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Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he gay community is turning a blind eye to what is happening in the Middle East. When I marched in Pride Parades 35 years ago, we had bottles and rocks thrown at us. We were fighting for gay liberation, for equal rights. It’s great that equal rights have come our way, but we have to stand up for equal rights for gays in other countries. We have an obligation to look after our gay brothers and sisters, especially after what happened in Orlando.” La…

Unnatural Disaster: When Conservative Theology & The Free Market Meet Wildfires

By Paul Harvey

…tionate share of private and governmentally subsidized resources over (at least) the last two generations. An ethic derived both from nineteenth-century manifest destiny and twentieth-century suburban developmentalism provides a powerful impetus to the sprawl that has expanded locally, both eastward towards the great plains and westward into the foothills and fire zones. And that same ethic will spur prayers for, and the insistence on, rebuilding…

Bush’s Favorite Catholic Departs The Scene

By Peter Laarman

…number—the execrable Elliott Abrams—is still running our disastrous Middle East policy as Assistant Secretary of State). They also tried, unsuccessfully in this case, to discredit the anti-apartheid forces in South Africa and their allies here in the United States. They orchestrated a pretty effective pushback against affirmative action programs at every level and against ESL programs in the schools. Lots of them were involved in leading us into t…

Conventional Wisdom: RNC/DNC Giving God a Bad Name?

By Peter Laarman

…ically wrongheaded this is to the cause of justice and peace in the Middle East; that is quite obviously afraid to talk candidly about grinding poverty in America for fear of shattering the illusion that we’re all just middle-class folks about to recover fully from a GOP-induced hangover; and one that showcases Sr. Simone Campbell in prime time (“I AM my sister’s keeper, I am my brother’s keeper!”) but that also makes sure she adds that her critiq…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…ly undermining justice, supporting the destruction of the planet, and even promoting violence. Rooted in the values of religious freedom, pluralism and separation of church and state, it’s led by the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and Union Theological Seminary’s Kairos Center, which jointly sponsored the conference. Nosie, who now leads Apache Stronghold, an organization that seeks to “battle continued colonization, def…

Rick Warren Urges Ugandan Pastors to Speak Out Against Proposed Anti-Gay Law

By Sarah Posner

…m that even if he didn’t directly play a role in supporting the law or its promoters, he had a clear role to play in denouncing it, and much more quickly than he did. There’s no doubt he has a strong relationship with government, business, and religious leaders in Uganda, according to his own statements. So it would seem logical for people at least to think he would have some sway to denounce the proposed law as a brutal violation of human rights…

Right-Wing Religion, Anti-Globalism, Authoritarian Rule: America Catches Up With the Rest of the World

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…n ISIS a voice for their frustrations. The Sunni Arabs in western Iraq and eastern Syria had been alienated by their own governments in Baghdad and Damascus. They felt marginalized and humiliated by being left out, by not having a voice in their own countries. That brings us to the support of Trump. In a fast moving globalized world, there are a lot of people who are left out. They are left out of the global economy, and are picking through minimu…

Weeks After Turkey’s Failed Coup, Thousands Have Been Arrested Over a Book

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lled, for example, the Journalists and Writers Foundation, Dialogue Middle East, and the Entrepreneurs’ and Businesspeople’s Association. From what I could tell, these were independent service and professional networking organizations that were loosely affiliated with Hizmet but not directed by it. At least this was my impression—I do not profess to be an expert on the organization of the movement. I also visited one of the social service centers…

“Troublemaker” Women Honored, Receive Ivy

By Nadia Berenstein

…her resolve to combat widespread misconceptions about her religion, and to promote the forgiveness and peace that she sees at her faith’s center. As a member of the Lower East Side Girls’ Club and the Power of Peace Coalition, she has been instrumental in organizing young people of all backgrounds to work together for peace, bringing them to City Hall to bear witness to gang violence and violence against women in their communities. “Religion at it…

Jeff Sharlet’s Weird Religion, in 13 Chapters

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…lotted in the entanglements of the world. Resolution is not an option. At least, not a human option. “[T]he mountains for some people are not so much a promised land as a place to which to retreat, after the little wars of individual lives have been fought, lost, and run away from.” In lines like this one, Sharlet “emplots” religion by making spaces and things real to readers; gives them a plot of land. Life and love and religion are tangible, p…