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Early this month, Bard College professor Omar G. Encarnación published an op ed piece on the London School of Economics’ European Politics and Policy blog arguing that western nations should…

This week’s global LGBT recap again highlights vast differences in legal status for LGBT people, and in the role played by religious leaders in advancing equality or advocating discrimination – or…

This week’s global LGBT justice roundup, with a focus on Africa.

“As a Muslim Bangladeshi, social media has transported me across the world…”

How a meeting with Muslim youth leaders led me to realize I had cynically underestimated a slogan’s power.

Five things happened to our ancestors of the 17 th of Tammuz and five things happened on the 9 th day of Av. On the 17 th of Tammuz the tablets of the law were broken, the daily temple sacrifice was…

Last week HuffPo Religion’s executive editor Paul Raushenbush wrote about a ” stunning resurgence” of progressive Christianity. The right, he notes, had been the “default religious voice” of the final…

In Amsterdam in 1709, philosopher John Toland set his eyes upon a remarkable manuscript—what he described in Nazarenus as “a Mahometan Gospel, never before publicly made known among Christians.”…

With Egypt’s presidential election a few weeks away, former Field Marshal Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi seems all but unstoppable. In an interview with Egyptian television this week, the career military chief…

Nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls have been ripped from their desks and chairs, notebooks and pencils, smiles and giggles and sent to hell. They’ve been sold, trafficked for sex and reproduction and…