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Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Registry-General on Wednesday, followed by a reception at Café Lido, Elbow Beach, according to one guest who attended. The nuptials came less than a month after the landmark Supreme Court ruling of May 5 which enabled gay people to marry on the island. Romania: Opposition leader steps down over party’s opposition to marriage amendment Nicusor Dan, founder and leader of the opposition party USR resigned from the party on May 31 after the party’s na…

Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

By Mary E. Hunt

…? This nuncio is reported to have had a “stately residence and access to a beach house.” I suppose it gets a little lonely rattling around the mansion, and God knows what went on in the beach house. But mostly this is one of those Catholic matters where following the money is the soundest approach. Mansions and beach houses are not free, so obviously Catholic money is keeping his successor in the style to which Wesolowski became accustomed. Multip…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…llar annual budget is funded almost exclusively by ticket sales, and these tickets are not cheap (ranging this year, for example, from $210-$300 depending on time of purchase). This pays for the basic infrastructure as well as expenses like a hefty per-person/per-day use fee charged by the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a significant portion of each year’s budget is set aside to fund many of the large-scale art installations various parti…

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

By Anthony Adams

…ualism is bad. Also, he notes but offers no explanation for the decreasing number of marriages in many countries. I am glad to see that in Section 34 he understands this basic fact of contemporary western culture: The ideal of marriage, marked by a commitment to exclusivity and stability, is swept aside whenever it proves inconvenient or tiresome. The fear of loneliness and the desire for stability and fidelity exist side by side with a growing fe…

Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…cate for. I think when you get to the final stages of a manuscript, it’s unfortunately easy to let some of those things go.) Because this was a sort of general overview of some of the themes and organizing ideas within modern Buddhist political thinking in Myanmar, I couldn’t get into many sub-topics in great detail. I’m really looking forward to getting to spend much more time with some of the Buddhist-leftist literature from the 1920s-1950s that…

Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By Jonathan L. Walton

Ten Questions for Jonathan Walton on Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism What inspired you to write Watch This? My interest in African American religious broadcasting came from what I perceived to be the gaps in the fields of African American religion and Religion, Media, and Culture. For the most part, scholars of African American religion in general and black theology in particular theorize about Afro-Protestantism in…

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

By Michael Schulson

…age. His 2012 book, The Buddha Walks into a Bar, has sold widely. Over the phone, I asked Rinzler why he and Burrows had chosen to establish the studio as a for-profit company. “We really wanted to make sure we had all the resources we need for supporting people who are trying meditation for the first time,” Rinzler explained. Because they’re a business, there’s more professionalism. The teachers they’ve hired show up on time, and, as Rinzler put…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…les of government. The Top Ten Organizations are: Pat Robertson’s Virginia Beach, Virginia-based Christian Broadcasting Network’s revenue in 2006 was $246,986,289. James Dobson’s Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Focus on the Family had $156,972,266 in revenue in 2006. Pat Robertson and Jay Sekulow’s American Center for Law and Justice/Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism has offices in Virginia Beach, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia and it…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…the Dharma Initiatives’ octagonal symbol); an Egyptian-style temple on the beach replete with hieroglyphs; Dogen’s temple somewhere inland (Dogen was a key 13th-century Japanese philosopher who founded the Soto school of Zen), and the eternal presence of Richard (Ricardo) Alpert, whose namesake was dropping acid with Timothy Leary in the 1960s and eventually reemerged from the counterculture with the name Ram Dass. At the same time, there are the…

End Times on the Gulf Coast

By Lauri Lebo

…Gulf Coast. The streets are all but deserted. Parking spots closest to the beach are always available. Helicopters fly up and down along the coast all day, monitoring the spread of the oil. I pulled into a parking lot for the Gulf Shores National Seashore and the woman there tells me the beach is closed. “The slick’s coming in pretty bad,” she said. She’s supposed to charge me $5, but refuses. “Are you sure? You guys are hurting for money,” I say….