Search for "breaking newstoday cleantalkorg2.ru bbc news Read Breaking News Today news today Politics Stock Market breaking newstoday"

From Organized Religion to Organizing Religion: Brian D. McLaren Wants Christians to Be Better

By Peter Laarman

…ed. So I feel a mixture of real urgency and yet a caution about pushing or rushing or forcing. Your book invites readers to join the migration toward a courageous love-centered Christianity, but it’s been so much easier for people to migrate out altogether and join the ranks of the “nones.” Do you think that the religiously-unaffiliated can still be Jesus followers in a meaningful way? And, if not, how big a problem is the out-migration? You put y…

Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform

By Andrew Aghapour

…hat must be shared or cited with any trade. This turns users into invested news readers. When I read of a scientific discovery about drought resistant plants, I shared this tip and purchased a share of Post-Scarcity Farming. If your Hot Tip is cited by others when they make a trade, you receive dividends. This incentivizes a unique form of social media participation. The goal of news-sharing in Åzone isn’t to advance an ideology du jour, it’s to g…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Politicians, religious activists spar on gay ‘cures,’ marriage equality A BBC News documentary reported on “Transformation Potential,” described by Pink News as “a religious ‘gay cure’ therapy conference” which took place in London in April. Journalist Benjamin Zand was kicked out of the conference after filming portions of it. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to end the “dangerous” and “profoundly wrong” practice: The announcement was not we…

“Debt” is a Spiritual Word

By Donna Schaper

…dia, but there are other news stories besides the rise and the fall of the stock markets. Whisper that some people don’t even have stocks and others have way too many, and both groups of people find themselves often moved to pray: “Forgive us our debts—the ones we owe to the poor and don’t pay—as they forgive us,” the rich might say. The poor might say, “Forgive us our resentment and anger against the rich, even as they forgive it in us.” The midd…

RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic

By Mitchell Plitnick

…nomy, as Avishai demonstrates. Instead of a neoliberal economics based on crude structural adjustment policies and de-regulation, Avishai proposes a more practical, market-based economic vision rooted in sustainability, and dependent on increasing social and political progress. Where Netanyahu believes that peace is a nice but unnecessary addition to Israel’s long-term economic stability, Avishai recognizes that it is a long-term necessity. Avisha…

Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury

By Jay Michaelson

…the economy may collapse so completely that we won’t even be able to get bread at the supermarket. I think it’s because, in our online age, people want to be connected to stuff, to “real” things like soil and sweat and fruit. And I think that’s part of what’s behind the OWS protests. Their rhetoric is sometimes anti-capitalist. But it’s never anti-Steve-Jobs-capitalist. It’s anti-Goldman-capitalist. See the difference? One is a genius, the other…

CPAC 2017: Hypocrites on Parade

By Sunnivie Brydum

…l is antagonizing Senate Democrats…right up until they threaten to follow Cruz’s own obstructionist playbook. Democrats, Cruz said, are “living in an alternative universe.” He continued: They are in denial, and they’re angry. … The anger on the left, I’ve never seen anything like it. They’re right now opposing everything. Democrats in the Senate are filibustering absolutely everything. … The cabinet is still not confirmed—this is the longest we’ve…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s rules against anti-gay propaganda law The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda law” was a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, saying the law had been used to violate freedom of expression. The ruling was rejected by the Russian government; BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder notes that “Russia has repeatedly thumbed its nose at the ECHR’s authority in recent years, including adopting legislation in 2015 a…

Triple Fundamentalism: The New American Conservatism

By Julie Ingersoll

…ndamentalism, and Friedrich von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom in the case of market fundamentalism (The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand can be substituted for Hayek, on request). Lind makes important distinctions between fundamentalism and orthodoxy, using the term fundamentalism to describe the perspective rather than to merely disparage it. Linking it to the low church Protestantism out of which it emerged, he writes: It is also the pop…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…lass consumer capitalism—help explain the connections between conservative politics, the market economy and family values. But Sam Walton also had a major role in spreading the gospel of Christian free enterprise, an amalgam that linked religious principles, government support, and entrepreneurship. Even as business was becoming the default major on campuses, Walton and his friends sought to bend the curricula; first toward vocational training, wh…