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American Evangelist Who Sparked Anti-Gay Panic Sued By Ugandan Gay Rights Group

By Sarah Posner

…es. As the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, author of a report on anti-LGBT evangelism in Africa, told RD’s Kathryn Joyce last year: When he goes to Uganda, he’s not known as Scott Lively, but as an American evangelical… The Africans don’t always have the resources to follow their statements so they say: this man of God says this is going on in the world. Or Scott Lively goes to the Uganda Anti-gay Conference, and the media says that an American evangelical says…

Looking at Libya, and at Ourselves

By Hussein Rashid

…y. But it now appears that the attacks against American interests in North Africa had little to do with the racist, oddly pornographic film about Muhammad, but was part of a coordinated Al-Qaeda plot to avenge the death of one of their own. We have become so conditioned to assume that Muslims are so sensitive to slights that they have no regard for human life—a contradiction I cannot understand—that we collectively assumed that the film was the pr…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…ppelgänger world you created… The Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa are united in a democratic superpower—the UAS—with its capital in Riyadh. Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey are independent democracies closely allied with the UAS. Israel, as you note, is located in central Europe; the story there is that after the Arabs beat Hitler, they broke Germany in two and gave the northern half to the Jews, something which the Lutherans and Cath…

Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…the multi-faceted nature of events unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I wrote this book hoping that anyone interested in the region, from the hobbyist to the expert, would find value in it. I worked hard to keep my writing clear and easy to follow, while presenting arguments I hope are still nuanced and insightful. Are you hoping to inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I…

Religion, Marriage, and Maine’s Tortured Soul

By Peter Montgomery

…dug in their heels—from Protestants in Northern Ireland, to Afrikaners in South Africa, to right-wing Israelis opposed to giving up their land. Says Fox, “They, too, feel disenfranchised and marginalized, that society is being turned upside down and their place in the world is being eroded. That interested me.” He says that when you try to tell a story, you search for a human connection, and that as a gay person, as someone who was adopted, as so…

A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ndoms to prevent HIV/AIDS; something that bishops in AIDS-ravaged parts of Africa had already been putting into practice. Commonweal, a Catholic magazine with a mostly conservative stance on abortion, has thrown its hat into the ring, publishing a trio of essays entitled “Can We Talk About Abortion?” The three scholars, Dennis O’Brien, Peter Steinfels, and Cathleen Kaveny, hew closely to hierarchical teaching, which they identify tout court as “th…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…t,’” she says with her hands on her hips. According to Bey, being an outed African-American woman atheist is the same as committing cultural suicide. You’re rejecting a long history and everything your ancestors believed and stood for. You are telling your mothers and sisters that you think they’re stupid. For African-American women, identity comes first. “Because of us, you are.” Enjoy Being an Atheist At last, the speaker I had waited for is int…

Would Gandhi Disband Occupy?

By Ira Chernus

…andhi’s program was especially vague in the earliest years of his work, in South Africa. To demand a detailed list of specifics from today’s Occupiers would be like making the same demand of Gandhi in the 1890s. Yet Gandhi must have known intuitively, even then, an essential truth he would later articulate clearly: The greatness of any society is not measured by its gross product, nor by the stellar achievements of its privileged few. The measure…

The New York Times Sunday Review has a Mormon Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…he Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Asia, Latin America, and Africa who have claimed Mormonism as their own. Missionary proselytizing certainly entails its own racial problematics, and one will find in the annals of Mormonism as much racial chauvinism as you’ll find in the history of any other conservative American denomination. But Mormons do not view conversion as a project to redeem other peoples from benightedness. It has histori…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…iscopalians, default to the constricting policies of their partners in the south, for example in Africa. She observed that when denominations yield to those interests on same-sex marriage, they leave local people in places like New York or Iowa, where same-sex marriage is legal, without pastoral resources. Ministry is not simple these days. It was refreshing to hear a bishop with a clear analysis of how social and religious change happens. In…