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What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…isons and threatening punishments of years in jail. But in a move that has alarmed health workers, Tanzania is turning its anti-homosexual fury in a new direction — targeting HIV/AIDS programs that have helped tame a disease that once ravaged the region. Last month, the minister of health announced that Tanzania will ban HIV/AIDS outreach projects aimed at gay men, pending a review. That forced the closure, at least temporarily, of U.S.-funded pr…

Palestinian Orthodox Christians, Desperate for Help, Have Caught the Attention of Russia

By Katherine Kelaidis

…hristianity is entangled in a global hotspot, please turn your eyes to Jerusalem. Two days ago, following an eighteen-year struggle, members of the Israeli settler organization, Ateret Cohanim, with the assistance of police, took control of part of the Petra Hotel in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, drawing criticism from the city’s Christian leaders including the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, who leads Israel’s largest Chri…

Secret Sequel: New Age “Mind Cure” Misses the Point

By Mark Vernon

…she cites in a brief case study. “Within ten hours he’d closed his biggest sale.” Alongside such ‘evidence,’ pseudo-science is rallied to the cause too. For example, Byrne latches onto the ‘tipping point’ phenomenon, interpreting it to mean that if 51% of your thoughts are positive, you’ll attract more and more in an exponential curve—what people colloquially refer to as a lucky streak. There are nods to quantum physics and Werner Heisenberg’s des…

Good Without God: The Ethics of Atheism

By Becky Garrison

…atheists. Epstein gears his message primarily towards those who do not profess to have a belief in God. Polls such as those conducted by USA Today indicate this group is on the rise, with 15 percent of Americans who do not identify with any religion. As with all statistics the answers may be contingent on how the questions are framed. For example, this current survey indicated that 51 percent of those who listed “none” for their religion still be…

The Road to Decriminalization of Psychoactive Drugs Runs Through Religion

By Brad Stoddard

…decriminalize psychedelic drugs, consider that in 1978, Dr. Carl Ruck, Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, sought to distinguish the religious from the recreational use of psychedelics. Psychedelic drugs became associated with what many perceived as the adolescent rebellion of the 1960s and early ‘70s counterculture. The federal government criminalized the use, possession, sale, and cultivation of these drugs, though many continu…

Hitchens Debates Conservative Evangelical: Nothing Happens

By Eric Reitan

…moral horror without first believing in God. What, exactly, is going on? A Sales Script for Young Evangelicals I think the answer may actually be hinted at in an interview with Wilson conducted after a pre-screening of Collision. His interviewer was the like-minded evangelical writer and preacher John Piper (who made news recently by claiming that a Minneapolis tornado was God’s way of warning the Lutheran Church [ELCA] not to vote in favor of or…

Texas Textbook Massacre

By Lauri Lebo

…w process before. Three times in fact. So, the Brown University biology professor, who co-wrote the popular high school textbook Biology with Joe Levine, said he’s not terribly worried about going through it again. Actually, the new science standards written last year present him with an invitation to delve into the issue of evolution and the fossil record more thoroughly. But ask him whether he knows how he’d cope with writing a history textbook…

Who’s Afraid of Sacred Soccer?

By Gary Laderman

…c for Bill Maher, for example), on Web sites (Beliefnet, even if it is for sale), and so on. But what is being covered is not simply religion, conventionally understood—Jews are doing this, Buddhists are doing that—nor is it only spirituality vaguely conceptualized—New Agers with crystals, meditation retreats for the professional class. Instead, both old and new media have lit up the religious landscape, illuminating what is still an unconventiona…

Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Adopt Skousen Curriculum

By Julie Ingersoll

…ystem.” The “textbook” and a seminar based upon it are still available for sale on NCCS website (the book currently available may be an expurgated version but the original edition is available on Amazon.) These self-styled watchdogs of education (with a pretty clear anti-education agenda) are capitalizing on severe budget constraints in every state. Their aggressive campaign to make available seemingly innocuous materials so schools can comply wit…

Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…ll not be available in heaven, but sees no need to legislate against their sale, even in Utah. There is the assumption that however wicked or wrong a certain behavior might be, it need not overwhelm the efforts of the Latter-day Saints to be righteous, and that, furthermore, God can adequately judge and punish those whose behavior he finds abhorrent, no matter how legal or acceptable it might be here on Earth. Tyler Barrick, whose June 17, 2008 ma…