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Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…tifying secession. Of course South Carolina is a very different place than New Hampshire where, as Blumenthal points out, you won’t find any Confederate monuments. Maybe Haley forgot about that in the moment she was asked the question, which genuinely seemed to throw her off—but it’s also apparent that the falsification of history, which has served Republicans well at the ballot box in the party realignment decades, has become such an immovable pa…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ng homophobia. The pope’s visit came shortly after the parliament passed a new law that gives the government vast new powers to shut down community organizations for a variety of reasons. One clause would require charities to “not engage in any activity which is … contrary to the dignity of the people of Uganda”, which proponents fear could be used to clamp down on groups working to help LGBT people in Uganda. It would also allow groups to be disb…

What Did the Puritans Have Against Christmas?

By Bruce David Forbes

…ed: Germans, Scandinavians, and the Dutch who founded New Amsterdam (later New York). So Lutherans, Catholics, and the Dutch Reformed celebrated Christmas, along with the Church of England that continued restrained Christmas observances. As a result of this mixture, in the American colonies and then in the new nation, there was no national consensus supporting Christmas, and the disagreement was between Christians. American Christmas wouldn’t come…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…born. Forced to flee the impending violence of World War I, they sailed to New York and settled on Long Island, where they rode out the Great War with extended family. Merton’s mother died in 1921 when he was only six years old. His father left him the following year, in pursuit of an unlikely romance. The precocious young man was installed in a French boarding school for a couple of years, returning to live with his father until the artist succum…

Spinning But Not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness

By Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst

…enerally I think the megatrend, as it were, is good. Also on The Cubit: Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York Follow The Cubit, RD‘s religion and science portal, @TheCubit….

“I Would Have Rolled My Eyes at That”: Rev. M Barclay, First Non-Binary Trans Deacon in the UMC, On This New Era

By The Editors

…from the show’s guests that reveal how their worldview has changed in this new era. Rev. M Barclay is the first non-binary trans person commissioned as deacon in the United Methodist Church. In episode 1, Kaleidoscope follows M over their 12-year path to ordination. Along the way M opens up about coming out (twice), dealing with public rejection, and the turmoils of love. (Subscribe and listen to the entire interview here.) What is one of the bigg…

Roll Over Lenin: Russian Church Elects New Patriarch

By Konstantin Petrenko

…! Despite these achievements, however, plenty of challenges remain for the newly elected Patriarch to address. First of all, Russia’s religious revival, impressive as it may be, has been largely superficial, having little effect on church attendance and belief in particular religious doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus and the afterlife. By these measures, Russians remain quite secular, even if they see Orthodoxy as a key aspect of their natio…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…hat no government can change. At a global gathering of LGBTIQ activists in New York sponsored by OutRight Action International, formerly known as the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, activists urged the Trump administration to continue support for local human rights activists. Jessica Stern, Outright’s executive director, said that the extent of international progress on LGBT human rights would not have been achieved without…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…ionality and the transcendent. This leads you to hope for something like a new apophatic theology which may in fact embrace unknowing in a new way, without necessarily becoming simply another postmodern suspicion of the master narrative. Can you develop this idea a little more, and tell me how, in your boldest moments, you dream that it might come about? (I imagine the Charter for Compassion might be part of your answer.) We need to realize that w…

Unauthorized Catholic Immigrants will Renew a Christian America, Archbishop Says

By Marie Friedmann Marquardt

…f whom are Latino/a), he continued Cardinal Mahoney’s fight, but with some new weapons added to the arsenal. So what’s new about the tactics we see being developed by Archbishop Gomez this summer, and how do they relate to the future of Catholicism in America? Too Much Wine Flowing in Napa? A good place to seek answers would be the July 28, 2011 “Catholics in the Next America” conference at the Napa Institute, where the archbishop’s new weapons…