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Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again

By Candy Gunther Brown

…blishment clause restriction. For example, in 2011, Dr. Glenn Mendoza sued New York’s Good Samaritan Hospital for religious discrimination against him as a practitioner of Arhatic Yoga, Pranic Healing, and Superbrain Yoga. In this context, Mendoza described yoga as “devoted spiritual practice rooted in religion and ancient spiritual teachings of meditation . . . no different than being Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Muslim.” In 2012, Mendoza…

Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the Middle East. The article calls Lebanon the “exception that proves the rule.” Pink News covers reports that Egyptian police are using Grindr to hunt gay men. Cayman Islands: US Christian activist keynoting anti-gay rally Cayman News Service reports that David Gibbs III, a “conservative Christian lawyer from the United States who has suggested that legalizing gay marriage would lead to a catalogue of social ills will be one of three guest speak…

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

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age.” The tweet from @philritchie, sometimes drummer and Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral in rural Essex, arrived while I was mulling over a question Parker Palmer had posted just a bit earlier on his Facebook page about the relationship between violent words and images in broadcast media and violent acts. I’d added my two cents to the developing conversation, citing Douglas Rushkoff’s quip that “They don’t call it…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…teachings of the Church and to impose a new sexual orthodoxy on the whole world. The new sexual orthodoxy is nothing more than a new religion celebrating a new god, an angry god, a jealous god. This new god of the sexual revolution cannot stand even slight disagreement…The impending catastrophe is that this new god may be enshrined in a UN document, one that will be used by the sexual revolutionaries all over the world in order to force the new o…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…will be the 10th anniversary of the conservative Anglican manifesto, the Jerusalem Declaration, and the third GAFCON conference. According to a GAFCON communique: We are excited to announce that the new chairman of the Primates’ Council is the Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, Primate of the Anglican Church of All Nigeria. He is joined in leadership by the new vice-chair, the Most Rev. Stanley Ntagali, Primate of the Anglican Church of Uganda. Archbishops…

If Bad-Ass Nuns Ruled the World

By Jo Piazza

…out exactly what I took away from the book as an author: that if nuns did rule the world, it would undoubtedly be a better place. How do you feel about the cover? I love it. This is the fifth cover we went through and just like the title it was really hard to get right. I’m not an academic. I wrote this book for a lay audience and I wanted it to appeal to one. But on the other hand, I didn’t want it to come off as flip or patronizing. We tried a…

Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

…y over the treatment of an Indian diplomat by law enforcement officials in New York, a senior leader of India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has called for the arrest of gay American diplomats. Chile: Pro-Equality Bachelet Returns as President In a race that gave voters a choice between two women vying for the presidency, Chilean voters on December 15 overwhelmingly elected former President Michelle Bachelet, a supporter of marriage…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…, the ideologue who’s been one of the central figures in the conservative crusade against critical race theory. Hochman cites Rufo in order to demonstrate the secular novelty of the latter’s approach to politics: “The goal is to protect these people, Middle Americans of all racial backgrounds—working class and middle class—to protect them against what I think is a hostile and nihilistic elite that is seeking to impose its values onto the working a…

Do Evangelicals Oppose Syria Intervention?

By Stephen V. Anderson

…Examine these headlines, all of which are misleading—including the NAE’s. National Association of Evangelicals (News): Most Evangelical Leaders Oppose Syria Strike Christianity Today: Should U.S. Bomb Syria? Evangelical Leaders Take Surprising Vote Religion News Service (excerpted with identical headline by Religion & Politics): NAE’s Leith Anderson: Evangelicals oppose strike against Syria The Christian Post: 62% of Evangelical Pastors Oppose Sy…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…here at about the same time; from Africa to Washington, DC, from Europe to New York City, from YouTube to iTunes. Over the years, he has spoken at the United Nations, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the African Union, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, TIME’s Global Health Summit, and numerous congresses around the world. In late-May, according to a press release posted on Christian Newswire, “Over 1,700 l…