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

By Peter Montgomery

…osed to ban “essential” public workers from going on strike. Varadkar also promised to represent the “people who get up early in the morning,” in an effort to harness the support of Ireland’s rural farmers, the middle class and elderly — rhetoric that critics say both alienates and demonizes a large chunk of Ireland’s casual workforce, who have been hit by increased austerity measures. He has also pledged to hold a referendum on abortion in 2018….

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…rray of art and ritual contributed by participants that often creatively appropriates symbols and motifs from the infinite well of humanity’s cultural and historical experiences—temples, labyrinths, demons, angels, gods, goddesses, priests, corporate logos, and more—almost anything imaginable is cobbled together in an incredible display of bricolage. This decadent ritualism, which can be both sincere and satirical, casts the festival as a semi-re…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…r church, a central Nebraska Salvation Army congregation, thought was an appropriate selection for its bi-monthly “Teen Night” one Friday evening earlier this September. Here’s what D’Souza wants us to know about President Obama: That while he may have to concede that Barack Obama is an American by birth, at heart the president is still an anti-American Communist, socialist, Marxist, and Muslim sympathizer who supports abortion and his anti-colo…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…ss. The reason? Donald Trump and the whole electoral carnival of 2016. The presidential election has proven to be excellent fodder for Bakker and his guests, most of whom are Trump supporters. One guest told Bakker that he’s known since April 2011 that Trump was going to the President of the United States. On that same episode, Dr. Don, founder of the Divine Wellness Center, and Mary Colbert, author and prophet, said that the spirit of the anti-Ch…

US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious

By Emily Baxter

…en thoroughly shared, although it remains unclear how their situation will proceed. It seems unsurprising that some sisters reportedly “raised their eyebrows” at Sartain’s statement that he was coming to the LCWR as their “brother.” His humility makes it a commendable sentiment, but they are certainly not coming to the table as equals in the eyes of the Church. The outgoing LCWR President, Sr. Frances Deacon, offered a closing speech that did no…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…in, think American Wild West, for better and worse—you get… things that surprise you. Or, at the least, things you do not expect. • • • • • • • • ⬆ Before praying, Muslims perform a ritual ablution known as wudu’, which includes washing your feet. In many Western countries, this means the awkward moment when your colleagues find you barely balanced on one leg with your opposite foot drowning in the sink and your arms and hair sopping wet. Usual…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…s and headed to the kitchen to eat with her Dhamma brothers and sisters. I could only assume she’d chosen the spiciest dishes, but I was certain that her life journey—promoting a religion of reform, not only of prisons and government, but of self—was continuing at the table….

The Loneliness of Men: A Father’s Day Reflection

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…upportive—we did not trust them to address sexism with other men. It was a profound turning point in staff relationships in our program. I came to be close to men I had disliked and considered clueless jerks, and through our honest relationships with each other we did great work as a better team in the years after. Heteronormativity makes emotional intimacy difficult in straight men’s relationships to women and homophobia denies them emotional int…

Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History

By Bernard Schweizer

…he gay-Jesus comedy skit will be as effective (or ineffective) as the widespread protests against Life of Brian or the angry letter-writing campaigns against Jesus-as-loser on South Park. They may constitute a brief inconvenience and perhaps put a dent into the profitability of the Porta dos Fundos YouTube channel, but they’re unlikely to put a stop to the steady march of the triumph of humor. For reasons that are beyond the scope of this article…

2016 Was the Year Queer and Trans Muslims Entered the Public Consciousness: Mahdia Lynn On This New Era

By The Editors

…, being an educator and an advocate fighting for police accountability and prison abolition—we need to do this work. It doesn’t work unless you believe that you will win. The other thing that happened in 2016 was the Pulse shooting in Orlando. And that was the first time queer and trans Muslims were an idea in the public consciousness. There’s just a big change in the way that we perceive our community and the way the outside world perceived us. A…