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Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…est meaning: the next Thanksgiving dinner at my great-grandparents’ table, communities coming together to help those who don’t look or think or believe as they do, hours of hard labor and simple acts of hospitality extended to those left without homes. I hope these will not be the only stories the media will miss. I hope there will also be stories of renewed awakening and commitment to the liberation of all people; stories of Louisiana finding way…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ologne, among the most powerful clergymen in the country, found themselves compelled to reprimand the C.S.U. for its un-Christian conduct). The C.D.U. is also looking to reinforce its conservative image. In recent years the party has capitulated on several key issues, which until then were considered to lie at the core of their policy: compulsory military service and nuclear energy, to name just two prominent examples. There aren’t many such issue…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…ry strong. Already in early Christianity, there’s a sense in which the overcoming of Judaism…is one way of representing what it means to become a true follower of Jesus. The same happens in early Islam, in which both one of the first things Mohammed really has to do in order to prove that he’s a prophet is overcome the Jews. Those early religious bases of a lot of modern culture place the overcoming of Judaism at the center of what it means to cre…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…is an ongoing and active relationship between the living and the dead. The communion of saints is a community which includes both living and dead people. Since they are still important members of the community in order to “get together” with our dead friends and relatives, we need a place to meet them. For this reason, according to the Church, the person’s body should not be dissolved in the ocean or scattered in a National Park. On the Day of the…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…Others live with a sense of impending doom. The anti-Clinton activists welcome this outcome as a much-needed awakening that will finally mobilize Muslims to forcefully resist the bipartisan establishment. How Muslims and other US minorities will handle the coming damage remains to be seen. What is abundantly clear is that Islamophobia is now validated like never before. While it has long had a place in bipartisan politics and policy, its unpreced…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Call your representatives now, and again in January, and every time the incoming administration tries to trample the progress we’ve made over the past eight years. Take to the streets for those who cannot, and, perhaps most crucially, talk to the white people and Trump supporters in your life about why they voted for him, and what they hope will come of his election. Then point out the evidence—that’s piling up already—suggesting they’ve been dup…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…ying to reach friends and calls kept going to voicemail. Around 3AM at the command post, one of the battalion commanders asked Landeza if he was hearing what they were hearing: “there could be up to 100 people in there.” Because fire departments are often the first on site at a disaster area, people like Landeza are trained to be prepared. Landeza said, for example, that the first responders at the Oakland fire had blankets but no water, and as a…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…o revive FADA in 2017. A spokesman for Sen. Mike Lee, a key sponsor of the companion legislation in the Senate, told BuzzFeed News that Lee expects to reintroduce the bill under President Trump, specifically pointing to the incoming administration’s expected sympathy to anti-LGBT “religious freedom” arguments. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, another co-sponsor and former presidential opponent of Trump, likewise told BuzzFeed that “any effort to protect relig…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…be I’m wrong, and this strategy call has some kind of secret weapon to overcome those divisions. Prayer and appeals to common values won’t do it, and unless they have something that will, the project is going exactly nowhere. Problem two is this: American self-segregation and gerrymandering are irreducibly a matter of race. It’s not a coincidence that the strongest and most firmly gerrymandered Republican seats are also overwhelmingly white. Add t…

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…but I know this was the right decision. I think most of all, I miss taking communion. I wept quite a bit during communion at the conference hosted by The Reformation Project conference (a group advocating for the inclusion of LGBTQ people in the church). I’m in the wilderness. I’m spiritually homeless, and I think I’m embracing that. I think a lot about Exodus—leaving Egypt and wandering in the wilderness. There is no temple to worship, but we hav…