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The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…Gaiman’s American Gods, and it becomes the focus for Guillermo del Toro’s latest monster movie. One part Beauty and the Beast, one part Creature from the Black Lagoon, one part Enuma Elish, one part Cold War drama, del Toro’s mythical extravaganza transmutes all into a contemporary story that plays out relevant social issues like immigration, race, and disability. It’s also an ode to cinema as the atmosphere in which modern humans live, its pictu…

Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sake of the little ones. Many little ones will fall into this sin if LGBT promoters push them. And we also protest for the sake of the LGBT promoters themselves. For their sin will be multiplied by every abused child that they push into sodomy.” Orozco discounts the likelihood of such an appeal, since Belizean law generally bars “interested parties” from appealing if the parties themselves decline. Rather, his focus is on understanding the decisi…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…mattered. And it was especially true of religious people. Son of God, the latest cultural product aimed at the supposedly burgeoning Christian consumer public, embodies this mode of kitsch religiosity. Of course Jesus is hot, white, and soulful. Of course he is just absolutely perfect. That’s what a religious person should aspire to be: nice, clean, square, entirely in major key. More than the Biblical literalism of the film—a term which is hardl…

Meditation is the Multi-Tasker’s Answer

By Andrew Aghapour

…educe stress, and aid in multi-tasking (full text here). This study is the latest in a series linking various meditation techniques to health benefits, such as improved cognitive fluidity, increased density in the part of the brain associated with self-regulation (including dieting), decreased risk for cardiovascular disease in at-risk teens, and increased creativity. During the UW study, three groups of 12-15 human resource managers were monitore…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of Panama belongs to all those who live in it. From the Mayor’s Office we promote respect for diversity #CeroDiscriminacion.” Armenia: Justice Ministry says couples married in other countries should be recognized The Justice Ministry has confirmed that a same-sex couple married abroad should receive the same benefits in that marriage. China: Targets of sweeping new censorship rules for online media include homosexuality The Chinese government imp…

NPR Largely Misses Critical Distinction on Religious Freedom vs. LGBTQ Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ted and a correction has been added. — eds However well-intentioned, NPR’s latest foray into “religious freedom” falls victim to several false equivalencies and ends up leaving the reader/listener vulnerable to the problematic arguments of those pushing for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people. Over the past week, NPR has aired at least five stories exploring the current state of LGBTQ rights as they pertain to trans students, residents,…

What Should the Vatican Say to the (Last Generation of) Nuns?

By Peter Manseau

…arley, the theologian and former Yale Divinity School professor who is the latest target of the Vatican’s crackdown against members of the religious communities that once built, staffed, and embodied the spirit of the Church in America. Coming as it does in the wake of the rebuke delivered last month to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the censure of Sister Farley’s book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, is enough to…

RDPulpit: Religious Right Censors Austria’s Gay Jesus

By Kittredge Cherry

…eedom of speech in other countries. The recent Austrian controversy is the latest battle in an ongoing war over queer Christian art, some of the most dramatic cases of which are documented in my book, Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ, and More. The brave, visionary artists who portray the gay Jesus face censorship, hate mail, violence, death threats, and/or vandalism that destroy their work. Many are accused of blasphemy as religious freedo…

Why the Lewd Trump Tapes Won’t Matter (As Much As You Think) in White Christian America

By Paul Harvey

…y long list. Curious to see how the Trump demographic is responding to the latest scandal, I took this opportunity to survey my Facebook “acquaintances,” mostly consisting of those I grew up and went to K – 12 school with in rural northwest Oklahoma. These are folks tailor-made for the Trump demographic: white, living in or close to the hometown, Christian, and angry in ways they themselves find difficult to specify (although the frequency of thei…

Planned Parenthood Gets Religious Support

By Patricia Miller

…ensuring women’s health and moral autonomy. We are deeply troubled by the latest deplorable attacks on Planned Parenthood by faux groups, which demonstrate the lengths to which antiabortion extremists will go to curtail women’s right to obtain a legal medical procedure. Our organizations share a faith-centered commitment to the most marginalized and the most vulnerable of our society, including those with limited financial means or those who live…