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

By Michael Schulson

…llion living an okay life? Well, that’s the greatest good for the greatest number—the argument that you’re making. If you want a livable lifestyle for the greatest number, then living at a minimal level with 12 billion people would be better. If you want people living the very best possible lifestyle, then 100 million people would be better. If you stop thinking about only human beings, but thinking about all the rest of the living organisms on ea…

Record Number of Stealth Creationism Bills Introduced in 2011

By Lauri Lebo

The National Center for Science Education has tracked a record-setting number of nine anti-evolution bills introduced in state legislatures since Jan. 1. The latest is Texas’ HB 2454, which would prohibit an institution of higher learning from “discrimination related to research related into intelligent design.” “PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RESEARCH RELATED TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN. An institution of higher education may not discriminate…

Why David Brooks Doesn’t Get the Outrage Over AIG

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ist facing the bewildering array of current economic problems stick to the numbers or engage in psychological analysis? We could do worse than break down the current cast of characters based on that question and that approach. Greenspan was a number cruncher, Brooks observed, and unfortunately for him, human psychology caught up with him in the “housing bubble.” The current debate over Timothy Geithner is being conducted in similar terms. No one d…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…‘From phobia to hope’ Otgonbaatar Tsedendemberel writes for GoGo Mongolia/Asia News Network on “From phobia to hope: On LGBT rights in Mongolia,” describing the country’s evolution to a “somewhat better” situation since activists began to speak out in the 1990s. The author writes that “One Day in Mongolia,” a famous painting by B. Sharav (1869- 1939), includes a depiction of two men having sex, and quotes a journalist concluding that “this could…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…by thousands of immigrants from the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and South Asia and by African Americans, who converted to varying forms of Islam, some of which, such as the Nation of Islam, were distinctly a product of African American experiences. They built American mosques and Muslim institutions in such diverse places as Brooklyn, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Ross, North Dakota, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The mosque built in Cedar Ra…

Where Christianity and Islam Collide

By Maggie Fick

…realities for the millions of Muslims and Christians living in Africa and Asia living along this line of latitude. This is what makes this book hard to put down: “the interwoven stories of those who live within this band, and whose religious beliefs pattern their daily perseverance.” While it would be easy to draw negative conclusions from this book about the ways in which Islam and Christianity are currently interacting around the globe, it woul…

Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…frican enslavement, and later during the era of colonization of Africa and Asia. The transformation of ancient and medieval color symbolism into racial discrimination and prejudice didn’t require graphic depictions of the divine, as David M. Goldenberg astutely argued in The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Goldenberg traces the racial discourses that emerged within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as Afric…

‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…or the daring and brave explorer setting out to find an alternate route to Asia for spices, to the more complex and unsympathetic readings, Columbus as origin myth is a Rorschach test in which Americans see either the America they want to “make great again” or the America they want to see live up to its promises. Italian Americans’ embrace of Columbus during the early 20th century can be tied to their quest to assimilate into the largely hostile w…

Obama Fumbles on Uganda at National Prayer Breakfast

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lub to deny the human rights of girls and women from the Gulf to Africa to Asia and to discriminate, even advocating the execution of, gays and lesbians. I was almost as disappointed in Clinton as Obama since she failed to mention the country of Uganda at this point, but she continued: We are standing up for gays and lesbians who deserve to be treated as whole human beings and we are also making it clear to countries and leaders that these are pri…

Famous Atheists, Fat Ministers, Papal Tweets, and a Mega-Hoax

By Michael J. Altman

…fat and happy. The Obedient Wives Club is spreading among Muslim women in Asia. It’s becoming harder for female rabbis to find a puplit. On Tuesday, an elaborate hoax claimed that the Southern Baptist Convention was close to endorsing gay marriage. South Korea’s Christian president and his kneeling prayer pose a challenge to the country’s pluralist sensibilities. The World Council of Churches, the Vatican, and the World Evangelical Alliance have…