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Military Abortion Ban: Female Soldiers Not Protected by Constitution They Defend

By Kathryn Joyce

…cally fighting to maintain current federal law, which we think needs to be changed,” explains Vicki Saporta. And with the Obama administration appointing a key supporter of the ban, hope for military women seems largely moot. But perhaps not entirely. In the wake of the Stupak amendment (which even conservative pundit David Frum acknowledged would effectively ban abortion for large numbers of women), a look at the experience of military women who…

Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…a bat?, we immediately come upon the problem of differences— —right, a bat flight simulator! But one of the things that we need to recognize is that . . . human beings experience their worlds very differently. I’m very interested in the phenomenon of disagreement. What does it mean when two people look at the same information and they come to different conclusions? To me, that is in some way indexing how deeply ingrained our affective experiential…

Mitt Romney At Value Voters Summit

By Joanna Brooks

…ire-in-the-belly of a Donnie Osmond. His greatest hits? “Nancy Pelosi’s numbers have being going down a chute faster than a Jet Blue flight attendant” and “President Obama’s idea of a rogue state is Arizona.” As for the substance of Romney’s speech, what was most notable was the absence of talk about values, let alone religion. Instead, Romney sounded every bit the corporate buyout and turnaround specialist, criticizing the “anti-growth,” “…

In Case You Missed Them, the Top Pope Francis Quotes of 2016

By Patricia Miller

…mistreated women, to children forced to work. –In yet another impromptu in-flight press conference, Pope Francis said in June that Christians should apologize to gay people and others the church has mistreated. Today, children are taught this at school: that everyone can choose their own sex. And why do they teach this? Because the books come from those people and institutions who give money. –In a meeting with Polish bishops on World Youth Day, F…

Faith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL

By Douglas Harrison

…nd liberated possibilities (thanks again, Joe Biden). But who knew it would turn out that the NFL has a thing or two to teach the gospel church—born of, but these days largely in flight from, the legacy of King and Rustin and Baldwin—about love, acceptance, and the struggle to overcome in a world of injustice?…

The Racial Politics of Atheism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…city, as is the destructive whitewash of the devastating impact of climate change. I believe that legal abortion and universal access to contraception are human rights—period. Women of color have the most to lose from the increasing crackdown on and medievalist rhetoric about abortion. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? One of the biggest is that non-believers are a one-trick pony, singularly obsessed with church/state s…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…om “equal rights for both sexes.” Anti-homosexuality activists believe the change will institute same-sex marriage and change the military law banning gay sex. “So far, we’ve gathered 500,000 signatures to protest stipulating gender equality in the revised Constitution,” Professor Gil Won-pyong of Pusan National University, who leads the campaign, told The Korea Times. “The constitutional revision played a crucial role in igniting our anger. Chris…

Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…ck to the prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” Most people call it the serenity prayer and focus on the accepting part. It actually is more balanced. It could also be called the change prayer. It could also be called the wisdom prayer. The Pope has prevailed, in the way Occupy did, in naming the agenda as moral. No one can speak without usin…

We Were Powerless: Addiction, the Will, and the Evangelical Roots of the Twelve Steps

By John Blevins

…ng drugs in chaotic ways, or ambivalent about stopping drinking. They also changed the metrics by which successful behavior change was measured. While all of the models support sobriety as a goal, they also, by and large, support any choice on the part of the patient toward less chaotic use as a step in the right direction. This shift to seeing behavior change on a spectrum rather than in black and white (adopting perspectives in terms of either a…

Can the “Spiritual Left” Make the Change They Wish to See?

By Arielle Levites

…t would happen if Spiritual America reexamined their assumptions about how change happens and reevaluated their strategy for bringing the outside world into alignment with their own inner vision of a just politics? There’s no record of Gandhi ever having said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” But he did leave a pretty clear record of public protest, activism, and engagement in the politics of dissent. Will Spiritual America follow in…