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What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

…adical YouTube videos. Without minimizing the hatred and damage that these videos represent, he thinks blaming these videos is an easy answer. The question is what drew them to those YouTube videos in the first place. It’s like when we point to comics, video games, etc. as causes for similar tragedies, like Columbine. In fact, Radon sees Columbine as a much closer parallel. These are two young boys or adults who were outsiders, one may have needed…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…who are gay. But this case is about a young man who is afraid to return to Russia because Russia persecutes people who are gay.” Vatican: Family Synod Considers ‘Disordered’ Language, Nigerian Bishop Sends Mixed Signals The two-week Bishops’ Synod on the Family got started this week. New Ways Ministry’s Frank DeBernardo reports that at a Tuesday press briefing, Father Thomas Rosica “told reporters that bishops had discussed language about sexualit…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…rk: Clearly Donald Trump [himself] didn’t create that ad, but somebody in Trump world did. And these are people who are going to be in power in a second Trump administration if project 2025, the plan to purge the US civil service, ever comes to fruition. These are the people who are going to be appointed to those jobs. We saw this in the first administration with people like Stephen Miller and others. That has real, and quite frankly, potentially…

Why It’s Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…image in the Bible is a minority image. The Christian church is to be the yeast in the bread, the light in the darkness, the salt in the soup. It’s never supposed to be Christendom running the world. We are to give a flavor to life. We’re remnant people walking into the mystery of God and we have to walk faithfully….

Politics in a Time of Crisis: Sandy? Blame Socialism

By Haroon Moghul

…d national news, leaving me in the weirdly ubiquitous position of watching CNN report on what was happening outside my building and across the Northeast and praying it wouldn’t happen as badly as the predictions outlined. (I also admired CNN’s Ali Velshi, who seemed to have gotten stuck in a flooded street and just went with it.) There was little time for partisanship, as indeed there should not be at a time like this. Except when I left my apartm…

RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…w much funding for family planning and abortion services in the developing world comes from the developed world? That’s a hard question to answer, because it varies so much by country. Asian countries cover much more of their own costs than poorer countries in Africa, for example. And of course there are so many different funding sources—governments, foundations, NGOs, etc. But according to the Guttmacher Institute, donor agencies in developed cou…

The Breaking of Biblical Womanhood: The Problem With the Hot New Book Taking Aim at the Subjugation of Women in Evangelicalism

By Jill Hicks-Keeton

…writes, “was trying to make sense of its place in both a Jewish and Roman world, and much of those worlds bled through into the church’s stories.” Rhetorically what this move allows her to do, in the guise of practicing history, is attribute to Jesus and Paul what she likes and to everyone else what does not fit her narrative or ethical framework. In this case, blame falls to the Romans and ancient Jews (“Pharisees”). These others constructed soc…

RDBook: The End of the World As We Know It

By Gabriel Mckee

…tell means that something has survived. In a way, these aren’t end-of-the-world stories at all, because the world doesn’t really end—or rather, the world ends, but humanity carries on. These are post-apocalyptic stories, and their focus is not on destruction, but rebuilding. That hopefulness sneaks its way into most stories in the subgenre. Cormac McCarthy sneaks it into the last few paragraphs of his oppressively bleak novel The Road, but it for…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d other federal government agencies. The anti-choice and anti-LGBT LifeSiteNews has run a two-part series of articles from anti-gay activist Peter LaBarera on “what really goes on” at the International LGBT Leaders Conference that was organized by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Institute in December. Among his shocking discoveries: gay U.S. ambassadors, gender-neutral bathrooms, “Gays for Trump” and activists gearing up to preserve gains made during…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…“global assault on people’s basic freedoms, with many governments brazenly breaking international law and deliberately undermining institutions meant to protect people’s rights.” The report said that 2015 brought evidence that “the system of international protection of human rights itself needs to be protected.” The report documents human rights abuses country-by-country and regionally, including persecution and criminalization of people who are,…