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Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…anager, told reporter Don Makatile that people use the Bible and Qur’an to promote homophobia, but that the foundation hopes “to use church leaders to chart the way forward.” There is good news, according to The Other Foundation, such as the once-conservative Dutch Reformed Church relaxing its stance on gay unions among its congregants and the progressive views of such eminent church leaders as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba. South…

Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ries were presenting gay rights as a threat to family values. “That’s been promoted by key figures around the globe including the Russian state and the Orthodox church,” he said. As tensions with Brussels spiralled over Ukraine in 2014, some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters took to calling Europe “Gayropa” and promoting Russia as the antithesis of the West. Singapore: New rules require government permission for foreign involvement…

How to Craft a D.I.Y. Old Testament

By Benjamin Morse

…at my wedding, and the Bantu Baptists of Mtwaku in South Africa’s Eastern Cape whose faces lit up as we translated an early draft to them. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I hope many will find it a useful reference tool—a narrative Who’s Who of ancient Israel. I hope parents and children will engage with it together. And I hope the artwork will inscribe images of the biblical characters on readers’ minds…

Crying Witch: Learning From the O’Donnell “Dabbling” Debacle

By Spencer Dew

…ll dolls released by an action-figure company, featuring the stereotypical cape and pointy hat of a Hollywood witch-villain, merely reinforce this point. O’Donnell’s Bad Date Yet if we assume that whoever O’Donnell was “dabbling into witchcraft” with wasn’t any sort of Wiccan, what sort of Satanist might he have been? Diane Vera of “NYC Satanists, Luciferians, Dark Pagans, and LHP Occultists” released a statement to the press honing in on one of t…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…ic presence, all 400-plus pounds of it, usually sitting on a throne with a cape and scepter. His entrepreneurial instinct had him not only singing at the Apollo, but selling Solomon’s magic popcorn in the aisles. Traveling and singing throughout the Jim Crow South that refused to serve traveling black musicians like Walker and Burke, he sold pork chop sandwiches to other musicians on tour. His prodigious family of 21 children, 90 grandchildren, an…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…rican Archbishop of Canterbury. But who? Take Thabo Makgoba, archbishop of Cape Town, who sits in the chair once occupied by Desmond Tutu. Makgoba trained as a psychologist and is young (by the standards of bishops), educated, and eloquent. He has been outspoken on the continued deterioration in Zimbabwe and the persecution of the Church there by the Mugabe regime, as well as racial and inter-ethnic violence in South Africa. Nigeria has more bisho…

The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

By Dianne M. Stewart

…ir history and religious heritage: Bois Caïman is one of many Haitian landscapes where the divine Vodou community (Lwa) mercifully answered its devotees’ prayers for guidance and protection during their struggle to liberate the island from slavery and colonial rule. In all religions, gods are summoned to support their devotees in times of war and peace, tragedy, and celebration. Vodou is no different. Vodou priests and priestesses were first respo…

His Life in Our Hands: Remembering Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rking lot and fussed with the dial, confusing the chanting of the crowd in Cape Town—“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!—with static. When the clear, mellifluous voice of arguably the greatest advocate of justice and peace alive at the time spoke to the South African people, I wept with many around the world: “Comrades and fellow South Africans, I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand h…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…eagues gave the sticker test to 1,170 kids at schools in six cities—Amman, Cape Town, Chicago, Guangzhou, Istanbul, and Toronto. “Altruism was calculated as the number of stickers shared out of 10,” they write. The researchers also gave the kids another test, in which they watched videos of people hurting other people, and then judged (a) how mean the bullies were, and (b) how much punishment the bullies deserved. Then Decety and his collaborators…

Dear Reader, I’m Assuming You Don’t Know Any Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

Last Thursday, a reader from Cape Coral, Florida emailed the following to RD’s general mailbox in response, it appears, to my recent review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book, Heretic: Moghul naturally sees Islam as a religion, one of the several of mankind. I do NOT see Islam as a religion, but rather as a dangerous, repressive, subversive, anti-humanistic, military, financial and commercial conspiracy designed and intended to dominate the entire wor…