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Yo, Gays, Stop Bogarting that Rainbow!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rainbow flag as a symbol. The rainbow shows up in many flags including in Peru and Ecuador to represent Incan territory. It has also been used by the peace movement as well as the International Cooperative Alliance. What all these uses have in common is that the rainbow flag represents diversity, as Morse rightly claims. However, the overarching meaning of the rainbow flag is one of inclusion. When gay and lesbian people fly the rainbow flag they…

Liberation Theology is Alive and Well

By Mary E. Hunt

…how communities dispose of their excrement demonstrates the widening gaps between rich (with sewers) and poor (without), between those who are attended to and those who attend to others’ most basic needs. The audience got the point. Eco-theological dimensions of embodiment were the third focal point. Korean American theologian Chung Hyun Kyung called ecofeminist liberation theology, beginning with indigenous voices, a way to cooperate with divine…

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…ictators and tyrants and counterrevolutionary forces everywhere. He cites examples of U.S.-sponsored counterinsurgency: Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, South Africa, Mozambique. Once he has placed the United States squarely “on the wrong side of the world revolution,” King delivers the gut punch—the part of the speech everyone remembers if they remember it at all: I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…et because the Roman Catholic Church is simply too compromised internally, between sex abuse and discrimination, to have enough moral credibility for governments or corporations to take it seriously. Why should they? It will be Catholics in small communities that have any clout whatever, especially at the ballot box. The preparatory document circulated before the gathering showed real promise. There was, in the preamble, explicit acknowledgement t…

As COVID-19 Spreads, Nicaragua’s Leaders Opt For Trumpian Denial and Misinformation

By Jeannine M. Pitas

…have covered this story in the U.S., the amount of reportage has not been extensive, perhaps because the U.S. is struggling with its own rising levels of infection here. However, a closer look reveals some uncanny parallels between the US and Nicaragua in that both countries are led by governments that have not assumed strong leadership to fight the disease. In the case of Nicaragua, the government has instead made decisions that fail to stop—and…

Purchasing Morality: What Happens When “Buying Local” Itself is Marketed?

By Laurie Patton

…internet equipment, which promise to create the meaningful global village between shepherds in China and peddlers in Peru? And if it’s not the same, why not? Even more, is there a moral element to the economic act of buying that is now part of our very social fabric as global citizens? Slogans like “buy local” or “buy American” have been with us since the at least the middle of the twentieth century, if not earlier. (We could take the Boston Tea…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…tion to “avoid compromise of its members’ right to teach and uphold orthodox Christian sexual ethics.” Luxembourg: Marriage Equality in 2014? Luxembourg’s Justice Minister Félix Braz announced last week that the government would vote on a same-sex marriage bill this summer and said if it were approved, same-sex couples could be married before the end of 2014, making it the 11th European country to legally recognize marriage by same-sex couples. Ac…

Pope Francis v. Kim Davis: A Vatican Game of Thrones

By Anthea Butler

…rrative of the Papal visit, particularly on culture war issues like same-sex marriage, abortion, and homosexuality—all issues on which the Pope is very clear about upholding current Catholic teaching. As Sarah Posner said, “The Pope is still Catholic.” Trying to read Vatican politics through the lens of American politics and media concerns is not helpful in this particular instance. Rather, parsing out the players, the mess, and potential outcomes…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…meetings in Dallas, Texas, late last month. Religion, it seems, is going extinct. You heard me: extinct. Dead and gone. Like the dinosaurs. The data that a team of mathematicians used to reach this rather surprising conclusion were census reports of religious affiliation. Using a complicated means of mathematical analysis called “nonlinear dynamics”—complicated, ironically, because its purpose is to make complicated things simpler by reducing the…

Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

…nd Northern Nigeria, Ethiopia doesn’t mandate the death penalty for same-sex sexual acts, but thanks to draconian laws that forbid activism while allowing Western evangelicals to promote homophobia, Ethiopia is on track to join their ranks. “In many countries, it’s getting better for the LGBT community,” says reporter Katie J.M. Baker. “In Ethiopia, it’s getting worse.” She writes that anti-terrorism and anti-advocacy laws, both adopted in 2009, m…