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RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…mpromising the integrity of an indigenous organization’s work? There are a number of organizations that are really good at channeling aid to women working at the grassroots. The Global Fund for Women, for example, does amazing work. On a more macro scale, people in developed countries often have access to levers of power that people on the ground don’t. Agnes Pareyio’s story is instructive. She’s an amazing Masai woman in Kenya who runs a shelter…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ng media, challenging the laws through legal cases. Nancy Nicol writes: “A number of themes can be identified throughout this body of work that speak to profound discrimination and violence: random violence in public places; police harassment, extortion, custodial rape; ‘corrective rape’ against lesbians ‘to make them straight’; exclusion and violence perpetuated by friends, family and community; Church fueled hate; state fueled hate; employment d…

Democratic Candidates Don’t Need to Get More Religious, They Just Need to Get Known

By Daniel Schultz

…e, won those who never attend worship with 36%. But without context, these numbers might be misleading. For one thing, as Jack Jenkins points out in yet another piece, the black churches aren’t the unilateral power center they used to be in their communities. Black Americans are growing more secular, like whites, albeit at a slower pace. For another, it seems to have been a last minute—and pragmatically secular—endorsement by Rep. James Clyburn th…

Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics

By Christopher Douglas

…faced the first African-American president—and then the first African- and Asian-American woman Vice President. They have seen the Supreme Court strip school-mandated Bible reading, prayer, and so-called “creation science” from public schools, even as evolution became standard fare. They have watched feminism challenge gender roles, and the Supreme Court legalize abortion and mixed-race marriage and then same-sex marriage. They feared losing their…

Ahmadinejad Aside, Anti-Racism Conference Was Deeply Flawed

By Austin Dacey

…en Kingsley, who for some reason is playing every Middle Eastern and South Asian character. Can Anyone Name a Single Victim of Racism who was Helped? In this counterfactual version, as with the actual draft of the conference “outcome document,” skillful negotiators have removed talk of restricting free speech to prohibit “defamation of religions,” [see Dacey’s March 30 “Religious Persecution Wolf in Anti-Defamation Sheep’s Clothing,” —ed.] as well…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…dle East, sometimes defined generously to include Berbers, Turks, or South Asians, as a kind of Islamic heartland, where the “real Islam” exists; those from outside the region are assumed to be more recently converted, and thus less authentically Muslim. This frame’s even used by those who consider it charitable: Indonesia’s Islam is often described as syncretic, which means moderate, implying that “real Islam” is 1) not to be found in Indonesia,…

Beck, Native Americans, and the Book of Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…dies showing that Native Americans have almost exclusive ancestral ties to Asian populations as a challenge to Book of Mormon historicity. Murphy faced a church disciplinary court, but several other LDS scholars have taken up the genetics issue, generating a new consensus moving away from a totalizing view of ancient Israelite Book of Mormon peoples as the primary ancestors of Native Americans. In 2006, Doubleday published a Church-authorized vers…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…who say people should just get in “line” for legal immigration? We have a number of undocumented students at Berkeley where I teach, and the criticism they often get is “you took somebody’s place and you should have just applied for legal immigration.” How do we talk to people who think that way? The simplest thing is there is no “line.” There is no line that works for people, and this is one of the big problems. The DREAM Act is not sufficient t…

Walk the Walk: Honoring Common Ground on Abortion

By Frances Kissling

…dialogue we began at Princeton. As part of that commitment, I consulted a number of pro-choice colleagues who attended the conference, and while I am solely responsible for it, I want to thank them and at their request, acknowledge their support for the ideas expressed—the organizations are mentioned only for identification purposes: Kelly Blanchard, Ibis Reproductive Health Donna Crane, NARAL Rebecca Cook, University of Toronto Kellie Conlin, Na…

How a Mormon Spring Break Ritual Came to Include a Whole Lot of “Hare Krishna, Hare Rama”

By Spencer Dew

…ey’re being exposed to elements of another (“Indian,” “Hindu,” “Eastern,” “Asian”) culture. The organizers are utterly explicit about their mission. Das told the crowd in 2015 that they were at the Festival to “glorify and honor the Supreme Being,” and, switching to a more American vernacular, declared that the Festival was “a revival!” For him, Krishna is the universal deity, the Godhead’s most accurate and accessible form. All the scriptures of…