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More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hich dropped its anti-gay law as part of a Penal Code overhaul last year; Palau, which decriminalized homosexuality last year; the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; and São Tomé and Príncipe, which had actually decriminalized homosexuality in 2012. Human Rights Campaign announced this week that it is joining the Global Equity Fund, a group launched by the State Department in 2011 that has given more than $17 million to LGBT advocacy groups arou…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…ound comix, and the music. At Harvard, I was introduced to the Puritans by Alan Heimert, Perry Miller’s colleague, and I discovered to my shock that the discourse of religion was not always the stupid idiocy my parents, scientists both who met building the atom bomb together at Los Alamos, had taught me. To my astonishment, Cotton, Hooker, Edwards all spoke to me. So I went to Harvard Divinity School to discover if the word “God” really did have a…

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…This myth is repeated in Richard Rodriguez’s recent essay “Saint Cesar of Delano.” A critic of SB 1070, Rodriguez unwittingly feeds the anti-immigrant fervor: When Cesar Chavez died in his sleep in 1993, not yet a very old man at 66, he died—as he had so often portrayed himself in life—as a loser. The… union he had cofounded was in decline; the union had 5,000 members, equivalent to the population of one very small Central Valley town. The labor…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t is an institutional one. Also speaking was, former President of Botswana Festus Mogae, who said that anti-gay stigma and discrimination hamper the fight against AIDS. As long as these exist, we cannot end AIDS. Africa must break down the barriers and obstacles that fuel discrimination against all groups, especially LGBT. If we do not act now with purpose, urgency and inclusivity, we risk the danger of deepening the divisions in our society, of c…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…explicit Christian messages, both in their lyrics and in their personal professions of faith. In the second decade of the new millennium, religious music has taken on a level of sophistication once reserved exclusively for the conflicted devout. Just ten years ago this wasn’t so. The George W. Bush administration, in which millennials came of age, was reigned over by a simple, angry deity who made one-dimensional characterizations of God more read…

Fragments of Secular Sanctity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ct XIV created the “Naked Academy” (l’Accademia del Nudo) inside the very palace where the Capitoline collection was housed. The idea was to promote the fine arts, by providing a space in which contemporary artists could sketch the naked human form, both from Classical statues and live models. But that was all taking place near the old Roman Forum, the heart of the ancient profane city on the other side of town from the sanctity of Saint Peter’s….

The Christian Worldview Revealed by Sessions’ Use of Romans 13

By Susan B. Ridgely

…esus as the son who submits himself to God; and the Holy Spirit as the manifestation of God’s grace. Each week’s video explored how this relationship of authority, submission and manifestation could be found throughout a truly Christian society in the home, the school, the workplace, and in government. In describing a godly government, Tackitt explained: Just as the Son is subject to the Father, the wife to the husband, and the elders of the churc…

Is God a Winning Strategy for Democrats?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…tell you, but division.” And sure, Jesus was talking about dividing families along religious lines, but remember that the White House also justified the child separation with Romans 13. To argue against division and family separation is the morally superior position, but it is not the only biblically-sanctioned one. That liberal Christians like Buttigieg adopt the morally superior position isn’t surprising—most Christians are better than Christia…

Men Without Guns: A Tribute to Larry McMurtry

By Amy Laura Hall

…termines so much.” McMurtry used his genuine, literary power to describe life alongside people smaller than the sky, who neither wield nor hire big guns. The quote above comes from McMurtry’s 1968 collection In A Narrow Grave, specifically “Here’s Hud in Your Eye,” about his visit to the set of the 1963 movie “Hud” based on his first novel Horseman, Pass By (1961). The producers needed a sexier name for the movie; a man on a horse just passing by…

Capitalism and the Anti-Modern Pope

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nti-Modernism (his essay, “Antimodernismo e magistero Romano: la redazione della Pascendi,” Rivista di storia del Cristianesimo 5 [2009], 345-364, offers an analysis of the discussions prior to release of the Vatican’s two primary anti-Modernist documents: the decree Lamentabili sane exitu and the encyclical Pascendi). So much, then, for the history of anti-Modern Catholic theology. But there is far more to the Church’s new anti-Modernism than the…