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Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…ral needs of millennials (aka “digital natives”), many congregations are designing new buildings and retrofitting old ones to be used seven days a week instead of just on Sunday, and for many more purposes than congregational worship. Seattle arts booster Nathan Marion is a vanguard in the creative use of sacred space. In 2005 he assisted the city’s tiny Church of the Apostles in transforming the former St. Paul’s Lutheran Church into a vibrant pe…

Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…pundits and pollsters.) But some are becoming more circumspect in light of significant membership losses and institutional belt-tightenings of their own. Dorhauer takes the losses in stride, even in grief. He sees around him “a mature faith that refuses to see death as the last word,” That’s one reason why even a diminishing UCC will likely continue to powerfully shape American Christianity and culture. That, and the fact that the UCC wields consi…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…awaiting trial, for a rainbow-themed paint job that the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Vice charged was promoting “emblems of homosexuality.” Taiwan: Marchers hope for marriage equality in near future Reuters reported that on July 11, “[t]housands of gay rights supporters marched through Taipei…months ahead of elections that are likely to usher in a pro-gay party and could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marria…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…OUP did a wonderful job. The bright pink evokes Gran Fury’s Silence=Death sign, which became a symbol of AIDS activism in the 1980s and 90s, especially the work of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which is the basis of one of my chapters. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? One of my favorite books in the field is Leigh Schmidt’s Hearing Things, which is historically and theoretically rich in addition…

The Sacred and the Dead: Deadheads Are Not a Deviant Subculture

By Deborah J. Baiano Berman

…e morning comes, it’ll do you fine. Till the morning comes, like a highway sign, Showing you the way, leaving no doubt, Of the way on in or the way back out. ~ “Till the Morning Comes” A long time ago in a faraway land, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Deadheads. My thesis was that Deadheads were the embodiment of moral community worthy of notice and an example of how community—as Jean-Jacques Rousseau understood it—can be achieved in a society…

Religious Right Reax to SCOTUS: “A Spiritual 9/11”

By Peter Montgomery

…d by the hopeful, and then celebratory, pro-equality crowd. People carried signs identifying themselves as “Baptists for Marriage Equality” and “Catholics for Equality.” A person wearing a T-shirt from DC’s Wesley Theological Seminary carried a sign declaring, “As Christians, we are called to EVERYONE.” Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion includes only a short reference to the religious liberty battles that are bound to come. Kennedy writes…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…unselor, had been there all along, paying attention and flashing the peace sign with his long, aging hippie hair and Hush Puppies. It just took the right words at the right time for Lindsay to notice. “Maybe you’re tired and broken?” Rosso asks Lindsay as she slouches and cringes. “Your tongue half-twisted with words half-spoken and thoughts unclear? What do you want me to do? To do for you, to see you through?” “Why are you talking like that,” sh…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…centage will likely drop later on, the paper notes. Still, the numbers are significant, said Stonewall Scotland director Colin Macfarlane. “The fact that nearly 500 same-sex couples have married since January shows just how important equal marriage is to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people,” he told the Daily Record. “There can be no denying that the policy of equal marriage has been a huge success.” It will take at least two years to change…

What Should Truly Disturb Us About Game of Thrones’ Child Sacrifice

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…itics infer that Bat-Jephthah knows the stakes of the game: she has seen a sign of mourning in her father’s rent garments, and she laments her own demise. Still, I wonder. Did she know the pain of her fate? Did she, like Shireen, scream upon her pyre? I wish it were harder to draw analogies between Shireen’s fictional burning and the fires of reality. I wish that Weiss’ quote did not, for me, evoke the #blacklivesmatter campaign. I wish that Kalie…

Scalia on Muslim Beard Case: “Religious Beliefs Aren’t Reasonable”

By Kara Loewentheil

…that his very willingness to help reach a satisfactory accommodation is a sign that his dedication to his religion is insufficient to justify an accommodation. Is the idea that only the most inflexible and rigid should be deemed religiously committed enough to receive an accommodation–even though they are those least likely to accept being accommodated rather than absolutely exempted? In other words, if we require purity of religious devotion we…