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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…thening the country’s anti-gay laws – which already have penalties of up to 15 years in prison – by spreading Scott Lively-like warnings about “the dangers posed to children by homosexuality.” Dr. Antonious Seyoum, an anti-gay evangelical preacher, is frequently quoted in the media. Southeast Asia: ‘Modest Signs of Change’ in ASEAN Countries Writing for The Diplomat, Kirsten Han looks at “modest signs of change” in the direction of LGBT acceptance…

UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…aracterized the initiative as a consummation of the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, when Quebec society first began to reject the dominant political role enjoyed by the Catholic Church, and thus a necessary step to protect the public sphere from “religious influence,” modeled in part on the legal initiatives adopted in France, and framed as a repudiation of “Canadian” multiculturalism policy as a weak and dangerously indiscriminate mechanism for re…

Why Christians Should Not Host Their Own Passover Seders

By Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy

…r year. It is possible to study the celebration of Passover as a Christian spiritual group if it is done with respect and knowledge. My own church hosts a Mediterranean potluck with hummus, pitas, falafel, and we read the Passover story from the Bible, look at haggadot of all types and discuss the elements—but do not actually go through the ritual of the seder. We leave speculation of which prophecies Jesus fulfilled for a different time and focus…

Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…code that still criminalizes consensual same-sex conduct, a remnant from an 1860 British Colonial Era law that exists in many constitutions across the Commonwealth countries even today. Malta: Civil Union & Adoption Law, Trans Protections in Constitution This week the parliament of Malta passed, and President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca signed into law, a civil unions bill under which same-sex couples married in another country will be recognized…

Jesus’ Language More Complicated Than Experts Claim

By Seth Sanders

…daism is a “dead” religion serving the “letter of the law,” not its living spirit. This view of Hebrew as confined to the synagogue avoids conclusive evidence for spoken Hebrew in this period, found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Bar Kokhba documents, and early Rabbinic literature. The Jewish scholar Moshe Segal wrote his groundbreaking grammar of Mishnaic Hebrew as a polemic to combat this view, pointing out continuities between late Biblical Hebrew an…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missioner Jean Donovan. On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her 15-year-old daughter were massacred by the Salvadoran military. When U.S. congressional leaders announced that those responsible for the slayings had been trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Georgia, I and a small group of friends returned to Georgia to investigate the SOA. In 1990,…

Does God know if I cheat on a test in São Paulo?

By Michael Schulson

…ties and steppes of Southern Siberia. Does the cher eezi (a powerful local spirit) know what color your house is? Does the cher eezi know if you lie? Does the cher eezi know if you lie in Moscow? In all of these situations, even if the cher eezi knows, does it care? We might call this discipline theopsychology: what do I think about what the gods think? The researchers found that Tyvans attributed less knowledge about moral activities, and less co…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…ot through rhetoric, but through actual cultural exchange, a generosity of spirit, and patient exposure to difference. Muslim societies are tremendously variegated, endlessly diverse, and culturally rich; Western societies are profoundly more welcoming than some in the Muslim world portray them to be. As often as individual Muslims reject extremism, they frequently lack a megaphone to amplify their voice. All the same, there are many who are doing…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…as a nonprofit in 2001. By 2007, 80 campus groups had affiliated with them, 100 by 2008, 174 by 2009, and today there are 394 SSA student groups on campuses across the country. “We have been seeing rapid growth in the past couple of years, and it shows no sign of slowing down,” says Jesse Galef, communications director at SSA. “It used to be that we would go to campuses and encourage students to pass out flyers. Now, the students are coming to us…

Christ is Pissed, Again

By Hollis Phelps

…for public display does so well aware of the outrage that it may cause. In 1989 right-wing Christian senators, including Jesse Helms, attacked the work, and it was vandalized in 1997 while on display in Australia at the National Gallery of Victoria. Just last year a group Roman Catholic fundamentalists, bent on an anti-blasphemy campaign, took hammers to Piss Christ in Avignon. Innocence of Christians Tomorrow’s exhibition of the work has already…