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LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nationalists, but was backed by left-wing groups. Russia: Gov’t Cancels Exchange Program as Gay Teen Opts to Stay in U.S. The Russian government is up in arms about a teenager who declined to return home after participating in an exchange program. The student is reportedly saying with a gay couple that has other foster children. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reports that a Russian official has charged that the 17-year-old boy was illegally put up for a…

Conservative Cardinals’ Controversial Letter Cites Church Appeal

By Patricia Miller

…and the recognition of same-sex marriage. The evidence that a progressive change in doctrine would lead to a collapse of the church is circumstantial at best, whereas the evidence that the change in doctrine might revitalize the church is substantial. The conservative cardinals and others in the hierarchy aren’t fighting change because it might kill the church, they’re fighting it because their hardcore orthdoxy allows them to maintain their hege…

Pope’s Comments on “Ideological Colonization” of Gender Signal Rupture With Scientific Community

By Michael Schulson

…concept of the Big Bang, and embraced the scientific consensus on climate change. Of course, defining human experience isn’t quite the same as measuring the level of the ocean. Psychological definitions are openly subjective—and reflective of ideology—in a way that a theory of evolution or a model of climate change is not. Still, this is what it looks like when a major religious authority parts ways with an emerging scientific consensus. At the v…

Why Is the Economy Stuck?… Market Theology for Nonbelievers

By Daniel Schultz

…ystem of producing losers and winners is largely arbitrary and needs to be changed, and we’re not going to get market change until we understand, paradoxically, that the market can’t do it all. Without the freedom to walk away from the market, there is no freedom to be anything but at the mercy of the market. It’s almost impossible to be entirely free of the market these days, but it is possible, and politically feasible, to decouple social and ma…

Updated: Gay Activist Beheaded in Uganda…
Is it a Hoax?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…’s death is tragic, and stands as a reason why the Anglican Communion must change its teaching on homosexuality. There is no reason why the consciences of those who oppose the full inclusion of LGBT people should be allow to inhibit change in the church. The prevention of torture and murder of any individual must always be the first priority, ensuring that all citizens and Christians can live in an environment of love, security and affirmation. Th…

Did Pope Francis Win, Lose or Draw at the Family Synod?

By Patricia Miller

…e given to gay Catholics in the mid-synod report raised hopes that a major change in the church’s attitude, if not its teaching, was just around the corner. The fact that those changes were scrapped—along with language acknowledging value in “irregular” partnerships and a possible opening for divorced Catholics to receive communion—in the final document shouldn’t come as a surprise. The overwhelming majority of bishops and cardinals at the synod w…

You Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton on Consuming Religion

By Kathryn Lofton

…ined the relationship between religion and consumption to the discourse of change. I repeatedly showed that this connection is there—that when you observe a consumer practice it is rarely far from a claim of transformation. But again, I never wager an explanation as to why. In Consuming Religion, I discovered answers to both dangling problems in the conjoined histories of families and corporations in the United States. Not only how so many busines…

Planetary Profiling: Dr. Who Part II

By James F. McGrath

…verse. Of course, the Doctor does change the past; his presence in history changes it—even if that change causes it to be how we already know it to be. I’ve gotten a sense that there’s a semi-eternal aspect to Time Lords, that part of them exists outside of time, allowing them to make changes that other, temporal beings wouldn’t be allowed to make. But mere humans don’t have that ability. Thus, an answer to the question posed by James McGrath in o…

Protesting the Pope’s (Not Yet Released) Environmental Encyclical? Check Your Doctrine

By Kevin M. Lowe

…y scientists and the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).” That level of consensus, they stated, required taking action. But that action needed to be complex and ecological in nature; in a 1991 pastoral statement called “Renewing the Earth,” the bishops had already written that “the web of life is one….Our tradition calls us to protect the life and dignity of the human person, and it is increasingly clear that this…

The Untold Story of Religious Support for Gay Rights

By Rebecca Alpert

…on, or boiling a kid in its mother’s milk for example). We have pointed to change over time and proved that the Hebrew and Greek terms in Biblical texts couldn’t possibly have relevance to LGBT relationships today. We have examined those texts closely to uncover what they might have meant in context. And we have asserted that values in the Bible (like “love your neighbor”) contradict the message of hatred towards gays that’s implied by the Bible-t…