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To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…r movement? The Black Lives Matter movement as I have experienced it has a number of queer black women on the ground doing the work. It also has trans women and trans men on the ground doing the work. They are part of the leadership. As you know the Black Lives Matter movement is a “leaderful” movement, and that is to say that not one or two persons are in charge of any action but that the movement itself very beautifully recognizes and utilizes t…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d. Although Magufuli has not said anything publicly about homosexuality, a number of his appointees have made harsh remarks. Critics of gay rights say this nation — which has large numbers of Muslims and Christians — must protect traditional values. In an August speech, Paul Makonda, the regional commissioner of Dar es Salaam, the capital, threatened to arrest people who were linked to gay men on social-networking sites. “If there’s a homosexual w…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…pandemic that will rupture our every notion of the Good Death. There are a number of practitioners who will inform this collective imagination in the coming days: imams, rabbis, pastors, and priests, hospital chaplains and funeral directors, home funeral guides and death midwives. But―and this needs emphasis―families also hold wisdom that should become central to the deathcare and funerary practice we institute in the coming days. Change in practi…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…, seven thousand black South Africans were killed under apartheid, and the number imprisoned was far higher. The Catholic Church neither kills nor imprisons ordained women and their supporters; excommunication, while painful, is not at all the same, even when financial losses accompany it. In 2007 I published an article in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion explaining in some detail why highly educated white women simply cannot say that t…

Bush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?

By Paul Harvey

…: “A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, is Reconsidered,” available online and in the July 24th print edition. Jennifer Schuessler, who covers the academic beat for the New York Times, discusses the resurgence of scholarship on people long since thought to have been dead and passed from the scene: dead, (mostly) white, mainstream/liberal/mainline/ecumenical Protestants. In assessing the roots of a surge of work on 20th-century liberal Prot…

Cut the Ten Commandments Down to Six?

By Sarah Posner

…the Associated Press. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported that “[o]ne online message said the parent and student ‘should (be) ship(ped) overseas to play in the sand with al-Quiada (sic) for a little while,’ while a person identified as a Giles County elementary school teacher sent a message to the Freedom From Religion Foundation reading ‘you folks are allowing Satin (sic) to rule you.’” What an odd mediation proposal. Does the judge really t…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…immolated in eastern Tibet. India has responded to the unrest by placing a number of Tibetan refugees under what they term “house arrest.” Below, Megan Sweas reports from India on the latest wave of protests. –Eds.] DELHI—Shibayan Raha had worried that this would happen. At a protest against the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao, a 27-year-old Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran past the podium before police and other activists c…

Anti-Gay Marriage NOM Documents Reveal Racial Wedge Strategy and More

By Peter Montgomery

…ign finance practices – were released yesterday afternoon. HRC posted them online. For those who follow NOM, the documents aren’t particularly surprising, as we have witnessed their plans being put into operation over the past few years. But there is still something remarkable about seeing their strategies – including racial wedge politics – laid out so clearly, as well as NOM’s taking credit for passage of Prop 8 in California and the anti-marria…

Occupy Catholics to Cardinal Dolan: We Aren’t Protesting, We’re Advertising Love

By Nathan Schneider

…at’s brought Occupy Catholics together as a group around the country, both online and in person, is the shared sense that the Occupy movement’s message speaks to the heart of our faith. Though the group includes clergy, it’s decidedly lay-driven and committed to non-hierarchical organizing. A number of Occupy Catholics are among the so-called “lapsed”: people who haven’t felt comfortable being part of a Catholic anything for years until this came…

Peter Beinart’s Controversial The Crisis of Zionism: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment

By Shaul Magid

…ining many scholarly footnotes. (The unpublished academic paper, available online, upon which the book is based has even more documentation!) Even advocates of The Israel Lobby agree that it is an indictment. Critics call it an academic screed. The Crisis of Zionism is not a scholarly treatise. It breaks little new ground and most of its research utilizes secondary literature and interviews. While the book is journalistic in both tone and substanc…