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Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…stayed away from the members of the class. I didn’t want to join their chorus of complaints (crazy exercises, crazier rules), but neither could I defend what we’d seen, heard and done. It was easier to enjoy the food, stare at rich people and then take off for the Galleria. I’d schlepped the white robe, folded in its plastic bag, all morning. Finally I could exchange it for a nicer style. The clerk, an older American woman, told me that was impos…

Good News For Bad News Addicts

By J.J. Goldberg

…the same thing in 1990. But few will notice. All we’ll remember is the bad news. We’re addicted to bad news, always convinced disaster is just around the corner, unable to recognize good news when it stares us in the face. Worse, we obsess on the headlines but don’t bother reading the details. Folks, the news this week is that the Jewish community is growing, not declining. While nobody was looking, the children of intermarriage in 1990 grew up an…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…ce polygamy? A few weeks ago, I sat in front of a radio microphone for the BBC program “The World”; with me on the program was a high-ranking public relations official for the LDS Church. Together, we did the same program twice: two back-to-back hours of the same hour about Mormonism, one time for the American audiences, and a second time for the whole world. During the first hour, taping for American audiences, when the inevitable polygamy questi…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e pre-eminent guardian of western liberal values, voted against the bill.” BBC News reports on a Berlin mosque where “men and women pray together, women are allowed to lead Friday prayers, and gay, lesbian and transgender people are welcome.” “Our mosque is open for everybody,” says mosque founder Seyran Ates, a German Turkish-born lawyer and women’s rights activist. “And we mean that really seriously: everybody, every lifestyle. We are not God. W…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…at they did to us. Let us liberate them from their colonialism.” In East Jerusalem, Arun Gandhi and Palestinian Premier Ahmed Qurei led a march against the Israeli built Wall/Fence. A handful of Israeli leftists joined them. Reporting on the rally Arun Gandhi held in Jerusalem in August of 2004, Jonathan Cook noted that “neither the solidarity tents for the prisoners nor Gandhi’s rallies have been graced by members of Israel’s largest peace block,…

Paul for the People: John Dominic Crossan Imagines a “Letter to the Americans” In His New Video Series

By Peter Laarman

…ee, going first to Jerusalem. When Paul arrived on the scene, he went to Jerusalem. As a pilgrimage city, Jerusalem would allow this new form of Messianic Judaism to begin to move out along the pilgrim networks. The crucial decision facing Messianic Judaism concerned whether Gentile converts could become full members of the Messianic community without undergoing circumcision. Paul was part of that decision, but so were Peter and James, as we know…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…ncial benefactors from the Twin Towers’ collapse. The theme of an evil new world order run by craven elites is extended in the next verse: I wish politicians would look out for miners And not just minors on an island somewhere. This is a reference to Jeffrey Epstein’s island (which for the record was a place of unspeakable atrocities). However, the idea of child trafficking is now a conspiracy haven. When asked about his political views, “Anthony…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d Iran, questioned the inclusion of sexuality in the report. In other U.N. news, the U.S. State Department defended the Trump administration’s decision to name representatives of two strongly anti-LGBT organizations—C-Fam and the Heritage Foundation—to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Also last week, the Trump administration dropped U.S. participation in hearings being held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Phi…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…hs and years, we saw signs leading up to the current crisis. We saw the corruption of the census in 2008 and the obstruction of political participation. We saw protests over the appointment of Governor Haroun—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide in Darfur—and the razing of El Feid, the home village of his leading opponent. The members of the State Election Committee received threats that they had to declare Haroun the win…

CPAC 2017: Hypocrites on Parade

By Sunnivie Brydum

…l is antagonizing Senate Democrats…right up until they threaten to follow Cruz’s own obstructionist playbook. Democrats, Cruz said, are “living in an alternative universe.” He continued: They are in denial, and they’re angry. … The anger on the left, I’ve never seen anything like it. They’re right now opposing everything. Democrats in the Senate are filibustering absolutely everything. … The cabinet is still not confirmed—this is the longest we’ve…