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U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lity, blasphemy, adultery, and apostasy. We do not consider such conduct appropriate for criminalization.” OutRight Action International’s Jessica Stern supported this explanation: “There’s been some misreporting and misconceptions,” Stern told NBC News. “The U.S. always opposes this death penalty resolution, because it makes reference to a global moratorium on the death penalty. For both Obama and Trump, so long as the death penalty is legal in t…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…e nation’s capital. That passersby appeared to ignore the protesters was appropriate: Occupy DC, after all, has settled in the heart of K Street, the eponym for the corruption of our politics with big corporate money. But for Micah Bales, an Occupy DC participant known for his Quaker activism, the group is not so much occupying McPherson Square as “holding space for the 99% to come and gather.” There was, notably, no drum circle, which has become…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ter Scott, who was gunned down by a police officer in North Charleston on April 4, just one day after the suspected Emanuel shooter, Dylann Roof, reportedly received a gun as a 21st birthday gift from his father. Pinckney was speaking in support of body cameras for police officers, as the only reason we know what happened to Walter Scott is because a bystander filmed it with his phone. In making his plea, Pinckney invoked the biblical story of Dou…

Facebook, Twitter, and the Death of Body Language

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ing for a technology purge. I’m simply noting that technology comes with a price, and this price has something of a postmodern twist. By this I mean that tweeting and other high-tech modalities of exchange send information about happenings, attitudes, feelings, and events—but in a way that disconnects life moments from bodies. We, through our dependency on quick pieces of information, are dispersed and outside our bodies. Life developments become…

A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…have tormented black female subjects for centuries. In addition, she re-appropriated the material markers of the packaged “Badu.” Thus, while she needs to be watched and desired, at minimum for her career to thrive, going forward it will be on her terms. I personally find this web of complex representations liberating. “Window Seat” acknowledges the power of and pleasure within the gaze while simultaneously transcending the violence of the former…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…t Director for Kansans For Life, a non-sectarian organization that first approached pro-life legislators about introducing a clinic licensing bill. Gittrich became involved in the pro-life movement in 1980, after a friend insisted he watch a film about abortion. “He would not let me say ‘no’ to his invitation,” Gittrich recalled in an email, “even to the point of driving 20 miles to pick me up and take me to the showing. I was working to build a p…

From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside

By Joseph Laycock

…imagine where the boundary is that separates “normal” Catholic belief and practice from deviant belief and practice. Most people take these definitional boundaries for granted. But the truth is that these boundaries are socially constructed and have always been contested. What we imagine as normative is actually the result of a conflict in which one party seized the power to define what normal is. I see the story of the Baysiders as a struggle to…

Lessons Learned this Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…tice. This year, I learned that as we get older, our capacity for even the prescribed worship might change. There were more people in chairs for prayer than I remember in the past, and I had to take one myself for one of the tarawih. I finally finished the Qur’an reading I had started last year and decided that now I’m at the point where it will take two years to read through. To be merciful with our aging is like Allah’s mercy with those parents:…

Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…body politic or regulates, measures, evaluates, and indeed judges what is proper or improper, what is acceptable or suspicious citizenship. It is this idol, the idol of the “American god,” that is the symbolic figure Zimmerman identified himself with and in relationship to which he judged Trayvon Martin as, in effect, religiously wanting—wanting in proper citizenship, and ultimately wanting in humanity. That Zimmerman is Latino should not distrac…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…And nobody can deny the convenience of ready access to information, maps, phone numbers, calendars, and social satisfaction that our reliance on technology provides. Technology is a tool, right? It doesn’t change who we are, right? It doesn’t blind us—it reveals reality by connecting us and showing us the world via our screens… right? Look, I know that our new imaginative, mediated work is doing good. I know people can feel a real sense of empowe…