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“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…nows what the consequences of that are. The degree to which anti-Islamic discourse is now a central part of national political discourse is astonishingly worrisome. I think it’s actually to the vast credit of this country, that despite having now endured almost two decades of continuous armed conflict with Islamist states and groups, there’s been so little violence against Muslims in this country. But when you weaponize words in this way, and you…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

… By contrast, the Kansas Department of Health licensing survey for other ASCs contains no mention of room temperature. Nor does the Risk Management Survey Report for ASCs. The Kansas regulations for freestanding childbirth centers do specify room temperature, but stipulate only that the entire facility must stay between 68 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit. (Licensed birth centers are intended for low-risk laboring women. They offer only three minor sur…

UNESCO on Religion, Culture and SOGI in Asia; Orthodox Family Sues to Stop Cremation of Israeli Trans Woman; Struggles of Iraqi Queer Activists; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

Asia: UNESCO on religion, culture and anti-LGBT bullying and violence UNESCO released a report on school bullying, violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the Asia-Pacific region. From the report’s section on religious and cultural context, with citations removed: In many cultures in the region the concepts of social order, family honour, and sexual purity provide a longstanding foundation for what is consid…

From A Belize Jungle, A Look At Creationist “Outreach” in Vancouver

By Lauri Lebo

…atures Disney World-like robot dinosaurs, a replica of Noah’s Ark built to scale and plenty of scripture, but is actually quite short on scientific claims to back up its assertions beyond “God did it because the Bible told me so.” For the past year, AiG has been soliciting volunteers to pay their own way to Vancouver, so they can serve as missionaries, accosting athletes and tourists, handing out anti-evolution pamphlets and telling them that dino…

Looking For Answers at the Oscars: A Guide to This Year’s Contenders

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ing the film in the New York Times, Manohla Dargis tells us, “instead of discovering his authentic self, Mark builds a database, turning his life—and ours—into zeroes and ones, which is what makes it also a story about the human soul.” The private world becomes public in the new technological rituals of logging in and connecting. In the good old days humans formed friendships face to face, and sometimes communication technologies facilitated that…

James Foley Prayed, But He Was Not a Martyr

By Alana Massey

…d intentions, it was somewhat off-putting when Frank Weathers at Patheos described Foley as a Christian martyr in his death. Not only because he was killed explicitly for his nationality and not for his religion, but also because the prospect of the hellscape that is the battleground on which ISIS fights becoming a destination for competitive martyrdom can do no one any good. In the absence of any evidence, we cannot know whether James Foley maint…

Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…a nonprofit that creates unconventional Jewish programming, including an iPhone app designed to help people disconnect and unwind on Friday afternoons. The organization has a simple, ten-principle Sabbath Manifesto that’s “designed to slow down lives in an increasingly hectic world” by giving people a “provisional guide to observing a weekly day of rest.” (Manifesto principles include “Avoid technology,” “Get outside,” and “Drink wine.”) Reboot a…

Gay Marriage Bill Totalitarian Says Head Bishop

By Peter Montgomery

…anization for Marriage (NOM) urgently called on its supporters to get more phone calls into Senate offices. NOM is urging Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to use his power to keep marriage from coming to the floor for a vote. Meanwhile, Archbishop Timothy Dolan is getting increasingly shrill in his efforts to stop the shift toward equality. This week, on his official blog, he wrote: “Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in N…

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…rprise that mental illness runs in Jim’s family, or that Gabby Gifford’s Tuscon shooter Jared Lee Loughner is a diagnosed schizophrenic, or that Aurora shooter James Holmes had seen three psychological professionals just prior to buying four firearms and 6,350 rounds of ammunition, or the Columbine killer Eric Harris is said to be sociopath, or that Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook shooter, is described as having been “the challenge of [his] family.” Dr…

Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters

By Nathan Schneider

…l consciousness in the recent Star Trek. Our society, and consequently our science fiction, has gotten so uncomfortable with self-discipline that Data needs an emotion chip and Spock needs to go in for Primal Scream therapy. Meanwhile, politics goes off the map. What were once complex enemy societies that might someday become allies have turned into Saddam Hussein-style villains. Setting our emotions free, somehow, means the freedom to see our ene…