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From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…ith a staff of six full-time and five part-time chaplains—including an African-American Southern Baptist and two fellows from the Netherlands—the HCH is far larger number than most college chaplaincies, with women constituting over half of the staff. Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, executive director of HCH and author of the bestselling book Good Without God, says MacBain is the perfect person to lead this innovative new project to grow “Godless C…

New Poll Reveals a Paradox in Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…mbers are much lower than any other segment. Furthermore, almost the identical number of Republicans and White evangelicals believe Trump champions their beliefs and have a favorable opinion of him. Given that, it’s easy to see who makes up Trump’s political base. So let’s assume that White evangelicals don’t think much of Trump’s personal piety. But they do trust him to advocate for them and their beliefs. Perhaps understanding more about those b…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…e most vulnerable group” subjected to the “strict traditions” of the North Caucasus, the mountainous southern Russian region where Chechnya and other mainly Muslim republics are located. “Women, more often than men, are subjected to honor killings, and they can be judged only based on suspicion, even in the absence of facts,” the report notes. Honduras: LGBT activist plans to stay in spite of recent attack David Valle, a prominent LGBT activist wh…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…everyday life. So extreme is this sense of alarm and danger that a significant number of Republicans now believe that the president is a secret Muslim, and sits in the Oval Office to enable the realization of Islamic law in the West. One must be seriously and actively disconnected from reality to presume that this could be the case, but there you have it. On a recent drive through northeastern Pennsylvania, I heard a talk radio host make exactly…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…he alt-right’s young meme brigades shock older generations with outrageous caricatures, from the Jewish “Shlomo Shekelburg” to “Remove Kebab,” an internet in-joke about the Bosnian genocide… Are they actually bigots? No more than death metal devotees in the 80s were actually Satanists. For them, it’s simply a means to fluster their grandparents. In other words: the kids are trolling you, people! Relax! The argument is deeply disingenuous. How can…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…not clear to me to what degree Islamophobia taps into our most basic critical vocabularies in the way in which anti-Judaism does. Islamophobia seems to me to be more explainable through more basic xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and nationalist—and sometimes racist—moves. It doesn’t seem to require the entire cultural apparatus that I think anti-Judaism is all about. Maybe to that degree, a lot of misogynist or anti-feminist ideas—the enduring power…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…anged to recognize same-sex couples’ right to marry. Marriage equality advocates have called the proposed plebiscite a waste of time and money, and said it would unnecessarily invite a divisive campaign. Hungary: LGBT alliance opposes ‘hatemongering’ against migrants The Hungarian LGBT Alliance urged members of the LGBT community to cast invalid votes in Sunday’s referendum on migrant quotas “to send a clear message to the government that hate mon…

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

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntroversial. I don’t like being controversial. I get abused a lot in mail, phone calls and that sort of thing. I don’t enjoy that. But, if you are controversial in the public arena, the people who have given up on Christianity say, “My God, there must be something more to this story than I realized.” So, being controversial is my doorway to the generation of my own children. “The primary issue in the Christian church today is to get away from orig…

“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)

By Chad Bauman

…machination. Stories in respected media outlets warn of aggressive evangelical campaigns “emanating from America,” and “backed by the highest of the land,” and are often accompanied by sound bites or pictures—in this case of George W. Bush, Jr., speaking in front of a large mural of Jesus, that serve, implicitly, to confirm the accusations. Indians are far more aware of what goes on in the United States than vice versa. For example, prominent Indi…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…0:9). That UU was released during the Lenten season is no coincidence. Typically this is a time for American Christians to saturate themselves in a premature Easter triumphalism; thus the abyss is never broached. Many religious people in general and Christian people in particular will not be able to dwell in the sustained, unresolved lament of Untitled Unmastered. So the prophets do it for them. And it came to pass after the slavery of America and…