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The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…ce began in the run up to the July 9 inauguration of the newly independent South Sudan. South Kordofan is a northern border province, and home to many supporters of the SPLM, the political movement aligned with the South, and the SPLA-North, one of its armed wings. History has left them behind, in the name of peace, to face the vengeance of a regime led by indicted war criminals. The ethnic Nuba, who are Black Africans, and predominantly Christian…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…convincing was this product launch, complete with Facebook ad campaign and promotional website including a promo video that went viral, that a number of customers were disappointed and angry to find out that it was a fake. Part of the confusion seems to have been that the launch occurred on March 28, not the customary April 1. But just as important was consumer demand. Enough people were convinced by the slick product rollout that they actually wa…

American Prosperity Gospel Makes South Sudan “Ripe for Exploitation”

By Anthea Butler

…o Brazil, where cultural religious traditions such as Candomble are demonized, and Pentecostalism is lauded as the progressive religion not connected to a difficult history? I predict all of the above. The fears of the Sudan Ecumenical Forum that South Sudan is “ripe for exploitation by unscrupulous preachers” are well founded. The die has been cast, and the relationship that was started in order to stop genocide will be a relationship that will f…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ith it, or if action worldwide may stall this thrust against Christianity. South Africa: Activists ask government to deny entry to extremist anti-gay American pastor Activists in South Africa have launched a petition asking the government to block American anti-gay pastor Steven Anderson from entering the country. Here’s how Anderson had responded to the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida: “These homosexuals are a bunch of perverts an…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…daughter, was forced to give up her license to function as a priest in the South African Anglican Church because she married another woman in December. The Washington Post’s Max Bearak reports: South Africa’s Anglican church, where Tutu-Van Furth until recently practiced as a priest, isn’t ready to accept those with alternative sexualities as members of its clergy. Tutu-Van Furth was ordained at the Historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., and s…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…stian minority, Taiwan will become first in Asia to legalize gay marriage. South Africa: Foundation Promotes Affirming Religious Voices, Official Urges African Countries to Protect LGBT Rights The Other Foundation, which advances LGBT human rights in southern Africa, is planning a meeting with religious leaders to discuss homophobia. Shekeshe Mokgosi, the foundation’s public engagement manager, told reporter Don Makatile that people use the Bible…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…ian descent) it seems unthinkable that the next Pope won’t come from Asia, Africa, or South America. A Pope from the United States seems unlikely, as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has myopically acted as a virtual rung of the Republican Party. Whatever the American bishops have in common with the wider church, GOP policies on economics or militarism are foreign to church teaching whether the pope is Francis or Benedict XVI. As a…

ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

By Joanna Brooks

…spin article was based on statistics compiled from public records of Honor Code enforcement patterns and interviews with non-LDS African-American former BYU athletes.) This week, Smith’s critics were joined by former NFL player and ESPN commentator Vai Sikahema. Writing for the LDS Church-owned Deseret News, Sikahema flatly rejected the idea that BYU was guilty of “institutional racism,” while recounting his own uncomfortable experience being pres…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…to the 20th century, leading archaeologists believed that massive ruins in southern Africa had been built by a lost white civilization. It’s tempting to wonder what these explorers saw. Were they crazy? Were they lying? Were they right? Can we find any lost white tribes today? Discovering whiteness is not the same as naming a mountain or charting the source of a river, though, because, once again, race is not a natural feature. It’s a classificati…

An Historic Meeting: African and African Diaspora Women Convene in Ghana for First-Ever Religion Conference

By Rosetta E. Ross

…/exchange activities. Absence of representatives from Southern and Eastern Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia-Oceania, and Antarctica challenged the meeting’s full identity as “African” and “African Diasporan.” As conference organizers, Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Evelyn Parker, and I began and ended the meeting lamenting constraints that prevented wider representation and anticipating broader participation of women on the continent and in…