I think, that “cheap grace” has turned into a kind of meme that Rod Dreher can toss into his debate with Andrew Sullivan without…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…enewed conflict in two distinct regions on the border between Northern and Southern Sudan; Northern troops have re-occupied Abyei, contested territory neither side wants to give up, while nearby, in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, the Sudanese army is bombing airstrips and blockading roads, cutting off food supplies to pressure separatist militias to disarm. “All of these people, they are fighting. They are firing. They are boiling inside,”…

How (Not) to React to Anti-Mormon Sentiment in the South

By Joanna Brooks

…few months ago: winning in the South. Romney is now up by double-digits in South Carolina, the first primary south of the Mason-Dixon line. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard LDS people say that a Mormon candidate like Romney could “never win in the South” owing to historically deep-seated anti-Mormon prejudice. (For a refresher course on the roots of that prejudice, please see this interview with religion historian Patrick Mason here at R…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…a random sample size and therefore isn’t statistically representative. The number of individuals reporting victimization in Episcopal spaces is alarming nonetheless. However, I would argue the data is more likely to under- than to overestimate the scope of the abuse that occurs. To see why, the survey results must be interpreted in light of the Episcopal Church’s larger culture of inaction around sexual violence. See no evil, hear no evil… LGBTQ+…

Challenging Plantation Capitalism: Rev. Barber’s Holy Cause

By Tefere Gebre

…of the Old South but a genuine progressive heritage that produced in North Carolina the South’s finest public universities, paved roads, and established public libraries at a time when so many of the other states of the South made private wealth and public squalor their operating principle. In his new book and in his interview here in Religion Dispatches, Rev. Barber asks us to imagine the future of the South through the framing of a Third Reconst…