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Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

By Mary E. Hunt

…would pay them as restitution for the violence they caused. One effective way to use money for leverage is to encourage people, especially regular churchgoers, to redirect their giving. There are untold numbers of religious/spiritual non-profits, including women’s religious orders that are good alternatives to the local parish for providing services in the community. If one is conscience stricken about worshipping in a building one does not pay t…

The Humanities Make Life Bearable

By Peter Laarman

…to the authors of this report that there might be a tiny problem with the way colleges and universities increasingly mirror the corruption of the corporate world, with growing numbers of senior administrators pulling down fat salaries while academic proletarians actually do the undergraduate teaching in humanities departments? Did it occur to them that there might be a problem with the way even some elite colleges now show their contempt for huma…

Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…he Israelites leave Egypt, they are repeatedly urged to repudiate Egyptian ways; i.e., to leave behind the ways of abusive power and excessive personal acquisition. They are instructed in ways of maintaining the commons and sharing God’s abundance. Initially they have no king. And when they finally acquire one, the idea of kingship remains the idea of serving and maintaining the commons. Kings who forget this are ipso facto unworthy of David’s thr…

Anger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With Ferguson

By Eva Mroczek

…, but includes much earlier material.* The first thing to notice about the way the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan retells the story begins with Cain’s conception: here he is not the son of Adam and Eve, but the result of a union between Eve and the fallen angel Sammael. From the beginning, then, Cain is half-demonic, which goes a long way to explaining some of the baffling aspects of the biblical story. (This may be a very old interpretive motif that the…

British Culture Wars: An American Import, By Way Of Globalized Theopolitics

By Sarah Posner

…Westminster document sees it not as a religious conscience issue, but as a way of marginalizing Muslims. As Brown puts it, by calling for protection of those “appropriately seeking asylum,” the Westminster Declaration suggests “the beginnings of a religious test on immigration policy. Muslim immigration makes these people very nervous, but poor Christians, especially fleeing from persecution in Muslim countries, should, they believe, be welcomed.”…

Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

By Beatrice Marovich

…spiritually attuned to irreligious forms of creativity, will find some new ways to communicate about these things. But if science is left out of the mix, we will always be off in lala land. We need the incarnational practice of taking into account the most precise knowledge we can find, in the face of the mystery of our embodied existence. As a theologian, what do you think is left out of the mix if God, or the divine, isn’t entangled with other f…

Make Way For The Homo Superior: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 6

By Mark Dery

…a dove, haloed by flames. Ziggy is Christlike in other, equally roundabout ways. In “Moonage Daydream,” he boasts that he’s “a rock ‘n’ rollin’ bitch,” a “mama-papa coming for you”; in “Lady Stardust,” he slip-slides between genders, morphing into the ladyboy of the title. Ziggy’s twofold nature—gender-bending ladyboy, switch-hitting bisexual, “mama-papa” (an image recalling the freakshow hermaphrodite known as a half-and-half)—aligns him with the…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…they can manage to reconnect with their faith in a personal and spiritual way, this can give them great endurance, resilience and hope which are all necessary virtues to survive the hardships that they face. It certainly has worked that way for me. The second hope I have is that the book will be read by the Muslim parents family and friends of LGBTIQ folks. The book lays out an alternative to prejudice and rejection of LGBTIQ Muslims, and that al…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y reality for many people is certainly not natural.” Anglican Communion: A way forward? The Institute of Public Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science last month published “Anglicans and Sexuality: A Way Forward?” The report’s authors describe its purpose: The purpose of the research was to consider the role, both historic and current, of the Anglican Communion, and individual provinces and churches that make up the Commun…

News of “Gay Gene’s” Death Greatly Exaggerated

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ower to discredit any belief that gay and lesbian people are fine just the way they are and don’t need anyone to help them “change” into something they are not. The “news” story is simply another reason for leaders of anti-gay organizations, like Peter LaBarbera at Americans for Truth About Homosexuality to get in their two cents about how gays and lesbians can pray away the gay: “Change through Christ is possible — and it’s one of the most heartw…