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Photo of a Dying Man: All the Wrong Reasons

By Rachel Wagner

…ation for its own sake is not meaningful ritual work. For ritual to have real moral power, it requires context, community, compassion and purpose. So whereas I acknowledge the right of the Post to publish this photograph, I grieve the impulse that prompted its editors to do so, and I mourn the cultural context that would think this a proper thing to do. [Read Jason Anthony’s opposing opinion—“The Journalist’s Job”—here.] The author would like to…

Pope Follows Himself in Twitter Echo Chamber

By Elizabeth Drescher

…fex, which is already generating a range of serious and snarky questions, will allow the Pontifical Council for Social Communications to select questions or themes which the Benedict might address generally. As Monsignor Paul Tighe, the former Fox News correspondent who is the secretary of the council, has noted, “it’s really an entry level of engagement.” It is not, however, different from the social media approach deployed by other world religio…

Lindsey Graham and Al Qaeda Share the Same “Allahu Akbar”

By Nathan Lean

…he nefarious Egyptian doctor posted “general guidelines for jihad” on several online forums, as if he, of all people, is the authoritative voice for defining such things. Absurdly, for many people on the right, he is, the authoritative voice. Graham and others employ the term precisely in a way that legitimizes that understanding and gives currency to such usage in discourses about Muslims. For them, Zawahiri’s jihad is more correct than the jihad…

LGBT Affirming Christians Issue Prebuttal to Values Voter Summit

By Peter Montgomery

…Among the speakers were the Very Rev. Gary Hall, Dean of Washington National Cathedral, who said it is important for LGBT-affirming Christians to say “as loudly and clearly as we can” that not only is homosexuality not a sin, “homosexuality is actually good, because it is a gift from God.” Too many children and youth suffer in silence in oppressive families, schools, and churches, said Hall, and if “those of us in pulpits” can say with energy, cl…

Even Richard Dawkins is Right Sometimes

By Paul Wallace

…This is the great generosity of science, and its great strength: It is actually all right there, ready to be seen and understood. It is relievedly explicit. It takes effort, sure, just as Enns suggests; it’s not easy to become a professional research biologist. But the reason biologists agree on evolution is because it’s a relatively simple matter to be objective about fossils and genes. Unlike the objects of religion—the divine and humanity’s rel…

Catholics Urge Pope to Remove Bishop Who Ignored Child Sex Abuser

By Patricia Miller

…rt said that the Vatican’s failure to remove bishops who facilitated pedophilia by failing to report it or moving abusers from parish to parish was one of the major unresolved problems of the church’s handling of the child sex abuse scandal. Father Connell, a canon lawyer who is part of Catholic Whistleblowers, said in the letter to Pope Francis that canon law requires a “just penalty” for someone who allows harm to befall another by failing to ex…

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…ge. Yolanda Elliott, president of Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International, also criticized the denomination’s “deadly” denial and silence on the stigmatization and criminalization of homosexuality in Africa. According to Elliot, SDA Kinship has members from more than 80 countries, but not one was invited to speech to this week’s sexuality summit. The Seventh-day Adventist church could be using its influence in the region to quell homophobic at…

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

…singled out for their activism and perhaps for him to opt for a more general call to pray for those with whom they disagree during the season of Lent. Surely God already knows who the abortion providers and supporters are. The identification of these women without their permission in a movement that is still populated in many corners by dangerous and organized people committed to violence is too reminiscent of past outings that led to direct viol…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…to you to strike the extremely difficult balance that both preserves critical bilateral relationships and champions the values we most cherish, because our commitment to democracy and human rights roundly reinforces our national security. So, even when it is politically difficult, we ask you to find new ways to empower those who are most marginalized in their societies. In those almost eighty countries around the world where we find laws and pol…

Promise Keepers Launches Effort to Support Messianic Jews in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…rs, best known for its 1997 “Stand in the Gap” rally on Washington’s National Mall in 1997, is planning a revival in Jerusalem this September, to bolster Israel’s tiny community of Messianic Jews. Promise Keepers has long been aligned with Messianic Judaism, but this is the first time it has hosted an event in Israel. This new effort is explicit in celebrating the growth in numbers of Messianic Jews, and says that “Jesus Himself, prayed that thes…