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Punks vs. Monks: Rockers Speak Out Against Genocide in Myanmar

By M. Sophia Newman

…onk-led genocide to international media. The outsider subculture contrasts with the Buddhist Burmese majority, whose strong reverence for monks discourages openly opposing them. Punks’ response also contrasts sharply with that of dissident-turned-party-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released in 2011 from a lengthy house arrest imposed by the junta. Suu Kyi has spoken up against restrictions on Muslim reproduction, but has avoided addressing ongo…

The Suppression of Sin in Evangelical Abolitionism: The Wilberforce Problem

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ugh work even harder. The Slave Trade Continues The slave trade didn’t die with Wilberforce, any more than racism did with Martin Luther King Jr. Today there are more people subject to slavery than ever before. The State Department’s 2010 Trafficking in Persons report estimates that 12.3 million people worldwide are victims of forced labor, 56 percent of which are women and girls. A smaller, but still considerable number are victims of sex traffic…

How a Ruling for Masterpiece Cakeshop Could Embolden White Nationalists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…herefore baking a cake becomes a religious act.” By the same token, the growing number of self-proclaimed Christians who insist that their faith requires them to reject and resist marriage equality, (or, say, the legitimacy of transgender identities,) are performing a kind of public proclamation of faith. Proclaiming these convictions—which are by no means universal—functions as evidence of one’s commitment to a specific (and problematic) doctrina…

Census Reveals Gay People are Shockingly… Normal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…er of them are raising children. It’s those kinds of facts that have right-wing media like the Christian Post scratching their heads, with headlines like this that rival anything over at The Onion: “Gay Couples Spread in U.S., Behave Like Straight Couples” Um, yeah, well, duh. What exactly are gay couples supposed to act like? Wild hyenas? The story that follows that headline would be just as funny if it didn’t signal the death knell for the relig…

Will the Pope’s Woman Problem Alienate Young Catholics?

By Patricia Miller

…hat, he has called women theologians “the strawberries on the cake,” along with a number of other comments insulting to women more broadly, which hasn’t helped minimize doubts on the part of many women about Francis’ ability to see them as full persons. Gina Messina-Dysert, author of the forthcoming Faithfully Feminist, noted that: Francis has made some important, positive comments about women and said it is time to reexamine the role of women in…

Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ut I think there’s an escalation and an accentuation of that animus, along with an active attempt to court elements of the religious right who do wish gay people harm.” Indeed, as I wrote back in May, Trump and his allies have demonstrated a deep commitment to erasing LGBT people in every aspect of public life: from the military, to the National Park Service, to educational institutions, to equal access to public accommodations and employment prot…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…o. By banning refugees, Donald Trump vilifies the victims, deliberately conflating them with the perpetrators. ISIS is achieving its aims: a nationless population it can absorb into its nascent and brutal state, with an America that has given proof to their propaganda. Donald Trump’s words have already been featured in ISIS recruitment videos and this executive order will give terrorists exactly what they want. Donald Trump’s executive order is no…

A ‘Pro-Life’ Buttigieg Ambush, Trump’s Corrupt Counsel, and More

By Daniel Schultz

…f ACC Liverpool said Jan. 24 that it was dropping plans to host a June 12 Graham event, citing a number of statements by the evangelist “which we consider to be incompatible with our values.” Lest you think this is strictly a Brit thing, the same article notes that Graham has also been met with protests in Florida. He’s taken the news in typical stride: In a statement to Newsweek Jan. 28, Graham said he believes he is facing discrimination because…

Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s something in between. Jones, a venture capitalist, founded SOCAP in 2008 with his wife, Rosa Lee Harden, a social entrepreneur and Episcopal priest, along with investor Timothy Freundlich, “to direct the power and efficiency of market systems toward social impact, leading to a more balanced set of ‘returns’” by connecting innovators in for- and non-profit social benefit sectors with investors interested in ethically and socially responsible proj…

A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right

By Katherine Kelaidis

…re is another factor: on the other side of the Atlantic, the converts were flowing the other way. The influx of Protestant American converts, many from the evangelical tradition, but also conservative mainline Protestants, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, radically changed the face of Orthodox Christianity in America. Once a church almost exclusively made up of immigrants and their descendants, these Americans with no historical ties to Orthodox…