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What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?

By Joanna Brooks

…infrastructure of Mormonism (temples, churches, universities) even as the bulk of the Church’s population shifts to the global south and tithing revenues flatline or even drop. This is no simple Creflo Dollar morality tale. This is story about history and global patterns of wealth distribution, as well as about the way a financially successful American-based Church takes what it needs from the market to realize its own countercultural priorities…

AIDS Anniversary: Thirty is the New Eternity

By Susan Henking

…have the Crixovan Look: sunken eyes and a pot belly. Guys who are HIV can bulk up the way the steroid-pure cannot. Now they’re larger than ever. Some men got their power back. We could not, did not face what we had really endured. Thirty years later we have still not faced what we, and they, endured. Nor do we really face what people with AIDS and those who love them continue to endure across the globe and in our own neighborhoods. And perhaps,…

Bishops Search for Condoms in Cookie Boxes

By Mary E. Hunt

…omen, the Girl Scouts, founded by a woman whose estranged husband left the bulk of his estate to his mistress, have instilled “courage, confidence and character” in millions of girls. God knows they need it in the current culture where women’s well being is threatened on many sides. I expect to see some nuns, former nuns, and friends of nuns on the Mall that day when I lift my voice as a former Girl Scout. History will record that in 2012 the Girl…

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Acceptance of Marriage Equality: Here’s What to Expect

By Sunnivie Brydum

…t the prospect of gutting Title IX protections for trans students. For the bulk of the past eight years, the Obama administration has been quietly, consistently (and successfully) arguing that existing civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination based on sex also cover discrimination based on gender identity. It’s a logical conclusion, given that most litigation surrounding anti-trans discrimination in employment and education boils down to the p…

Fueling Activism: An Interview with Bill McKibben

By Peter Laarman

…ut it is much harder to get “leaders” involved. In the liberal church, the bulk of the bureaucracy is still focused on hunger and on peace—and not understanding that this is the new face of those issues. There’s absolutely nothing we can do in terms of supporting “development” that makes up for the damage we’re doing with carbon. And in the conservative church, there’s just an unwillingness to be very outspoken about the things the GOP and Fox New…

The General’s Son Recounts Very Different Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Ira Chernus

…. His memoir gives convincing evidence to support his conclusion that “the bulk of Palestinian resistance has always been nonviolent.” (For much more evidence, see the wonderful collection of essays by Jewish and Palestinian nonviolent activists, Refusing to Be Enemies.) Miko Peled closes with an account of a fierce argument with his brother: Miko supporting a one-state solution, while his brother (like myself) seeing a two-state solution as the o…

National Endowment for the Arts is Funding “Pornography”—Again!

By Bill Berkowitz

…uction featuring naked dancers. While the Fox report acknowledged that the bulk of the $80 million in stimulus funds the NEA received was going to “needy artists nationwide, and most of the money [was] being spent to help preserve jobs in museums, orchestras, theaters and dance troupes that have been hit hard by the recession,” nevertheless, it pointed out that a small portion of the funds went to support ‘pornographic’ offerings such as an adult…

Getting Wright Wrong: Preaching is Not Policy

By Anthony B. Pinn

…for instance, impact the life circumstances of black women who make up the bulk of black church membership in the United States. That, however, is another essay.) But one must remember that preaching is not policy and that Rev. Wright is not running for the presidency of the United States. It is difficult to understand the assumption that Rev. Wright’s commentary somehow represents and reflects Senator Obama’s religious commitments and religious t…

The Kidnapping of Nigerian Girls, A Primer

By Gordon Haber

…global terrorism, released last week, found that Boko Haram “receives the bulk of its funding from bank robberies and related criminal activities, including extortion and kidnapping for ransoms.” In a recent video, Abubakar Shekau, a man claiming to be the leader of Boko Haram, took credit for the kidnapping. He said that he is selling the girls as wives to prevent them from receiving a Western education. “I abducted your girls. I will sell them…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…ed from North America to Europe, South America, and the Philippines, met a number of politically powerful Republican politicians and conservative religious leaders, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Iran/Contra figure Oliver North, and then-Senator Rick Santorum. Religious leaders like Charles Stanley (a former distributor), Dr. Robert Schuller and the late Dr. D. James Kennedy of Florida’s Coral Ridge Ministries—a multimedia, m…