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A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…er,” offered one groomsman by way of commentary, as Tom, a mechanic from East St. Louis, who declined to give his last name, talked about his inability to earn a living wage despite working 60 hours a week. Aspiration meets desperation, and looks the other way. Or, at least so it has usually been since the Reagan ascendency of the 1980s, with middle-class Americans curiously reorienting their dreams away from what might reasonably be attainable fo…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t LGBT people in the province, it further says. Tanzania: Profile of activist struggle with anti-LGBT crackdown NewsDeeply’s Women and Girls profiles Queen M, a transgender woman who is “fighting for my survival” amid the government’s recent crackdown on LGBT people: A 1945 criminal code passed by Britain when Tanzania was under its administration prescribes between 30 years to life in jail for gay male sex. Lesbian sex isn’t against the law. Acti…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…later, carrying $800 and an American passport. Charles Robert Moore Methodist minister Charles Robert Moore self-immolated in his hometown of Grand Saline, Texas, calling the city and the country to repent. In a note left on his car, Moore wrote that “American, and Grand Saline …have never really repented for the atrocities of slavery and its aftermath.”He had previously worked to desegregate Texas churches in the 1950s, helped organize the Texas…

Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement

By Sarah Posner

…vernight, we can begin to take back our society one step at a time. The first step is to put an end to the destructive influence of Planned Parenthood, the organization that forced this tragedy upon our nation 40 years ago.” At the Stand Up for Religious Freedom rally, Bereit told me he opposed the legal precedent that Griswold set, as it laid the groundwork for Roe v. Wade. But when I pressed him about whether he agreed with ALL’s opposition to c…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…entative on Earth and began years of training in holy wisdom. Among his first students was Elijah Muhammad, who helmed the Nation until his death in 1975. When Muhammad’s son, Warith (Wallace) Deen Muhammad, became the Nation’s leader that same year, he radically reorganized the organization to more closely follow traditional Islam. It was renamed the American Muslim Mission and opened its doors to whites and Latinos. Four years later, Louis Farra…

Vatican Pitbulls Make Cardinal

By Mary E. Hunt

…hbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington DC and Raymond L. Burke, formerly of St. Louis, and now Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Supreme Court of the Vatican. They are among 20 of the 24 who are young enough—i.e. under 80—to vote for the next Pope. In a radio interview on the day of the announcement Cardinal-designate Donald Wuerl was asked what one has to do to become a cardinal. He finessed the question by saying, with humility that would c…

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…

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…

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…