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The Horror Mugabe Doesn’t Want the World to See

By Frederick Clarkson

…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…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ers can’t adopt children, and that children wouldn’t have to attend school classes on sex education if their parents don’t agree with them.” Trinidad: Catholic Archbishop Tells Parents Not to Kick Out Gay Kids Trinidad Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris spoke last week at the opening of a shelter for children that, according to its administrators, will welcome children regardless of their sexual orientation. Asked about parents who abandoned their…

The Fire This Time

By Anthea Butler

…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…

New Report on (White) Christian Nationalism and the J6 Insurrection Shows Just ‘How Dire the Threat is’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ative efforts to require the posting of “In God We Trust” in public school classrooms. “We think you make a difference in Christian nationalism conversation by conversation, relationship by relationship,” Tyler explains. This means that having materials available that criticize the phenomenon from a normative Christian perspective, materials “that would resonate in Christian communities,” as Tyler puts it, is essential. But does this risk promotin…

Mormon Bloggernacle is No Choir

By Krista Kapralos

…said Courtney Kendrick, whose C Jane Enjoy It blog is ranked among the top 800 blogs on Technorati. By comparison, Times and Seasons is ranked at about 31,000, and By Common Consent is ranked at about 25,000. Mormon Mommy Wars is ranked at about 40,000. Kendrick has blogged in the past for Segullah, a blog that is included on the list at the Mormon Archipelago, an online portal that aggregates blogs in the Bloggernacle, but she now prefers to wri…

Why the Methodist Effort to Discipline Sessions Is a Risky Business

By Daniel Schultz

The United Methodist News Service is reporting that over 600 clergy and lay members of the denomination are seeking church discipline against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his role in the Trump administration’s policy of separating detained migrant families at the U.S. border: The group claimed in a June 18 statement that Sessions, a member of a Mobile, Alabama, church, violated Paragraph 2702.3 of the denomination’s Book of Discipline. Spec…

His Holiness, Inc.: The Dalai Lama as a Spiritual Mega-Brand

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ed to enlighten alumni, students, faculty, and others from the surrounding business community in the sold-out auditorium on the ways in which practices of compassion can enrich—spiritually and materially—the lives of business people. Thus, CCARE director James Doty began his introduction of His Holiness by noting the financial consequences of the fast-paced, stress-filled, competitive lifestyles that characterize the entrepreneurial high tech indu…

The Tea Party Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…rty), but rather a “Christian worldview” organization that brings together business leaders and pastors (including Kimbrell’s own pastor, Frank Page, a one-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention and now the head of its executive committee, and one of President Obama’s first appointees to the Advisory Council to his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships). The country “cannot be successful without a fundamental Judeo-Christi…

Step Right Up And Get Your Low-Priced ‘Pro-God Content’! Donald Trump Enters the Bible Business

By Karen E. Park

Nearly four years ago on June 1, 2020, Federal officers violently cleared peaceful protestors from Washington DC’s Lafayette Square in order to make way for Trump to stand in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church and hold a Bible.* He had just given a speech at the Rose Garden, vowing to use military force to quell national protests over police brutality and the recent murder of George Floyd. As soon as he finished, he walked across the street wit…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…y from Christian good works to working hard in the checkout line—made good business sense. “Everyone wants to feel that what’s important to them can be serviced in their labor,” Moreton said. Wal-Mart, she noted, “managed very cannily” to allow workers to feel that their values were being respected, so that they could get away without providing for other needs—like a living wage. Low wages and few benefits, then, were an integral part of the co…