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Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of sin and iniquity. The current political election probably isn’t helping change that impression much. The mere thought of two men getting married is enough to incite vitriol from all corners of Nigeria, and other parts of the world still today. We queer folk still have a lot of fighting to do. We may have thankfully won marriage equality here on American soil, but until it is legally safe for our gay, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming brot…

Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…necting with one another, and understanding their God or their gods—it all changes. My book examines that change and tries to make it very clear about where we might be going in the future. You also write about the rising number of “nones”—those who claim no religion—and how church attendance across the board, even in more evangelical churches, is in decline. If all of this is true, that people are now more “spiritual” than religious, what do you…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…systems,” he said. “I never pursued that strategy.” He said the reason for change is the National Academy of Science’s revision of its definition of science as “the use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena as well as the knowledge generated through this process.” As McLeroy also wrote, on March 25 in the Austin-American Statesman, the change from the previous definition from “natural explanation” to “…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e equality, a fact that some activists suggest shows a social and cultural change in Chile. DW quotes activist leader Ramón Gómez suggesting that cultural change “is closely related to the loss of credibility of religious institutions, especially the Catholic Church.” In fact, a few months ago the country experienced a viral episode in much of the Castilian-speaking world in which an evangelical pastor was expelled from the program “The Switch”, t…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…alled the New Apostolic Reformation has been bringing about a most radical change in the way of doing church since the Protestant reformation. It is currently the most rapidly-growing segment of Christianity in every continent of the world. Evidence suggests Wagner isn’t exaggerating. According to the evangelical missionary reference book, World Christian Trends AD 30—AD 2200, by the year 2000, a category of Christianity known as postdenominationa…

Osama and Orientalism: Where Islamophobes Meet Al-Qaeda

By Hussein Rashid

…on the intimate relationship the Church had with the State; the religious change was concurrent with the political change. In the Muslim world, religious authorities have been traditionally separate from political authorities. Although there have been periods of intermingling, structurally they were never one in the Sunni world. In the 18th century, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, first master of the Wahhabi tariqah (order), is arguably the precursor…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…on the right – gun rights hysteria, black helicopter conspiracism, climate-change denial, and more.” There’s a lot here to chew on, and I’m certainly sympathetic to the argument that there are unanticipated sympathies between postmodernism and some conservative ideas, as I will explain shortly. But the real problem with this account is that it overemphasizes academic postmodernism and hippie New Ageism as origins of America’s post-truth fake news…

Will Francis’ Statements on Women and Gays ‘Make a Mess’ Inside the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…years from clergymen to recognize the patterns when I see them. Structural change or no change, gentlemen. Let the buyers beware. The proof of whether this off the cuff press conference, following a well-staged week in Brazil, signals real change will unfold in the months ahead. Will there be stirrings of democracy, a Vatican spring complete with líos in every diocese capable of upending a kyriarchal church and letting a mature, diverse community…

‘Do They Even Read the Bible?’ — Why Exposing White Evangelical Hypocrisy is a Dead End

By Cavan Concannon

…you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (NRSV). DeSantis changed the biblical text in his allusion, equating the US Left with the devil. Few evangelicals bothered to critique DeSantis for his misquotation because he’d simply made the Bible say what they already knew it to say; namely, that political opponents of White evangelicals are in league with the devil and must be stopped. DeSantis both changed the words of scripture and l…

Sex Comes For the Archbishop: Rembert Weakland’s Unflinching Memoir

By Mary E. Hunt

…ay to get him out of the Vatican’s hair in his role as advocate for Church change via a religious order. As head of the Benedictines, Weakland was in a strong position to raise tough issues. But for whatever reason, he served as Milwaukee’s bishop for two decades in an ethnically diverse and theologically challenging city. His efforts at liturgical reform, participatory development of ideas and policies, and inclusion of women and lay men in the r…