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Of Values and Viruses: The Challenges for Obama’s New Global AIDS Coordinator

By Ariana Childs Graham

…HIV/AIDS epidemic for over 25 years. He has served as medical director for San Francisco General’s AIDS clinic, Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, Deputy Director to the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and since 2001 has been CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, among other roles. And while the consistent thread through these roles is a dedication to add…

Clinging to God, Guns, Obama, and Freud

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ing to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Now, there was a lot of fairly obvious political triangulating going in that remark. He was sniping at his main Republican and Democratic rivals at the same time, noting that the economic plight of the dying middle class in industrial areas like suburban Pennsylvania has neither received su…

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

…f Catholic Charity adoption agencies, including those in Illinois, Boston, San Francisco, and most recently Buffalo, New York, have shut down rather than offer adoption services to same-sex couples. They’ve then turned around and accused civil authorities of putting them out of business because of anti-Catholic animus. Catholic Social Services (CSS) of Philadelphia is suing the city of Philadelphia for pulling referrals to its foster care agency b…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…enhanced. Our use of technology can thus enrich and extend meaningful face-to-face relationships rather than necessarily excluding or otherwise diminishing them. It is the blurring of the virtual/real boundary that made me so pleased when one of my digital besties, Pastor Keith Anderson, stole a moment from the celebration of his own incarnation to share a link to the most recent report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “The Social Sid…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…Laden’s, was an early advocate. In Iraq, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, the father-in-law of Muqtada, made important theoretical contributions on the Shia side of the movement. The fledgling Islamic banks in the United States have come under increasing official scrutiny since 9/11. But aside from the cadre of vigilantes whose sense of purpose depends on seeing a never-ending “Islamofacist” threat, observers agree that there’s no credible link between the…

Trump and Hindu Nationalism: A Match Made in Bollywood

By Andrea R. Jain

…t to claim yoga as the intellectual property of India, which have gone hand-in-hand with attempts to disenfranchise Indian Muslims. Trump insisted, “We must fix our terrible trade deals and protect America’s intellectual property, something you know a lot about.” While Modi and his fellow Hindutva neoliberals want the state out of the way of private enterprise, they want the state to use public resources to actively promote a form of Hindu yoga. U…

An Independence Day Sermonette

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…“God is experienced […] in the likeness of corruptible man […] in the half-spiritual, half-material creations, exhibitions, and representations of His creative ability — Family, Nation, State, Church and Fatherland.” American culture worships the “No-Gods” of military might, money and capitalism, “family values,” “the war on terrorism,” and most especially its state form of piety clothed in conservative evangelical Christianity. The linking of a…

Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger

By R.L. Stollar

…r families were close.) Her big break, however, didn’t come until she was a 19-year-old history undergraduate at UCLA. It was while attending UCLA that Rose began filming undercover videos of Planned Parenthoods across the United States. Her first videos, produced in conjunction with right-wing provocateur and convicted criminal James O’Keefe, caught the attention of national media with their claims that Planned Parenthood violated mandatory repor…

O(Pinn)ion: Defending Obama’s Choice

By Anthony B. Pinn

…we hold few illusions with respect to the troubled nature of political give-and-take. However, it seems we expect something more firm and determined with respect to our religion(s). After all, for so many in this country, religion is based on moral and ethical postures grounded in some type of cosmic or communal concern that extends beyond the worst aspects of our individual inclinations. In many cases, sacred texts tested through time are said to…

Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…vatives question Francis’ legitimacy, like my conservative Catholic brother-in-law who recently told me: “He’s not my pope.” While many Catholics rejected the church’s teaching on birth control because it didn’t align with either their own sense of morality or the realities of their lives, Republican-leaning Catholics have been politically conditioned to ignore Francis’ message on everything from climate change to economics. Francis faces another…