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RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…nections between some of the seemingly abstract debates that happen at the international level and the experiences of women on the ground. Through the international feminist movement, women working at the grassroots can sometimes leverage the privilege of their allies in rich countries. Alex De Waal described how this process works in his fascinating book AIDS and Power: Blocked from direct routes of access, African activists meet with their Weste…

A Legal Document with Soul: Will the US Ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

By Sara Friedman

…ication of CRC is evidenced in the four following dogmas: 1. Entering into international treaties leads to becoming part of the international community and renouncing leadership; 2. The CRC may override state and federal law and the US constitution; 3. The groundbreaking inclusion of social, economic, and cultural (as well as civil and political) rights as human rights are not in the US rulebook; and finally 4. US laws already cover most of the Co…

Christian Schools International v. University of California

By Lauri Lebo

…ase of ACSI v. Stearns. In Aug. 2005, the Association of Christian Schools International, the Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, Calif., along with some of its students, filed suit against the University of California, basically arguing that students from its private Christian high schools were being discriminated because the university system, in its review of applicants, did not give college preparatory credit for some of their courses…

The War On Terror Is Over

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…alled for an increase of a hundred thousand troops, which would double the number presently there. Yet it will still be half of the numbers of Russian troops that the former Soviet Union had deployed in Afghanistan—and it lost the war, dragging much of the Soviet economy down with it. A similarly dismal prognosis is in store for America’s continuing presence in Afghanistan. Moreover, the persistence of US troops in the region will continue to prov…

The Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Ted Cruz Endorsement Edition

By Sarah Posner

…evangelists, also endorsed him. As I wrote in my 2014 piece about Bickle’s International House of Prayer, “Strang, the influential publisher of Charisma magazine, which has published articles by Bickle as well as laudatory accounts of his career, wrote critically of the ‘muted voice’ of the National Association of Evangelicals,” arguing that “it’s time” for “the Spirit-filled community to stand up and take the lead.” In his Cruz endorsement, Stran…

Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations

By Ben Lorber

…casters (NRB) in Nashville. At this year’s convention of the NRB—a leading international network of evangelical media outlets with a combined audience in the hundreds of millions—an Israeli ambulance was parked on the convention floor; attendees could watch gruesome footage of the October 7 attacks on virtual headsets; Israeli government officials and hostage families were in ample attendance; and a resolution was passed to use ‘Judea and Samaria’…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…bout either candidate, they came through in a big way for the McCain/Palin ticket. Barna points out that “unlike other polls, [it] classif[ies] a person as an evangelical based upon their answers to nine questions about their theological beliefs. [While] [m]ost national surveys simply ask people if they consider themselves to be evangelical, born-again or a committed conservative Christian.” However, The Barna survey also examined the voting behav…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…folk to meet with Obama administration officials and to work together on a number of policy issues including Obama’s plan for revitalized faith-based initiatives, global warming, combatting AIDS in Africa and poverty at home and abroad. “Look for the stock of religious conservative leaders such as Rick Warren, Stephen Mansfield, author of The Faith of Obama, and Cameron Strang, publisher of Relevant, a hipster Christian magazine that puffed Obama,…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…n our side. Number 1 could be “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” Number 2: “God doesn’t discriminate.” Number 3: “Sex is only for procreation.” And so on. We could get clever, of course, and assign separate groups of numbers to arguments pro and con or to thematic clusters. I can even imagine some seminary librarian proposing a sort of Dewey Decimal System to organize the arguments. This would allow long series of arguments to be cited b…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Netherlands that Iran has partially supported. In addition, we call on all international organisations to press Iran to accept the remaining 102 recommendations, all of which reflect fundamental rights of Iranians.” The Baha’i representative to the UN in Geneva, said Iran’s response to the recommendations offered a “bleak outlook for Baha’is and human rights.” Also last week, Amnesty International called on the Iranian government to abandon plans…