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Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…rier that for too long stood in the way of same-sex families being able to travel as a family to the United States.” Thinking Strategically At least two gatherings in the past week focused on the strategic promotion of LGBT equality abroad. On Friday, December 6, in Washington, D.C., the Center for Transatlantic Relations, which is part of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, hosted a presentation ca…

How We Got to Super: Grant Morrison’s Visionary Gnosticism

By Jeffrey J. Kripal

…e.” They could also move backward and forward in time, much as we can time-travel through a narrative by flipping the pages of the comic back and forth. He even recognized that things like telepathy and reincarnation would not be much of a mystery within this ecomystical vision, as they would be easily possible if everything everywhere were one giant meta-organism stretched across eons. For what in such a super-reality is not already in communicat…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…r Wal-Mart workers. For him it was an easy decision to get involved and to travel the country, organizing with the workers. Rural Southern churches have little structure for engaging with such fights even if individual pastors might be interested in doing so, Bobo added. But pastors like Jones, whose church has always been steeped in social and economic justice, represent a different strain of Christianity that Wal-Mart is having to contend with a…

Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ndition of joining a zone of countires that allows visa- and passport-free travel. Poroshenko’s government was dealt another blow when a member of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s own party denounced the bill in a passionate back-bench address. “As a country with a thousand-year-old Christian history, we simply cannot allow this,” lawmaker Pavlo Unguryan said. “Today, a special status for sexual minorities is simply unacceptable.” Scotland: Lesb…

What’s the Problem With a Good Placebo?

By William Grassie

…behaviors and attitudes, including many indicators of physical health, can travel indirectly through communities and social networks, though we don’t actually understand how this happens. These effects only work because of complex social and cultural interactions over the course of a lifetime. Popping pills, white coats, stethoscopes, and the examination room are all symbols in the liturgy of sickness and healing. They’re reinforced from childhood…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…about trying and failing to find yourself, about mental illness, about how travel restores and redefines us and, ultimately, what it is like when your life doesn’t turn out the way you thought it would, about what it’s like to fall to pieces, and whether you can ever put yourself back together again. The particulars of my journey are framed through Islam, yeah, but also through being the child of immigrants, growing up in New England, going to sch…

John Yoo and Jay Bybee Dodge Disciplinary Action but Recall Nuremberg

By Bruce Ledewitz

…o prosecution anywhere, at any time. And he must know that. He must either travel with care and assurances or remain at home in self-imposed restriction. Furthermore, even if he and others are never tried, they will remain subject to the court of history. In that regard, we all have a responsibility to ensure that the actions of the Bush administration not be allowed to pass into obscurity. We must be certain that the judgment of the future is inf…

Science Denial Can’t be Cured by Education

By Emma Frances Bloomfield

…different rationalization, does involve ‘conflict.’ Insofar as we do not ‘travel light,’ we thus assemble much intellectual baggage, and the attempt to reshape this to new exigencies may require considerable enterprise.” To replace the baggage collected over one’s entire life with new, contradictory exigencies nearly requires rejection. Introducing new information or repeating old information through education is rarely enough to shift rationaliz…

The Risk of Teaching Theology in a Public University: A Response

By Martin Kavka

…ere scratched, as if Berkeley had announced that it had figured out how to travel back in time to the 1940s. For it seemed that the nation’s most highly ranked public institution had announced an expansion of something that sounded dogmatic and even sectarian—“theology”—and a diminution of something truly public, the academic study of religion. Now, Jonathan Sheehan, the director of BCSR, has expanded in Religion Dispatches on what he sees as BCSR…

Can Religion Professors Save the Planet?

By Ivan Strenski

…ess of 9,000 attendees, require significant national and international air travel, nearly a week’s stay in hotels—not known for their commitment to a “green” environmental ethic—as well as increasingly cavernous convention centers, similarly unknown for their dedication to energy conservation, locavore provisioning or sustainability. More than that, we learn that Zoloth was responsible for pressing program chairs at this year’s annual meeting to f…