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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…n looks at “modest signs of change” in the direction of LGBT acceptance in Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): With 10 Southeast Asian countries represented, the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus is a network of human rights activists doing work related to issues of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE). They want SOGIE to be included in the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism, thus affording legal protection to t…

Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…pported the inclusion of sexual orientation in the constitution of the new South Africa, making it the first constitution in the world to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. It was fitting, and significant, that President Barack Obama referred to LGBT people in his remarks at Mandela’s memorial: “Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs; and are still persecuted for what they look like, or…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…llowing rapid growth during the country’s recently-ended civil war. Across southern Africa, the Anglican Church, following the model of its onetime leader Desmond Tutu, continues to be a voice of reconciliation in countries like Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, of course, the opposite is true for the church in the Euro-Atlantic world. Johnson’s disappointment about the future of the Nigerian Church could best be applied to England, where fewer and fewer peopl…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ey to make a bid on the purchase of lands in Paha Sapa, the Black Hills of South Dakota, considered sacred to the Lakota people. The site is called Oceti Sakowin, Pe’ Sla (The Heart of Everything) in the Lakota language and is considered the place where the Morning Star fell and killed seven Lakota girls/women who were later put into the sky to become the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades, or Wincinchala Sakowi (the Seven Little Girls). The area up for…

Are (White) Evangelicals Really Dwindling? A Debate Heats Up

By Sarah Posner

…iously, on a range of complex factors that are not explained solely by the numbers, even the declining numbers, of white evangelicals in the South, or even of declining numbers of conservative Protestants, whether defined as evangelical or mainline. As I noted in my earlier post, intensity and turnout will drive the outcome of these races. Regardless of the outcome, though, one thing is certain: there is going to be an ongoing dissection and discu…

Amid Horrors, Muslim ‘John Hancocks’ Forge Secular Sudan

By Frederick Clarkson

…ed. The agreement provided that a vote take place to determine whether the southern part of the country would be allowed to peacefully secede. But before and since the vote to secede president Bashir has remained clear about his vision of Islamic nationalism as the future of the north, as violence continues to escalate. “If south Sudan secedes,” he promised prior to last year’s vote, “we will change the Constitution, and at that time there will be…

Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

By Paul Harvey

…nificantly, the most important intellectual force and public spokesman for Southern Baptists and president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Albert Mohler, spoke in favor of the name change, suggesting that it would help Southern Baptists remove a name that originated in 1845 from the slavery controversy. Paige Patterson of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the most flamboyantly conservative of the convention’s leaders, als…

Beck’s “Dream”—Our Nightmare

By Julie Ingersoll

…re “politically incorrect”—were it to read: Democratic legislatures in the South [instead of just “Southerners”] established whites-only voting in party primaries. Because he says very little about contemporary Democrats, it’s clear that Barton’s purpose is to connect them with the racist Southern Democrats, while completely ignoring the relationship of contemporary Republicans with the racist South. Most glaringly, the Republican “Southern strate…

Country Music Minus the Culture Wars: A Lesson from a Legend

By Paul Harvey

…elsewhere (most especially, from Northern seminaries which recruited down South and established emissary posts there). Historically, Southern music at its best—the bluesmen, the Carter family, Charlie Poole, and the corpus of the old, weird America—simply could not be tied down to any particular political message or program. This music was about a world beyond one’s control. Its occasional bromides or homilies were not nearly as convincing as its…

Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

By Rosetta E. Ross

…saying that “somebody had to do the work.” (The economic structure of the South depended on farming and 19th-century farming required vast human labor.) Nolan Harmon was a signatory of the infamous letter from eight Southern white clergy saying Birmingham demonstrations were “unwise and untimely,” which prompted Martin Luther King Jr. to write his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” The fact that clergy wrote the letter criticizing Birmingham protes…