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

By Michael Schulson

…n buy a special candle in a porcelain jar, and meditation cushions branded with MNDFL’s handsome heptagonal logo retail for $75. There are stacks of Rinzler’s books for sale, along with titles like Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and The Wisdom of Insecurity. Rinzler told me that their clientele has been diverse—racially, socioeconomically, and in terms of sexual orientation. When I asked how socioeconomically diverse MNDFL’s target ma…

Love the Compassion Dogs, Hate the Anti-Gay Theology?

By Sean O'Neil

…Savage finds Marin’s ambiguity scary and one wonders whether Savage’s view will draw even wider company in the face of devastation. In the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament, Jesus draws wide boundaries of solidarity: “Whoever is not against us is for us.” (Luke 9:50) In the Gospel of Matthew, and in a different instance, however, Jesus closes ranks: “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters” (Matthew 12:…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…ship to increase votes specifically by combining fear of Islam and Muslims with growing sympathy among Americans for gay rights—something the GOP has historically suppressed. Recall, for instance, that the Republican National Committee officially confirmed its opposition to same-sex marriage a few years ago and still embraces ex-gay therapy for minors. Even the current vice presidential candidate refuses to recognize LGBT people as a minority enti…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ments of racism, hatred and anger. God longs to bless our nation. But this will not happen without repentance. And true repentance requires action… “Radical obedience to His commands will lead the nation forwards.” Scotland: Free Church of Scotland moderator criticizes teaching of LGBT issues in schools Rev. David Robertson, moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, criticized LGBT activists with Time for Inclusive Education for wanting to “indoct…

Can Expelled Teach Us a Thing or Two?

By Arri Eisen

…sm or other alternatives to science),’ they mean to do so on equal footing with science. As most any scientist will tell you, this won’t work because the idea of an Intelligence or a Creator, and most similar ideas of religion, are non-falsifiable, non-testable, in the way that any scientific idea must be. I argue to introduce alternate ideas in the science classroom, but in a different way. And here is where I part company with most of my colleag…

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

By Jay Michaelson

…r-right organization named “Emergency Committee for Israel” has produced a cheap YouTube video showing a couple of crazy people at Occupy Wall Street shouting antisemitic slogans. For good measure, they’ve thrown in Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Eliot Spitzer endorsing the sentiments behind the Occupy movement; ergo, the three of them must hate the Jews too. This, of course, is ridiculous. As everybody should know by now, Occupy is a leaderless…

Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel

By Peter Laarman

…e a roll-the-dice people. And our god is that God: the one who makes water flow from the rock (Numbers 20:11); who surprises us all the time by blessing us in the least likely circumstances. Mr. President: You need to understand this. You need to work with this, but very, very carefully. Because, like it or not, the endgame in this election is going to be about which candidate does religion better, I fervently wish that Mr. Obama would say a bit m…

U.S. Bishops’ Silence on Guns and Gays

By Patricia Miller

…cious life is” and call for “protecting the life and dignity of every person,” is a not-so-subtle reference to abortion. Nothing like using a national tragedy that has absolutely nothing to do with abortion to push your anti-abortion agenda, boys. But conservatives within the church will continue to push the line that it’s an “abortion mentality”—as well as a lack of respect for the special sacredness of heterosexual, procreative sex—that allows a…

Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…baptisms has declined from nearly 1 million to just over 700,000, and the number of marriages within the church has declined by nearly half. Only the number of Catholic funerals has held steady. And while the number of Catholics overall has remained level, that’s largely due to Hispanic migration to the US; some 40 percent of those born Catholic have left the church. But numbers don’t tell the whole story. The church Francis will encounter is fun…

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

By Sarah M. Pike

…hotographs, disregarding their impermanence. The temple has also come to reflect a growing national trend: pet memorials. Burners left loving memories of dogs, cats, snakes, birds, and a turtle. Two huskies stared out of an elaborately carved wooden frame; a photo collage was titled “R. I. P. Boomer,” and a life-size cut-out of a dog was dedicated to “Borealis: friend to all, great and small.” Every year since the first temple in which they were l…