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Transparent Season 3: The Intersectional Messiah

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…deally, with pupusas on the side. A long car ride is fine, as long as it’s air-conditioned. Josh arrives at the Kansas home of his son Colton’s adoptive family, desperate after a series of losses. He is primed for a come-to-Jesusland moment, even if he takes it back almost instantly. Ali, tripping on gematria and laughing gas, has concluded that she wants to write about “intersectionality as the wholly/holy other.” (I don’t have a shooting script;…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…that this was primarily, or exclusively, politically-motivated violence. A number of commentators seem to believe Mateen was struggling with his own sexuality. But Cohen does not hesitate to assign Mateen to larger, world-historical forces: Islam is in epochal crisis. Its Sunni and Shiite branches are mired in violent confrontation. Its adjustment to the modern world has proved faltering and agonized enough to produce a metastasizing strain of vio…

The Sacred Myths of My People: A 4th of July Reflection

By Kate Blanchard

…else in the Smithsonian. Our universe makes an appearance at the National Air and Space Museum, but the assumption there is that it is one based on physics rather than “traditional knowledge.” We generally don’t ask what universe the Wright Brothers or Gus Grissom lived in. And at the National Museum of American History, I don’t recall any explanation of “my universe” at Julia Childs’ re-created kitchen; perhaps visitors are presumed to share Jul…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…ust teach and learn better ways of talking with one another in order to repair the world and reconcile diverse groups of people. To repeat Emilie Townes’ powerful question: When we talk in public, “what is the society we are trying to create?” Rules of Engagement: Promoting “Public Safety” When I speak to my fellow Christians, urging public engagement, I stress that the goal is not to invade the public square with Christian imperialism disguised a…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ot natural.” Anglican Communion: A way forward? The Institute of Public Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science last month published “Anglicans and Sexuality: A Way Forward?” The report’s authors describe its purpose: The purpose of the research was to consider the role, both historic and current, of the Anglican Communion, and individual provinces and churches that make up the Communion, in efforts to bring about the decri…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ccording to a GAFCON communique: We are excited to announce that the new chairman of the Primates’ Council is the Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, Primate of the Anglican Church of All Nigeria. He is joined in leadership by the new vice-chair, the Most Rev. Stanley Ntagali, Primate of the Anglican Church of Uganda. Archbishops Okoh and Ntagali have been deeply committed to the GAFCON movement since its founding, and are well prepared to lead. The communiq…

Rand Paul, Religious Skeptic?

By Sarah Posner

…charitable giving that looked different from what Daystar describes on the air. While they talked at length about the role (or lack of one) for government, Paul and the Lambs didn’t talk about how Daystar itself is a beneficiary of the constrained government Paul champions. Typical for these sorts of interviews, Lamb lobbed Paul softballs, giving him the opportunity, for example, to recite a laundry list of reasons why he loves Israel. Asked about…

Ask a Muslim: What of Neanderthals and Aliens?

By Haroon Moghul

…lot of time in the library as a kid. But I’m not pulling this out of thin air. Battlestar Islamica When the angels asked God, “Will you create someone who corrupts, and sheds blood?” maybe they meant the jinn. That doesn’t add up, however: Satan was a jinn so pious he worshipped where only angels genuflected. In which case perhaps these angels were comparing the looming Caliph to earlier forms of human life, who’d been made for the same task, but…

The Hyperreal Kimmy Schmidt

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ayne Gary Wayne—who says things like “The stench of rotten flesh fills the air! Judgment is upon us all!” But the most interesting parallels don’t have to do with the two shows’ cartoonish fire-and-brimstone preachers named Gary. Rather, they have to do with two followers: Kenneth and Kimmy. For starters, both are oddly out of time, but in different ways. Kenneth, it is strongly implied, is immortal – or at least, he was born in the 1780s and live…

Where Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech

By Donna Schaper

…ets for our trips here. We were amused at our green souls traveling in the air and increasing her carbon footprint in order to decrease it. We decided next year we will bike. To compensate for the greenhouse gases a trip generates, you can send money to a project that will reclaim carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or prevent it from being emitted at all. The cash might go towards reforestation or cleaner cook stoves or a methane collection projec…