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Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…similarity. In the United States, Washington DC has the highest prevalence rate—and it also has an incredible amount of poverty. It is not accidental that South Africa has the highest number of persons infected with HIV—the consequence of apartheid has been poverty, lack of education, unemployment, hunger, and disease. In India, HIV spreads among the most impoverished and poorly educated. This theme of poverty takes me to a few more questions. You…

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

By Daniel Silliman

…ch in 1967, broadening the concern of the movement and alienating some moderate civil rights supporters. Author of numerous works on American-American religious history, including There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America and Martin Luther King: An Inconvenient Hero, Harding taught at Illiff School of Theology in Denver, Colo. for more than 20 years. Nelson Bunker Hunt A Texas billionaire remembered mostly for his business exploi…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…e popular with the LGBT voters who make up 6.5 percent of the French electorate than it is with straight voters. LePen’s Party, which includes a number of openly gay officials, still pledges to roll back the marriage equality law in favor of civil unions. As AP notes, LePen is not the only nationalist leader who uses fear of radical Islamist violence to attract LGBT support: In the Netherlands, Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders said that his…

Romney Goes to Bat Against Reid in Nevada

By Joanna Brooks

…ast two decades, more than 1.4 million people moved to Nevada in search of cheap housing and boom-time fueled hospitality, tourism, and construction jobs, more than doubling the state’s population. Now, those speculation-and-spending fueled good times are gone. That volatility does not treat mild-mannered Mormon politicians well: be they Reids, or Romneys. Just last week, Jan Shipps, a longtime scholar and canny observer of Mormon experience, wage…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…amining and eventually returning to Catholicism. It also meant giving the Grateful Dead another chance. When I began teaching at University of California at Berkeley, getting to know my mostly older colleagues was sometimes a challenge. In my late 20s, I was lost in the sea of 40,000 students from all over the world. One afternoon, desperate for advice, I went to the office of my colleague Steve Tollefson, and we had one of those long, rambling co…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…ader. What was the culture of the prison? At night, there was one guard for 800 prisoners. In the Rio prison system there’s no real government presence; state control in the prisons is just a façade. The prison gangs are the most powerful presence, but the church exerts a strong influence too. There were about 400 inmates in the gang camp inside the prison, and 40 to 50 in the church camp. The rest were neutral people who kept to themselves in the…

What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

…“giving people a chance to dream that there will be a great big beautiful tomorrow also for them.” Radon noted that believing in a better tomorrow is a powerful positive motivating and invigorating force. For him, it’s not coincidental, although very sad, that we see an uptick in xenophobic attacks during this period of severe economic downturn. By focusing only on each incident of mass violence by itself, and seeking one-word rationales for that…

How to Die in America: A Conversation with Ann Neumann

By Ellie Faustino

…n hope that it won’t rain tomorrow. I can also hope that the sun won’t set tomorrow. Neither will change what tomorrow is like; yet one hope is more probable than the other. Some kinds of hope—and doctors have long relied on this—seem to sustain patients. They hope to see their granddaughter get married or they hope to live until their birthday. But the larger false hope of defying mortality, of beating a terminal cancer, of witnessing a miracle,…

The Senate Deal: Still Stroking the Rich [UPDATED]

By Peter Laarman

…t connections. Here is the most pernicious feature of the deal on marginal rates, a feature that Sen. Tom Harkin, who voted “no,” rightly excoriated: for the sake of a quick deal, the White House allowed Republicans to lock us into the new rates, which will not produce enough revenue to avoid steep domestic spending cuts. It now will not be possible to recover the hundreds of billions that will be forever lost on account of the difference between…

In Which I Explain why Marathon Runners are Depraved and Should Just Have their Knees Fall Off Before I Give them One
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By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…. 8. Some Nazis used to do distance running. 9. Marathon runners use heart rate monitors. Heart rate monitors convey a false sense of hyperindividualist autonomy: the conceit, so characteristic of modernity, that allows someone to think s/he knows her/his own heart. Theologians and spiritual writers throughout the centuries have consistently said that we do not know our own hearts, that our very selves are opaque to us, fully known only by the God…