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Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…utation while in Dallas. He is now charged with merging and managing the many offices now formed into the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, a central focus of which will be the reception of Amoris Laetitia. He could greatly impact how the church responds to and pastorally cares for LGBT Catholics and their families in the many global contexts in which the church exists. Worth noting, too, are the affirming words from Belgian Archbishop Jozef…

Wild Goose Festival’s (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians

By Kristin Rawls

…opportunity, raising her hand a few minutes into her set and asking, “Did anyone here not know that I’m a lesbian?” Referring to the condemnation she has received from some Christians, and noting that her “Facebook ‘likes’ go down every time I say anything gay,” Knapp told her audience, “My family has been far less understanding about why I persist in my faith than why I persist in my love. I know that some of you might get up and walk out. That’s…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…er the pope replaced the leader of the diocese, Bishop Mario Oliveri. Germany: Some Merkel allies to push for marriage equality A January poll by the federal anti-discrimination agency found that 83 percent of Germans support marriage equality, but opposition by conservative Christian Democrats and Prime Minister Angela Merkel have to date limited legal recognition for same-sex couples for civil unions. According to Deutsche Welle, there’s a renew…

Make no Mistake, if There’s a War Between Russia and Ukraine, it Will be a Religious War

By Katherine Kelaidis

…, the Patriarch of Constantinople has moved toward the West and arguably many of its values. Today’s incumbent on the Apostolic Throne of St. Andrew speaks the language of human rights, religious freedom, and trust in science. This position arises in no small part from the Patriarchate’s own precarious role as a representative of minority religion in Turkey. At the same time, the Patriarch of Moscow, having reclaimed much of his post’s former poli…

Kosher Quinoa or Human Rights: Guess Which Dominated Passover Stories

By Shalom Goldman

…s the spiritual and political meanings of the holiday—are overlooked. As many scholars have noted, the biblical injunction to respect the stranger in your land, “because you were strangers in the Land of Egypt,” is much more frequently repeated in the Bible than the injunction against eating unleavened bread. An Israeli group working to honor the ‘stranger,’ Rabbis for Human Rights, has just published its Human Rights Supplement to the Seder. This…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…ed pristinely unchanged from the faith preached by Muhammad, no more than any faith can remain frozen for a millennium and more; even in Gibbon’s day, its local diversity, and the multitude of doctrines and customs that grew from its original creed, rivaled anything in Christendom. Islam was not exempt from bloody schisms; its intramural wars could be just as devastating as the Christians’. Islam did lack the hierarchy of the Catholics, but stoppi…

Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)

By Peter Laarman

…within the movement against usurious college lending. A rapid fade-out of any anxiety about gender identification or anything related to fluid sexuality (e.g., I have been impressed by the number of youth in the Black Lives movement who are both Jesus-identified and queer-identified). The easy acceptance among the young of sexual and gender diversity also means that remaining images and remaining worship language reflecting a gendered deity—God th…

Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…parochial American foreign policy commentators. (Yes, I’m aware of the irony.) Many of us are of the opinion that we can act in violation of international law, because the rules that bind other, lesser peoples are merely “guidelines” for us. (The Jack Sparrow School of International Parley.) But, of course, what happens when people use our very same arguments against our interests? Iraqi Govt doesn’t get a veto. This is about our national sec…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ew an important distinction between America and Europe on this question. Many youth in Germany and Poland have taken a strong interest in Jewish culture, music, and religion in the past decade or so. Whether this is a product of guilt or, as she prefers, collective shame, what is interesting is that Europe’s renewed interest in (its) Jews and Judaism more generally does not translate into a reflexive support of Israel. This, I think, is a healthie…

The Book of Diana: Wonder Woman as Theological Text

By Yazmine Nichols

…likely heroes: Moses is a genealogical hybrid of sorts who ends up fleeing Egypt; and Rahab is a prostitute who helps save Israel. Jesus himself chooses ordinary men to be his disciples, including a tax collector. When Diana/Wonder Woman finally fights and kills General Ludendorff it seems that victory has been won, but to her surprise, the war does not end. The war’s continuation defies Diana’s central belief: that Ludendorff is none other than A…