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Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion

By Michael Schulson

…esson from the study of cultures, it’s that the human mind is staggeringly flexible. Is it more significant that our evolutionary hardware has inclined us toward specific foods or sexual behaviors, or that the same basic mental and physical tools can let the human creature thrive in the streets of 21stcentury Tokyo, 19th century rural Paraguay, and Paleolithic southwest France? Do you understand human nature by finding fixed laws? Or do you grasp…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ofiles three LGBT Syrian refugees who fled ISIS and are part of “an untold number of LGBT Syrian refugees” who are building new lives in Turkey. “We are still not safe in Turkey,” says one, but “it’s a far cry from the dangers he faced while living in Syria.” Australia: Parliamentarians Push to Pass Marriage Equality Legislation, Avoid Plebiscite Marriage equality supporters are hoping to force a parliamentary vote on marriage equality legislation…

The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music

By Joshua Guthman

…in what they described as their “hardshell” Calvinist identity: rugged yet flexible, durable yet capable of adaptation. This is a tale that has entirely escaped notice even though its burdens and aspirations tell us something new about African Americans, Calvinism’s complex fate, and the religious reconstruction of the post-Civil War South. It has long been a given among historians of religion in the South that Calvinism had little, if any, purcha…

Make Aeronautic Jobs, Not Jihad

By Haroon Moghul

…is to highlight a very different kind of Muslim world, the real, dynamic, flexible Muslim world, which is part of the wider world, not angry but eager, not oppositional but contributory. So I picked two news stories that should bring a smile to an economy desperate for good news. Boeing, the US’s largest airplane manufacturer, has won two jumbo deals involving the Muslim world. Both will help them compete with European Airbus while sustaining or…

The Leadership Crisis at the End of the Megachurch Era

By Benjamin Dueholm

…osite: infinite responsibility, but no corresponding power to coerce or dominate. It’s absurd. With church leadership no less than anything else, the medium tends to become the message. The megachurch movement flourished for decades on the premise that the infinitely flexible style could be separated from the enduring substance. But departure after departure and scandal after scandal suggests that it was not to be. If there’s another chapter left…

Why Would More Latino Catholics Be For Same-Sex Marriage Than Protestants?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

….” Palacious also points out what the poll found—Latino Catholics are more flexible in how they interpret the Bible: Catholics allow complexity and ambiguity in moral decision-making since Catholicism is neither fundamentalist nor literalist regarding the Bible. Rather, Catholics can weigh factors such as the Bible, church teaching, and social reality affecting decision-making. His most interesting point is that around family, and how the Latino c…

Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

By Frederick Clarkson

…the UFW’s leadership and strategy making leadership was broader, far more flexible, and premised on considerable delegation of authority. It was a cause: La Causa. For the Big Labor leaders, it was primarily a job. The religious and cultural context was at least as important as the racial element of ethnicity. During key organizing campaigns, for example, daily Catholic mass was as integral to the campaign as Catholicism was integral to the ident…

Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol

By Haroon Moghul

…so think that this law, in its divine origin, is intentionally limited and flexible, for social structures always change and laws should adapt to that change. What keeps me affiliated with Islam? Well, its main purpose: I believe that I have a Creator, and Islam is the straightest path that I know to connect with Him. Let’s say I run a madrasa. (Note: I don’t.) What books, thinkers, ideas would you recommend to the next generation of Muslim schola…

Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era

By David R. Swartz

…the military. Despite this idiosyncratic platform, Hatfield thrived. Large numbers of Hatfield admirers at Fuller Seminary, Wheaton College, and the campus ministry InterVarsity Christian Fellowship formed the architecture of an emerging evangelical left in the early 1970s. One InterVarsity leader at Kansas State University, citing his civil rights, anti-poverty, anti-war, and environmental record, said that Hatfield “put into words what we were t…

The Republicans’ Dangerous Quest to End Nonexistent Taxpayer-Funded Abortion

By Sarah Posner

…e health risk. In addition, the Smith bill would prohibit women from using flexible savings or medical savings accounts — which are funded by their own money, not taxpayer money — to pay for an abortion, and would impose tax penalties on small business which provide health insurance to their employees, if the insurance includes abortion coverage. In other words, not only does the bill restrict access to abortion, and may ultimately cause insurance…