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Bless Your Heart! The Religious Right Tries to Be Civil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rough and often hateful rhetoric, especially toward gays and lesbians. The latest soft touch is something called “The Civility Project.” Founded by Republican Mark DeMoss, who worked as a volunteer for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, and Democrat Lanny Davis, a longtime Clinton adviser, the project seeks to “get Americans to agree to disagree without being disagreeable.” Those who sign up for the project are asked to take a pledge: I will be…

Reality as Revelation: “Hail Caesar!” is the Coen Brothers’ Most Religious Movie Yet

By Elijah Siegler

…ney as movie star Baird Whitlock is handed the daily script pages from the latest Capitol Pictures production, and he is told a word has been changed. Later in the film, Clooney is delivering a big speech in character and he stumbles over one word. The word that has been switched out? “Passion.” The word he forgets? “Faith.” Moments like this appear in most of their 17 films, but they go by so fast, that for years the debate was whether the Coens…

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…rful and dreadful,” and her questioning is what compelled her to write her latest book, Our Lives Matter: A Queer Womanist Theology. I first met Rev. Dr. Lightsey when I was a graduate student at a Forum for Theological Exploration conference. In this conversation about her new book, we talk about the Black Lives Matter movement, its connection to queer womanist theology, and her transformative experiences on the ground in Ferguson and Baltimore….

Claude, Adieu: A Farewell to Lévi-Strauss

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…f too many apostles of the Revolutionary “Rights of Man.” If I mySelf am a promoter of human rights, then what have I made of the Other who opposes me? The Cold War was, for Lévi-Strauss, simply the latest instantiation of a perennial, tragic human error. Still, this restless traveler and gorgeous stylist insisted that neither resignationism nor monasticism were credible modern options: if there is no New World, then there is no place to which one…

How Do Christians, Atheists Compare on Muslim Tolerance?

By Darren E. Sherkat

…spected terrorists. The response of these self-professed Christians to the latest attack is remarkably different from that of Democratic presidential candidate and secular Jew, Bernie Sanders, who condemned Trump in particular for using this tragic event to spark Islamophobia. Tolerance is a hallmark of Western democracies. A core tenet of democratic societies is the freedom of religious and political expression, and even the most obnoxious and ri…

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…