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Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

By Christopher James Blythe

…he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name… his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” (Revelation 13:16-18) In the early twentieth century, this prophecy became linked to American fears of a powerful federal government. A 1943 letter to the editor of the Pampa Daily News was representative of this growing resentment coupling conspiracy with apocalypticism: We should count it dishonorable for a free people to pro…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iolence and other human rights violations against the LGBTI community. The historic resolution, while largely ignored by African governments, also condemned attacks by states against people on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. According to Mamba, Masutha addressed “the issue of traditional, cultural or religious beliefs” by quoting former UN High Commission for Human Rights Navi Pillay: “People are entitled to their opinion…

How Not To Defend Atheism

By Vlad Chituc

…the arrival of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Atheism is “as old as the hills,” Whitmarsh writes. He’s exaggerating, but just barely. So why is it that we think of atheism as such a modern development? Both sides of the “New Atheism” debate, Whitmarsh suggests, are complicit in this myth. For the atheist, tying one’s beliefs to science and the Enlightenment is flattering and self-congratulatory. For the believer, it’s easier to treat atheism as…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n our fight for the human rights of key populations and people living with HIV within the U.S. and in countries where the U.S. has hitherto provided important leadership,” according to a November 22 statement from the Global Network of People Living with HIV. A federal judge ordered the U.S. Passport Agency to reconsider its refusal to issue Dana Zzyym, an intersex Navy veteran because Zzyym “could not accurately choose either male or female on th…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…elites was about more than money. They inhabited a shared social world within which it was difficult to imagine labor as anything other than dangerous and threatening. And many workers agreed? Indeed. It would be a mistake to think that all working-class people supported the trade union movement, let alone that all embraced a pro-labor vein of Christian faith. Many did not. I delve into this theme in depth in chapter 3, which traces the religious…

Data-Mining Denominations: Same-Sex Marriage Edition

By Daniel Schultz

…people are by intensity, measured with the simple hack of subtracting the number of people Strongly Opposed to same-sex marriage from the number Strongly In Favor. Not surprisingly, since the Unitarian-Universalists only had 6 percent opposed, their position on the chart hardly budged at all. Other groups traveled a little more. Mainline Baptists, for example, strongly disapprove just a little more than they strongly approve. Evangelical Baptists…

Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories

By Rebecca Moore

…n neglected—Jim Jones and the leadership circle in Jonestown. Ironically, this is the conspiracy for which the most evidence exists. A plan had been devised, cyanide had been acquired, and dress rehearsals occurred, all with the complicity of a number of individuals. Unfortunately that cohort included my older sister Carolyn Layton and my younger sister Annie Moore (both of whom died in Jonestown). But quite a few others were part of the conspirac…

ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability

By Anthony B. Pinn

…US population. And African Americans represent an important demographic within this growth. Keep in mind, too, that the number of African Americans falling into this category has almost doubled over the past thirty-years. Belief in God doesn’t bind African Americans to one other, and it is unfortunate to assume—even with a laugh—that belief in God is some sort of litmus test. What holds African Americans together isn’t a particular response to the…

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

By Mary E. Hunt

…discrimination, the role of women and the laity in general? Is it that the hierarchical structures and long protocols that negatively affected swift actions focused more on media reactions?” She concluded with the need to “be proactive not reactive in combating the challenges facing the world of the young and the vulnerable, and look fearlessly into other issues of abuse in the church and society,” marching orders for those who want to solve this…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…st the same as saying only white people can live in the cities… that only white children can go to white schools… and it’s just as wrong.” While I do not doubt that there are certain similarities between apartheid (as well as US segregation) and the exclusion of women from Roman Catholic ordination, and while I can believe that Fresen’s feelings about these two injustices are similar, it is not ethically acceptable to say that they are “just the s…