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New Research Links Spiritual-Not-Religious to Mental Disorder

By Elizabeth Drescher

…riends, though, since we’re all reading Pew, PRRI, and Gallup data on an almo*]}*st daily basis now, it’s worth studying up here, here, and perhaps especially here.) As Professor King confirmed, the survey data cannot tell us whether those who are already “vulnerable to mental disorder,” through genetics, psychosocial trauma, or a mix of both, are likely to feel comfortable or to be made welcome in traditional religious settings. Those suffering with…

3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…written statements from Bishop Frank Dewane, chairman of Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, a little known backbencher with virtually no profile in the national media. As Michael Sean Winters noted in the National Catholic Reporter: …there was no “postcard campaign” like the bishops launched on previous issues of less significance, no full court press as it were. It is clear that so long as they get rid of the contraception mand…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…uch as city council meetings. Criminalizing libraries and librarians While most of the new playbook isn’t really new, and simply builds on its original themes, there is one new model bill that bears special attention because it builds out a new dimension of Project Blitz’s religious and political vision, and exposes their view of democratic institutions. Indeed, the bill became infamous months before it morphed into a secret model in the Project B…

Does God Want Jeremy Lin to Win?

By Jay Michaelson

…pause to remember that no matter how important they are, they are not the most important things in the universe. They try to remain humble and grateful. This, too, is religion at its best. So, it’s okay to be inspired by these seemingly miraculous stories. In a nasty campaign season and a still-sluggish economy, they’re a welcome reprieve. And it’s okay to draw religious lessons from them, if that’s what you’re inclined to do. But those lessons s…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…y supplements,” is one of the company’s leading moneymakers. The company’s most important product has always been selling its version of the American Dream: the notion that any person with a fair amount of desire, spunk, and initiative with a get-up-and-go persona and a little bit of up-front money, could shape their futures. They can get rich, and their futures would include a fair amount of well-deserved wealth. The truth has always been vastly…

Dispatches from the Workplace: Postville: Ground Zero for the Intersection of Immigrant and Workers’ Rights

By Kim Bobo

…nation’s largest single workplace raid in history, detaining 389 workers. Most of the detained workers were Guatemalan immigrants who had come to the U.S. seeking work to feed their families and did not have legal papers authorizing them to work. Nonetheless, Agriprocessors, Inc. hired the workers, claiming the company did not know the workers were not authorized to work. Most of the immigrants and their families were members of St. Bridget’s Cat…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…zFeed’s Lester Feder notes that opponents, “led by Pakistan on behalf of almo*]}*st all members of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation,” added amendments urging respect for local “religious sensitivities” and opposing “coercive measures” to change national policies. The effort to create the independent expert was supported by hundreds of NGOs. Orthodox Church: Holy and Great Council affirms traditional teaching on family Nuntiare et Recreare, a R…

Show Me the Way of the Hebrews: The Making of an African American Rabbi

By J. Lester Feder

…eping. They were dedicating a new Torah scroll, and some readers sounded almo*]}*st like mullahs chanting the Koran, while others sang with an extravagant Ashkenazi style that I had only seen used by Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. I was at Bethel on an assignment for The Washington Post, a cover story for the magazine about a new African American synagogue in DC started in 2008 by Mother Dailey’s grandson, Eli Aronoff. (Aronoff claims no Ashkenazi ance…

A Post-Christian America? Not Quite—Though Devoutly to be Wished

By Peter Laarman

…at’s what I mean by fighting the last war. I hope they’ll rethink it. Making nice with bad religion isn’t good for the Party—and it’s most definitely not good for the country….

An Extravagant Welcome For All: Believe Out Loud, a Faith-Based LGBT Campaign, Launches

By Peter Laarman

…ng uncomfortable or ambivalent feelings toward the LGBT community with the most basic tenet of Christian faith: that we should love our neighbors as ourselves. From there, we encourage people to take their own steps to start the conversation—and to learn more via the many Web-based resources we are providing.” Believe Out Loud has serious ambitions: it does not simply aim to lay the groundwork for healthier conversations and new perceptions within…