Religion Dispatches
…holarship done this summer. Meanwhile, I try to hold it together to write a 800-word piece without crying and wanting to tear my hair out about the pain of my people. I’m not writing prophetic words to you anymore. You fix this shit. I’m done carrying the cross of America, its false promises of democracy and inclusion, the documents that excluded me and called my ancestors three-fifths of a person. You figure it out. I’m about comforting Black peo…
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…a on the planet, these wetlands contain 37 percent of the marshland in the United States and the largest commercial fishery in the lower 48 states—to say nothing of the largest offshore oil production of any state. These wetlands are also the most endangered in the country, accounting for 90 percent of all coastal wetland loss in the lower 48 states. From 2004 to 2008 (the years that saw Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike), 328 square miles…
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…are said to be on anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that control the disease, but 800,000 Zimbabweans are thought to require therapy, or will require it in the coming months and years. Malnutrition makes ARVs less effective. Murder by starvation is “slower than a machete” “I sat in a room with 15 HIV-positive women who were starving,” Donaghue said. “Maybe its slower than a machete,” he said referring to the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s, “but its a pre…
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…e, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most important debates and produced some of the most fruitful arguments in support of National Conservatism, the in…
Read More…ow what they are doing or understand where this new tidal wave of cash will actually go. So, flow the money will, anywhere between 600 and 800 billion dollars worth… but where will it go?…
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…osexuality is a sin justifying a student’s expulsion from the school. That policy and its enforcement by an institution that reflects Conway’s religious culture—which is itself a reflection of a larger and increasingly obdurate conservative movement in opposition to advancing queer rights—are the core memes of intolerance that the Soulforce contingent has come to Conway to disrupt. “I’m someone who knows what it feels like to be rejected by his fa…
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…ins, murders her elderly husband in order to collect on his life insurance policy. After she buries his body in the cellar, an escapee from a local lunatic asylum, a knife-wielding psychopath dressed in a Santa suit, tries to break into her house. She runs around frantically locking doors and windows, only to discover that her innocent five-year-old daughter has invited Santa in, and is awaiting his “gift” with delight. The movie had the desired e…
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…t is almost invisible outside the academic world because the text is nearly 800 pages of dense, jargon-filled prose.” Rest assured, we do not need to read Taylor for ourselves because David Brooks can be trusted. His ongoing effort to distill for us the density of jargon is a choice well-honed. The result: a column that we have chosen to read (again, wisely) and, moreover, a readerly choice that becomes a sign to others and ourselves that we are a…
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…nce sparked by western intervention Amrou Al-Kadhi, an Iraqi living in the United Kingdom, wrote a column this month saying that deadly violence against LGBT people in Iraq had “escalated dramatically” since the Western invasion of the country in 2003. From his commentary in The Independent: Humanitarian reports estimate that between 2004 to 2009, 680 people have been murdered due to gender and sexual non-conformism. According to Amir Ashour, the…
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…ed Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), UN Women, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). On the same day, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke at the High Level LGBT Core Group Event t…
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