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As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

By Katherine Kelaidis

…in the late 1990s. The fact is, a significant number of Serbs, and even a large number of others from traditionally Orthodox backgrounds, continue to harbor a great deal of anger about Western intervention in the Kosovo War, which they see as a failure by the West to comprehend the historical role-reversal that’s taken place, including the persecution of Orthodox Christians by Albanians and other majority-Muslim ethnic groups during the Ottoman p…

UPDATED: Oklahoma Personhood Bill Not Dead…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…open to amendments, say, in whatever state becomes the new personhood legislation laboratory) carries dangers. The whole selling point of the personhood position, for those who take to it, is its uncompromising nature: a fetus at any stage of development is a legal, rights-bearing person. Full stop, no exceptions. A person is a person, the end. To be open to compromise, amendments, and qualifications is to undercut the distinctive thing about the…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…ately sought to radically change the tapestry of American life, to erase Islam in America, to put the lie to its claims of tolerance, and to strike fear in the heart of a much more powerful nation. Today, religious liberty is threatened by a president who sees Islam as foreign, who bans and vets people based on their religious beliefs, and who fears refugees, the most vulnerable population in the world. Fear appeals to our darker demons. Donald Tr…

Census Reveals Gay People are Shockingly… Normal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…living openly, and of gay populations mirroring trends in the straight population, are playing out nationwide. That makes gays and lesbians seem somehow, oddly, oh, I don’t know, human. We age, we have kids, we move to the suburbs! Who knew? And this is where it gets sticky for anti-gay religious leaders. As this article points out, they have no interest in letting the facts get in the way of a good lie and have vowed to continue their efforts to…

Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

By Timothy King

…s Christian are less likely to identify with the groups that have been the largest players in American Christianity. Detail of a tapestry depicting Christ emerging from the tomb from the Vatican museums. Photo by Cathleen Falsani. The Decline of Christendom Obviously, from the numbers and the tales they tell, American Christianity is hardly experiencing a Renaissance. But the rise of the “nones” does not equal its wide-scale collapse, either. A be…

After More Mass Shootings It’s Time to Call Out White Supremacy in the Pews

By Peter Laarman

…ders who will talk about the deeper roots of these things or attempt to explain why American culture is “exceptional”—exceptional in its toxicity, that is. A growing number of truth telling historians are eager to help us discover these deeper roots if we are willing to listen. Here I’m thinking mainly of scholars like Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Gerald Horne who focus on the connections between settler colonialism, white supremacy, and an unparallel…

Dispatches from the Workplace: Postville: Ground Zero for the Intersection of Immigrant and Workers’ Rights

By Kim Bobo

…policies and the complete abdication of the government enforcement of workplace laws (like paying people for all their hours worked and prohibitions on child labor in slaughterhouses), but it also clarifies the changes needed in national immigration and workplace enforcement policies. First, the nation needs a rational immigration policy that creates a path to citizenship, reunifies families and protects workers’ rights. Postville’s immigrant work…

3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…the White House to complain to Obama. A special committee was formed. Legislators were lobbied. Lay Catholics were called on to protest. A scorching letter was read aloud by bishops at masses across the country. And threats were made about the Catholic vote in 2012. But now, even as the clearly deceptive and immoral Trump administration plunges further into chaos and the Republican Party uses it as a distraction as it plots to take health care awa…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e Tico Times asked participants in the country’s recent price celebration, La Marcha de la Diversidad, how they see the country’s progress on LGBT rights. Among the responses: Carolina Durán, 25:Things are starting to get more inclusive. Even people who are very tied to their religion are starting to be more accepting. We are moving in small steps, but we are moving forward. Lenin Fernández, 34:To me, there is still a lot we have left to accomplis…

Show Me the Way of the Hebrews: The Making of an African American Rabbi

By J. Lester Feder

…yer group in her living room. It quickly grew, its ranks swelling with the large numbers of African Americans then pouring into Philadelphia from the South. In 1951, the group formally declared itself the Bethel Holy Commandment Church. As the name makes obvious, they were not yet a synagogue. Dailey’s daughter, Debra Bowen, became leader of Bethel after her mother’s death in 2001, and she is the official keeper of her legend. Bowen confessed in a…