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Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…with both of us,” says Kaiser. Cody Hashman, also a field organizer at the Center For Inquiry, says many campus activities focus on activism training. “We give them advice on how to implement activism campaigns, resources on service projects, and help with putting on book tours for non-religious authors,” Hashman says. “Every summer we have a leadership conference where we train students on how to organize their group, manage volunteers, how to ta…

“Troublemaker” Women Honored, Receive Ivy

By Nadia Berenstein

…nia in 2001, three days before the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. In the tense atmosphere after the attacks, she confronted prejudice and hostility targeted at her and other Muslims. This strengthened her resolve to combat widespread misconceptions about her religion, and to promote the forgiveness and peace that she sees at her faith’s center. As a member of the Lower East Side Girls’ Club and the Power of Peace Coalition, she ha…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…writing assignments, AIDS Conferences, etc. I started a 501c3 charity, The Center for the Church and Global AIDS and wrote the legislation that created the United Methodist Global AIDS Fund. Serving as Executive Director of the Center and Chairperson of the denomination’s fund have proved to be two full-time commitments! Once upon a time what we now call AIDS/HIV was called the “wrath of God” syndrome. And, of course, some religious leaders have n…

Louie Giglio ‘White Blessing’ Incident Reveals Something Critical About Evangelical Efforts to Address Racism

By Jeremy L. Sabella

…us has shifted from offense to confession, white emotions remain front and center. Undoing white supremacy requires structural change that decenters white concerns. To join this process, white leaders like Giglio need to acknowledge that they’re on the periphery of racial justice work that’s been unfolding in communities of color for generations. They must model for other white people how to learn from and support this work without placing themsel…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Hurley O’Dwyer at Ireland’s University Times profiles the Helem Community Center, a new LGBT community center in “Beirut’s bohemian quarter.” The space includes kitchen and shower facilities, says Helem’s Joseph Aoun, which “means that vulnerable people such as trans* refugees from Syria, who often find themselves homeless, can come here, relax and do something as simple as have a shower, thereby reclaiming their basic dignity.” Helem was officia…

Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…ick, LGBT Rights Activist & Journalist; andDonald Jensen, Resident Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations. It was moderated by Andras Simonyi, managing director of the Center and former Hungarian ambassador to the U.S. Conversation focused in part on ways for Americans and Europeans to deal more effectively with Russia’s increasingly anti-gay policies. Two days earlier, also in Washington, National Security Adviser Susan Rice told participant…

The Ground Zero-Sum Game

By Reuven Firestone

…out question has been the appalling deadly attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the lethal bombings in London and Madrid, and the nature of reaction by key Western leaders to these events. Given the deep suspicion of Islam so deeply imbedded in our culture and the horrendous nature of these attacks, the activation of Islamophobic bigotry is not surprising. Discussions on the Web about the proposed Islamic Center planned to be b…

State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…of Religious Life) along with faith-friendly organizations like the Carter Center and the Committee of Religious NGOs in the United Nations. In other words, IGE is a player, and it knows how to connect across lines that might once have separated openly proselytizing organizations like the TEAR Fund from more mainstream and vaguely religious institutions like the Carter Center—and to give that collaboration the salutary imprint of a push for women,…

Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…board had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. At the conference, a Center for Security Policy employee handed out a flyer that described shari’ah as “a supremacist program that justifies the destruction of Christian churches and parishioners” and “the replacement of our constitutional republic. . . .with a theocratic Islamic caliphate governing according to shari’ah.” In its 2010 conspiratorial report, “Sharia: The Threat to America,” the…

The Belly of the Beast: NYC’s Shiny New Transit Hub Is All Wrong for the 9/11 Site

By Carolyn Bratnober

…the living, but the World Trade Center Transportation Hub’s architectural centerpiece, named the “Oculus,” is an unsightly and inappropriate monument. The space is part of the newly-constructed campus—the WTC Hub—that has been in development since the attack that destroyed the World Trade Center in 2001. But what the Oculus brings to the memorial area bears no emotional awareness of the attack at all. The architecture is decadent and extravagant,…