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Senate Candidate Todd Akin’s Anti-Abortion Acquaintances from the Late ’80s

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…lions in damages, according to a 1999 investigative piece on Dreste by the St. Louis Riverfront Times: The defendants, two anti-abortion groups and 12 individuals, including Dreste, were not charged with any of the 40 clinic bombings or seven murders that took place in the U.S. between 1983 and 1999, but they were accused by two abortion-rights groups and four abortion providers of setting off some of that violence through the use of websites, lit…

Baptist Resolutions Signal More Culture War

By Paul Harvey

…eaders, and its call (in a resolution just passed at its annual meeting in St. Louis) for removal of the Confederate flags from public places and churches, the Southern Baptist Convention has been much in the news lately. A deeper dig into the resolutions emerging from the convention, however, presents a more complex picture than reported in the press, and suggests some reasons for the ineffectiveness of the #NeverTrump non-movement. Following the…

Exactly 30 Years Before Illinois AG’s Devastating Sexual Abuse Report, a Plan for Prevention was Implemented, Then Scrapped

By David Clohessy

…ed them to speak up and tell their stories. Belleville and the much larger St. Louis, just 20 minutes apart, are both part of the same metro area which had and still has two daily newspapers. The papers each rushed to cover the crisis, though the Belleville News Democrat far outstripped the Post-Dispatch in both breadth and depth. At that time, St. Louis had a fairly new but quite energetic chapter of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Pri…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…conservative. His grandfather was a cleric at a local mosque, which was just a stone’s throw away from the house. “Homosexuality is a sin, said my grandfather and people who engage in same-sex activity earn the wrath of God and go to hell.” Hendricks recalls that his grandfather also said that God is extremely compassionate and overwhelmingly forgiving. “All these contradicting things confused me because even at that time I knew I did not choose…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…ublic information, and porta-potties being just a few), but participants must still supply all of their own gear, food, and water; sufficient to survive for one week in a very harsh desert environment. The Black Rock Desert is dominated by a dry lake bed called the playa—an absolutely flat and desolate expanse of cracked alkali clay—and the experience of camping there can be extreme. At the center of the Black Rock City is the Burning Man icon it…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…liked having Thursday morning coffee with Lieutenant Heather, the enthusiastic pastor whose response to all my questions was, always and only, “Jesus.” But when Heather and her husband moved away, and a new couple was assigned as pastors to our corps, I took it as an opportunity to step further away from church attendance. My kids are still in the process of sorting out their beliefs. A couple say they are atheists, a couple call themselves Chris…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…nd largest by leased area: the Dubai Mall, which is a great place to get lost and start crying out of desperation in one of the many prayer areas interspersed throughout. The government plans a massive mosque to complement the neighborhood, ready to fit 15,000 folks. Their wet feet will be visible from space. Based on an Islamicate floor plan, the Burj Khalifa is one of the few modern skyscrapers that are genuinely beautiful. Its delicacy belies i…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…an “invisible hand” as the faith-based final justification for the capitalist system he was attempting to theorize). Indeed, a truly free market would actually increase federal revenues by putting more people to work and making taxpayers of them of all. This last article of faith has demonstrated just how far the argument from absurdity can take us, and how little facts can be made to matter. The trickle-down theory, first enunciated at the presid…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…ed by the Indian government, Bedi says only 16 go to the common man. The rest is lost in graft. She wants to raise this amount to 90 and put the money into the country’s infrastructure: schools, universities, roads, and bridges. The Lokpal Bill was set to come up for parliamentary vote, but ministers and reformers had drafted separate versions. The “mischievous minister” we were watching on the laptop was being questioned about the status of a joi…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…er Locke or Shephard or Austen are saviors or demons does not matter. The hero is the community, the living together. The greatest fiction of Lost is the apocalyptic tale that we are individuals, that it is survival of the fittest. Lost then, is the antithesis of Lord of the Flies, but also of the so-called reality television shows that extol the individual “dancers,” “idols,” and “survivors.” Those are the real fictions. Lost reveals itself as re…