Religion Dispatches
…e which religious institutions are ‘religious enough’ to merit protection of their religious liberty.” In Seattle, it would appear, parishes are asserting liberty from instructions (or at least strong suggestions) by the hierarchy, and in a season when the Seattle Archdiocese is asking for support in its Annual Catholic Appeal fundraising drive….
Read More…n America and the Caribbean. Xtra’s Rob Salerno wrote that under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada was a pro-LGBT leader in 2017. Foreign Policy reported that “2017 was a bad year for Egypt’s LGBT community,” adding that “2018 could be even worse.” Amnesty International released a report on “the increasingly discriminatory environment that LGBTI rights groups” face in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. ILGA released its 2017 Trans Le…
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…l and sociocultural acceptance of the therapeutic value of psychedelics, a number of institutions have started to offer certificate programs for clinicians and chaplains in psychedelic-assisted therapies, including the California Institute of Integral Studies and Naropa University. Now, Emory University has entered the fray, with the establishment of the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality (ECPS). A partnership between Emory Spiritual H…
Read More…book, in fact, that I think I’ll dispense with a conventional review and just list all the howlers for you, in no particular order: A Commitment To “Compromise”: Those of us who have worked hard to find some common ground in this debate, to help forge some compromise that might let health-care reform proceed for the tens of millions of low-income families who desperately need it, are still trying to find some middle ground that both sides could li…
Read More…d that as he drove home from the border, Mr. Zodhiates tried to call a cellphone number registered to Liberty Counsel, an evangelical legal group. That cellphone number has sometimes been used by Mathew D. Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, dean of the Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., and a leader of Ms. Miller’s defense team. The RICO filed by Jenkins includes information that RD readers learned last year from Sarah Posner’s…
Read More…d not have the right to attempt to influence governments in an effort to restrict civil rights. Clearly stated and often overlooked is Doctrine & Covenants 134:9. ‘We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.’ The same Constitution that is claimed by scripture…
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…s deviation in GHGs emissions from the sector average compared to its closest industry. So, for example, in the profile, a green box indicates that a company has performed better than others in its sector. Poor performers are indicated in brown. In the auto sector, for example, Ford Motor Company gets a green score while Goodyear Tire gets a brown score. In the tech sector, Google gets a green score relative to Intel’s brown. Of course, this does…
Read More…official poverty line, constituting a population larger than the 25 smallest states combined… One in eight Americans is poor. One child in six is poor. … From 2000 to 2007, the number of children living in poverty increased by 15 percent… In 2007, the richest 20 percent of Americans had over 50 percent of the nation’s income, while the poorest 20 percent had only 3.4 percent.” In a piece titled “Fighting Poverty With Faith,” Steeland and Nordengr…
Read More…estroyed by fire since the horrific murders at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last month feels like “déjà vu all over again.” We remember all too well the daily images of burning churches on the nightly news in the late 1990s. I was involved in extensive research on the phenomenon at the time, so in many ways I feel as if I’m watching reruns of old news reels. Still, can this be the beginning of another wave of racist violence targeting the spir…
Read More…, no matter how coded, he not only attacks Muslims but makes the positions of Jews in America more precarious. Of course, the irony is that if Amanpour follows any faith, is most likely Christianity, judging by the “Christian” in her name, and she is married to a Jewish man by the name of James Rubin….
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