About That posts feature responses to current events in 280 characters or fewer. Last week’s religious advertising flap Evangelicals for Marriage Equality: The Full-Page Advertisement That Wasn’t [via Hemant Mehta] (9/8) Religious News Service: Was Christianity Today Justified in Rejecting This Controversial Ad? (9/12) 9/18 Update: Evangelicals for Marriage Equality: A Response To Our Critics (9/18) About That It’s facile to […]
Review: “Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible” with the Religion Institute
Recognizing Bi People of Faith: Beyond Myth, Ignorance, and Individualism The original version of this review was posted on petersontoscano.com. For more than a decade, Peterson Toscano has worked at the intersection of sexuality and faith, sharing stories about religious anti-LGBTI therapies and recovering our knowledge of gender variance in the Christian scriptures. This year, Peterson turns […]
Guest Post: Adventists Discussing LGBTI Exclusion
Guest post via Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International During its spring meeting tomorrow, the General Conference Executive Committee will consider newly proposed “guidelines” to exclude LGBTI people from membership in local congregations, Spectrum Magazine reports. (The Spectrum comment section is now thick and over 130 responses long; we don’t recommend you trawl through it.) The document before […]
A Few Words on World Vision USA
“The quest for doctrinal purity & the exclusion it necessarily brings about is the very definition of missing the point.” —Carla Jo, 3/27/2014 There’s been a lot of e-ink given over to World Vision USA this week. I’ve had no personal dealings with this organization, though I’ve known of the work other World Vision branches […]
Reader Review #7
Discover Magazine: Grandma’s Experiences Leave Epigenetic Mark on Your Genes (Dan Hurley) Before the 1970s, genes were the fixed limits of life. With DNA as boss and RNA the secretary, combinations of genes produced a certain physiological outcome and it wasn’t clear what made one gene express and another not. But over the last 40 years, through […]
Reader Review #6: Listening Edition
Instead of my standard round-up of general news, articles, and media, this week’s Reader Review focuses on an international summit on sexuality and gender that the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church is hosting in Cape Town, South Africa. The summit began this morning, and the Adventist Review quotes co-organizer Pardon Mwansa: “The quality of meetings is […]