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Scolding Those Who Choose Pets But No Children Pope Misses the Rainforest for the Trees

By Sarah A. Bowen

…arth can regenerate. Nor does Pope Francis consider the cost of raising a child, which may not be realistic for some couples just trying to get by. The average cost of raising a child in the U.S. through age 17 is estimated at over $200,000. This is well out of reach of many couples. So are the resources or funds to go through the complex adoption process. Further, many couples are rejected when trying to adopt. The Pope’s suggestion that if a cou…

Suicide Leads to Calls for Improved Treatment of LGBT Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ve of Mormon doctrine, his excommunication severed Bryan’s relationship to his children not only in this life, but also in the hereafter. Alone in his home in North Carolina, Bryan was devastated. His parents flew out to be with him, then brought him back to Arizona for intensive treatment for depression. After a few weeks of therapy, Bryan convinced his parents and his therapist that he was stable enough to return home to North Carolina, so he co…

Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

…tions investigator becomes the key to global salvation. The disruption of this white middle class family’s life appears alongside global collapse, and I am unsure which the film wants us to care about more. Zekes are clearly a dangerous threat, and the film plays on existing fears of global pandemics, terrorism, and the breakdown of governments and infrastructure. World War Z does not attempt to humanize the monsters, nor does it register concern…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…s industry it’s really important for the people doing this, especially teaching this, to have the intention of doing both: helping the business be successful and doing good for the world. If you only have one, then you lose something. The mindfulness course is not about making worker bees who are more compliant. The courses are producing better human beings who also happen to be more productive. Is there a danger in putting the onus on the employe…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…hough the Arab American National Museum will continue to tour it, next to Philadelphia, it’s hard to imagine it being as evocative anywhere else. When it moves on, the Friends of the Lower West Side and Save Washington Street will keep working for recognition, asking the Landmark Commission to reevaluate their rejection of the community center and tenement, and getting Community Board 1 to put up signs commemorating the contributions of Little Syr…

Departure of the Queen

By Amina Wadud

…ght. I will need to look for him where I last saw him, and when I last saw him: on this road toward the mosque, in the evening around tarawih time. I have my flashlight handy because once I past the community kitchen, the darkness is overwhelming. But I only need it for a short while. After that I am surrounded by holiday lights in multiple colors and configurations. They celebrate this month with these decorations and it makes the last part of my…

Mitt, the Marriotts, and Porn

By Joanna Brooks

…d. After all, it’s pretty common knowledge that porn was the major driver of internet technological and capacity innovation before the advent of the smart phone. And if we want to start a serious conversation about where presidential candidates get their money and how ethical that money is, let’s do it. I have a laundry list of labor, environmental, feminist, and human rights issues with multinational corporations I’d love to start working thr…

A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…where President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot in 1963, removing her clothing while singing in front unsuspecting onlookers of various ages and simulating “assassination” once completely naked. While Matt and Kim won MTV’s coveted “Breakthrough Video” award for creativity and direction, Badu has become somewhat of a despised prophet. Meaning, as predicted in her video, her subjectivity has been “assassinated” by public rage. Many news outlets ha…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…s-oriented things” like staged arrests, “where they’ve pre-negotiated the thing, which is not to me civil disobedience.” At the same time, national religious political organizations “paternalistically” decide what the “important” issues are. Nonprofits providing social services—feeding or housing the homeless, helping unemployed with job hunting—are overwhelmed, with staffers working 50- to 60-hour weeks. His own participation “is not about me, I’…

Why is Liberty Institute Still Defending Phillip Monk?

By Rob Shryock

…er moved him early because she didn’t like him. Obviously, not a good or ethical thing, but it’s a pretty lame form of retribution. If it was true, it would be less indicative of a military dedicated to persecuting Christians and more of a commander who abused their power and generally acted like a jackass. Which brings me to a question: why is The Liberty Institute so interested in defending Monk’s case? It’s weak, difficult to understand, and e…