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Obama Caves on (Another) Contraception Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…oaden the exemption for some for-profit employers “would effectively reduce, rather than expand, the scope of religious freedom.” But by creating an exemption to the mandate in the first place, which basically set-up the Hobby Lobby decision, and now by concurring that filling out a form to qualify for it is a violation of religious freedom, the administration is one step away from giving the bishops the broad exemption for any and all employers t…

Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground

By Lynne Gerber

…cky Coal Fields because of how he wrote about the intersections of the body, class, and faith. I also became persuaded of the power of fiction while writing this book and this is where my true writing envy lies. Recently I’ve been swooning over Barb Johnson’s More of This World and Maybe Another, Nicole Krauss’ Great House and Rebecca Brown’s The Gifts of the Body among many others. What alternate title would you give the book? It was called “Ruli…

Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ized. It’s a crime to be a homosexual here. Many people in Zambia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, who face potential imprisonment according to local law, say it’s a struggle to cope with the emotional trauma that comes with living in a place where one’s most personal practices or identity is regularly attacked. Suicide is common, they say, and so is alcohol and drug abuse. But because the LGBT community’s existence isn’t legal…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…ut a 2009 international report estimated the number of Muslims at around 24,000, comprising less than one percent of the country’s population. Most are of Lebanese, Palestinian or Indian descent. Though small, Panama’s Muslim community has grown increasingly ethnically diverse. The first Muslims to come to Panama were African slaves brought over by Spaniards in the mid-sixteenth century to work in the mines. Throughout the twentieth century, Panam…

Rick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution

By Rob Shryock

…y of an email from someone offended by a picture I posted. If you were hurt, upset, offended, or distressed by my insensitivity I am truly sorry. May God richly bless you. It’s hard not to get the sense from Warren’s delay in apologizing that he viewed a very serious failure of cultural competency on his part as an ephemeral, temporary issue, deserving of only a brief note, rather than some serious soul-searching. American evangelicals have shown…

Conservative Republican Muslim Condemns Fox Report on Congressional Staffers as “Anti-Muslim Bigotry”

By Sarah Posner

…peakers Dennis Hastert, also a Republican, and Nancy Pelosi. Over the years, the number of people attending grew, eventually leading to the creation of the CMSA around 2007, when Khan has already left Hill service and was working in the Bush administration. Like other Congressional staffer organizations, the CMSA does not receive any funding or support from the government; rather the status permits it to use space and provides a structure for lead…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…idered that work “not in step with the church,” Musaala said. In March 2013, Musaala wrote a paper challenging priestly celibacy and criticizing African priests who abuse minors or father children and abandon them. His archbishop, Cyprian Lwanga, said the paper “damages the good morals of the Catholic believers and faults the church’s teaching.” He suspended Musaala indefinitely from priestly duties, which means the priest cannot celebrate the sac…

Post-Election, “Is The Black Church Dead?” Redux

By Anthea Butler

…ocratic Party in 2012 is going to be tested by the Tea Party’s mobilization, voter apathy, and a growing number of conservative African-American candidates. A record number of black Republicans ran in this midterm election (some had already lost their primaries), and two are heading to Congress. Tim Scott will be the first African-American Republican to represent South Carolina in Congress since Reconstruction. (He beat out Strom Thurmond’s son in…

Is Obama the Antichrist? Why Armageddon Stands Between the President and the Evangelical Vote

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…ements, a hidden “plan of the ages” emerges. According to their decryptions, a number of events will transpire just before the apocalypse. These include a return of the Jews to Palestine, a decline in morals, religious apostasy, and the consolidation of independent nations into one super-state led by a seemingly benevolent leader who is actually the Antichrist. During the last 100 years, evangelicals have witnessed more and more evidence of these…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…throughout Mexico and Central America, as well as in Chile, Colombia, Spain, and, of course, the United States. California alone has around 40 churches, and there are major congregations in Houston, Atlanta, and New York City as well. Along the way, LLDM has been able to take advantage of a broader growth in Latin American Protestantism—a trend that has tended to favor pentecostal movements. According to Pew Research Data, one in five people in La…