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Catholic Bishops’ Theological Mistakes on Abortion Come at a High Price

By Mary E. Hunt

…ttle girl was denied local medical attention on a technicality. She had to travel a great distance which meant that her pregnancy was further along by the time she actually had the abortion. People gathered outside the hospital to express their views in favor of and against the procedure. An anti-abortion advocate, who had worked in President Bolsonaro’s Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, revealed the child’s name in the press. Her young…

What Do Islamophobes Have in Common with the Taliban?

By John Feffer

…have monumental impact. Greenblatt tells a great story and also manages to travel effortlessly between the micro and the macro. What’s your next book? I’ll be starting an Open Society fellowship in September that will bring me back to Eastern Europe to track down the 250 people I interviewed in the region in 1990. I plan to write a book about the experience of re-interviewing these intellectuals, activists, and academics, and how their individual…

Orlando Tragedy and the Tangled History of Jihad and Homosexuality

By Ali Olomi

…art like Ingre’s Grande Odalisque depicted concubines in pleasure houses. Travel accounts like that of CS Sonnini disapprovingly noted, “It is not for women their ditties are composed: it is not on them that tender caresses are lavished; far different objects inflame them.” According to historian William G. Clarence-Smith, “Many secular Westerners perceived homosexuality as evidence of primitive survivals or biological decay. Such notions influen…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…eeds no middle man, no priest to intercede… (28: 16-22). On it goes. Jesus travels onward to Tibet (though curiously enough, “in Lassa he did not teach” The Aquarian Gospel 36:10, and as I say, he never sets foot in China). Instead, Jesus doubled back on Persia. He was only twenty-four years old, and the Magi who had recognized him as an infant rejoiced in his maturity. And only now, here in Persia for some reason, he begins to be a healer as well…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

Pope Francis Brokers End to Cuba Embargo, Despite Opposition of Catholic Pols

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ignation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism; and increasing commerce, travel, and the free flow of information on the island. The spirit of these changes is guided by the principle that “Isolation has not worked; It’s time for a new approach.” This approach is engagement. Obama also highlighted the sentiment, shared by many, that the embargo has not worked. Earlier this year Pope Francis, a key player in these negotiations, issued a personal…

Pentecostal Scholars Call for Academic Freedom

By Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh

…Ivy League perches—they write for, talk to, and meet with spiritual fellow travelers rather than risk being taken to task for being too narrow, too confessional, and too parochial. Pentecostal scholars need to own their work, their musings, their critical insights; they can not hide under the comfort of evangelical gentility, nor can they abandon the life of the mind that they have fought so hard to attain. I have done my best to convey that I bel…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ments, a “bad hombre”—a Brown man—crawling through a broken window while a traveling salesman is away. Which is also the sort of fascinating riff, the traveling salesman. Do these still exist? I think the last time I heard of a traveling salesman was when I was 13 and I found this magazine by the river. It’s the pornography and the fantasy life that he grew up on. It’s about what could happen, right? It could be sexual, it could be violent. It cou…

The Ghosts and Illusions of the Occupation

By Sarah Posner

…and their leaders to stridently march through Arab neighborhoods with megaphones through which they shout nationalist slogans, hailing their sovereignty over the streets. “These Jerusalemites,” Mort goes on, “have existed as ghosts to the majority of Israeli Jews and American Jews who don’t usually travel east of the holy basin in the Old City and who have no conception of Arab Israelis’ daily lives or desires.” (emphasis mine) Tariq isn’t a ghos…

An Historic Meeting: African and African Diaspora Women Convene in Ghana for First-Ever Religion Conference

By Rosetta E. Ross

…ica motivated by the Civil Rights Movement were waning by the time I first traveled to the continent in 1982, but that trip provided a chance to experience firsthand and to connect intellectually and emotionally with the land of my ancestry. Liberation theology provided the opportunity to explore intellectual connections of my identity as an African-descended woman, my commitments to ideals of the US Civil Rights Movement, and my understanding of…