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No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…la.” I squeezed time down. If you read the book carefully, you’ll see that dates really don’t quite match up, and that’s because of my Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-related Swiss cheese memory. I made a timeline and tried to follow that sucker, but even when I saw the final corrected proofs, I found two completely wrong dates in the book. But none of that gets in the way of the truth of my life and experience. Reitman spoke of LGBT ex-Scientologi…

Conservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ted, occasionally hilarious — like when Deepak from Ajmer said, “In Ajmer, dates aren’t like what dates are in Mumbai” — and deeply poignant. Satyamev Jayate declares in its advertisements that it has changed the way people think. This episode on queer identity may well live up to those lofty claims and we can only hope that it does, because Satyamev Jayate did something radical: it presented queer identity as something normal. Because news flash:…

New Spencer Book Denies Existence of Muhammad

By Hussein Rashid

…her than a “oh wow.” How the earliest biographical material about Muhammad dates from at least 125 years after his reported death. Yep. Any decent historian or scholar of religion will tell you this. It’s like asking why earliest biographical material* about Jesus dates from at least two generation after his life. Welcome to the wonderful world of pre-modern history. Literacy is not such a big deal. A good resource for learning about this is Monty…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…test against current governments.” In fact, the conspiracy theory actually dates back to the 2008 election, when “ex-terrorist” Walid Shoebat claimed on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show that the Muslim Brotherhood supported then-candidate Obama, who Shoebat claimed was Muslim. As I explain in more detail in the shari’ah conspiracy piece, the right’s flimsy Muslim Brotherhood theory — that virtually all American Muslim organizations are Brotherhood fro…

“Pro-Life” Has Officially Lost its Meaning

By Patricia Miller

…time asserting, “I don’t think that you’ll see too many [Democratic] candidates going out and saying, ‘I’m running as a pro-life candidate’.” As Pelosi noted, “pro-life” now means not necessarily opposition to the basic right to abortion, but “how far are you willing to go on the issue” in terms of what limits should be imposed, a signaling of a certain kind of moral disapproval of the procedure while acknowledging its political reality. This mea…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…w dozen yards of the riders and take pictures of the scene with their cell phone cameras. Traffic on College Avenue begins to pick up. “You’re protesting God!” a motorist hollers when he catches sight of one of the Soulforce banners. Finally a slender young man wearing a “CBC Soccer” jacket ventures all the way to the sidewalk. “I just kind of want to show them I care,” says Jonathan Jacobs, a junior at the college. Jacobs, whose family moved to C…

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…tian radical A. J. Muste calling Moses the organizer of “Brickmakers Union Number 1” and a pacifist Russian rabbi named Tamaret—wove them all into a new Telling of the tale of freedom. In that Telling, the then ongoing, even now unfinished, struggle of Black America for freedom was interwoven with the ancient story of the Israelites’ struggle to end their slavery under Pharaoh. Where the old Haggadah had what seemed to me a silly argument about ho…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…ader. What was the culture of the prison? At night, there was one guard for 800 prisoners. In the Rio prison system there’s no real government presence; state control in the prisons is just a façade. The prison gangs are the most powerful presence, but the church exerts a strong influence too. There were about 400 inmates in the gang camp inside the prison, and 40 to 50 in the church camp. The rest were neutral people who kept to themselves in the…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…mpaigns in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. In 2005, they printed 800,000 postcards in Canada “in a campaign that [argued] that the redefinition of marriage to include gay and lesbian couples would promote pedophilia, pornography and unsafe sex.” As Marianne Duddy-Burke of the LGBTQ Catholic organization Dignity USA commented in a press release, “The Knights are deeply invested in advancing a particular brand of Catholicism, and I am con…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…er of the amazing things about him. He was approachable, answering his own phone and mail, meeting with complete nobodies like me. I thanked him for the basketball lessons that I had learned from him, but more importantly for the life lessons. His beloved wife Nellie had passed away in 1985 after 53 years of marriage, and my wife had died suddenly in 1992. Coach gave me a powerful model for dealing with that loss, a reminder that those we loved we…