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Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…about pornography, it leaves maturing teens with flooding hormones and easily available pornography, a combination that can create a conflict between body image, gender-role expectations, and teens’ sense of self. Beyenberg hopes education and conversation will help in better understanding these issues. As for those national trends in keyword searches, one caveat is important to add. In part, keyword search rates reflect the language used when po…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…rtheless put the number at roughly 338,000. I am willing to work with this number until a better one comes along. Of this number, roughly 8,000 congregations claim upwards of 1,000 members; most are smaller, indeed most are much smaller. My concept is this: I think we can create a Christian Honor Corps (CHC) of perhaps 10,000 persons. Persons like myself who take our responsibility to monitor Christian extremist thought seriously and who are willi…

Insert Provocative Title Here: The New Media Landscape

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri

…ites exist only, in most cases, at the mercy of advertising revenues. So while the number of voices has increased, the number of well-funded reporters has decreased. It’s reassuring to think that as print news takes a hit, online media will be there to fill the gap, but the story isn’t quite that simple. Content is certainly being generated, but it’s proving no easy replacement for print. Many publications weren’t initially eager to embrace the on…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…oneness or the manyness of the universe. Just as it was for the Atomist philosophers in the 5th Century BCE, the multiverse is a way to sidestep theology: if there are an infinite number of universes that take on all possible parameters throughout eternity, then we don’t have to appeal to a god to explain the bounty or harmony of the world around us. Given an infinite number of universes, a few of them are bound to be life-friendly at some point,…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…lms and plays and being named one of Dramatics magazine’s “8 to Watch”. While still an undergrad he was hired as Creative Development Assistant to Thomas Schumacher, President of Disney on Broadway, where he worked on International productions of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, and The Little Mermaid, and re-wrote the book with David Henry Hwang for Tarzan. He then applied for a Fulbright to Egypt, which led him to a post as th…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…rong positions will react. The report will galvanize AUL’s constituency, while meanwhile Planned Parenthood supporters will respond with corrections and rebuttals. Some elected officials are counted in one of those groups, while others will watch to see if the report gains traction among their constituencies. Indeed, maybe for those reasons it hardly matters. But say you’re noncommittal, and yet for some reason you find yourself reading the 31-pag…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…rman parliament—if it can only be fascism once armbands are being worn—it will already be too late. Failed coups have the potential to galvanize those already indoctrinated. They have the potential to teach fascist movements strategically smarter, more foolproof ways to gain power. Look at German history—Hitler’s first coup failed miserably. All too often, fascists are a laughing stock—until they become powerful. Take the (latest) German coup atte…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…nd own themselves in public—since that’s where we are denied our presence. In that way, we become a mirror reflecting what is possible, and it gives us a sense of pride to move forward and rebuild communities and families. The Black Woman is God: Reprogramming That God Code will be on view at SOMArts (943 Brannan St., San Francisco) until August 17th….

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…rtion, he counters, is to diminish demand through sex education and the availability of contraceptives. The only way truly to bring about meaningful reform on this issue is to change the terms of the conversation and alter the moral climate. Besides, the only thing that both sides of what currently passes for debate over abortion agree on is that making abortion illegal will not have a significant effect on the number of abortions. The development…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…’s a kind of intimacy that’s of a different level than the grooming of a child. You groom a child with favors and candy and strokes and get their trust. With an adult, it’s different.” Adult victims could comprise up to 25% of all clergy abuse cases, estimates David Clohessy, National Director of SNAP, but often face considerable skepticism about their stories. “In the eyes of the law, victims like Birge are adults. But that doesn’t mean that emot…