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Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

…honored was openly gay Crown Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, who founded and runs the Lakshya Trust, which tackles HIV and other issues. He says the Supreme Court ruling that re-criminalized homosexuality has led to Trust workers being arrested for distributing condoms, threatened with blackmail, and even sexually assaulted by police. From Michael Lambert at Out: When comparing their countries to the U.S., both activists said that recent breakthroug…

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Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

…ng cultural narrative. In fact, the “rise of the nones” story is obscuring news of a different, equally fascinating trend in the world of religion. While small in total number, the fastest growing religious population in North America today (after Islam) is NOT the “nones” It’s “other religion,” a category that includes anything from Baha’i and Taosim to Wicca and Zoroastrianism. Part of the growth in “other religion” segment is being fueled by re…

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Why Is the Economy Stuck?… Market Theology for Nonbelievers

…rom the market, there is no freedom to be anything but at the mercy of the market. It’s almost impossible to be entirely free of the market these days, but it is possible, and politically feasible, to decouple social and market status. 2) The reason our political leaders can’t or won’t make the effort to think outside the market idolatry isn’t that they’re stupid or politically blind or sinful or corrupt or what-have-you, though they display all t…

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Good News For Bad News Addicts

…the same thing in 1990. But few will notice. All we’ll remember is the bad news. We’re addicted to bad news, always convinced disaster is just around the corner, unable to recognize good news when it stares us in the face. Worse, we obsess on the headlines but don’t bother reading the details. Folks, the news this week is that the Jewish community is growing, not declining. While nobody was looking, the children of intermarriage in 1990 grew up an…

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High Ark: A Geologist on the True Meaning of Noah’s Flood

…ies are more about control of nature… the point is not “which one of these stories is true.” The point is to connect the stories to actual facts on the ground. One of my favorite places is the Valley of the Tsangpo River in China, where I begin the book. It’s rare as a geologist to go somewhere where there has not been a lot of work done, somewhere where you feel you can put the story together yourself. You see land deposits, and you start making…

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Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

…ing WWI. Of course, the Ottomans collapsed, the Caliphate was abolished, Jerusalem was conquered by the British, the Saudis took Mecca, and the British and French carved up the Middle East as spoils of war for themselves, which is kind of like saying his family already tried once, and we’re not down with double jeopardy. #NotWinning (IV) Muhammad Morsi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt The Good: As representative of a Muslim Brotherhood gov…

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World AIDS Day: Sacralizing Change

…alls us, whether ourselves religious or secular, to refuse the role of religion in perpetuating hatred and inhumanity, to focus on a role for religion in social justice for all, and to share in the work of world transformation aiming for a world in which World AIDS Day is no more. Some say setting aside a day to remember and mourn the millions who have died and the millions with AIDS/HIV is itself sacralizing—let us hope that it is sacralizing hop…

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Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

…yer, an estimated 200 million Christians in stadiums and arenas around the world joined in synchronous prayer. Haggard’s New Life Church and the adjacent World Prayer Center that was dedicated in 1998 were, for roughly a decade, the epicenter of an ongoing, radical redefinition of Christianity. One of its early board members became known to the secular world during the 2008 presidential campaign as an enigmatic Kenyan evangelist who, in 2005, had…

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RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

…w much funding for family planning and abortion services in the developing world comes from the developed world? That’s a hard question to answer, because it varies so much by country. Asian countries cover much more of their own costs than poorer countries in Africa, for example. And of course there are so many different funding sources—governments, foundations, NGOs, etc. But according to the Guttmacher Institute, donor agencies in developed cou…

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Religion in Tension on World AIDS Day

…heme, “Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise” calls us, whether we are religious or secular, to refuse the role of religion in perpetuating hatred and inhumanity, to focus on a role for religion in social justice for all, and to share in the work of world transformation, aiming for a world in which World AIDS Day is no more. Some say setting aside a day to remember and mourn the millions who have died and the millions with AIDS/HIV is itself sacralizing—let…

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