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How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote

By Katherine Stewart

…ndering whether coming here was such a good idea. I have written about the most emotionally fraught chapters of Jim Domen’s life in a column for the New York Times. I did it not to invade his privacy but because by his own account those intimate details are part of what define him as the public figure that he is. Still, as I take in the glow of the late-afternoon California sun reflecting off the Home Depot across the parking lot, I’m on edge. Did…

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

By Mary E. Hunt

…-turner of a study of the incidence of allegedly gay, sexually active, but most of all duplicitous priests in high positions in the Vatican entitled In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy opens another vista. Report of the Apostolic Nuncio to France, Archbishop Luigi Ventura, under investigation for molesting a government staffer just surfaced. In fact, all of that data was part of the backdrop of the meeting, but no one pee…

Economy Yields Too Few Prophets

By Peter Laarman

…t has been carefully hidden from view. In the case of credit cards, it’s almo*]}*st as though the fate of the card holders is a sideshow: it’s the fate of the lenders we should care about. Our bottom line, in other words, is whether our stock portfolios and retirement accounts and home equity stakes are reviving. That’s what the journalists who feed us this stuff care about; that’s what the politicians care about; and so that is what we should care ab…

The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

By Patricia Miller

…escribed in articles V and VIII; To determine matters for discussion at least six months before the Synod is to meet, if that be possible; To see to it that the material to be discussed is sent to those who ought to be concerned about the discussion of these matters; To set the agenda; To preside over the Synod personally or through someone else. In other words: the pope is clearly intended to preside over the content and conduct of the synod. The…

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

…willingness to stand between a marginalized minority and its attackers – a most basic failure to protect, similar to Indonesia’s recent record on religious minorities.” The report is based on 70 interviews with Indonesian sexual and gender minorities, LGBT human rights activists, and other civil society representatives across Indonesia between January and June 2016. The series of anti-LGBT remarks began on January 24, when the higher education min…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…unded HIV programs: East African nations have launched some of the world’s most vicious campaigns against gay men and women, outlawing same-sex liaisons and threatening punishments of years in jail. But in a move that has alarmed health workers, Tanzania is turning its anti-homosexual fury in a new direction — targeting HIV/AIDS programs that have helped tame a disease that once ravaged the region. Last month, the minister of health announced tha…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…t across the late-19th-century United States, the Protestant elite sided almo*]}*st exclusively with capital. Of course, even that way of putting it makes it sound like the two could be differentiated, when in many cases they could not. In the book I discuss how Chicago’s wealthiest citizens predominated on Protestant church boards and vestries. In the early 1870s, for example, the First Congregational Church’s 14-member governing council boasted at l…

Data-Mining Denominations: Same-Sex Marriage Edition

By Daniel Schultz

…acting the number of people Strongly Opposed to same-sex marriage from the number Strongly In Favor. Not surprisingly, since the Unitarian-Universalists only had 6 percent opposed, their position on the chart hardly budged at all. Other groups traveled a little more. Mainline Baptists, for example, strongly disapprove just a little more than they strongly approve. Evangelical Baptists, on the other hand, really, really dislike same-sex marriage, a…

Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories

By Rebecca Moore

…tes. I catalogued these and other theories about motive in a 2002 article. Most of these explanations have been debunked. Matthew Thomas Farrell painstakingly assessed the mind-control account offered by John Judge, who wrote what has become the ur-text on conspiracy memes about Jonestown. An analysis of Dr. Leslie Mootoo, the Guyana pathologist who investigated the Jonestown deaths, reveals numerous discrepancies in his reports. And Jeff Brailey,…

ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability

By Anthony B. Pinn

…too, that the number of African Americans falling into this category has almo*]}*st doubled over the past thirty-years. Belief in God doesn’t bind African Americans to one other, and it is unfortunate to assume—even with a laugh—that belief in God is some sort of litmus test. What holds African Americans together isn’t a particular response to the challenges and mysteries of life. No, what binds African Americans together is a complex history, many sp…