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Religion and Reality TV: Is God Watching?

By Kent L. Brintnall

…. At the finale show, his grandmother was in the audience, quite proud of Fairplay’s wiliness and cunning. Even the other contestants applauded Fairplay’s ingenuity; many of them expressing the sentiment that they wished they had thought to do something similar. But they were not forgiving of dishonesty per se. That same season, contestant Lillian Morris chose to wear her Boy Scout troop leader uniform. She was skewered by her fellow contestants f…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iving together. Some have short hair, acting as the males. Some have long hair, acting as the females. It’s against sharia [Islamic law]. It’s obscene.” The group had been renting a shared house in the village of Tugu Jaya, where their cohabitation and “unfeminine” appearance had unsettled conservatives. Responding to a complaint from religious leaders and an Islamic youth group that the women’s living arrangements was “against the teaching of Isl…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…schools, if implemented here, would lead to drug and alcohol abuse, and a number of other ills, including higher rates of sexuality transmitted diseases, because children were being introduced to sexual perversions in order to turn them into little sexual deviants. The paper quotes Donnya Piggott, head of Barbados Gays and Lesbians Against Discrimination, saying: “I thought that the Church was completely out of touch with the people. And if you w…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…your life openly is the biggest hurdle to overcome for British Muslims, Claire, a 28-year-old Birmingham-based Muslim convert, says it’s only the beginning of the struggle. “As an LGBT Muslim, I face discrimination in the gay community. They say I cannot be gay and Muslim but I can. No one can judge you for who you are – you decide that.” Claire also observes this hostility within the Muslim community. Recently engaged to her partner, she says sh…

Make no Mistake, if There’s a War Between Russia and Ukraine, it Will be a Religious War

By Katherine Kelaidis

…. Modern Russia also has designs on Africa, where it seeks to compete with China and the Western powers for influence on a continent of natural resources and growing markets. And there’s little doubt that Russia has, in recent years, sought increasingly to use the Russian Orthodox Church as an instrument of foreign influence: in Ukraine, Serbia, Western Europe, and the United States. A tactic only made possible by the Patriarchate of Moscow’s desi…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…ge and looks up at the rest of the writers who are on the edges of their chairs, awaiting his judgment. “Good news,” he says. “It’s shit.” Unfortunately your friend Mr. Manseau’s book does not fit into that category. My God! How could he! The Butcher’s Daughter is delirious. I will have to outdo myself for a blurb. Considering posing it in the form of a letter to the Elders of Zion in which I say what I have to say and wonder what we must do. The…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…his “team”) had met at a motel in Modesto, California. Worried about Sinclair Lewis’s Elmer Gantry caricature of itinerant preachers, Graham asked his associates to consider the pitfalls that had discredited earlier revivalists and to propose ways to avoid those perils. After prayer and discussion, they decided on several principles: their salaries would be fixed by the organization, not a portion of the offerings; they would never criticize any…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…conversation about anything from gender to science—climate change, Russia, China, and a thousand other things beside, just because of some admittedly very dangerous but equally not very sophisticated terrorists. Or, like someone said to me after one of my book readings, “I thought you were going to be Hamas.” Seriously? Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? My life kind of crashed and burned when I hit 32. Outwardly, everything wa…

SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree

By Dianna Anderson

…skills; the second is that men and women work best together in a marital pair, in their complementary roles and strengths; and, third, that women are to submit to their husbands as head of the household and natural leader. This complementarianism is a guiding principle in the evangelical gospel, and as such grounds everything about God into heterosexual, cisgender marriage and family. But, as any close observer of evangelicalism since its booming…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…articles—one for each youth—on protecting, respecting, and establishing a number of things. But if you had listened carefully, everything would have started to sound a bit off. The text being read was in fact not the 1989 human rights treaty but instead “A Declaration on the Rights of Children and Their Families: A Call From the Children of the World.” The subject of the event was not as the protection of children as such but the “protection of t…