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How Biblical ‘Chosenness’ Has Justified Violence, Misogyny, and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

By Peter Laarman

…with it. Ours is a settler-colonial society, but so is (or was) apartheid South Africa. These two Calvinist-formed juggernauts of racial violence and displacement were both self-anointed New Israels where, as in “old” Israel itself, a sense of divine chosenness and murderous force unleashed against indigenes have been linked inextricably. For that matter, one might wish that Coogan had specifically invoked the term “settler colonialism,” especial…

Prominent Russian Orthodox Church Rejects Pro-Putin Patriarch Kirill, Raising Tensions Within Orthodox World

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ay nothing of the fact that the Moscow Patriarchate’s recent power grab in Africa, ostensibly motivated by the ecclesiastical crisis in Ukraine, has been suggested by some commentators to be a front for the FSB (essentially a post-soviet version of the KGB). The most recent letter to the faithful published with the consent of the highest ranking Moscow cleric in America makes it clear that they’re well aware of concerns about espionage, though it’…

Failure to Grasp the Distinct Character and History of Eastern Christianity is Compromising Our Understanding of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

By Katherine Kelaidis

…s often results in non-Western convert communities, such as in sub-Saharan Africa and South Korea, being completely ignored). This conflation ignores the very real history of conquest and occupation that occurred between Western and Eastern Christendom, in which the West has almost always been the aggressor, that stands as one of the foundations of modern Eastern Christian identity. For example, the 1204 Sack of Constantinople by Crusaders, so piv…

#OpenTheseDoors: A Movement to Turn New York’s Closed Churches into Shelters

By Kaya Oakes

…usa, Italy, where thousands of migrants have died making the crossing from Africa. In that speech, the Pope said that empty convents and monasteries “should not be turned into hotels by the Church to earn money … (the buildings) are not ours, they are for the flesh of Christ, which is what the refugees are.” Gargamelli adds that the church, as a property owner, has a “social responsibility that comes with that. Buildings,” she says, “belong to the…

Sanctioning Patriarch Kirill Would Send a Strong Message — Is the Problem That He Doesn’t Wear Mullahs’ Robes?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…rthodox example). Even clerics who cooperated with the apartheid-regime in South Africa, arguably one of the most sanctioned governments ever, didn’t incur any personal penalties. This discrepancy seems to suggest a part of the problem in the largely-Christian West’s response to the Russian Orthodox Church: Christian churches and clerics are given a much wider berth than Muslim clerics when it comes to supporting dangerous regimes and causes. Ther…

The Washington Post’s New Religious Right Now Blogger

By Sarah Posner

…lity and abortion. In Zimbabwe, Sekulow played a key role in launching the African Centre for Law and Justice: Together with the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the African Centre for Law and Justice is working to garner the support of religious leaders and activists for constitutional provisions that would “affirm that Zimbabwe is a predominantly Christian nation founded on biblical principles,” and require application of “the Laws of God in…

Dear Amazon Prime, I’m Not a Racist, But Why Are You Destroying My Precious Middle-Earth With Black Hobbits?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…abbot Hadrian—described by the 8th-century English monk Bede as “a man of African race”—came to England, helped establish the Church of England, changed the cultural trajectory of England and had an impact on the rest of Europe forever. Big deal, I changed my car battery last weekend, where’s my wiki page? The fact that the 13th-century English Domesday Book has a literal depiction of an average medieval Black man drawn into the manuscript doesn’…

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…l the Gays” and “Arrest all Homos,” has shown gay porn movies in church to promote the AHB. Rev. Kiyimba believes that Ssempa is behind the outings in Rolling Stone, though he has no evidence to support this claim. Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian Priest and author of a report on American evangelicals and anti-gay African clergy, told this reporter back in January, after Warren finally repudiated the bill in December 2009: “Ugandans,” and Ssempa in particul…

Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ts in the antebellum era and pre-enslavement religions of West and Central Africa, the preferred narrative of confused Southern negroes and Caribbean migrants appropriating authentic (read: White) Jewish identity takes precedence for those wishing to uphold White Jewish normativity. (Never mind that if the only necessary ingredients were Negro Spirituals and Prince Hall freemasonry there’d be a Hebrew Israelite congregation on every street corner…

Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism

By Geoffrey Goble

…the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the end of apartheid legislation in South Africa, the early 1990s were heady days for the democratic West. It was in this moment that the Dalai Lama and awareness of the so-called “Tibet question” exploded into mainstream Western awareness. In 1989, the Dalai Lama received the Nobel Peace Prize “for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and c…