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Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?

By David Krueger

…ty, numbering just over 40,000. Despite their small numbers, the church is rumored to have spent upwards of 100 million dollars to build this temple, located in a prime downtown location, and constructed with detailed craftsmanship rarely seen in contemporary buildings. In terms of sheer size it rivals the nearby Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, and the headquarters of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which serves over 1.4 million area Ca…

Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…factor unique to Islam but by specific conditions of labor migration and structural changes in the labor market over the last 25 years. These changes in turn led to the deterioration of significant parts of the working classes across Europe. The various problems and implications of these topics have been subsumed under general analyses of Islam. Many scholars have unpacked and illuminated these intertwined subjects. But Caldwell ignores surveys an…

Freedom Federation Summit: A Sleepy Awakening

By Sarah Posner

…native to them. But given that the purpose of the Freedom Federation is to market the religious right in a new way — basically as more than just a bunch of aging white guys — some of the black speakers took up the issue of the whiteness of the tea parties, and charges of racism. Tim Johnson, the vice-chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, the first black person to hold that post, who moderated a panel, The Values, Politics, and Messaging of…

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

By Mark Vernon

…sea of ‘potentialities.’ No notice, of course, is taken of the massive destructiveness of the quantum world, which is the source of energy for nuclear weapons, and which Heisenberg was also referring to. Ancient Attitude Yet Byrne is writing in a tradition that can claim, in part, a long and serious pedigree. In particular, ancient Greek Stoicism bears comparison. Stoicism’s founder was Zeno of Citium, and the story goes that he was shipwrecked of…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…o keep benevolent institutions afloat. Then the bottom fell out. The stock market and agricultural markets crashed, unemployment soared, banks failed, and a drought withered a year’s crops. National income dropped by 50 percent. People were starving, and sick, and broken. Churches weren’t doing well either. Until 1933, church giving held steady as a proportion of national income, but that still meant a 50 percent loss as demands on church resource…

Why I Fear The Post-Trayvon Martin Sermon

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ch has been from time to time, but by no means often enough, since then. Crusades, colonization, clergy abuse scandals, and toxic levels of sexism notwithstanding, Christians have also been radical world changers in profoundly positive ways throughout history. But in America, if we’re honest, there’s been little broad Christian action for social change since the Civil Rights Movement more than a generation ago. Has all the rancor over the ordinat…

Of Birds and Buddhists: Wildlife Rehab, NYC Style

By Jay Wexler

…and have a guaranteed meal,” she said. “That way it won’t be such a big, cruel world.” Benkong Shi has been performing these ceremonies in conjunction with the Wild Bird Fund and the New York Turtle and Tortoise Society for years. He and Lorri Cramer, New York’s so-called “Turtle Lady” (she once cared for 620 red-eared slider turtles in her apartment rather than allow them to be euthanized), started organizing them after learning that scores of l…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…s.” Masri, whose family is Palestinian and who spent some time living in Jerusalem, compared Ferguson to living in the West Bank. “It’s like we’re under military occupation. In the black neighborhoods, you see police SUVs every couple of blocks. In white neighborhoods, you don’t see the police unless you call them.” “Flint is everywhere.” Another threat facing the black communities of the Gateway City is one that is as of yet underreported in the…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ivists in Serbia have hailed her ascension as an important step in their struggle, but say much more needs to be done. “Today we walk together and together we will stress that problems still exist and that we want to work together to solve them,” said activist Goran Miletic. Serbia’s embattled LGBT residents face widespread harassment and violence from extremists. Violence marred the first pride march in 2001, and more than 100 people were injured…

By the Numbers: New Poll Says Capitalism and Christianity Are Incompatible

By The Editors

A new PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey shows that more Americans believe that Christian values are at odds with capitalism and the free market than believe they are compatible (44% vs. 36% respectively). Big exception? Self-described Tea Party-ites. We’d like to open this up for discussion. Where the rubber hits the road for most of us is with regard to taxes. So, given that 58% of Republicans and 75% of Democrats (along with strong majorities of…