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“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

…ficient food. And then you move closer to capitalism like that seen in the United States. You still have problems. You don’t have enough money for infrastructure. If you did have enough money for infrastructure, you wouldn’t have enough for poverty alleviation or for libraries, and so on. But maybe what we have in America is just about right: a system near the middle, trending towards the capitalist end. Then we can rely on inner development to cr…

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The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point

…rights serve as its contemporary calling card, the religious right in the United States, as some have argued, has its origins in racial segregation, particularly the establishment of private Christian schools as a work-around to the desegregation policies that emerged out of Brown v Board of Education. Given this history, it’s not surprising that those on the religious right would continue to support a president that is, by most sane accounts, a…

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Fake, Evil, Spiritual, Commodified; What’s the Truth About Popular Yoga?

…a yoga—were also disliked by many mainstream populations from India to the United States, those who were interested in and engaged in physical techniques faced the harshest criticisms. Finally, Craddock’s construction of yoga is consistent with the history of modern yoga’s adaptation, assimilation, and syncretism. Craddock identified as a Unitarian but also as the pastor of the Church of Yoga. The fact that a woman could be so polymorphously relig…

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Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

…ion is standard among various factions of the Christian Right, but Wallnau promotes a unique and even more pernicious brand of NAR teachings on gender and sexuality, including the dangerous idea that LGBTQ-identifying kids need to be “delivered” from demons. As noted earlier, “deliverance” among NAR adherents is coded language for exorcism, which is an even more noxious version of the psychologically (and often physically) harmful practice of LGBT…

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Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

…part to influence negotiations that will be taking place in 2015 over the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. During the summit, Austin Ruse of C-FAM hosted a press conference which featured Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, President of the Democratic Center Party in Colombia and a former presidential candidate; Zoltan Balog, the Hungarian Minister for Human Capacities, and U.S. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, Helen M. Alvaré, Professor at George Mas…

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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

…rior to “the removal of God” from our schools: 1700s  • The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac’s Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). Only two children survived. 1800s • November 2, 1853, Louisville, Ken…

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The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba

…t their realities are transparent and go without saying because, while the United States is a place of complexity and opportunity, Cuba is one of simplicity and degradation. According to this model, the American Dream is so appropriately irresistible and ubiquitous that it animates the deepest longings of taxi drivers in Cuba, who don’t need to offer us elaborations about such desires because they had us at “I love America.” To appreciate the ways…

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Animal Sacrifice and Sexuality in Santería

…nd more broadly, what do you make of popular notions about Santería in the United States? And what’s your take on recent court decisions that recognize and protect the religiosity of the practice? Generally speaking, when we are talking about racial and ethnic minorities, the United States’ racial (and racist) system tends to find much of what is non-white “suspicious.” That’s why Santería continues to be categorized as a cult by some, and why the…

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A State Without a Mexican

…hat Hispanics are the most discriminated against group in the contemporary United States. A recent CNN poll confirms Pew’s findings, yet unsurprisingly 71% of Hispanics oppose Arizona’s law. You don’t need a Ph.D. to realize that those individuals who will not be terrorized by this law seem to have no problem with it. Faith-based groups were active last week in publicly protesting Arizona’s law. Religious leaders evoke compassion, the dignity of t…

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Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

…vious examples include contemporary statements pairing assertions that the United States is a Christian nation with political opposition to universal health coverage, social justice, entitlement spending, and a whole array of benefits to all US citizenry.The subtext of these assertions is that such social benefits burden “real [read white] Americans” with taking care of those “other [read colored] people” living within the US borders. US airwaves…

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