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Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…ets to mindful Marines. I asked Wilson whether MNDFL was really unusual within this larger mindfulness-and-meditation scene. He pointed out that there are already quite a few nonprofit meditation centers in the area—the Village Zendo is 10 blocks away, and The Interdependence Project, a secular meditation center, is close by. But Wilson does see MNDFL as something new. “What’s unique about this,” he told me, “is simply the branding. That’s what th…

Power Up: Turn Off the Cell Phone

By Daniel Schultz

…ill make a nice doorstop.” He’d never learned to type, much less use a PC. His father apparently had given him the advice that if he took a job with typing as one of the duties, he’d always be stuck in that sort of position. Never start in the mailroom, etc. I hated that guy. Anyway, this Bloomberg piece on power players eschewing the use of cell phones strikes me as of a piece with my executive’s perspective. Technology is for the people who work…

Will California Outlaw Divorce?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…g put up for a majority vote. I long for the day when people look back at this time in history and think, “What the hell were they thinking—putting anyone’s rights up for a majority vote?” I, for one, support Marcotte and I wish I could be one of the 700,000 signatures he’ll now need to get this ban on the ballot. Even if it fails to get on the ballot, or fails at the ballot box, I hope the measure will help people to begin to see how completely r…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…ty; financial support for art and artists who are arguably the members of this community with the highest status; and LGBTIQ friendly neighborhoods and streets. Of course the outer world is not absent here. The “default reality” intrudes at every moment. Rampant consumerism occurs before the event and trash bags are tossed on the roadside on the way out. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rangers patrol incessantly through the city and Burners bring…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…d be taught sex ed and churches would lose their right to free speech.” In his zeal to earn his wage and stirring up a hornet’s nest of anti-gay sentiment, Schubert apparently was willing to throw his sister, who is a lesbian, under the proverbial bus. ++++++++++ Proposition 8: The Aftermath—The Legal Wars On November 19, the California Supreme Court agreed “to consider complaints by opponents of Proposition 8 that it improperly revised the consti…

We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…this Exhortation and that we shouldn’t have expected any rule changes from him or his bishops. After all, there’s only so much a pope can do, as Patti Miller explains on RD. At the conclusion of the 261-page Amoris Laetitia, Francis says “All family life is a ‘shepherding’ in mercy.” I think he really believes that. Sadly, he cannot bring himself to practice what he preaches. By not extending the sacrament of matrimony to all Catholics, he denies…

“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond

By Sarah Posner

…an Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium just three days before the election.Organizing his California rally, Engle has deployed the same rhetorical weapon used by Protect Marriage, the main organizational supporter of Proposition 8 (the gay marriage ban on the state’s ballot on November 4.) Turning San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s words, “as California goes, so goes the nation,” on their head, Engle and his allies are portraying California as the bellwether…

Can Expelled Teach Us a Thing or Two?

By Arri Eisen

…ealm of the scientific method. If we put ideas beside each other and show which are scientifically testable and which are not and why, if we relate these ideas to the students’ own life experiences, what will happen? Actually, the experiment already has been done in public high school science classrooms. And the results: students learn to appreciate science, its value, and how it works without rejecting or having to choose one worldview or another…

Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel

By Peter Laarman

…time that he was having the better evening because of his way with a microphone and his remarkable capacity to modulate his voice (not to mention outing himself as LDS pastor and bishop). But it was Billy Graham’s endorsement, splashed into our faces via an expensive full-page Sunday New York Times ad, that triggered my flat-out recognition: the 94-year-old daddy of all televangelists is laying his bony patriarchal hands upon a fellow preacher wh…

Swift-Boat Veterans of American Jewry Charge Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street

By Jay Michaelson

…e of them had the ‘human mic.’ None of them were in any kind of non-leadership leadership position. Surely, anyone who knows anything about the protests – which includes ECI’s leadership – knows this to be the case. Which makes ECI’s video a cheap lie — yet another in a long litany of desperate efforts by the far right to convert the largely liberal American Jewish community to neo-conservatism, hawkish policies on Israel, and the belief that “Bar…