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Grab ‘n Go – Investigative Thriller Follows Covert Efforts to Control the Source of Life But Comes Up Short on Analysis

By Peter Laarman

…o wind down that its core weaknesses are revealed (sorry, for the pun: the Center for Investigative Reporting also produces “Reveal,” an excellent public radio show and companion podcast). Viewers aren’t given a clear enough sense of the extent to which we should be worried about foreign interests capturing scarce US resources, as against domestic greedheads doing their thing and the “normal” workings of capitalism. The film calls our attention to…

‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…Bush speechwriter and fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, noted at the National Review: I fully realize that Robertson long ago ceased being a serious figure in the eyes of many people. Still, he remains a person of some influence, an individual who ran for president, whose words still garner attention, and whose views reflect a strand of thought within Christendom. Of course, conservatives see the PR disaster in not dista…

Sterilization Denial for Woman with Brain Tumor Highlights Religious Liberty Conflict

By Patricia Miller

…and free up willing physicians employed at religious hospitals to provide services.” Efforts to use state anti-discrimination laws have seen some preliminary sucess. Mercy Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Northern California, recently relented and allowed a woman to have a tubal when the ACLU threatened to sue for sex discrimination under state law. For now, the ACLU of Michigan has sent a letter to Genesys invoking state law that prohibits…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…asilla Assembly of God Church. She frequently attends the Juneau Christian Center, which is also a part of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God. Her home church is the Church of the Rock, an independent congregation. “Historically, the Assemblies of God have been dispensationalists, which means they believe in ‘the rapture’ of Christians that takes them out of the world,” said Mr. Matthews. “Central to that position is a very strong support for Israe…

LDS Church Brings Religious Pressure to Zoning Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…express concern about the building of a new nine-story Missionary Training Center that would significantly alter this residential and heavily LDS neighborhood in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. But then, local residents received messages that high-ranking LDS Church officials wanted them to drop their opposition. As reported in the Herald, the head of the campaign said, “I received an invitation from a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day…

Richard Land Steps Down, But Not Out of the Culture Wars

By Aaron Weaver

…2010, Land was quick to voice his opposition to plans to build an Islamic center six blocks from Ground Zero in New York City. Unlike many opponents, Land actually offered a legal argument against the proposal citing the Supreme Court’s City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) ruling. Yet, back in 1998, Land called the Boerne ruling “one of the worst decisions rendered by the Supreme Court in its long history.” When not trying to restrict the…

Teen Births Rise; Can Faith-Based Leaders Help?

By Frances Kissling

This week, the National Center for Health Statistics announced that after a 14-year steady decline in teen birth rates, the US has experienced a sharp rise in the birth rate among 15- to 19-year-olds. From 1991 to 2005, the rate plummeted 34%; between 2005 and 2006 it rose 3%. The increase was greatest among black teens. Their birth rate rose 5%. Of course advocates and experts on both sides of the sexual and reproductive rights divide claimed th…

Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform

By Xarissa Holdaway

…here’s some evidence that even thinking about revenge activates the reward centers of our brains, which makes the admonition “an eye for an eye” in Hammurabi’s code sound less like savagery and more like a way to keep everybody in check. To punish more than the guilt deserves has been a legal problem, apparently, since at least 1792 B.C.E or so. The distinction between justice and vengeance matters, because vengeance costs an enormous amount to ta…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ofile of lesbian Muslim hip-hop artist Nick Street, senior writer at USC’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture, profiles Jaheda Choudhury-Potter, “a self-described ‘geeky dark-skinned lesbian Muslim’ who fronts a queer hip-hop band in the UK.” In the media coverage that has followed the Pulse nightclub shootings, many news consumers are seeing queer Muslims for the first time. That invisibility is largely a consequence of the risks that coming o…

White Supremacy and Orthodox Christianity: A Dangerous Connection Rears Its Head in Charlottesville

By Katherine Kelaidis

…nd Orthodoxy I was overreacting. But last week, there was Heimbach, at the center of those organizing the “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville—and marching, as Inga Leonova writes at Fordham’s Public Orthodoxy, while “waving ‘Orthodoxy or Death’ banners.” The events of the past week make it shockingly clear that with reference to the growing threat of white nationalist groups, overreacting may not be the problem. I feel this especially becau…