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Constitutional Attorney Changes into Drag During Talk on Cancelation of West Texas A&M Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…nority opposed to what Spectrum stands for on WT’s campus, “there is a lot more support on campus than Wendler would like you to believe.” In an act of what some might call Texan defiance, Spectrum is planning to move ahead, not just with its legal appeal, but also with a drag show on campus this coming spring. In a time when the Right is relentlessly attacking LGBTQ people and families, drag performances, and transgender rights, young people like…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…veral sessions to unblock my energy, she said. Would I like to come back tomorrow? Now, months later, I’m unsure about why what happened next. On my way back to my dorm, I felt compelled to visit the Galleria. Finding Yogananda, I apologized for screaming at him. He must have assumed that I was on the path to my true authentic self because he smiled and asked if he could hug me. When he did, something broke inside me. My grief and anger, lonelines…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…going back at least to the Poll Tax Revolt of 1377, which fed into to the more extensive and more violent Peasants Rising of 1381. As literary historian Steven Justice has shown us, the Rising had everything to do with how ordinary people were using the new media of the day (vernacular spiritual texts for common education and political broadsides for common expression) to “assert the rights of the laity to the intellectual, as to the material, go…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…y parts of the country more than one in eight workers can’t find any job; among younger males, especially African-Americans, the number is much higher—in many areas one in two workers is without work. Yet Congress, with a Democratic majority, can’t get it together to extend unemployment benefits. Our solons just flew out of town for a weeklong holiday vacation. Republicans, joined by Democratic deficit hawks, insist that any extension be “defici…

Is Joel Osteen, Success Mag Cover Boy, Really “God’s Best”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…erse. Gone is the mystery and awe; he has been reduced to a kind of majordomo or personal assistant. He fixeth my parking tickets, he secureth me a good table in the restaurant, he leadeth me to book contracts. Even in these minor tasks, the invocation of God seems more of a courtesy than a necessity.” Gone, too, from Osteen’s theology is any mention of topics that might intrude on happy thoughts: Osteen avoids using current events in his messages…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…eeney that dug into sensitive community issues like the shunning of former Mormons and esoteric elements of LDS temple ceremonies. Sweeney even managed to put high-ranking LDS Church leaders on the defensive on camera. Last weekend, at the worldwide LDS Semi-Annual General Conference, it was Church leaders’ turn to broadcast their own messages about Mormonism, preaching the importance of Christian service, forgiveness, and obedience, and offering…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…m. Gerbert was not exceptional in that way. He was a typical tenth-century monk, though a more gifted teacher than many. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? A good nonfiction book both informs and entertains. I don’t want to piss anyone off, but perhaps knock them on the head. I want to open their eyes to a world they’ve been missing, the world of science in the Dark Ages. While working on The Abacus and the…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…evelopers of approved projects the sales tax paid by visitors on admission tickets, food, gift sales and lodging costs. Developers have 10 years to reach the 25 percent threshold. Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says there are concerns over the project, but it’s too early to tell whether the proposed business incentives would be unconstitutional in that it would involve excessive entanglement with r…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…when he argued that Barton “doesn’t seem like a historian, he seems seem almost like a theologian whose thrust is ‘I want this country to be Christian and go by the Bible.’” The “history” that Huckabee is promoting is, indeed, theological. In this framing, history, like every other aspect of culture, becomes a conflict between two diametrically opposing worldviews, based in mutually exclusive presuppositions. As Rushdoony writes, history always…

Niqab and Short Shorts

By Hussein Rashid

…. Sarkozy’s ban may have inadvertently created the sense of “Frenchness” in a way he didn’t anticipate. These women have crossed the religious and cultural divide to add to the motto “liberty, equality, and fraternity.” Now everyone will be rallying around “mock the stupidity of the Sarkozy government.”…