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Women, Religion, and Film: Higher Ground Raises the Stakes

By Sarah Sentilles

…to the screen. After Corinne’s husband chokes her, Corinne flees from the car, and her husband is left alone praying to God to save him from the devil that was in the car. One man sitting in my row shouted “The devil’s still in there!”—and he was talking about Corinne’s husband. It is no surprise that Higher Ground was first a book, because the film is a love letter to books and, more importantly, to libraries. It is a reminder about books’…

American Supports Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill

By Michael Wilkerson

…in the United States. As Engle was seeking distance from the bill from his car, Buturo took the stage for his speech unequivocally supportive of the bill. Asked on Monday if there was an advance plan to have Engle in his car or departed by the time Buturo gave his speech, Joanna Watson, coordinator of The Call Uganda, said she had not been aware Buturo would speak and that the order of events was handled by John Mulinde, the event’s host and his o…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…his ballot for Le Pen. While nobody knows how far Le Pen’s supporters will carry her in the April 23-May 7 vote, several years of polls have shown the National Front is now more popular with the LGBT voters who make up 6.5 percent of the French electorate than it is with straight voters. LePen’s Party, which includes a number of openly gay officials, still pledges to roll back the marriage equality law in favor of civil unions. As AP notes, LePen…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…ry haunted by the violence she has inflicted, and been subject to. Collins packages Katniss’s disturbance in the hallmark symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, including flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance of triggers, guilt, and sudden reactivity. Once you see this, other young adult fiction seems oddly heartless. How do the kids in Narnia stay so cheery, after watching battles and bloodshed? How does Harry Potter stay mellow amidst the carnag…

Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…a nonprofit that creates unconventional Jewish programming, including an iPhone app designed to help people disconnect and unwind on Friday afternoons. The organization has a simple, ten-principle Sabbath Manifesto that’s “designed to slow down lives in an increasingly hectic world” by giving people a “provisional guide to observing a weekly day of rest.” (Manifesto principles include “Avoid technology,” “Get outside,” and “Drink wine.”) Reboot a…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ttention to the camera’s focus on the sour face of Santiago’s Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati when Bachelet mentioned them. Russia: French president pushes Putin on abuse of Chechen gays French President Emmanuel Macron urged Russia’s Vladimir Putin to ensure the safety of LGBT people in Chechnya, where gay men have been subjected to a campaign of detention and violence. More from the New York Times: Mr. Macron said that he had discussed the reports of…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…llar annual budget is funded almost exclusively by ticket sales, and these tickets are not cheap (ranging this year, for example, from $210-$300 depending on time of purchase). This pays for the basic infrastructure as well as expenses like a hefty per-person/per-day use fee charged by the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a significant portion of each year’s budget is set aside to fund many of the large-scale art installations various parti…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…I took away from the discussion was more about my perspective as a former card-carrying member of the Christian Right, and how our different worldviews shaped our ability to see the teen movie trip as a problem. From inside the “hedge of protection”—a Christian ghetto undisturbed by competing viewpoints—the pastors could not fathom 2016: Obama’s America as blatant propaganda. But after Miranda asked whether I had myself seen the movie I was compl…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…Physicsworld.com user asks, “What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?” Where infinity merges with the earth When you dig into pi, you encounter questions that are as much theological as mathematical: is there a pattern to the universe? Or is it fundamentally random? And how do we reckon with the infinite? Some people have always insisted that there must be a pattern behind pi. If only h…