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The Landmark 85-Year-Old Report Absent From Debates Over Missionary’s Death

By Amy Fallas

…of emulation. In his commentary for the journal, which is published by a pair of conservative Christian organizations, LiVecche argues that we should celebrate Chau’s “spark” as a “source of enormous good in the world.” He remarks that that even if Chau were impulsive, “there is, in the great economy of God, room still for wild success.” What LiVecche doesn’t discuss is how, in the great economy of God, there’s also room for devastating failure….

American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

By Amy Fallas

…enous sovereignty by a new right-wing administration in Brazil. President Jair Bolsonaro assumed office in January after running a campaign largely hostile to indigenous rights. Bolsonaro supports assimilation of indigenous communities and opening their resource-rich reservations in the Amazon to commercial interests, including large-scale farming, logging, and mining. Although the Brazilian constitution protects these populations and their lands,…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…). Lindevaldsen claimed Miller could not be found, and that she had had no contact with Miller and could not represent her since she did not know what her wishes were. Jenkins’ attorney charged in a court filing that Liberty Counsel demonstrated “a clear attempt to assist their client in ducking service by withdrawing.” The court denied Liberty Counsel’s motion. After Miller had been in contempt of court for disregarding both the multiple visitati…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…itive, doesn’t it? Except for one thing: by bringing young Haredi men into contact with the permanent emergency that is Israeli civil society, Zaka and the Israeli Army have brought these young men into contact with the world of physical violence, aggression, and gun use. Hitherto protected by their insularity and separateness from Israeli society, these ultra-Orthodox males are becoming socialized to Israeli norms. And they and their community ar…

How Ancient Rabbis Can Help Combat STI Stigma

By Rebecca Epstein-Levi

…simple matter of “dirty” or “clean.” It was a complicated and fluid web of contact, transmission, treatment, and attentiveness, whose workings carry key lessons for how we treat similarly complex web of sexually transmitted infections today. First, the Mishnah talks about impurity. A lot. In exhaustive detail. It has an entire order, with several tractates, devoted explicitly to the concept. Within these, it breaks down several categories of impur…

Tokyo Governor Says Tsunami is Divine Punishment—Religious Groups Ignore Him

By Levi McLaughlin

…ter area. The Shinseiky message board is now filled with inquiries seeking contact with Shinto clergy in shrines that cannot be contacted and are most likely destroyed. Christians in Japan, who make up less than one percent of the country’s population, consistently initiate successful and high-profile social welfare activities, and they have leapt into action to provide relief. On March 12, mere hours after the quake and tsunami hit the Tohoku reg…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…needs to be defended by the police,” Rahmani told Human Rights Watch. UK: Openly gay priest rejected for bishop position in Wales Jeffrey John, an openly gay priest and dean of St. Albans Cathedral, was rejected for the fourth time for an appointment to become a bishop. From Christian Today: Neither the Church in Wales nor the Church of England are opposed to clergy being in civil partnerships. The Church of England requests that clergy in civil…

“Hem and Haw”: A Failed Syria Strategy

By Haroon Moghul

…ic comedy. By proposing that we slap Assad on the wrist with a few days of air strikes, we are only continuing a pattern of embarrassing indecision. If the primary reason we are pursuing air strikes to war is because Obama drew a red line in the sand, then the fact is we look even worse than before if we issue an airborne slap on the wrist and Syria continues to drag on, with more massacres and murders (just not of the gaseous kind). Such an outc…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…stock up on all these survivalist goods. Bakker spends most of his time on-air discussing how current events match up with biblical prophecy, and the 2016 election has been a frequent theme. He’s voiced concern that if Hillary Clinton is elected the government will shut down his ministry and all other religious activity. In a recent sermon series, “Leviathan Has Come to America,” he warned viewers that Leviathan has become “king of America,” that…