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Conservative-Preacher-Turned-Progressive-Leader Carlton Pearson Finds a New Home, Ministry in Chicago

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ouse and several Pentecostal organizations denounced him. And fellow evangelists that were once sycophants in his presence distanced themselves from him. (In the case of Bishop T.D. Jakes, the Dallas preacher dubiously acquired Pearson’s mailing list of subscribers and previously held prime-time spot on TBN). Within a few years, his 5,000 member congregation was down to a faithful few hundred, his church building was in foreclosure, and his future…

For the Love of God, Bono, Please Stop Touring

By Ben Swihart

…Sunday experience is very similar to my Bono encounter: read some liturgy, listen to a concert, hear a few words, and bam! All of a sudden, just like we are all now recognized as AIDS activists for having paid our taxes, we are all now devout Christians because we stumbled out of bed on Sunday morning. But listening to worship music does not a Christian make, and perhaps our shallow understanding of activism is mirrored when we refer to a U2 conce…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…shmi notes in the Washington Post: Some members of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party have supported decriminalizing homosexuality. Ram Madhav, the general secretary of the party, hadsaid in 2014 that even though he does not endorse “glorification of certain forms of social behavior,” he finds it questionable that homosexuality is treated as a crime in “this day and age.” But the lower house of parliament voted twice in the past s…

Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…he firm’s nearly $9.5 billion portfolio. CPG’s 2012 annual report does not list individual investment holdings. But, with executive staff and trustees (who are elected by delegates and bishops at the Episcopal Church’s triennial General Convention) with deep ties to the investment community that has certainly lived well outside of the ethical standards one would expect for a Church-affiliated financial organization, it’s certainly fair for Episcop…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…se by the stated claims of wanting to be a synodal church; that is, a more listening and dialogic church than its ancestors. ‘Synod’ is insider vocabulary meant to signal dialogue, listening, and ‘walking together’ (synod) toward love and justice. Good luck with that when this, the official statement on morality, reflects neither participation nor openness to new sources and new voices. The dissonance makes obvious that the power structure hasn’t…

An Open Letter to American Muslims on Election Day

By Haroon Moghul

…ly want, and what they clearly oppose? Life doesn’t work that way. You can list all the reasons you want about why one candidate has shortcomings and use this as a reason to justify not voting against the other, far worse candidate, but ultimately, to me, this election comes down to one simple question. Do you respect yourself? In a time of escalating Islamophobia, that question might be the single most critical question of all. Because, name one…

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…to use “‘God and country’ talk borrowed from a 1980s-era television evangelist.” Moore “has a good feel of the pulse of evangelicals” and “represents a wide segment” of them, said Tobin Grant, a political scientist at Southern Illinois University and blogger on religion and politics for Religion News Service. Unlike his predecessor, Richard Land, known for inflaming the culture wars, Moore’s “focus is more on religious and social concerns than di…

No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…he years Indian militants have also been called communists, fascists, socialists, and radicals bent on destroying America. In fact, those names—which cancel each other out in any logical mind—have been applied in recent months to another tribal man, Luo of Kenya, who occupies the Oval Office at the moment. As an Indian militant I am discouraged, but not surprised, that the mainstream media has so far failed to recognize the stomp-down amazing fact…

Is Sport Worth Dying For? Lessons From the Vancouver Olympics

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…eflection, was what things were worth risking one’s life for. On any short list of such things, one’s city, one’s honor, one’s lover, and one’s gods would enjoy a place pf prominence. The contests at Olympia were dedicated to Zeus, those at Nemea were dedicated to Poseidon, those at Delphi were dedicated to Apollo, and so on. It is worth recalling and acknowledging that every culture has the forms of violence it sanctions, especially when that vio…

Queer [Theory]-Bashing by Georgia Republicans; The New Know-Nothingism Creeps

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y taxes, the wisdom and justice of which are debatable.) After mistaking a list of faculty created specifically for media outlets for a university course guide (in fact it identified their areas of research expertise), these state legislators began calling for an investigation of colleges throughout the Georgia state system (27 four-year campuses in all), in order to weed out courses that should not be taught, and quite possibly, to downsize furth…