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‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…let’s take a look at the pronouncements of televangelist Pat Robertson. In his teaching on the Greatest Commandment, Robertson proclaims that “a person must dedicate the totality of his being to a self-giving love for God. Every aspect of his nature must focus on loving God.” Say what? I mean, is this the same Pat Robertson who in August 2005 issued a Christian fatwa against a democratically-elected world leader? I would challenge anyone to tell m…

As a Queer Catholic Woman I Had High Hopes Before the 2023 Catholic Synod on Synodality

By Emma Cieslik

…For example, when the pope said, in 2022, that God “does not disown any of his children,” or in 2023 that “people with homosexual tendencies are children of God,” a number of LGBTQ Catholics and advocates, myself included, got excited for a day or two—maybe even called our parents (if the Church hasn’t driven a wedge between them and us). But then the news cycle passes and, with each expression of anti-LGBTQ Catholic doctrine on diocesan and globa…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…trengthen the right to privacy and nondiscrimination in Indonesia.” The Washington Blade reported this week that the US Agency for International Development has given a multi-million-dollar grant to fight tuberculosis to Nahdlatul Ulama, a Muslim organization that, while it campaigns against Muslim extremism, has also supported the recent anti-LGBT backlash in the country and called for legislation providing “rehabilitation for every person with L…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…th an informed and responsible creativity, to join the network of relationships which the digital era has made possible,” wrote Benedict. He added, sounding a new cultural sophistication with regard to digital communications: This is not simply to satisfy the desire to be present, but because this network is an integral part of human life. The web is contributing to the development of new and more complex intellectual and spiritual horizons, new f…

Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…e United Church of Christ he may be a transformational figure—not only in this historic denomination, but in the history of Protestantism itself. Whatever history may ultimately record, there is no question that Dorhauer views transformation as necessary to sustain the “missional core” of the Church in our time. Beyond Resistance: The Institutional Church Meets the Postmodern World John Dorhauer Exploration Press (July, 2015) John Dorhauer’s road…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…ng public perceptions of mental health have probably all played a role in this shift. But the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have also been the first major American wars during which the country had an established, stable psychological diagnosis for combat stress. For the first time, there’s a highly-visible, medically-legible pool of veterans whose experiences of war diverge radically from anything resembling a kill-and-banter escapade. The ef…

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Problem of the Rape Exception

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ch is why they are the exact right people to sacrifice everything for The Children! Think of The Children! Fine. Okay. Can we agree, though, on one thing, in the interest of consistency? That if you’re going to force a woman to bear her rapist’s child, that if you actually think that’s both your business and an appropriate use of the law, you had better be falling over yourself to end sexual violence and rape culture? That you’d best be trying t…

Is Bart Stupak As Marginalized As He Claims?

By Sarah Posner

…a bunch of baby-killers. Stupak complains that his party has marginalized him for his anti-abortion views, but that — cue the gloating vindictiveness befitting the opposition, rather than a party loyalist — he showed them by rounding up enough votes for his amendment, under threat of sinking the entire bill. (So much for the “conscience” of a “pro-lifer.”) He seems befuddled at why, say, cavorting at C Street and bringing the Catholic bishops cal…

Praying To The God Of The SUV

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…2001. Each person was delayed in getting to the office by seemingly small things like a child running late or new, tight shoes that required a pit stop at the convenience store to purchase a Band-Aid. The email intimated that each of these people had been saved from the carnage by God intervening on their behalf to delay their arrival at work. Many others who received this email may have marveled at the way in which God works, sparing people from…

Scott Roeder’s Religion

By Sarah Posner

…raphed a piece of paper on the dashboard of Roeder’s car: It contained the phone number of Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue’s senior policy advisor, who served two years in prison for conspiring to bomb abortion clinics in 1988. Roeder also told me that Sullenger was present at the lunch with Newman where they discussed “justifiable” homicide, and that Newman had given Roeder the autographed copy of his book just three months before Roeder kille…