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LGBTs in Philippines Reflect on Papal Visit; Francis Meets Trans Man Shunned by Parish; French Group Turns ‘Bar of Sodom’ into ‘Pub of Mercy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of hands. There are Anglican women bishops in the U.S., New Zeland, South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, and Germany. The consecration of Lane could exacerbate divisions in the Anglican Communion, as did the ordination by the Episcopal Church in the U.S. of an openly gay Bishop, Gene Robinson. (Anglican Mainstream, “an information resource for orthodox Anglicans,” featured on its website this week an article by Joseph Nicolosi, champion of “reparative…

Praying With Eyes Open: Christmas is a Big Deal for Liberal Christians Too

By Peter Laarman

…or whose worldview was shaped in the anti-apartheid struggle in his native South Africa, spoke of “praying with our eyes open in the spirit of Luke,” a clear reference to Luke 3 and John the Baptist’s proclamation: “And all flesh shall see the salvation of God” (an utterance adapted and improved, for oratorio purposes, in Jennens’ libretto as “and all flesh shall see it together.”) The frame for all of this being Isaiah 40, a central messianic tex…

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

…s, Jews, and Muslims) stretching across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The common denominator of these institutions is that they did not rely upon political boundaries to relieve suffering. The religious traditions of hospitality, refuge, and sanctuary created the vibrant multiform culture of diversity, welcome, and innovation that many of us claim as American. However, religious traditions of exclusion and purity rear their heads at r…

Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hich are contrary to their faith. Nor do we require evidence that schools ‘promote’ other faiths. “Instead, inspectors must ensure that pupils are able to express views which are neither intolerant nor discriminatory towards others. Tunisia: Trans Person Sparks Debate with TV Appearance Al Arabiya news reported on Sunday that a trans person appeared on a popular Tunisian television talk show. Born “Leila”, but going by the name “Jalel,” the transs…

We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?

By Dianne M. Stewart

…its brutal and inhumane encroachment upon Native Americans and Nations in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific Islands takes us face to face with the very fundamental biblical contradiction that Warrior and Williams claim Christians have a moral obligation to confront. They provoke us to acknowledge that the God African Americans have come to revere as a liberator is arguably the same God that has inspired the white ruling c…

Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…expectations, and documentary access. Scholars of Jewish cultures in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, continue to redress these lacunae. Racism, cisheteronormativity, ableism, and classism pervade all academic disciplines. Particular to Jewish Studies is its conferral of authority on people it qualifies as “Jewish.” We’ve benefited from this privilege and also from being Ashkenazi. We worry that an imagined continuity between conte…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ty. This would be easier to see if the culture in question were in Asia or Africa or among the indigenous people of the Americas. But the strange relationship between the West and the Christian East makes it difficult to see, highlighting how limited and reductive the conversation around decolonization and multiculturalism truly is. Because in the ironically binary world that these discourses create, there’s little room for whatever traditionally…

Where Were They Radicalized? No Answer is Complete Without Addressing Evangelical Churches and Schooling

By Chrissy Stroop

…cula “characterize Nelson Mandela as a ‘marxist agitator’ who helped drive South Africa to ‘radical affirmative action,’ and suggest that Satan hatched the idea of modern psychology.” For those who’ve been following events closely, that denunciation of policies promoting racial equality will likely recall the Trump administration’s twisted 1776 Report, which the White House released on Martin Luther King Day—Monday, January 18—as a clear racist do…

The Only Surprising Thing About the ‘Demon Sperm’ Doctor’s Views Is That They’re Shared By Many Evangelicals

By Lenny J. Lowe

…missionaries once seemed to detect primarily in cultures of Africa and the African diaspora, traveled back in the stories and accounts of missionaries and helped to construct a thoroughly possessed American cosmological perspective. The discourse of spiritual warfare has become a kind of international Christian dialect. Still, whether one knows much about the movement or not, no one should be surprised to find its views trumpeted from the highest…

Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…as criminalized political dissent in the name of national security. Though today American Muslims are often on the receiving end of such accusations, it’s essential to recall, as anthropologist Darryl Li points out, that “the problem of so much public discourse isn’t just about animus or ignorance toward Islam or Muslims; it’s also about antipathy toward political radicalism in general, which is so much more charged and powerful when racialized.”…