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Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…from the Bible. This “Dominionist” doctrine, it said, inspires groups and networks like the Council for National Policy and the White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon, with his “apocalyptic” world view. … The most “dangerous” feature of this “strange ecumenism” between Catholic and evangelical fundamentalists, they wrote, is the xenophobia and Islamophobia that promotes “walls and purifying deportations.” “Triumphalist, arrogant and vindictiv…

Leahy’s Immigration Provision Sows Sex Panic Among Key Religious Groups

By Peter Laarman

…vocates like himself. Rev. Rodriguez, a noted homophobe, is also part of a network including Jim Wallis that calls itself Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. These folks held a press briefing this week calling upon the President to lend his support to compassionate and comprehensive immigration reform and announcing the creation of a new website (www.faithandimmigration.org) addressing reform from a faith perspective. Wallis himself c…

Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…to NAR-ers like Chuck Pierce and Dutch Sheets. But when I asked one of the WWW founders, Vicky Mpofu, who were her greatest spiritual influences she named not the NAR, but Word of Faith godfather Kenneth Hagin. That’s not to say that the NAR isn’t important, just that it’s a movement in a stream of intertwining movements, which have become intertwined in our politics, that borrow and play off of each other. As I’ve written before, events like The…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…ces Two things are certain: first, scientifically, the Earth is but one planet of trillions upon trillions across the universe; second, since this fact is relatively new in the knowledge of evolutionarily-formed humanity, it has only begun to permeate modern theology. Teilhard, to his credit, was one of the first to seriously consider this scientific idea. His considerations, however, were founded upon layers of bias against persons of various eth…

7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ed by The New York Times called “Transgender, At War and In Love.” https://www.facebook.com/Ireland.Logan/posts/10214301296633323?pnref=story …or leaders of the service branches to which he just issued orders… It appears that the White House and the Pentagon are playing a game of “hot potato” with reporters seeking further explanation and comment on the sudden about-face in policy. https://twitter.com/samstein/status/890281954574303232 Meanwhile…

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…utions already voluntarily provide insurance coverage for contraception. Nonetheless, Republicans, with a handful of Democratic co-sponsors, have introduced the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, which would amend the Affordable Care Act to allow any health insurance plan to decline coverage of any service that is deemed contrary to the religious beliefs of the employer or sponsor of the plan. Sarah Lipton-Lubet, policy counsel for the ACLU, sa…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…’re closer to others, it just helps us remember that we’re here on this planet with other humans, not just ourselves, with headphones, watching Netflix all day. “A change in attitude seems to be occurring around the country. I don’t have a lot of time or energy to convince people that they should stop being selfish with their buildings. People come to me, and they get that already. They realize this building could be used in a lot of other ways.”…

Rev. Rob Lee Lost Congregation For His Anti-Racism Speech: Here’s Why He Should Have Packed His Bags First

By Daniel Schultz

…it is the reality of working respectfully in community. Go to top https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YaZs6HRInY Go to top So I’m not in favor of demanding Christians take particular social stances as a mode of pastoral ministry. To be very clear, it’s the “demanding” part that’s problematic here, not the idea that the Christian faith entails certain views on social equality. It does. And America very much needs leaders who can articulate the urgent…

#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

…United States did to yoga, which was make it expensive and bland. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVcvL8kg0nM/?taken-by=trapyogabae “I would be lying if I said we’re honoring the Bhagavad Gita because we’re not. Appropriation is real, and I question my own motives as well because I know that’s not what I learned in India. And I wonder what my guru thinks when he finds me online since that’s not what he taught me. We used to fight about these things.”…

In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

…rsecution, because of natural human difference, has not gone away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtekphm2ipM Too often, we try to forget our histories of genocide. It is too gruesome to remember that the Aborigines of Tasmania no longer exist, or that the Atlantic slave trade perpetrated unspeakable horrors. Even when we memorialize recent and catastrophic events like the Holocaust, Bosnia, or Rwanda, it is with a shake of our heads and the wond…