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WaPo OpEd: Pope Francis and the Koch Bros Love and Serve the Poor Together

By Patricia Miller

…of being devolved. For instance, local food banks found themselves completely overwhelmed during the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession; many reported turning people away. It was the federal SNAP/Food Stamp program that took up the slack; enrollment soared from just over 25 million in 2006 to nearly 50 million in 2014. The real problem, according to the Saemans, isn’t that the benefits of the economy are increasingly flowing upward…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of the bloc’s member states and their family members the right to move and freely reside across the region, subject to certain conditions.” But religious conservatives across Europe are organizing for a “Mum, Dad & Kids” European referendum that would defined LGBT couples and families out of those protections. Egypt: Recent anti-gay crackdown part of longer trend The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has published “The Trap: Punishing sexual…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…wing unease in Mexican society against Peña Nieto’s initiative, and this feeling increases as its contents are better known. For example, exercising their rights as citizens, Christians of different denominations – Catholic, mainline Protestants and Evangelicals, who represent the majority of the voters – expressed in different ways their rejection of the amendment. They aren’t the only ones protesting, even though they’re the ones the media has p…

Jack Ryan Uses Bible to Exonerate Wall Street, CIA

By Erin Runions

…onerating Wall Street is a chief outcome, the film’s sexual politics also help fictively prop up national defenses in the face of transnational market threats and to absolve the military industrial complex. The film works to reimagine the CIA as husband-protector of the nation. Of course, it must first verbally distance the CIA from practices like waterboarding. As Ryan’s recruiter Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner) tells him, their unit doesn’t do suc…

The Facts About ‘Sharia’ May Surprise You

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali

…ed in response to the Industrial Revolution, Muslims couldn’t similarly develop their religious tradition because they were subjugated. After colonialism in the mid-twentieth century, newly drawn, aggressively secular, Muslim-majority countries inherited the colonial state apparatus and adopted new legal systems, usually based on the French civil-law system. Because these repressive post-colonial Muslim governments were secular, opposition to them…

There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle

By Chrissy Stroop

…Nor are they even Jason Seville, who in the face of the disaster wrote a self-aggrandizing piece for The Gospel Coalition on why he would be remaining in China, where he pastors a church. Nevertheless, the Zahnds and Merritts of the world could do much better in helping America move past this era of empty “thoughts and prayers” if they would devote some of the former—and hell, perhaps even some of the latter—to the ways in which they’re still blin…

‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists

By Austin Dacey

…public debate is about how to balance freedom of speech with respect for religious belief. But Alexander Aan’s case, playing out in the world’s most populous Muslim country, represents a much different global reality. Here the value at stake is not just freedom of speech, but freedom of conscience. The real contest is not between atheists and believers, but between those who affirm the equality of all persons of conscience and those who deny it….

Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…a people for a people without a land’’ was popularized by Anglo-Jewish novelist Israel Zangwill. From Zangwill’s writings the phrase, translated into many languages, became a mainstay of Zionist polemics. The phrase was utilized in a number of ways, some more sophisticated than others. While some advocates of Zionism used it to imply that Palestine was empty of people, that suggestion was contradicted by the reports of many Western visitors. The…

Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Religion?

By Galen Watts

…wn and widespread program of recovery from the disease of alcoholism (a widely-held concept it helped to normalize) in the world today. AA has recently received a wave of criticisms which, in different ways, target what have been perceived to be its religious components. Some have argued that AA lacks scientific credibility and offers a treatment for alcoholism that is thoroughly “irrational.” The claim is that evidence-based research has proven t…

A Real-Life Truman Show?

By Lauri Lebo

…hrough the gate leading to the water, one must punch in a combination pass code. The town’s elegantly manicured gardens belie its state’s housing market collapse. But just outside of town, realtors advertise “Free Foreclosure Lists!” Sitting along a commons of lush grass, an attractive young couple casually dressed in designer sunglasses, khakis, and expensive sandals led a group of fair-haired children in prayer. The young blond woman urged the c…