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Oscar Watch: Why Spike Jonze’s Her Is Not About Technology

By Daniel Pecchenino

…OS imbued with the consciousness of philosopher and seeker Alan Watt. [Spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the movie, skip to the next graf. –The Eds] Samantha eventually reveals that her desire for knowledge has led her to be the OS for thousands of people, and that she’s in love with hundreds of them. Theodore’s sense that their love is absolutely unique is crushed; crumpling on subway steps, he recognizes that he has nothing left to offer Saman…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…t Jim Burroway reports at Box Turtle Bulletin that Museveni and his political allies distorted the contents of that report. Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma, an outspoken critic of American evangelicals’ anti-gay efforts in Africa, discusses their role in the Uganda law in a new video interview with The Real News Network; Kaoma, a researcher with Political Research Associates, played a central role in God Loves Uganda, a documentary on the same topic. In a re…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…writes at Bilgrimage: As Kevin Clarke indicates, the Southern Cross editorial also states flatly, “It would require a very peculiar reading of the Gospel to locate Jesus anywhere else but at the side of the marginalised and vulnerable.” At the Bondings blog of New Ways Ministry, Bob Shine points out that Fides, the Vatican news agency, has now published the Southern Cross editorial at its website. The Fides excerpt includes this comparison of anti…

Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…. To compensate for this, I created a supplement for the book, which is available online and includes relevant photos and videos. The word limit also restricted the book’s scope. If I had more space, I would have profiled more organizations (there are so many) and provided additional detail on the initiatives I did include. Some of the groups in this book have incredible histories that mirror the tumultuous events in regional countries. While we s…

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

By Aliyya Swaby

…an event to celebrate Eid-ul-Udha, a holiday that marks the end of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.They invite all the children in the neighborhood, regardless of religion. This year, dozens of children circled around a hired clown, who tied together balloons to entertain them. Several children took turns reciting the first several verses of the Quran in Arabic. Not all of them came from Muslim families, but had learned from constant exposure to th…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…d leave the comfort of a cozy church coffee hour with folks of his own social milieu to part with cloak and coin for the benefit of the dazed Iraq war vet with two pit bulls at the highway underpass down the road from church. It’s possible, then, to read the lingering significance of “Good Samaritan Jesus” for the religiously unaffiliated as a yearning for a more ethically engaged, prophetic Christianity. It does seem to be the case that some of t…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…Bisexuals, Trans and Intersex people for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) praised Grossman, who has been honored by, among others, the ACLU of the National Capital Area and the Hispanic National Bar Association. As chairperson of the UN Committee Against Torture, Grossman has criticized Russia’s crackdown on freedoms of assembly, association, speech and information. Vatican: New Cardinals, New Geography, Same Old, Same Old? Pope Francis…

Russian Orthodox Church Supports Referendum on Sodomy Laws

By Chrissy Stroop

…nite hiatus from service in the church—serves as creative director. As Global Voices Online’s Kevin Rothrock has pointed out, many in the liberal Russian blogosphere had until recently tended to regard Okhlobystin as only a charlatan and provocateur making outlandish statements as a form of performance art. His recent actions, however, are causing some of them to change their views and to see the man as a genuine fascist. It says something about t…

In Defense of Richard Dawkins, Awe-Full Scientist

By Alana Massey

…in them. As someone who does not believe there is a god to answer to eventually, all we have are our actions here on Earth. And to become a scientist is to make an important and bold contribution to the understanding of, and hopefully the improvement of, life on this planet. I read The God Delusion a month prior to enrolling at Yale Divinity School and it brought me to tears. Not because it was the straw that broke the camel’s back in terms of rel…

The Creepy Surveillance of Elf on a Shelf

By Kelly J. Baker

…watch children to find out whether they are naughty or nice. The elf surveils children during the day to uncover bad behavior, then it returns to the North Pole every night to report back to jolly old St. Nick. There are two rules that govern children’s interaction with their elf. First, the elf is magic, and a child’s touch can compromise its ability to return and report. Its enchantment disappears if a child touches it for any reason. Second, t…