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A Moral For Holy Week 2010 in the Christian Tragedy of Mark’s Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…at all possible, to pass him by. None of the men who accompany him see any sign that anything is wrong, and so they sleep through Jesus’s clear warning of an approaching storm. Jesus is betrayed by one of his own closest followers, a man who hands him over to the crowd, poignantly enough, with a kiss. The torture to which the man is subject is revealed to us in an unblinking and shocking way. The Roman administrators go out of their way to break J…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…ventually, a federal judge would strike down the teaching of intelligent design as unconstitutional, noting that it was merely revamped creationism. Intelligent design advocacy groups would retreat and lick their wounds only to reemerge, as they have done recently, pushing for new anti-evolution concepts in the public schools under the guise of “strengths and weakness” and “academic freedom” bills. But that would be more than a year away. At the t…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…epressive society. In March, Lene Segbo, the minister of health refused to sign documents necessary to open the hospital and revoked the licenses of doctors associated with Clitoraid. “Medical organizations should be focused on saving lives and not advertising their religion in an attempt to convert vulnerable people,” he declared. Clitoraid has responded with a campaign of protests and petitions and, in an interview with Afriquinfos, Boisselier b…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…ly meeting at six, many of the participants had decamped to Starbucks to design flyers to spread the word. They left the poster board that listed goals, handwritten contributions of anyone who wanted to chime in, under a tree in the square (see image above). Some goals were appropriately wonky for DC (“reinstate Glass-Steagall”); others were overbroad and silly (“abolish capitalism + the state”); others were born of frustration (“get jobs for educ…

Does Pope Francis Support LGBT Civil Unions?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…in toeing the official line against any formalization of LGBT relationships, the doctrinal flexibility expressed in his initial approach to the issue seems yet another sign that Pope Francis is not wedded (if we may) to the doctrinal and pastoral rigidness of his predecessors. …

A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…er. It gives us an inside peek at Badu’s journey towards her interior, pre-signified self—a place of complete vulnerability where she is able to absorb the things in life that are life giving for her. Thus, in my estimation, “Window Seat,” with all of its concerns, is sacred. Shot without permits, permission, a script or outside direction, at a national landmark reserved for our beloved fallen President, Badu creatively mixes her blood narrative w…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d of Friday’s constitutional referendum has featured searing testimonies designed to make the voters of this predominantly Roman Catholic nation look in the mirror. Members of many of Ireland’s most prominent families have come out of the closet in hopes of challenging their neighbors’ attitudes to homosexuality. The contest has pit the waning power of the Catholic Church against the secular-minded government of Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Reuters’…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…e violence, as if all we need to understand the one is the other. One sure sign of an Islamophobe is this: you need only remove a few words here and there and their argument pertains with equal vehemence to the West, or Christianity, or Europe. ‘All Muslims are x,’ they say, ‘because some Muslims do x.’ Surely the stuff Western civilization was built off of. V. One Of Us is Rubber and The Other is Glue Many Islamophobes desperately want to be enga…

Cafeteria Cockroaches and Synagogue-State Relations in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…a few of whom are grossly overweight, which is read by Israeli voters as a sign of corruption (“The lawmakers are getting fat while some of the citizenry goes hungry,” said one irate voter). While Israel’s legislators are seldom involved in sexual scandal (a major exception being the previous president, Moshe Katsav, who is under indictment for rape), they’re frequently embroiled in corruption scandals over money and influence—peddling and corpule…

LGBT Affirming Christians Issue Prebuttal to Values Voter Summit

By Peter Montgomery

…te anti-gay messages. Childers said that he was once one of the people who promoted anti-gay messages. “I am thankful that I was allowed to be liberated from that prejudice,” he said. He urged pastors who are asked to partner with the organizations attending the Values Voter Summit not to “make a mockery of their faith” by embracing the harm those groups cause. NALT co-founders John and Catherine Shore spoke about leaving their first church home w…