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Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…raged homophobia. In 2012, a few members of parliament proposed a bill to “prohibit promotion of homosexuality,” fashioned after the notorious Russian laws against “gay propaganda,” but under pressure from human rights organizations and foreign diplomats, the bill never made it past the first reading and has now been permanently shelved. Ukrainian laws also make no explicit provision for protecting from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientat…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…itary campaign in Gaza, the Israeli consulate in New York hosted a Twitter press conference about it all, which included such profound reflections as “y Hamas launch missiles not peace?” It seemed like a strategy precisely calibrated to, in the eyes of the audience, minimize the seriousness of a serious event. So what about the Twitter Passion Play that Wall Street’s Trinity Church conducted on Good Friday? Is this yet another stab at the seriousn…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…mily is Muslim. Yet over almost four decades they have not rejected me, or prevented me from making my choice or from practicing. They have respected me, and I have respected them. Some are practicing Christians and, as I said, my father was a Methodist minister. It’s all in the family now, and so are our little bit of means. We help each other, visit each other, and celebrate transitions together: births, deaths, marriages, graduations, etc., eve…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…ge people to take a deep breath and a step back and look at some of the comprehensive immigration reform proposals on the table and the solutions they would offer to individuals they know who are the “good guys” who they want to help. This is a time when we have an opportunity to see positive change and fix a broken immigration system. More than anything, I hope people will take the time to think about immigration reform outside the highly polit…

Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice

By Peter Laarman

…costs. I say this because of assembly-line medicine’s dirty little secret: misdiagnosis. Someday someone is going to figure out that the aggregate cost of widespread misdiagnosis is greater than the aggregate cost of allowing a bit more of that precious private time between doctor and patient. Until that day comes, religious people who grasp the spiritual dimension of healing should be as vocal as possible about the urgency of doctors spending rea…

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…e you going? At a loss for what to do, I thought I should go to the Muslim prayer room on campus, where students, anxious and afraid, might gather for help. The subways were closed, and cell phone service had gone out. I had no other idea how to find my friends, no idea where else to go. At the very least, I thought I had a responsibility to the Muslim students on campus. (Then again, I really had no idea what to do. I just thought I had to do som…

Aliens Are Fattening Us Up For the Rapture

By Mark Hulsether

…Nations, a case for the U.S or Israel attacking Iran, and a pitch for the phone ministry 1-888-RAPTURE. Apparently the UFO issue got onto Lindsey’s radar screen because of reports that United Nations is paying attention to it, as discussed here. Lindsey offers a mass of evidence (quite disturbing if true) claiming sightings by military personnel who witnessed UFOs disarming nuclear weapons. In Lindsey’s interpretation, such disarmament fits a sim…

“Symbolic” Personhood Bill Could Kill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…mingly can’t be bothered to take five minutes and fifty bucks to find an appropriate platform for an ideological slogan, and instead want to impose a poorly-worded and almost-certainly-unconstitutional law that will sell police officers, rape victims, doctors, and women with life-threatening pregnancies up the river. Because they’re pro-life. And because our legislators seem confused about what is appropriate material for the legal code, and what…

Even Tougher Questions to Ask Mormon Presidential Candidates

By Joanna Brooks

…ctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises. And I care a lot if a candidate is going to be a Trojan horse for a sect that believes it has divine instructions on how we should be governed.” Amen. And amen. In addition to posing general questions for all candidates in the article—”Would you appoint a Muslim to the federal bench?” “Do you agree with those religious leaders who say that…

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

By Frederick Clarkson

…Dominion! How Kingdom Action Can Change the World, that “after Savonarola prayed and prophesied”: “The wicked city government [of Florence] was overthrown, and Savonarola taught the people to set up a democratic form of government. The revival brought tremendous moral change. The people stopped reading vile and worldly books. Merchants made restitution to the people for the excessive profits they had been making. Hoodlums and street urchins stopp…