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Joel Osteen and Annise Parker: Strange Stage-fellows

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s in God – but the Holy Spirit still has a chance to convict her heart and change her at some point. But, hey, perhaps I’m jaded and always tend to hear anti-gay messages when spoken by anti-gay people, even if it is spoken in pretty code. Michael Jones over at Change.org celebrated Osteen’s appearance at the inauguration: “But give both Osteen and Parker some credit. Today was a day for the history books for LGBT politicians, and also a day where…

Obama’s Hope Fading Fast?

By Daniel Schultz

…he edges. Why someone like Barack Obama, who ran on the themes of hope and change, would get down in the mud with someone like Rahm Emanuel, whose entire political career has been dedicated to stasis, I do not know. I do know this: he’s got just about one chance left to convince the nation that his vision does include meaningful action and change. Otherwise, he will be rejected as a prophet of false hope, and the anger seething through the nation…

Inside Outsourced: Come See Where Your Jobs Went

By Haroon Moghul

…ware of, and it takes exceptional people to realize they have the power to change things. This is the first major network show about a culture that many Americans know very little about. How do you make it funny without either going over people’s heads or resorting to stereotypes? The writers, especially Robert Borden, who developed the show, have done a remarkable job balancing humor with tact. I think it helps that the film production communit…

“Nobody Is Innocent”: David Gushee on Sexual Ethics, Suffering, and Full Inclusion for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…me a long time and I hope that my regret for the long journey is clearly communicated in the book. I am sorry it took me so long to put it all together. It’s like being in a movie where someone is trying to crack a safe and there’s six numbers and you have to get all six numbers right for the safe to open. I think that’s what’s happened for me. Finally, all six numbers came up and I was able to open the safe and I could see this in a new way. Tha…

Someone Has Been Giving Away Money

By Susan Henking

…in recent years the appointment of Drew Faust Gilpin at Harvard), overall numbers remain low. And, as critiques of identity politics make evident, it is not just women that matter; both women and men who emphasize transformative social change and imagine an inclusive future are crucial. Yes, getting an education is a feminist (and womanist) act, and increasing access for women is too. So might be the hiring of a feminist president. While the glas…

Who is Religious Left?

By Frederick Clarkson

…llege, and Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change, highlight this general difference in their essay in Dispatches. They think the liberal/left has erred in its recent emphasis on think tanks and public relations strategies over the kind of movement organizing that have been critical to past gains for labor, women, African Americans and more. They question the efficacy and the morality of this approach, adding, “timi…

Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…f “Judeo-Christian” origins for democracy. However, the board rejected the change. The board rejected a similar change involving another Christian Americanist tenet, the claim that trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, and equality before the law “originated from the Judeo-Christian legal tradition and in Greece and Rome.” The streamlining work groups deleted the entire phrase, noting that “there are multiple influences to these ideas.” Onc…

Sex Comes For the Archbishop: Rembert Weakland’s Unflinching Memoir

By Mary E. Hunt

…bishops had the gumption to meet outside of officialdom and try to effect change from within the hierarchy. Alas, we will not see his like soon in the American episcopacy, as the current appointees are by and large conservative company men who have been well vetted on questions of abortion, homosexuality, and women’s ordination to make sure they toe the line. Consensual, Legal, But Still Out of Bounds Memoirs are tricky literary business. This on…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for fighting to stop the legalization of gay marriage. The demonstrators, numbering in their thousands, were dressed in white and stuck large stickers reading “Marriage and family, let the people decide” to their clothes. Protest leaders speaking to the crowd on a temporary stage said “All children have the right to a mother and a father” as the rally congested the main road outside the Legislative Yuan for over six hours. In a petition letter, t…

The Ghosts and Illusions of the Occupation

By Sarah Posner

…and their leaders to stridently march through Arab neighborhoods with megaphones through which they shout nationalist slogans, hailing their sovereignty over the streets. “These Jerusalemites,” Mort goes on, “have existed as ghosts to the majority of Israeli Jews and American Jews who don’t usually travel east of the holy basin in the Old City and who have no conception of Arab Israelis’ daily lives or desires.” (emphasis mine) Tariq isn’t a ghos…