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The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…dying or have died, and there are fewer connections to the people who fled Europe? That’s probably the most Jewish story, obviously. I wasn’t really conscious about it when I was writing, but after I was like, oh this is clearly a metaphor for what we owe previous generations. How much are we supposed to remember, and how much are we allowed to forget? There’s all these burdens that the past places on you. But the larger question is about the comm…

Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting

By Mary E. Hunt

…alf of the church. His own unfortunate choice of women-related words like “Europe is now a ‘grandmother,’ no longer fertile and vibrant” and women theologians are “the strawberries on the cake!” reveal his personal limitations with regard to women. Let every praise of his papacy contain an asterisk until it is no longer necessary. Maybe that will motivate some people who want him to succeed to get working on women’s issues as well as poverty, war,…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…led gay people “vermin” and threatened to kill Gambians who seek asylum in Europe. The Washington Blade and Associated Press reported this week that Gambia’s National Assembly has passed an anti-gay bill that includes life sentences for “aggravated homosexuality.”From the Blade: Amnesty International said in a press release that lawmakers in the West African country passed the bill on Aug. 25. The Associated Press said the bill’s “aggravated homos…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e mayor’s move will spur the Italian parliament to move the country toward European standards for LGBT equality. Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino said he would follow Bologna’s lead and start the process in Italy’s capital city “for the recognition of marriages contracted abroad, both heterosexual and homosexual couples”. England: Priest’s Same-Sex Celebration Gets Backing as Bishops Meet on Sexuality Dominic McClean, an Anglican priest who has entered a…

Conservative Bishops Get “Different Translation” Dialing Back Language on LGBT Acceptance

By Patricia Miller

…ld also require the silencing of the voices of Catholic leaders outside of Europe and North America, especially those from Africa, who have a very different way of seeing the tangled issues of divorce, remarriage, and homosexuality. At Patheos, Elizabeth Scalia called it “[b]reathtaking condescension from a Western Bishop, whose German church is dwindling and headed for financial ruin, toward the African bishops whose pews and seminaries are indis…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lesbians have to worry about violence if they are affectionate in public.” European Union: Conference on Anti-LGBTI Discrimination Draws Conservative Protests The European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency held a conference on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity on October 28 in Brussels, in conjunction with the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the General Secretariat of the Council. In…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…hen imagine why both were fond of the rigid social orders of both medieval Europe and the antebellum South, it isn’t hard to come up with some clearer ideas about what they wanted to conserve. Then again, Whittaker Chambers, who later abandoned conservatism as a political identity in favor of calling himself a “man of the right,” thought these feudal longings were ridiculous because America’s main social and political traditions weren’t feudal at…

Pagan Outrage Machine Fires Up in Response to Time Halloween Article

By Joseph Laycock

…sed. In 1921, Margaret Murray published her book The Witch Cult in Western Europe, in which she asserted that witches had been practitioners of a pre-Christian goddess-centered religion that the Christian church attempted to systematically hunt down and destroy. Murray’s work was never taken seriously by scholars. Thousands were killed in witch-trials but there is little evidence that the victims were Pagans. Murray was also uncritical of confessi…

Ross Douthat’s Missing Pregnant Women

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…lity. But compared with the swiftly aging nations of East Asia and Western Europe, the American birth rate has proved consistently resilient, hovering around the level required to keep a population stable or growing over the long run. “It’s a near-universal law that modernity reduces fertility” is a grand-sounding observation, isn’t it? So beautifully unimpeachable. It feels like we’re talking about any old inverse relationship: modernity goes up,…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…volution and hopes they will now “become a stronghold of resistance in the European Union.” Kuby’s daughter Sophia runs the socialconservative group European Dignity Watch and was listed as a participant in the Political Network for Values summit in December. Conservatives use the term “gender ideology” as a rhetorical device for denying the existence of transgender people, in much the same way that many deny the existence of people with a homosex…