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Fueling Activism: An Interview with Bill McKibben

By Peter Laarman

…eople say the biggest step to reducing carbon fast would be to put a hefty price on it that reflects the damage it does in the environment. You could do this in a way that doesn’t beggar people [e.g. fee-and-dividend —ed.]. If you did, we’d all be getting a price signal to change our ways, including some of our pillar industries. Industrial agriculture, for instance, would become much more difficult. The central logic of a post-carbon world is tow…

News Flash: Christian Supporters of Kenosha Killer are Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

…mplicit in the normalization of Christian extremism. I asked Jeremy Forest Price, assistant professor of education and chair of the Jewish Faculty and Staff Council at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, to weigh in on this issue from his Jewish perspective. He expressed concern with how refusing to understand that “true” Christians can commit horrible deeds “denies the violence Christians have committed—in the past and in the pre…

The Ghosts and Illusions of the Occupation

By Sarah Posner

…and their leaders to stridently march through Arab neighborhoods with megaphones through which they shout nationalist slogans, hailing their sovereignty over the streets. “These Jerusalemites,” Mort goes on, “have existed as ghosts to the majority of Israeli Jews and American Jews who don’t usually travel east of the holy basin in the Old City and who have no conception of Arab Israelis’ daily lives or desires.” (emphasis mine) Tariq isn’t a ghos…

Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion

By Mara Einstein

…ceberg. When marketers think of their jobs they think in terms of product, price, place, and promotion. Therefore, marketing is about how you package your product, how you price it, where you distribute it, and then how you tell people about it. Fundamental to your product identity is branding, a means by which you make your product different through a combination of name, logo, and mythology. In religion that used to be denominations, now it’s Jo…

Significant Changes to LDS Scripture Reflect Shifting Church Views on Racist History

By Joanna Brooks

…le, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price—includes editorial changes that reflect a shifting official view on issues like polygamy, the Church’s history of racism, and the historicity of LDS scripture. Perhaps the most significant is the inclusion of a new heading to precede the now-canonized 1978 announcement of the end of the LDS Church’s ban on black priesthood ordination: The Book of Mormon teaches that “…

The End of Roe Comes Courtesy of the Catholic Church — But From ‘The Dorothy Day Abortion Fund’ to ‘St. Vincent de Paul Vasectomy Clinic,’ Here Are Some Ideas for Catholics Looking to Make a Difference

By Mary E. Hunt

….” Where have women heard that before? Maybe he has annulment in mind. The price is surely high and it’s women who pay it. The best Catholic response to date has come from the Midwestern-based church reform group Call to Action, launched in 1976 as part of a dialogue initiated by U.S. Catholic bishops and lay people after Vatican II. But when participants at the three-day conference joined social issues like poverty, sexism, and militarism, with e…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ased, openly gay Muslim,” secretly videotaped his journey to Mecca on his iPhone and other small phones. “I was terrified because they reserve the death penalty for people like me,” Sharma said. Several times he had his equipment seized and video files deleted by authorities. But he persevered with both his spiritual journey and his film. “I was there making this pilgrimage for the thousands of gay Muslims who were too scared to go to Saudi Arabia…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ay saw the legitimacy of using violence not only to resist what he regarded as murder—abortion—but also to help bring about the Christian political order envisioned by the radical dominion theology thinkers. In Bray’s mind, a little violence was a small price to pay for the possibility of fulfilling God’s law and establishing His kingdom on earth. For most of the rest of us, even a little violence is a price too high to pay for these fantastic vis…

Yes, Let’s Talk About Kermit Gosnell

By Sarah Posner

…of even five or ten dollars can be the deciding factor of where to go. The price list at Women’s Medical Society, listed in the Grand jury report, shows that in 2005, a first trimester procedure was $330.00, while the average price nationally then was about one hundred dollars higher. For a 23-24 week procedure, Gosnell charged $1625.00, while the relatively few other facilities in the Northeast offering such abortions would have charged at least…

Advice from a Disaster Pastor: Open Your Wallet, Not Your Closet

By Carlos Wilton

…me out following the storm, before electricity had even been restored, the phones of every pastor in town started ringing. If we send you stuff, can you distribute it? Sure, we replied, why not? God knows, there’s no shortage of need around here. And we are the church, after all. We can do this! Little did we know… One of my ecumenical colleagues welcomed four school buses to his church parking lot. Each was crammed full of secondhand clothing and…