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Women, Girls, and HIV/AIDS: Does Awareness Help?

By Susan Henking

…at award ceremonies and on their cars as they move through their day. They buy them, they make them, they imagine them. They want people to “get educated” and attribute many of the world’s problems to ignorance. Of course, they are right. Education/knowledge is critically important. And yet, I find myself asking: what are you going to do with that awareness? Is awareness enough? Is there more to all this than awareness? I am one of “them” and I wa…

The Problem with the Discussion of Race and the Tea Party Movement

By Julie Ingersoll

…ional interpretation and their nostalgia for “states’ rights.” Even if you buy revisionist Christian American history which argues that the founders detested slavery and sought to facilitate the end of the institution, there can be no argument over the fact that they did not “intend” African Americans (or women) to have the right to vote. George Lakoff has done some great work on this linguistic divide, especially as it relates to “family metaphor…

The Leadership Failure of Park51

By Hussein Rashid

…d especially its Muslims, are not entirely comfortable. Leadership at this point means finding a way out of this morass that does not cost us any more. I think the idea is good, but there is no vision. Show us that vision and get us all to buy into it. Right now a lot of people are fighting the fight against the vitriol this project has unleashed. Fighting against Islamophobia, fighting for the Constitution, is not the same as fighting for Park51….

Ugandan Landslide a Message from God?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…xciting to bring God into the picture—and flog ourselves for some slight against the Deity. When will religious leaders ditch this idea of God “sending” disasters to people? When will followers of these religious people buy a clue and understand that natural disasters are a result of random weather patterns, and geography? God is not in the whirlwind, after all—but in the still, small voice—and that voice is always one of reason….

“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

By Welton Gaddy

…en to what you’re told, or to follow the lead and do what others do, or to buy in to some of the rhetoric that organizations like the National Organization for Marriage spew out every day—that is indicative of a person who hasn’t made up their own mind, who hasn’t examined the issue independently and come to an independent conclusion. Because I’m of the belief that if you do look at this particular issue, with an open mind, and you examine it inde…

Céad Mile Fáilte: Open Hearts, Shifting Power Paradigms, and the Irish Same-Sex Referendum

By Gareth Higgins

…in ourselves, a voice for the voiceless, and a healer herself. So I don’t buy the notion that the recent same-sex marriage referendum, won with 62 percent of the electorate affirming the right of any two adults to form such a partnership, signals that only now have the Irish people suddenly become open-minded and progressive. Many Irish people always had open hearts. What has changed is that the public power structures have shifted. Over the last…

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

…slims, rather than replace more conservative Muslim communities. “I do not buy into the myth that all non-queer Muslims are homophobic,” said Mohamed of Queer Muslims of Boston. But these and other organizations, such as Noor in Seattle and El-Tawhid Juma Circle in Toronto, are filling a long-ambiguous space within Muslim communities. As Shahar said, “I’m over people within the LGBTQ Muslim movement telling me the movement is young and therefore w…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…l campaign. “It is a larger advertisement than what his money can actually buy in terms of advertising.” Talen points a finger at the city’s development policies under Bloomberg, arguing that its support for big business and gentrification is ruining New York’s real treasures, its neighborhoods. These policies are not inevitable good sense, Talen insists, but intrusions of corporate power. People’s willingness to accept the status quo is a failure…

The ‘Messy’ God of Science

By Mark Vernon

…rd Manly Hopkins. Quite, she agreed. Her audience of theologian-scientists listened nervously, perhaps as Keble College does to the physics labs. Some were worried that she might be taken to be advocating Intelligent Design. And Polkinghorne himself didn’t buy it. What about the conservation laws of physics, he asked—of energy, momentum and charge. They’re clearly universal. And they point to the unity of truth, and beauty of cosmic order, that le…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…is both Lutheran- and Episcopal-based. The church was able to essentially buy the building through the Lutheran side. It’s a young, creative church, with lots of artists and musicians involved. The founding pastors there wanted the building to be used by the community. They knew that they wouldn’t really have a lot of use for it, besides Sundays anyways. So they helped create that nonprofit and establish the basic mission, and then I got involved…