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Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…tianity Today Writer Ken Smith Is Founder of a Company Fined for Deceptive Business Practices; With Child Porn Ties.” The main thrust of the first of the two Post pieces was to disprove the allegations that Jang’s followers considered him a new messiah by calling into question the legitimacy of the CT sources who made these claims. But the attacks in this first response seem mild compared to the piece that followed alleging that Olsen’s co-writer…

The Folly of Arab-West (Elite-Elite) Dialogue

By H.A. Hellyer

…, but fail miserably without realizing the local context. This cuts across business, media, and diplomatic sectors, and is invariably due to either the outside actor attempting to interpret what the local scene is all about without actually relating to local interpreters, or else the outside actor deals with the ‘usual suspects.’ Those usual suspects are often drawn from an elite who are local but inevitably drawn from the same cloth as the Wester…

Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…o Professor John Kline, a Georgetown University Professor of International Business Diplomacy, Nike has expressed its commitment to decent wages. However, the company does not compensate its subcontractors enough to pay a living wage. In fact, Nike workers earn $3.50 a day in Indonesia. That’s not enough to purchase a gallon of milk there! It barely buys a Big Mac! Today no one can claim ignorance. Workers have journeyed to the U.S. to give gut-wr…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…ther Muslim, African American, female, etc.—democracy is an all or nothing business. You fight for everyone’s rights (and the operative word here is “fight”), or you get none for yourself. Democracy isn’t a buffet. You can’t pick and choose which civil liberties apply to which people. Either we are all equal, or the whole thing is just a sham. We Muslims are already a deeply marginalized people in mainstream American culture. More than half of Ame…

Pro-Life Tempest Over Obama’s Notre Dame Speech

By Mary E. Hunt

…oral and intellectual capital on these days. Newman, Old Tactics This is a classic example of making the proverbial mountain out of a molehill, a tactic well-known to Progressive Catholics. “Founded in 1993, The Cardinal Newman Society is dedicated to renewing and strengthening Catholic identity at America’s 224 Catholic colleges and universities.” Translation: this small group, founded by Patrick J. Reilly, monitors speakers, professors, students…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…and the co-author of “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.” Douthat believes that “Conservatives are going to have to head into a long series of ideological fights within the party.” And the Party should recognize “that social conservatism, broadly understood, should be the bedrock of conservatism in America.” “Broadly speaking,” said Douthat, “the challenge for the Republican Party is not to jett…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…and organizations have to adapt and change or run the risk of going out of business. Religious organizations are no different. If a particular organizational form or experience isn’t adapted over time so that it makes sense in the current social and cultural context, that group will ultimately fail. But I don’t think that necessarily means throwing everything out—adaptation is adjustment to challenges and demands from members (and potential member…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ent, the banks looted the nation’s wealth while destroying countless small businesses and brought the whole economy to its knees in a covert, clean manner, rather like organised crime… These kids would have to riot and steal every night for a year to run up a bill equivalent to the value of non-paid tax big business has ‘avoided’ out of the economy this year alone. They may not articulate their grievances like the politicians that condemn them but…

Teaching World Religion in the Dumpster Fire

By Kate Blanchard

…urse, so I will not apologize for trying to complicate the views of future business people, health care professionals and public school teachers.) I struggled, as I suppose most teachers did on that day, to figure out what I would say to my students—some of whom would be triumphant, others grieving, all of them sleep-deprived. In truth, I did not trust myself to broach the topic of the election in front of 30 undergraduates, because I wasn’t certa…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…the intention of the practitioner. You go to Google and more than half the class is practicing mindfulness in order to become more successful. Is that a problem? I would say it’s not. I think the practice is so powerful that regardless of original intention, if you do the practice right you get the same outcome, the good outcome. In that corporate setting, the objective of mindfulness programs aligns with the students’ intentions—in other words, g…