Religion Dispatches
…Rev. Welton Gaddy, host of State of Belief radio, interviewed RD’s Neil J. Young on his most recent post, Leave it To Trump to Split a Catholic-Evangelical Bloc That’s Generations Old. Watch the interview below (just under 20 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=AQgtTjiEujE…
Read More…Allegiance until that “for liberty and justice for all” stuff was applied equally to lesbians and gays. Jon Stewart was so charmed by him that he brought professional wrestler Mick Foley on the show to vow that if anyone harasses young Mr. Phillips, he will come to the school and bring with him “a world of pain.” Foley also said that he would rip out the harasser’s small intestine and use the person as a human tether ball. See? Adorable. (Actually…
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…popular broadsheet with the title The World Turned Upside Down became the equivalent of a blockbuster. In the chaos of the era print was cheap and plentiful, and the collapse of the licensing laws insured a degree of free speech hitherto unknown in the British Isles. The World Turned Upside Down would prove so enduring that it has been an English folk ballad for more than 350 years. The song’s opening verse, “Holy-dayes are despis’d, new fashions…
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…erstood that guaranteeing civil and political rights was one step towards equality. Equality, he contended in a 1961 speech to the AFL-CIO, also requires “decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old-age security, health and welfare measures, conditions in which families can grow, have education for their children, and respect in the community.” Dr. King was killed while in Memphis in 1968 while standing in solidarity with sanitatio…
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…story surrounding it. What might it mean for a synagogue, a church, a mosque, or a temple to set up a video screen in its sanctuary and play these images of death from September 11, and then turn around and respond to them? What reinvented rituals might result from a ritualized, contextualized, reception of these images? Such communal framing gets us beyond the questions of morbid voyeurism, because it eliminates the one-way dimension and places…
Read More…ts organizing as well as top-down funding of campaigns to defeat marriage equality and pass anti-marriage equality amendments in many states, convinces me that the Glen Eyrie meeting was the beginning of a powerful cadre of anti-gay forces that continues its effective work event today. It is against this backdrop that the Interfaith Alliance, led by former Baptist minister C. Welton Gaddy, issues a “call to quiet conversation” about marriage equal…
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…ferson Bethke of YouTube fame, who “love Jesus but hate religion.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY There are spiritual seekers who embrace bits and pieces of various traditions and don’t want to commit to just one. And there are Nones who are just plain indifferent to religion. What ties these diverse worldviews together is a deep commitment to what I call “worldview choice”—a belief that religious and secular worldviews are expression…
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…of The Muslim Next Door: the Qur’an, the Media, and that Veil Thing +Shuruq Naguib Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Lancaster University, UK +Manan Ahmed University of Chicago +Rohit Chopra Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Babson College, Massachusetts +Elizabeth Castelli Professor and Chair, Religion Department, Barnard College at Columbia University, New York City +Omid Safi Professor of Islamic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel…
Read More…s in the US military. The church operates a number of Web sites, including www.godhatesfags.com, on which it disseminates its rabidly anti-homosexual views. The church has gained notoriety for staging protests at the funerals of US soldiers in order to draw attention to its message. Albert Snyder’s son, Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, was a US Marine who was killed on March 3, 2006 during active service in Iraq. His body was returned to the United…
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