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

By Peter Montgomery

…an questionnaire on family-related issues that Pope Francis had asked last October to be distributed “immediately” and “widely as possible.” NCR says about a dozen U.S. dioceses reported the results publicly. National Catholic Reporter also noted this week that Ireland’s bishops have decided not to publish responses to the questionnaire, even though some other European bishops’ conferences have done so. The decision has drawn protest from the refo…

You’ve Got Male: A Synod on the Family Slideshow

By Mary E. Hunt

…e Synod on the Family (EXTRAORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS 5-19 OCTOBER 2014) is in full swing in Rome. The official photos of the opening tell the story better than any comment an informed theologian might offer. The plethora of men in vestments, the dearth of women in any form (except the painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary), and the conspicuous absence of children (save little Jesus in his mother’s arms) speak volumes about the meeti…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ory.” One wonders whether the proliferation of unsorted images—on our smartphones and in proprietary clouds—might undermine our ability to let go of the past and construct more meaningful long-term memories. More than a mere problem of accuracy in storage and retrieval, memory requires the skillful exercise of selective judgment. It requires meaningful participation in decisions about what and how to remember, as well as what and how to forget. Th…

Challenge to ‘un-Africanness’ of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion over abortion, contraception and gay marriage. Also looking toward the October bishops’ synod on the family in Rome, the European Forum of LGBT Christian Groups has released a report on the experiences of LGBT Catholics in Africa, where many Catholic leaders have supported laws criminalizing LGBT people. Excerpts of the report were published by the Washington Blade. FromTogo: “Sadly, the biggest threat to the Togo LGBT community is the church…

Do Make Trouble: The Complex World of Radical Jewish ‘Revenge Theologian,’ Meir Kahane

By Shane Burley

…tical Thought of an American Jewish Radical Shaul Magid Princeton U. Press October, 2021 Kahane’s violence often left his ideas to be dismissed as the ravings of either a thug or a madman (perhaps both), but, as Magid unpacks, he had a complex worldview whose purpose was the reclamation of Jewish identity that Zionism promised to Jews throughout the world, an identity that negated the humiliations he ascribed to the state of diaspora. RD recently…

The Christian Guilty Conscience Over the History of Anti-Semitism Isn’t Enough

By Peter Laarman

…lating to God is now available to us.” – Andy Stanley, Christianity Today, October 19, 2018 Liberal Christians—my tribe—have the kind of complex and loving relationship with Jews and Judaism that prompts us to grieve and to show up in solidarity when something like the Pittsburgh shooting happens. We’ve studied the grisly history of Christian anti-Judaism. We see the connection between, say, the Gospels’ collective blaming of Jews for the death of…

On Guns and Religious Liberty, Ben Carson “Not an Authentic Adventist”

By Sarah Posner

…s did not return as prophesied by William Miller, the Baptist preacher, on October 22, 1844. In the wake of the Great Disappointment, Ellen White began having dreams and visions, which led early Adventists to see the Great Disappointment not with sadness, but as a key historical moment, “the start of Jesus’ final work of atonement,” according to the Adventist Review, writing on the 170th anniversary of the Great Disappointment. According to the of…

Will the US Naval Academy Grant The Satanic Temple Equal Rites?

By Becky Garrison

On October 8, 2019 a group of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) who participate in The Satanic Temple (TST) sent an internal email, posted to the Instagram account @drunkoldgrad, notifying fellow midshipmen that “Starting this Thursday, Satanic Services will be offered on the yard.” Since they sent the email without first securing approval from Navy brass, the USNA was quick to respond. In their estimation, while the USNA planned to app…

Harold Camping Is Not Sorry

By Daniel Silliman

…e 90-year-old radio preacher who predicted the end of the world in May and October, who said the Rapture would happen in the spring and then the violent end of the world this fall, and that this was guaranteed in the Bible, known with certainty to be the Truth, capital-T, the guarantee of an honest God, released one last statement after his latest date for the final coming of Christ passed without incident. The Christian Post ran the text of that…

Shifting Talk on Mormon Racism Reveals Divisions within LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…ence edition. Some hoped that just as Elder Boyd K. Packer’s controversial October 2010 General Conference on homosexuality had been edited for publication, so too might Elder Dickson’s talk be edited to correlate with official scripture. But the talk will appear in print, unchanged. One month. Two high-placed LDS sources. Two very different takes on the faith’s historic racism. One offers no excuses for priesthood segregation. One makes it sound…