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Pence’s Religious Freedom Policy Made ‘LGBQ’ Hoosiers Sick—Literally

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e only state whose LGBQ residents reported more “unhealthy days” in 2015, but the number of LGBQ people experiencing those days for at least half the month had nearly doubled between the first and last quarter of the year. Then-Governor Mike Pence signed the first iteration of Indiana’s RFRA on March 26, and then amended it a week later amid national backlash in an effort “clarify” that the law did not void existing non-discrimination protections….

Why David Brooks Doesn’t Get the Outrage Over AIG

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…bate over Timothy Geithner is being conducted in similar terms. No one disputes his number-crunching credentials (just this week, we were reassured that he’s also a “workaholic”). It is his inability to inspire confidence, his inability to soothe as a therapist might, that worries us now. His tragedy is similar to Greenspan’s; he’s just the right man at just the wrong time. It is the very interest of this analysis that made David Brooks’s latest c…

Common Ground: Winning the Battle, Losing the Culture War

By Chip Berlet

…see blips for Carter (Born-Again) and Reagan (vehicle of the New Right); but since Reagan, the numbers do not suggest that compromise with the Christian Right even makes pragmatic sense—much less moral sense. I have explored these God Gap demographics in detail. Third, while younger evangelicals don’t trust the older Christian leaders, there is no convincing evidence that they will shift to the Democratic Party. It is far more likely they will pu…

Record Number of Stealth Creationism Bills Introduced in 2011

By Lauri Lebo

…or “critical analysis.” However, in the case of Florida, the bill’s sponsoring lawmaker Rep. Stephen Wise had proposed similar legislation in 2009. The bill died in committee, but not before he spoke publicly about wanting to see intelligent design taught alongside evolution to promote “critical thinking.”…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…erview has been edited for clarity and length How did you come to think about nutrition in terms of the past? Well, I’ve always been very interested in paleontology, anthropology, history, those kinds of things. And when I was about to turn 40, I became interested in health promotion and disease prevention from a personal standpoint. As I read recommendations regarding health promotion and good healthy forms of living, it occurred to me that we we…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…it will ignite a voter revolt. It will also threaten the validity of all future Constitutional amendments.” Thomasson said the court is “playing with fire” by threatening to reverse a vote of the people. “The California Constitution clearly says that the voters have the right to alter the highest law of the land,” he said. “It’s the beauty of the American system of government. The four Supreme Court justices who unconstitutionally invented homose…

How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism

By Benjamin E. Park

…prominent figures outraged by the alleged practice were dedicated to root out the truth. Among those trying to expose the practice and its participants were Joseph’s brother, Hyrum, as well as his wife, Emma. Then, in May of 1843, in a radical reversal based on a mixture of theological reasoning and pragmatic cooperation, the two members of Joseph’s close family surprisingly shifted course and accepted the practice. Hyrum, exultant at the chance o…

Joyless Primaries Grind On

By Joanna Brooks

…inues to win the Northeast and West, Santorum the Bible Belt. Ohio turned out just about the way the best prognosticators in the game predicted. There’s been nothing so dramatic to punch up the storyline as the anti-Mormon flare-ups we witnessed late last summer and fall. In fact, while evangelical Christians continue to opt for Santorum as the not-Romney, there is little solid data that isolates anti-Mormonism as the cause: region, social conserv…

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…ligious systems of meaning can tend to drift towards extreme ideas of absolute truth, but I also think that secular moral systems of belief can do that too. Nationalism, with no reference to the supernatural, can create a very black and white dichotomy of good and evil, and lead to wars. In your book you argue that we all believe in transcendent ideals, whether they’re articulated in the religious language of God or secular language of justice. Re…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…the trauma paraded before us. This may be, in part, about news coverage, but it’s about much more than that. It’s also about creating an opportunity to sit with the magnitude of our pain, to nurture that pain into empathy, and to transform that empathy into power and solidarity—putting our hearts and lives on the line to find creative ways to address systems that construct hierarchies of oppression, make pain invisible, and compound suffering. On…