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Why the Women’s Ordination Question Will Shape the Future of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…n life was absorbed by the pragmatic challenges of transforming an upstart American religious movement into a global bureaucratic institution. In the service of bureaucratic uniformity and simplicity, complicated aspects of Mormon history and theology were systematically eliminated in official programming and publications, and some forms of inquiry stigmatized. LDS institutional and business insiders often cite with approval Harvard Business Sch…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ll follow through on his election-night promise to be “a President for all Americans.” That means it’s up to all Americans to stand up for their neighbors and friends, but especially the people of color, undocumented people, Muslims (and non-Christians in general) and queer folks that you don’t know. Because right now, we are terrified. If you have the privilege of being able to “wait and see” how the Trump administration comes after your family (…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ca, especially same-sex civil unions and same-sex marriage. No other Latin American country was more impacted by this “diffusion” effect than Argentina, a country that is predominantly populated by people of European descent, has high levels of social and economic development, and possesses Latin America’s richest history of organized activism around the issue of homosexuality. Not surprisingly, in both Spain and Argentina the campaign for marriag…

How Indiana’s New RFRA Expands the Federal RFRA

By Sarah Posner

…w law was to permit businesses, like caterers and photographers, to refuse service to same-sex couples. After Elane Photography case, in which a photographer in New Mexico was found liable under the state’s anti-discrimination law for refusing to provide services at a same-sex ceremony, states began to see efforts to pass laws like the one Indiana enacted last week: Compare Indiana’s newly minted RFRA to the one assessed by the court in New Mexico…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…hs instead of 30 years. Also present were those who identified as Three Percenters, an anti-government extremist ideology named after the unproven assertion that only 3% of American colonists fought against the British in the Revolutionary War. Like the Oath Keepers, they liken the current federal government to the British colonial government. Six men from California were indicted for conspiracy to obstruct official proceedings, four of whom ident…

Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

By Aryeh Cohen

…Alliance, Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps, the environmental group Hazon, American Jewish World Service, Jewish Funds for Justice, the New York group Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jews United for Justice in Washington DC—the list goes on. In addition, the eminence grise of Jewish social justice organizations, Chicago’s JCUA, hired Jill Jacobs, a Conservative Rabbi, as Director of Outreach and Education in 2004, and started a summer semina…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…except marriage license, issued by the government denying access to public service, including military service including SOGIE as criteria for human resource action refusing admission or expelling a person from any educational or training institution denying a person access to public or private medical and other health services open to general public. Sen. Risa Hontiveros, has a similar bill currently pending at the Senate. In 2015, the ASEAN SOGI…

“LGBT People Have a Lot to Teach Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…which is communion at its heart. It doesn’t have to look like an Episcopal service — every Sunday being handed the wafer. Communion can look like an impromptu gathering around a table,sharing their lives together, or a food pantry. Even churches that don’t use the word sacrament, I think most of them practice these sacraments in some way. The kind of Christianity you describe in the book is a place where people are free to be who they are, wounds,…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

…Florida Family Policy Council named its annual award honoring “outstanding service to the pro-life and pro-family principles” after him. Recipients have included the American Family Association’s Don Wildmon. “Culture of Fear” Don Venoit, a conservative evangelical who founded Midwest Christian Outreach, a ministry devoted to countering the influence of “new religious movements,” has long been a critic of Gothard and documented his efforts to conf…

Not His House: Archbishop Oversteps, Opposes Repeal of DADT

By Eugene McMullan

…rchbishop has religious authority over the Catholic chaplains in the armed services, their primary allegiance is to the military and the president. So long as they actually serve in the military, they answer to the president, not the prelate. Canon law and catechism are irrelevant to the debate about lifting DADT. They are no more relevant here than they have been to other policy issues such as women in combat; bans on drugs, sexual harassment,…