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Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…center of power. Those driving it will try to integrate features into the new infrastructure that favor their own interests. (Already, Facebook is the near-default interface through which people in some parts of the world access the web). Some people will benefit. Others will not. Marginal populations will be drawn deeper into a global system, which will be able to map, track, and organize far-flung people more efficiently than ever before. But t…

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided Explores the Dark Side of Positive Thinking

By Michelle Goldberg

…made a phenomenon out of The Secret. “[N]ow there is a new role model for New York’s former Carrie Bradshaws—young women who are vegetarian, well versed in self-help and New Age spirituality, and who are finding a way to make a living preaching to eager audiences, mostly female,” reported the Times. One 31-year-old member of this eager audience is quoted praising her spiritual tutor Gabrielle Bernstein, a 29-year-old former nightclub publicist wh…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…he panic button, concentrate on finding ways to glorify God in the way you live. Trust our Heavenly Father. He will never let you down. ++++++++++ No Candy, No Soda, No Birth Control! A small pharmacy in Chantilly, Virginia, has become—according to the conservative Christian group Pharmacists for Life International—at least the seventh pharmacy in the country that refuses to sell contraceptives of any kind. “I am grateful to be able to practice wh…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…was not enough. 1923. Year Zero, or a fresh start, depending on your take. New dress. New calendar. New mode of government. Ataturk even gave the new, secular republic a new script, ditching Arabic for utilitarian Latin, then erasing as much evidence of Persian and Arabic as he could. Going through the dictionary with a black highlighter. Even snipping out subversive letters. There is, for example, no ‘q’. But there would be, if he’d faithfully t…

Is Christianity Simply About God Entering the Uterus of a Jewish Virgin?

By Eric Reitan

…and invites participation in a community defined by such love, we want the world to be ruled by a law of “tit-for-tat,” a law according to which love is earned by achievement, and being loved is a sign that one deserves it. And so we find God’s unconditional love to be an affront, and we respond with hostility. In the face of such hostility, how is God to establish a loving relationship with us? Browning’s answer is drawn from his own experience a…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…hoice community. There a bill to ban sex-selection abortion circulating in New York, and Georgia Right to Life is trying to gather support for similar legislation. Live Action even addresses the issue in a February blog post quoting a Canadian Medical Association Journal interim editor who called the abortion of “female babies” “discrimination against women in its most extreme form.” There is no real evidence given in the PRENDA hearing to support…

New World A-Coming: How Black Religion Helped Shape Racial Identity

By Judith Weisenfeld

…phic work, thinking across the groups about commonalities and differences. New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration Judith Weisenfeld NYU Press Feb 2017 I chose to focus on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Father Divine’s Peace Mission, and congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, all early twentieth-century urban black religious movements in which founders, leaders, and members embraced new ways…

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones

By Joseph Laycock

…d globalization) were all part of a single monolithic entity known as the “New World Order.” The goal of the New World Order is the creation of a single world government and the destruction of national sovereignty and religion. A significant number of Christian dispensationalists subscribe to this view and believe that the New World Order was foretold in the Book of Revelation. In 2005, Mark Dice (using the pseudonym “John Connor” in reference to…

Updated: 5 Lessons Learned from the Apocalypse Fail, Or, It’s Not the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel So-So

By Gary Laderman

…like Buddhism, expresses a cosmic view of periods of world destruction and world renewal. Closer to home, the pan-Indian Ghost Dance movement included a prophesy that the current world would end and the whites would disappear. And let’s not forget about that Mayan calendar which many believe foretells the world’s destruction in 2012. 3. Americans are fixated on world destruction. Forget about what the religions of the world say about the end, just…

New Vatican Document Good News for Poor, Bad News for Tea Party

By Daniel C. Maguire

…l will know that you are my disciples” (John 13:35). This document is good news for the poor and bad news for the Tea Party. It says we need globalized solutions for globalized problems; it favors a market economy but not this one; it calls for “supranational authority,” a healthy, non-tyrannical “world political authority” to tame the greed games that strip the poor and gorge the rich; it calls names, deriding “neoliberalism,” the Neocons’ Credo,…