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Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…It makes sense, then, that Americans know little about the harm that LGBTQ students experience in schools operated or influenced by the New Apostolic Reformation. In a political environment increasingly influenced by the NAR, hard-won legal protections for LGBTQ students (to say nothing of efforts to create new ones) are under serious threat. Secular education and democratic society itself has come under increasing attack fueled by NAR activists c…

LGBTQ Methodists on Whether the United Methodist Church Will Ever Affirm LGBTQ People

By Tris Mamone

…issues. “Part of this is because of our history,” says Methodist seminary student Rebecca. “We are a church that is the result of many years of church splits and mergers.” Rebecca, who goes by they/them pronouns, tells Religion Dispatches that, despite having the word “United” in the title, the UMC is a diverse denomination that formed from multiple separate denominations, and has churches throughout the world. Many news outlets suggest a major r…

Flouting SCOTUS, Religious Liberty Advocates “Give The Game Away”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…G.G. v. Glouchester County School Board, the landmark case regarding trans student access pending before the high court. Three amicus briefs filed by Liberty Counsel, National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (CCJ) referred to Grimm using female pronouns—as “her” rather than “him”—including in the formal titles of those briefs. That’s a problem for the Court, and a clerk pointedly told the anti-LGBTQ…

Did Religious Universities Just Get a License to Discriminate?

By Patricia Miller

…ress” is consistent with one’s birth sex, but perhaps after kicking out any transgender students they will go after women wearing pants or being too assertive. The Column notes that total enrollment at the affected schools is 80,000 students and that the institutions received $130 million in federal research grants and student aid last year. [An earlier version of this post incorrectly described Anderson University as a Baptist school. RD regrets…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…doubt that a start would have been not being able to count on one hand the number of Black children in my entire Christian school student-body. Do Black educators only exist in public schools? Of course not. Why then couldn’t we find more Black scholars to employ when it came to teaching children? I can tell you that I’ll recognize change as genuine when white preachers and ministers stop using Bible verses to pacify their white congregants by amp…

Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book

By Mary E. Hunt

…us to a fault, generous with her time and insights, and encouraging of her student colleagues to think for themselves outside the many boxes that litter academe. She is possessed of a rectitude they seek to emulate. Two such students, Marie M. Fortune and Kate Ott, are sterling examples of Margaret’s influence. Marie studied for the ministry at Yale Divinity School in the early 1970s. Encouraged by Margaret, she branched out beyond the parish to e…

Protest Greets the Honoring of Rev. H. Eddie Fox at Emory’s Candler School of Theology

By John Blevins

…ect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or a student’s academic performance.” As someone who has been part of Candler both as a student and as a professor, I know firsthand that the UMC position has exactly this kind of effect. It creates an environment where LGBT seminarians hide because they fear that district superintendents and bishops are policing their moves. It creates an environment in which professors who dis…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…fluence and nationalist far-right groups have grown more prominent. China: Student sues over textbook description of homosexuality as treatable disease A Chinese student has sued the Ministry of Education because textbooks in the college library defined homosexuality as a sickness, including a book published in 2013. China decriminalized consensual homosexual activity in 1997; the Chinese Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality and bisexuali…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…ts will now be attending schools that send these two religious messages to students every day.” “For students who don’t believe in God or have non-traditional concepts of a deity, this is a fundamental violation of their right of conscience,” Garrett added. “Government should be neutral in matters of religion and certainly should not be using public schools to tell young people that there is one God and they must trust that God.” “The message is…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…ent is unreturned, because she prefers the attention of a “a macho African student,” a “baboon.” Christopher Caldwell has also written a disquieting book, which anyone interested in Islam or Europe simply must read. As a columnist for the Financial Times, writer for the New York Times Magazine and senior editor at the Weekly Standard, Caldwell’s reactions to the global processes that have provoked massive population flows and undermined the hegemo…