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Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ysteries of these creatures. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. A large number of the “spiritual but not religious” crowd in the West are self-proclaimed ecologists or naturalists. A large number of atheists and agnostics are deeply passionate about ecological ethics, or how we might be more “in tune” with nature. Culturally, they become fascinated in the personalities of cats and cat videos, the companionship of dogs who offer a kind of faithf…

National Review’s Kevin Williamson Comes Out Against Daughters, Misunderstands Science

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…y many as espousing virulent, mean-spirited sexism; There is a non-trivial number of men who actually love their daughters and are neither disappointed they exist nor convinced that it means they’re low-status males; There is a non-trivial number of human beings who are unrepentant daughters and/or fallopian tube havers and/or cardigan wearers; There was a Republican president in recent memory who had two daughters; There are social conservatives…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…ation of Independence and the Constitution), pilgrimage sites and shrines (Washington, DC, Mount Vernon, Gettysburg), prophets (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson), martyrs (Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr.), and central shared beliefs (freedom, equality, a divine purpose for the nation). Over the years, scholars have debated this idea of an American civil religion. Is it actually a religion or is it just similar to a religion? Should more…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for same-sex marriage, which will be addressed at its synod in July. (The Washington Post’s Sarah Pulliam Bailey notes that there are more Anglicans in Nigeria than in the U.S. and Canada combined.) There was no mass walk-out by African bishops, but Ugandan Archbishop Stanley Ntagali left the meeting on January 12, explaining later that he did so because his resolution asking the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada “to voluntar…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s, scary squadrons of angry mothers, and more than a few politicians….” In Washington, DC this week, American religious right supporters of Putin’s anti-gay policies, led by the World Congress of Families, held a press conference to talk about their 2014 summit which will be held in Moscow in September. Speakers from the WCF, the conservative Catholic C-FAM, and Concerned Women for America praised Putin’s policies, including the prosecution of Pus…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…ght against the creators of an online support group for gay teenagers. The Washington Blade reported this week that activists fear that, with the Olympic spotlight no longer on Russia, human rights activists are worried that lawmakers will consider a bill that would take children away from gay parents. Slovakia: Activists in Uphill Battle Anti-Gay Revision to Constitution According to ILGA-Europe, the Slovak Parliament is scheduled to discuss a co…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…hen today we ought to be able to use the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, cell phones and our growing network of churches to educate the new Southern Electorate—black, white, Latino, Asian, gay, straight, labor, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostics, atheists, atudents and their elders, environmentalists—all who want a better life for all God’s people. The South matters because it is the native home of America’s original sin. Yes, we m…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…party in the National Capital Territory of Delhi (the Indian equivalent of Washington DC) and allowing them to form a minority government with the Indian National Congress Party. Aam Aadmi have announced that the re-legalization of homosexuality will be a priority in its election manifesto – to be released later this week. Ethiopia: Politicians Push to Make Homosexuality Non-Pardonable Pink News reported this week that legislation to add homosexua…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…the presumption of innocence, and to the right to civic participation. The Washington Blade reports, “The activists also contend Ugandan parliamentarians approved the measure late last year without the necessary quorum.” At Box Turtle Bulletin, Jim Burroway has a link to the legal complaint. Luiz Loures, the UNAIDS official who spoke at the World Bank this week, told BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder that UNAIDS is ready to join the Ugandan activists’ lawsu…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…r didn’t settle on an answer.) On the religion question, Ed Kilgore at the Washington Monthly noted that, according to Arana, Klein “found Ambrosino’s background as a gay Christian compelling and is trying to cultivate ‘ideological diversity’ as well as gender and racial diversity at Vox.” Kilgore shot back: It kind of makes me crazy when someone appears to assume that only Christian conservatives are authentic religious voices, and that finding a…