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Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Crimes reports that police in Beirut are using messaging apps on the cell phones of arrestees to try to entrap other gay men. In related news, the smartphone app Grindr, which allows gay men to find each other, announced it would permanently disable an option that allowed people to see their distance from other users. There have been reports that police in Egypt and Iran have used Grindr to hunt and arrest gay men. Jamaica: Activist Drops Challen…

Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?

By David Krueger

…seum of Art, the Masonic Temple, and the Barnes Foundation, the edifice is highly visible from the I-676 expressway. Nationwide, adherents of this once-persecuted, minority religion are increasingly visible in American public life and are playing an important role in U.S. politics, particularly in the 2016 presidential election. It appears that LDS church has reached a new high point in popularity and cultural prestige in the broader American soci…

Alabama Senate Considers Giving Church Its Own Police Force; Irony Reportedly Dead

By Daniel Schultz

…d write about a drug raid at the school. Students were identified and cell phones seized. It was marijuana we heard, and LSD and even heroin, right there in the school that describes its “compelling trait” as a climate “where students are spiritually and intellectually equipped to serve Christ.” Drugs. Imagine. Parents begged for answers and so did we. At least half a dozen messages to Superintendent Barrett Mosbacker went unanswered. Others at th…

CA Sen. Kamala Harris To Make A Very Interesting Church Appearance…

By Daniel Schultz

…be a test run for any further political ambition Harris might have. It’s a high profile gig in a high profile city (especially for African Americans) in a highly charged moment. They are going to be watching her very closely to gauge her potential. Black voters, as the sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom has observed, are the ultimate political pragmatists. They initially favored Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries until he dem…

‘Purity’ Guru Joshua Harris May Have Left Evangelicalism But He’s Still a Member of the Church of Patriarchy

By Sara Williams

…an: “Ring by spring or your money back.” Spoiler alert: I did not marry my high school boyfriend. But I did carry the courtship framework into subsequent relationships. Its patriarchal logics harmed a generation of evangelical women and men by setting them up to fail themselves, one another, and God. It placed unhealthy emphasis on the role of sex in relationships, whether you were unmarried, and therefore not supposed to be having it, or married…

Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…In his memoir, al-Ghazálí posited an immediate, prophetic way of knowing, higher than the human faculty of reason. Al-Ghazálí’s position thus undercuts Fraenkel’s own argument in favor of the authority of reason.) To interrogate one’s own fundamental beliefs does not necessarily entail abandoning the religion entirely, though religious beliefs, Fraenkel maintains, must conform to the dictates of reason. Averroes and Maimonides provide examples of…

Buddha as Scientist, Entrepreneur & Self-Improvement Guru

By Michael Schulson

…ting system had “very poor signal to noise ratio, high energy consumption, high bandwidth consumption—nothing much good about it. This is about 76,000 years old.” Then Eastern traditions came along and offered an upgrade. Other Buddhist Geeks, according to Gleig, see Buddhism influencing our use of technology. This includes things like a more mindful approach to technology, or the “contemplative design” of websites that don’t do everything in thei…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…they hope to see the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in their lifetime. The numbers vary over time and due to the ways questions are structured. It is clear, however, that more people are excited by this type of apocalyptic belief than can be explained by counting the actual parishoners sitting in the pews in fundamentalist churches. Most of these folks, however, are not considering actual criminal acts or violence. Brenda E. Brasher notes that apo…

An Open Letter to American Muslims on Election Day

By Haroon Moghul

…vote? That sends a signal loud and clear. But imagine if we voted in huge numbers, by huge margins, decisively, no matter where we were. Then people would have to listen to us, hear us, consider us–and respect us. They would have to consider us. And that’s what I care about. A community that holds its head up high. Not because we’re better than anyone else. But because we’re no worse than anyone else. We all have this right. The difference is in…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…ren in public schools are under spiritual attack by demonic “wickedness in high places.” These aren’t merely the efforts of some of the more brazen Christian Right warriors. Walters and Newman are diligently working alongside other conservative efforts, in Louisiana and elsewhere, to radically change the landscape of American education and to ultimately transform society into the anti-democratic image of the New Apostolic Reformation. And America’…