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Rolling the Stone Away: LGBTQI Elders Meet the Next Generation of Christian Activists at a Watershed Conference

By Mary E. Hunt

…The “Rolling the Stone Away: Generations of Love and Justice” conference, October 30-November 2, 2017, in St. Louis gathered 250 people who reviewed the struggles to make Christian churches inclusive of persons, genders and sexual orientations. Key to the discussion was what the next generation of folks plan to do to continue the work on their terms in these complicated times. Longtime Methodist activist Mark Bowman combined his visionary leaders…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…eligious Opposition Human Rights Watch’s Boris Dittrich reported on a late October conversation among parliamentarians and NGOs during Pride month activities. A couple of parliamentarians said in response to questions about changing pension laws to make them fairer to people in same-sex partnerships, saying society is not yet ready for equal rights. This answer did not sit well with representatives from the many groups that attended, who pointed o…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ps and had behaved as “no Christian, and especially not a monk” should. In October 2010, he was briefly arrested and kept in custody for participating in banned protests organised in support of far-right activists who had previously been arrested for participating or organizing riots that followed Gay Pride that year. Bangladesh: Officials Will Oppose UN Proposal on LGBT Rights According to Gay Asia News, “Bangladesh says it will veto the Internat…

Double Helix: The Environment Is the Economy

By Arri Eisen

…(Lake Lanier, Atlanta’s main water reservoir, is 17 feet below normal for October, so outdoor watering is mostly illegal) and waited in line at Quick Trip to get gas at one of the few open service stations in the city, I saw another staggering failure of science and religion to work together. In a new survey, the intriguing results of which are buried in the back pages behind stories of a collapsing global economy, vice presidential ‘debates’, an…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…cial media. The restaurant quickly “got hundreds of death threats on their phones and social media.” Then a North Carolina man decided to investigate the pedophilia ring himself, bringing an assault rifle that he fired in the restaurant. (No one was hurt.) As the man later explained about the absence of child sex slaves there, “The intel on this wasn’t 100 percent.” As we’ve moved from an election dominated by fake news to a new Trump administrati…

What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

By Chrissy Stroop

…e, categorically, are doing good. Take this Orlando Sentinel headline from October: “Orlando-area Faith Leaders Grapple With Far-Right Views After Capitol Riot Puts Spotlight on Christian Nationalism.” If faith leaders are “grappling” with the far-right in their midst, then they can’t be complicit, right? And surely there aren’t faith leaders who are fomenting Christian nationalism? (To be clear, yes, yes there are.) To be sure, the framing here t…

How (Not) to React to Anti-Mormon Sentiment in the South

By Joanna Brooks

…ntext of this race. I think we turned a major corner on this issue back in October, when just about every major media outlet leaped on Pastor Robert Jeffress for his anti-Mormon outburst. But to the point: I don’t care what Pastor Jeffress or Representative Manning think of my religion. Anti-Mormon sentiment and prejudice is going to continue to bubble up in the primaries’ Southern swing. Let’s have it out: every last stitch of it, so that folks c…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that the unseemly, if not deeply pathological, reality that a significant number of these bishops, who cannot decide whether gays and lesbians have gifts to offer to the church, are themselves closeted gay men.” This weekend, the University of Notre Dame is hosting “Gay in Christ: Dimensions of Fidelity,” a colloquium designed to answer the questions, “What would be an appropriate pastoral strategy for Catholic parishes with respect to parishione…

Ground Zero is Sacred Space, But Not Just Because of 9/11

By Randall Balmer

…a school for Africans in New York City. Roman Catholics arrived in greater numbers in the nineteenth century, from places like Ireland, Germany, and Italy. As with other groups, finding their place in the rich tapestry of American diversity did not always come easy. John Hughes, who became the first archbishop of New York (and the founder of what is now Fordham University), protested the use of the Protestant-inflected King James Version of the Bi…

Perhaps Islam isn’t the Only Reason Donald Trump Didn’t Recall Muhammad Ali

By Sean O'Neil

…e of memory. But Ali was on the cover of Sports Illustrated as recently as October 5, 2015, and Trump even received an award in Ali’s name from the boxing legend in 2007. Ali has now ensured that Trump won’t forget him again any time soon by addressing the Republican hopeful’s bigotry with an incisive and blunt message: We, as Muslims, have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda. They have alienated many from learn…