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2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…h the law it will support the bid of another law which has been deemed the most homophobic law in the world. The second law which is currently being pushed through targets the community by punishing gay sex in a public or private place with a prison sentence ranging from one to three years. The measure was introduced by MP Riyad Abdel Sattar, a politician leading the rhetoric that those who identify within the LGBTQ+ realm have a “disease”. As wel…

Obama Caves on (Another) Contraception Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…the Holy Father is successfully displaying a different, and I would argue more effective, model of evangelization. There are other issues the bishops might wish to attend to, such as climate change, or the on-going challenge of immigration, or creating greater solidarity with our Latin American brothers and sisters, or examining the ways our own U.S. economy creates a society of exclusion of the kind Pope Francis has denounced, or how they intend…

Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground

By Lynne Gerber

…amiliar. I’d be happy if readers came away from the book seeing dieting as more complicated, and more problematic, than they had previously thought and efforts at sexual reorientation more akin to popular self-help culture than they would assume. If evangelical readers found Christian practices somewhat strange and non-Christian readers found them oddly familiar, that would be great too. Is there a book you wish you had written? The book that was…

Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s “morality” campaign from St Petersburg. On vKontakte he claims to head a movement called “First Moral Russian Front”. He calls himself “Timur Bulatov (Isaev), social activist”. …Mr Bulatov told Russian news website Tayga.info that he had “rescued” Russian children from 65 “immoral” teachers. Zambia: Report on emotional trauma and suicide among gay men Prudence Phiri at Global Press Journal writes that suicide is “a common end” for gay men in Zam…

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

By Aliyya Swaby

…ted to Islam twelve years ago and is married to an Indian man. Though Jama Mosque is more inclusive of converts now than before, she doesn’t feel completely welcome in the Indian community. Her husband’s family has trouble accepting her and even tried to delay the couple’s marriage. A common perception exists of converts as less knowledgeable or authentic Muslims than those in the immigrant communities. My father struggled with this when teaching…

Rick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution

By Rob Shryock

…ebrew ironic humor, Jesus inserted several laugh lines – jokes – in the Sermon on the Mount? The self-righteous missed them all while the disciples were undoubtedly giggling! Warren, possibly America’s most influential evangelical, clearly views his sense of humor as a crucial part of his pastor persona (his defensiveness even echoes comedian Daniel Tosh’s in the wake of an incredibly insensitive rape “joke” last year). At any rate, Warren, who is…

Magic in the Air: How Intellectuals Invented the Myth of a Mythless Society

By Jason Josephson Storm

…birth to the academic disciplines. I’ve also uncovered that a number of famously “modern” intellectuals held unusual religious/spiritual beliefs that that their later followers and even critics tend to be unaware of—and might be pissed to discover/have exposed. Still, I’d rather be controversial than uphold a misguided status quo! What alternative title would you give the book? I had always meant for the title to be “The Myth of Disenchantment,”…

Are We Entering the End Times for Mainline Seminaries?

By Elesha Coffman

…kable that so many mainline seminaries are still around. The denominations most commonly labeled mainline—United Methodist, Lutheran (ELCA), Presbyterian (PCUSA), Episcopal, American Baptist, United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ—peaked in membership in the 1960s, two generations ago. Downward trends in membership have affected seminaries in multiple ways, financial and missional. “Rich endowments can stave off the inevitable so long tha…

‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?

By B. Howell Belser

…rofile campaign to date was HPA for the Win in June 2010, during which HPA mobilized huge numbers of online voters from across fandoms and online communities to win a $250,000 grant from the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook. Then there’s the current “Deathly Hallows” campaign, which centers on the release date of a Harry Potter movie—in this case, The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on Nov. 19. The Deathly Hallows campaign will run for nine mont…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…Says His Anti-Gay Religious Views Do Not Trump Constitution Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said this week that comments he made last week promoting religious views in the public arena and saying that the law should prohibit divorce and adultery were being misinterpreted to mean he was not committed to protecting gay rights. He vowed to protect all citizens’ rights and said he would not allow his faith to take precedence over the Constitution. “I k…