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

By Max Zahn

…ation and any other missionary effort? First, there’s a difference between spirituality and religion. I think spirituality is universal. Anybody can practice spirituality, with or without religious belief. I don’t really care about Buddhism, but I care tremendously about dharma, which is defined as universal law. I care especially about the aspects of universal law relating to suffering and liberation from suffering. They’re everywhere. I’m not tr…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…oners about “the profile of the candidate for whom they should vote” in May 15 elections. Israel: Jerusalem’s taboo-busting gay bar attracts diverse crowd Eitan Arom at the Jewish News Service profiles Jerusalem’s only remaining gay bar: If any city needs a nonjudgmental space, it’s Jerusalem. Both sides of Israel’s capital—the Muslim eastern half and the Jewish western half—have in common large numbers of socially conservative residents who look…

Who Will Catholic Bishops Turn to in Trump Era?

By Patricia Miller

…omed but should be eligible for the full range of government-funded social service and support programs. While they haven’t been nearly as vocal about immigration as abortion, the USCCB has long lobbied for immigrant and refugee-friendly programs. To date the conference hasn’t taken on Trump directly, but they have countered his claims about “birthright citizenship” and influential bishops like Timothy Dolan have criticized his nativist views. Lik…

“Excruciatingly Different” Mississippi Religious Lib Law Specifies Beliefs

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…e other by the Campaign for Southern Equality. Both suits argue the law, HB 1523, violates the constitutional protections laid down by the Supreme Court in last year’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which it clearly does. But it also brazenly violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from unduly favoring one religion over another. Mississippi’s law, which protects only three specific religiously-based…

Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom

By Patricia Miller

…offer any hint as to what magical means the Department of Health and Human Services will deploy to learn which plans aren’t offering contraceptive coverage and whom to contact to let them know their insurer will cover contraception anyway. It seems to envision some form of the “compromise” it suggested in its equally bizarre request for additional briefs after the initial hearing. Under this compromise, the plaintiffs would contract for a plan tha…

Same-Sex Marriage May Lead to Polygamy, But So What?

By William E. Smith

…ery-slope argument against same-sex marriage and polygamy in Religion News Service. Having legalized the one, the other will surely follow. And that is bad—very, very bad according to Sprigg. His position rests on two separate lines of argumentation: the curtailment of freedom of religion and harm to children. Both are rather spurious. Sprigg is still trying to make the case that same-sex marriage is a social ill. It is a social ill that will lead…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…force, special Sharia police arrested two “suspected lesbians” – women aged 18 and 19 – who were spotted hugging in public. Police detained the women for four days, and released them into a government-run, week-long religious “rehabilitation” center. Kumolo needs to recognize that cancelling laws that discriminate against women and LGBT people should be a greater priority than regulations “about investments.” Until the Indonesian government revoke…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…nd Eastern Europe whose people seek to preserve the age-old traditions and spiritual values.” American Religious Right groups like the Alliance Defense Fund, the American Center for Law and Justice, and the National Organization for Marriage are among those who take a global approach to the culture war, and work closely with their counterparts in Europe through overseas operations and alliances like the WCF. Many Religious Right groups are support…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…to do that. We’ll see. I just came back from San Jose where I photographed 15 megachurches there. Do you have any cities of interest that you’d feel most compelled to go to? Well, Texas has a huge amount of megachurches. That’s like the biggest state for megachurches and would be an interesting addition to the project. But I’m not really sure of where I would go. One of your megachurch “megazines” is on view at a gallery in Paris, and it made me…

Trump In Colorado: When the “Facts” Are No Longer Checkable

By Paul Harvey

…ter to all sorts of events, political and otherwise, as part of its public service and mission. And frankly, as an obscure branch campus of a state university, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Rather, the point was, of course Trump has the right to come here and speak, but we have the right to speak back. Various other political candidates–of both parties as well as minor parties–have spoken here in the past, with no such debate or strong f…