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Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…neration, compounding social blight until the narrative sticks: “Violence, domestic violence, suicidality, depression, obesity—these things are seen as some kind of disposition of people of color.” Society blames these miseries on communities of color, when in fact, she argues, the impact comes not only from ongoing forms of abuse, but from those who inflicted the original injuries. But Pasquale Mateus remains hopeful. As a trauma therapist and sc…

The Unbelieving Future of Christian Faith

By Peter Laarman

…rks an “orders of creation” theology that still clings to males ruling the domestic roost with women beneath as mere vessels for procreation. South African writer Breyten Breytenbach, himself a survivor of verkrampte theology, expresses the danger of orthodoxy this way: When any culture, however rich or ancient, is but a confirmation of prejudices or the conservation and parroting of so-called truths, it is doomed to be exclusive, voracious, total…

Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting

By Mary E. Hunt

…the women belonged reproduction, education, and care of the family in the domestic sphere. (p. 1) Historian Max Dashu thoroughly dismantles these old saws citing women clan heads, chieftains, and medicine women: “For a long time, it was possible to get away with claiming that public female leaders never existed, but too much documentation has piled up for this to fly anymore.” In four rather disjointed sections, the writers try to square several…

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…privileged,” the social costs of lockdowns are mourned—increased rates of domestic violence, mental illness, small business closure—while denying that those who support public health measures have suffered at all because they are “privileged,” living in suburbs, and unaware of the government tyranny perpetuated under the guise of these measures. As with the inclusion of a concentration camp survivor in the Truth Over Fear Summit, the “privileged”…

Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…position has always been that foreign entities should not interfere in our domestic issues, especially those of a political or controversial nature,” the ministry said. “Foreigners will need a permit if they organize or participate in an event at the Speakers’ Corner, subject to assessment.” Sex between two men is illegal in Singapore and punishable with up to two years in prison, though the law is rarely enforced. The law, which dates back to the…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts in Australian society. Opposition was concentrated in suburbs with high numbers of working-class immigrants on the suburban fringes, including locations popular with Islamic communities. Brazil: Conservative Christian activists protest gender theorist Judith Butler At Inside Higher Ed, philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler describes to Scott Jaschik her experience earlier this month in Brazil, where “she faced an ugly protest at which s…

Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

By Chrissy Stroop

…at there are times when, given the power and influence of religion in both domestic politics and geopolitics in today’s world, politicians’ failure to mention religion may be harmful. And no, I don’t mean they should say “God bless America” or other such Christian nationalist claptrap, the absence of which was refreshing in last night’s otherwise circus-like debate. I’ll come back to what I do mean. Today’s authoritarian GOP is the party of white…

Health Care Post-Mortem: Left is Right, Right is Left and Public is Loser

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y may well be right about that. Ironically enough, they have found it in a domestic agenda item; after a botched foreign policy inherited from the previous administration, and its profound electoral cost. By contrast, the Democratic Party can’t summon the unanimity required to achieve anything of substance with its paper-thin and all-too-vulnerable legislative majorities. This is not necessarily a bad result. Democratic reform takes time, and norm…

Youth Violence Among American Muslims: A Perspective

By Muneer Fareed

…ced), but also, some say, to prevent Somali youth from getting involved in domestic terrorism. (After all, some of these same youth are known to have slipped out of the country to engage in acts of piracy on the east coast of Africa, or to help al-Shabab, a paramilitary youth group, topple Somalia’s transitional government.) Then there are the recent arrests in Sydney, Australia of Somali youth conspiring to storm an army base and kill soldiers in…

Why Won’t the President Say “Islamic Terrorists?”

By Paula Cooey

…leansing that have been perpetrated in this century—not to mention our own domestic versions of white supremacy often couched in Christian terms from the not-so-distant past. By refusing to call it “Islamic terrorism,” he refuses to dignify the polemic of his opponents. We should make every effort to support him on this one. With coolheaded dispassion (or with good humor) we need simply to respond every day, once a day, as publicly as possible, th…