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Debunking the Myth That Democracy Is “Incompatible” With Islam

By Asma Afsaruddin

…untries, seeing no disjunction between religious beliefs and democratic principles. In a number of Muslim-majority countries, the preference was even stronger. In Jordan, for example, 54% of men and 55% of women want Sharia to be the only source of legislation. Interestingly, from a comparative perspective, a 2006 Gallup poll indicated that 46% of Americans say that they want the Bible to be a source of legislation. These findings corroborate earl…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…for church arsons more severe, designated the cancellation of church insurance policies by insurance companies to be a crime, designated loan funds for rebuilding, and developed strategies for arson prevention and community building. Meanwhile, the NCC was raising unprecedented amounts of funding from organizations, celebrities, and individual congregations. The burning of black churches was an outrage that transcended theological differences. Mil…

A Secret History of Satan

By W. Scott Poole

…Second, I hope to point out that America’s historic sense of its own innocence and righteousness, and the concomitant belief that its enemies represent the demonic Other, helps explain our historic obsession with Satan. The book’s examination of the strange byways of American belief about the Devil is really a brief filed against the whole notion of American exceptionalism, the idea that we are somehow exempt from the terror and the moral complexi…

The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…g that relationship to a community anymore. The form of this book covers a number of different genres, including commentary, exegesis, polemic, and memoir. Was there a model in mind? No, I didn’t have any model. The books about Jesus that I went to were either very, very personal and not analytic at all, or very analytic and not personal at all. I was trying to mesh those two voices. I let the stories steer me. Originally, I intended to do some ki…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…urch in Central Austin announced on Thursday “that the church would give sanctuary to Sulma Franco, a 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant who fled her home country after threats on her life.” “We’re honored to step into an ancient tradition: the tradition of churches offering sanctuary to someone seeking justice,” said the church’s reverend, Meg Barnhouse. Franco, who identifies herself as a lesbian woman, told the crowd she fled her home country in…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e background on the DUP: The party was founded on evangelical Christian principles and has been denounced as homophobic by critics. One of its former MPs, Iris Robinson, the wife of former DUP leader and Northen Ireland First Minister, Peter Robinson, has described homosexuality as an “abomination”. Another MP, Ian Paisley Jr, whose father Ian founded the DUP, said he was “repulsed” by homosexual acts. “I am pretty repulsed by gay and lesbianism”,…

The Quixotic Task of Debunking David Barton

By Paul Harvey

…rt. It’s a case study, in some ways, of recent depictions of the neuroscience of political differences, and in particular the way “righteous minds” conceive of the world. And it’s a perfect example of the thesis that Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson have outlined in The Anointed—the ways in which evangelical experts have created alternate intellectual universes that provide large audiences with a complete explanation of the world. In this case,…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…w do you feel about the cover? I think Beacon did a fantastic job in conceptualizing a number of the ideas in the book with this cover, which includes a male hand clenching a fistful of arrows. In Quiverfull, as parents seek to have a “full quiver” of children, the children become “arrows” in their parents’ arsenal, following the model of Psalm 127, “Like arrows in the hands of a warrior, so are sons born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man who…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…of land on the eastern outskirts of the city, which he named Hermosa Provincia—beautiful province. Ten years later, Aarón died, and Samuel took over as the church’s president, father in faith, and living apostle. At the time, the church was mostly a local affair, with its tight-knit membership clustered in the enclave of Hermosa Provincia, and the stated goal (which remains to this day) of restoring la iglesia primitiva. Over the next fifty years…

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…caust teaches us what can happen when state-sponsored, group-targeted violence is allowed to go unchecked.” But on May 1, police in St. Petersburg detained LGBT activists who were trying to raise awareness about the persecution in Chechnya. Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has denied that there are gay people in Chechnya, and suggested if there were, family members would take care of them, reportedly said there were plans to “eliminate” the g…