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Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…t time I’ve been on a plane where 50% of the seats are business– and first-class. Sorta gives you an idea who comes to the Kingdom, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike: big business. Okay, so the flight is not exclusive to hajjis, but when we arrive they announce for us hajjis to remain on the plane and disembark last. Let the other passengers, many whom will transfer to domestic flights, get off first. Well, if the rest of us are hajjis, we don’t…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…roup. His organization was shut down in October after the Justice Ministry classified it as a foreign agent. Guatemala: Anti-Equality ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As President; Lesbian Joins Congress Sandra Morán, a lesbian and the first openly LGBT person elected to Congress, was sworn in last week, reports the Washington Blade. Morán is a prominent feminist and advocate for indigenous people. On the same day, President Jimmy Morales, a comed…

Silence of Latino Religious Leaders Enable GOP Tolerance of Trump Spectacle

By Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh

…he wrong wedding party. So what indeed are we all left with when spectacle is virtuous because it’s spectacle? Because it’s empty of ethical motives and empty of just consequences? We’re precisely here, where Latino/a economic power can shut down some business deals, but can not muster enough political power to shut down the GOP’s rhetorical war against immigrants. Until Latinos/as grow tired of viewing the spectacle of American politics as outsid…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

More and more, serious business is being done through Twitter, a Web site with a most unserious-sounding name. On Twitter, you tweet out a tweet, which everyone who is following your tweets can see. True to the name and its accompanying noun/verb, the site’s architecture seemingly confines it to the trivial. Every tweet must be under 140 characters (which this paragraph has already long exceeded). Even its built-in instructions emphasize triviali…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…Well Versed ministry is listed among AFPI’s ‘movement partners,’ alongside business/libertarian groups like the Club for Growth, familiar Christian Right organizations like the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Family Research Council, and the Family Policy Alliance. Intriguingly, listed among these usual suspects is the American Principles Project, founded by neoconservative Catholic strategist Robert P. George who in 2016, was a Never Trumper. Texas…

Tomorrow-Less Land

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…in a way that we have never shared the equally grave sense of crisis among American steelworkers, or automobile makers. If some conservative Republicans call this “the end of capitalism,” then what do left-leaning Democrats call it? Enabling global capital to live to fight another day? All the campaign rhetoric about the need for better regulation, and the need to avoid wasting taxpayers dollars to assist millionaires in their unexpected early ret…

U.S. Bishops (Who Lit Religious Liberty Fuse) Urge Civility

By Patricia Miller

…rts to comply with activities they judge to be deeply immoral or go out of business. But, as the Times reported, it was the Catholic bishops who made the manifesto a political reality when they “took the lead” in opposing the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act, suggesting that it was an “infringement of religious freedom” to require religious institutions or Catholic business owners to cover birth control: Soon bishops were holding r…

United Methodist Church Votes Against Israel Divestment

By Shalom Goldman

…t a motion that the church divest from three international firms that have business interests related to Israel’s military rule in the Palestinian territories: Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard. Two thirds of the delegates voted against the motion. On Monday May 1st, the day before the vote on Israeli divestment was expected, Bishop Tutu of South Africa published an op-ed piece in the Tampa Bay Times, an article the conference a…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…rcourse. Many new tools and systems originated by science and organized by business have contributed to this result; but the telephone has done as much as any other factor to make America strong and united; and, what is even more important, to make America aware of her strength and unity.” The telephone’s near-mythical power (and promise) to connect, network, and unify us has expanded exponentially with each new technology that has succeeded it, e…

Parent, Prophet, Con-Man, Spy: Who Was Rev. Moon?

By Kate Blanchard

…h the usual stresses of marriage, raised four children, and bought a small business. More remarkably, they were still believers that the Reverend Moon was finishing the work Jesus had started, by making his kingdom a reality on Earth, here and now. The couple agreed to come speak to my World Religions students later than year, and on their way out they gave me a copy of Moon’s autobiography, As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen. I opened the book onl…