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Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories

By Rebecca Moore

…, or deconstruct the hearts of people long expecting to die, it seems most appropriate to conclude that murder and suicide occurred on that day. That paradox is what has given rise to the proliferation of alternative theories. As political scientist Michael Barkun writes in A Culture of Conspiracy, the conspiracy theorist’s view is both frightening and reassuring. It’s frightening because it magnifies the power of evil …. At the same time, however…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…nd 9 countries share this great Biome (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, including French Guyana as an overseas territory).” [Section 1] Yet those countries taken together comprise one of the poorest regions on Earth and the ecosystem described is in meltdown. There are many reasons why the Catholic Church focused on the Amazon. Of global significance, the impact of losing the ecological richness and diversity…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n Republic, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the U.S. Lavers recaps the regional context of change and continuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 states and D.C., Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico City, French Guiana, the French islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy and…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…amic weddings for some years now.” Internationally, MPV is cautious in its approach and avoids focusing on marriage. “We approach LGBTQI issues from a basic human rights perspective,” Zonneveld says. “Because there’s so much animosity and violence we have to be very careful for the safety of people on the ground.” MPV argues that LGBTQI people “should not be criminalized or have to go through corrective therapy, corrective rape, or other awful hum…

Why We Won’t Let Jonestown (Or 9/11 or Sandy Hook) Die

By Kelsey Osgood

…she attempts to make sense of the seemingly senseless loss of life. “What happened to this movement? What happened to the dream?” We can feel the heartache as she listens to Stephan Jones, the poised son of the man many believe to have been a drug-addicted demagogue, explain how he lost his mother, his father, and all of his friends in one harrowing moment; sense her tentative thrill when Garry Lambrev, a former Temple Member, hints at the governm…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ill host the World Congress of Families summit in May. Netherlands: Mobile app designed to help LGBT migrants & refugees Dutch officials have created a mobile app to help LGBT migrants get information on refugee rights and resources and Dutch asylum procedures. Liberia: Essay on ‘tacit tolerance’ and backlash to public pressure for LGBT equality Baba Sillah, a Liberian post-graduate student in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Sophia Univer…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ce generally, the interactive reshaping of spiritual life mobile computing applications—apps—are taking up the creative slack in inviting believers, seekers, and non-believers of all stripes into what Meyers refers to as the “adventurous and always unpredictable exploration of God’s strange and surprising ways with the world.” Scholars and religion journalists are just beginning to address the impact of religious apps on the shaping of formal and…

Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto

By Max Zahn

…e New York Review of Books, advocates age restrictions or flat-out bans on app use. Both of these approaches presume a fundamental weakness in human agency. State intervention is the only way, these writers argue, to protect us against ourselves. Well, sort of. These kinds of provisions don’t protect agency so much as they determine an acceptable degree to which it will be lost. They don’t address the deeper social forces and habits of mind that e…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…toning under a portion of the oil-rich Southeast Asian country’s new penal code based on Islamic Shariah law that is slated to take effect next year. Gambian lawmakers last month approved a measure that would impose a life sentence upon anyone found guilty of “aggravated homosexuality.” The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights is among the groups that have urged Chadian President Idriss Déby to reject a proposed amendment to his c…