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Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…smartphones around the world. Millions, likewise, participated in the digital call-and-response of tweeted and retweeted updates from Chilean officials, onsite reporters, and friends and family members of the miners; along with prayers and encouragements from the millions watching the rescue. In addition, hundreds of Facebook groups sprung up as global digital sanctuaries for prayer and celebration throughout the day. The relics the miners brought…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…sanctions on Ramzan Kadyrov, the anti-LGBT leader of Chechnya and a political ally of Vladimir Putin. According to AFP, “The US also imposed sanctions on the Chechen security official Ayub Kataev, likewise accused of gross violations of human rights and abuses against gay men, as well as three others accused of involvement in the corruption case uncovered by deceased Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky.” Kataev is a prison warden who “allegedly…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy

By Ivan Strenski

…d be required in order to make a convincing case that the “wolf pack” virtual online community—as represented, say, in “8Chan” postings and such—were sufficiently robust to reveal a pattern of activity that would invoke RICO, or a updated version designed to address this new context. In dealing with the “wolf pack,” there’s no need to transgress constitutionally guaranteed rights any more than the pursuit of the Mafia has. We know how to ferret ou…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…ctive use. In response to alleged political correctness gone too far, the vile alt-right radio host Paul Joseph Watson once tweeted, “Wearing a sombrero is not racist, you utter dolt. It’s a fucking hat.” Against this sort of disingenuous appeal to “factual” meaning as a cover for racism, we can say to those playing Watson’s game: Look, you utter fascists, meaning is use—it’s not just a fucking hat. *** One might respond: “But hey, it’s not like f…

French “Burqa Ban”: It’s Not About Religion

By Amina Wadud

…niqab covers the face, except the eyes, with a cloth; usually black and usually also accompanied by a full black garment. The burqa is specific to the regions of Afghanistan, but sometimes the term gets called in for any extreme forms of covering outside of the countries in which it is culturally prevalent. There are three angles to consider with this issue. For one thing, there is the perspective of the French authorities, the ones taking the mat…

Landmark OC Megachurch Declares Bankruptcy

By Joanna Brooks

…bussed Orange County public school kids like me on field trips to the Crystal Cathedral, so we could gaze up in wonder at row-upon-row of glass ceiling panes, each one of them bearing a little metal plaque inscribed with the name of a donor. But times have changed in the OC, and the money, youth (at least the white youth) and positivity have all moved south, away from the Cathedral and right into the heart of Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church territ…

Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

…blican women also need contraceptive access. Everybody needs access to sexual health information. It doesn’t matter our party. What we need is a government that is willing to step back and listen to not just the women that are their direct constituents, but the women that they serve across this country who have a difference of opinion when it comes to access and when it comes to being able to make healthcare decisions. This is what we knew would h…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…working as a security guard. Among Israeli Jews, for whom there is universal military conscription, this type of work would not have been at all unusual, but among the ultra-Orthodox it was striking. For under Israeli law the ultra-Orthodox are exempt from the draft. All Haredi men and women are free from the responsibility of spending years in the army. In the 1950s Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, granted this exemption to the t…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…martyrs who were slaughtered, burnt, tortured, and raped, that I will fulfill all the commands that I receive, safeguard all the secrets, and follow any path in order to reach the Land of Israel.” An additional oath went by the acronym Parkhakh, which they swore before leaving for Palestine, to inflict death on anyone who threatened the Jewish people. Kovner set off for the Yishuv—the Jewish community in Palestine—to acquire poison for two potent…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…PR. This appearance is especially revealing of Parker’s legal and theological philosophy—which are one and the same—as he openly stated his intention to influence Alabama judges to follow his interpretation of Christianity: When the judges are restored, revival can flow, so that righteousness and faithfulness are the products. But at least, as chief justice, I can help prepare the soil of the hearts, exposing the judges around the state to the thi…