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Federal Appeals Court Finds Wisconsin School’s Transphobic Policy Unconstitutional Days Before Plaintiff Graduates

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ity. Although the school district tried to claim that its policy requiring students to use the facilities that correspond with their sex assigned at birth treated male and female students the same way—thus satisfying the Equal Protection requirement—the court would have none of it. “This is untrue,” Williams wrote. “Rather, the School District treats transgender students like Ash, who fail to conform to the sex‐based stereotypes associated with th…

Dear President Bush

By Jimmy McCarty

…. (Ahhhh…what goes on in the mind of a biracial kid at a high school where students are called “a bunch of thugs” by the students at more “well to do” schools while also attending a conservative church!) See, I was for affirmative action and helping single mothers, but I knew abortion was the most important issue there was and you were the “pro-life” candidate, not that “Slick Willy” chump Al Gore. So, I had your back. After graduating I began wor…

“Profound Delight in Being”: Remembering John Hick

By Amir Dastmalchian

…es leave one with the impression that Hick was a man who had affected even students and friends who disagreed with him; he had trained himself to take wisdom from whichever religious tradition he found it in, to be closed to dogmatism, and to be open to experiencing manifestations of that greater reality. At the service the Rev. Alan Race spoke about two powerful religious experiences, occurring as bookends, at opposite ends of Hick’s adult life….

What the Ferguson Protests Mean for Religious Progressive Activism

By Shannon Craigo-Snell

…the Ferguson Police Department. One of the officers placed his hand on my student’s chest and shoved. As David stumbled backwards, I said to the officer, “Please don’t hurt him. He is my student.” The officer looked me in the eye and replied, “I didn’t touch him.” David was unhurt, but I staggered at the bold-faced lie. It is a tiny instance of falsehood in a moment when we are swimming in a sea of deception and spin. Everywhere around us we are…

Another Important Defection From the Russian Patriarchate Looms — The Fate of Orthodoxy in the West Hangs in the Balance

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ld) modern thinkers, among them Father Alexander Schmemann, who was both a student and teacher at the Institute. In 1951, Fr. Schmemann came to the United States to teach at St. Vladimir’s Theological Seminary. The seminary (known as St. Vlad’s to virtually everyone), like St. Sergius, was founded by refugees from the Bolsheviks and is the second oldest Orthodox seminary in the United States, second only to the Greek Orthodox-run Holy Cross Theolo…

What Get Religion Doesn’t Get About “Monk” Class

By Anthea Butler

…religious affiliation and has many religious traditions represented in its student body. In the course Living Deliberately, students are required to follow modes of awareness that are shared practices across many religious traditions, including food, sexuality, listening, and spending. Along with a class partner, students abide by rules for each awareness point during the semester, and journal their progress. Their days are ordered. Class time is…

But What Did We Learn? Hate-Watching the First Clinton/Trump Debate

By Candace E. West

…he hoped maybe he’d lose younger, undecided voters by saying he’d “jack up student loan rates or burn down Urban Outfitters or something.”) But there were a couple of more positive less-resigned responses. KW in New Orleans said she’d be “watching to see how persuasive Hillary [would] be to the voters who are considering party hopping, but aren’t totally sold on her,” and in the hopes that Clinton would “acknowledge the BLM movement.” Still, CW fe…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…might not be workable and risks creating two classes of marriage. Israel: Student stabbed at pride parade dies; member of Knesset comes out A 16-year old high school student who was stabbed by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man during the Jerusalem pride parade, an attack we wrote about last week, has died from her injuries. According to the Jerusalem Post, “The family called for ‘a little less hate and a lot more love,’ and announced that it had decid…

Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics

By Kaya Oakes

…tholic faith influences her work. Partially as a response to the dwindling number of young Catholics, the campus ministry group FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students), similarly to Opus Dei, sends missionaries – many of whom are recent college graduates themselves — out to secular college campuses, where they run bible studies and other group activities. A version of the FOCUS handbook on Wikileaks emphasizes adherence to church teachi…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…oman Catholicism. Among the traits of the Catholic Church that attract TKC students—and indeed many young evangelicals at large—are its history, emphasis on liturgy, and tradition of intellectualism. Lucas Croslow was one such student to whom these and other attributes of Catholicism appealed. This past spring, graduating from The King’s College was not the only major change in Croslow’s life, he was also confirmed into the Catholic Church. Croslo…