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Would We Have No Commitment to Equality Without Christianity?

By Austin Dacey

…eir basis in human dignity, in the age,” and that the history of Christian human rights in the 1940s is therefore “a large part of the history of human rights discourse generally.” Perhaps boldest of all, Moyn claims that “[w]ithout Christianity, our commitment to the moral equality of human beings is unlikely to have come about.” Such swashbuckling claims make for a startling overturning of conventional wisdom about the secular and multicultural…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that Chechnya has something even better than independence: its traditions trump Russian law, while 81 percent of its budget is funded by federal subsidies. South Korea: Presidential candidate woos conservative Christian voters with attack on homosexuality Associated Press reports that presidential front-runner Moon Jae-in, a liberal candidate and former human rights lawyer, “outraged persecuted sexual minority groups by saying during a television…

Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise

By Josiah Daniels

…e a history steeped in trauma and continue to experience new traumas is by design. The design has been codified into our Constitution. The design has infiltrated our water. All this is meant to harden Americans in general, but specifically Black Americans, to their subhuman class. The trauma of historically being relegated to a subhuman class can manifest itself through 14 generations. No matter how callous we become to our individual trauma, our…

What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Cuban government forcibly quarantined people living with HIV/AIDS in state-run sanitaria until 1993. Fidel Castro during a 2010 interview with a Mexican newspaper described the persecution of gay Cubans that included sending them to work camps in the years following the revolution as a “great injustice.” Independent Cuban LGBT rights advocates and their supporters in the U.S. and elsewhere insist the government continues to persecute those who cri…

Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion

By Michael Schulson

…uman nature by finding fixed laws? Or do you grasp it by understanding the rules of humankind’s incredible un-fixedness? Shortly after finishing Barash’s book, I read a new essay by the photography critic Teju Cole. Reviewing photographer Steve McCurry’s new collection of photos of India, Cole makes a distinction between an individual piece and the total sensibility that’s developed by a body of work. Again and again, Cole writes, McCurry’s photos…

Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

By Henry Jenkins

…figure them out as we go along. Yet, that does not mean that there are no rules—only that the rules get established in the context of the game and that some of the rules we follow outside the game no longer apply. Games, by definition, have rules, while play spaces do not necessarily have rules. Games can be won, while play spaces have no clearly defined goals and outcomes. Play spaces respond to our impulses, while games force us to contain our…

Breaking Up with God: I Didn’t Lose My Faith, I Left It

By Sarah Sentilles

…lves?” He argues that theology that does not contribute significantly to struggles against inhumanity and injustice has lost sight of its point of being. I can’t know if God exists, but I do know the word God is operating in the world, running around doing all kinds of work, good and bad, and I think, as a theologian, I have a responsibility to think critically about the kinds of gods we make and worship and to try to come up with versions of god…

“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…! That’s their purpose. Really, lady, did you honestly think your body was designed to take a web design class, sing Glee karaoke, boil mac and cheese, read the Washington Post, wonder why Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek split up, or do any of the other things you’ve so far chosen to do with your body? Silly. How, then, do you account for your ladybits? The existence of ladybits MUST be accounted for! When Worlds Collide Ultimately, I think, t…

NPR Gives Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly a Pass

By Daniel Schultz

…context of opposite-sex commitment: We think it’s pretty clear that God’s design for human sexuality is a male and a female committed to one another in marriage, for life. It’s interesting, because Jesus talks about that in Matthew and Mark in the gospels where he restates the Genesis commitment, which is “a man shall leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one.” He doesn’t say anything about same-gendered peo…

TED-Evangelism Harkens Back to a Forgotten 19th-Century Tradition

By Michael Schulson

…lectual life, often in far-flung towns. The first lyceums took place in the 1820s, and by 1839 there were between 4,000 and 5,000 in the U.S. alone. Lyceum events sometimes took place in churches, and the institution originally had a Christian flavor. Many lyceum talks touched on religious topics, and ministers were some of the most successful lecturers on the rounds, but science, technology, and progress were major subjects for lecturers, too. Th…