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RD Response to Fox Crit of White Supremacy in Yoga Engages in Victim Blaming

By Rumya Putcha

…nput or voices of Gandhi and Wolff, the individuals whose ideas lie at the center of the controversy? A far more supportive move might have been to communicate those concerns directly to Gandhi and Wolff—or to the Praxis Center itself. Ultimately, Gandhi and Wolff’s piece did not deserve to be weaponized by Fox News, but Andrea Jain’s response on RD, framed by the politesse of “avoidance,” was just as inappropriate and unhelpful. It detracts from…

We All Speak of “Conscience”—But Are We Talking About the Same Thing?

By Mary E. Hunt

…w. It is a bit of a parlor trick to expound on conscience, left, right, or center, without acknowledging that the concept is amorphous at best. It’s hard to think of another dimension of human life for which there are philosophical, neurological, and theological explanations, as well as speculations from evolutionary biology and moral reasoning, all of which describe the elephant by its tail and trunk but never really name the animal. Remarkably,…

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

By Susan Henking

…are facts we should all know. To quote the Department of Health and Human Services Web site: In 2005, women represented 26 percent of new AIDS diagnoses, compared to only 11 percent of new AIDS cases reported in 1990. Most women are infected with HIV through heterosexual contact and injection drug use. Women of color are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. AIDS is now the leading cause of death for black women ages 25 to 34. As a Center for…

Beware of Yoga, Taking the Jesus Out of AA, Atheist Billboard Wars—The Sequel

By Michael J. Altman

…. However, a lawsuit has been filed against the construction of an Islamic center in Murfreesborough, Tennessee. The original version of the Big Book, the guide for Alcoholics Anonymous, reveals how co-founder Bill Wilson and early editors shifted the language of the book from Christian language to more ambiguously spiritual terms. Apparently, it wasn’t Moses who parted the Red Sea. It was just windy. A school superintendent in Wellesley, Massach…

Media Hit Hard On Trump’s White Supremacist Appointee, But Which “Media”?

By Carmen Celestini

…o their faith. Organizations such as CNSNews, a division of Media Research Center, “Seeks to bring you the news the leftist media won’t cover.” They have an audience of over 100,000. Brent Bozell, Founder and President of Media Research Center, released a statement on the election and mainstream press: This was a massive repudiation of the press. Our message –‘Don’t Believe the Liberal Media’ succeeded, and in the next few days we will be unveilin…

Thoughts from the “Bad Hombre” Debate

By Candace E. West

…rsements from white supremacists, and infiltration by Russian hackers take center stage, it’s no wonder that the most common comments I hear are variations on the same theme: are we there yet? And with less than three weeks to go until election day, the end is in sight. But the antics of the Republican nominee have been more of the center ring variety—and the circus isn’t over quite yet. The debates feel like they should be important, but it’s har…

Transforming Sports Culture: Sochi and the NFL

By Darnell Moore

…tiqued Russia’s anti-gay laws. Beyond the local and transnational advocacy centered on recognizing and undoing the anti-gay legislation in Russia, some cultural workers are also trying to help uncover the stories of everyday life—material realities, real-time experiences of discrimination, the role of institutions in the lives of LGBTQI people—that are often invisible. For example, Milene Larsson, writer and host of the recent Young and Gay in Put…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…al well when we were up there at the Kennedy Center (Haggard was a Kennedy Center honoree in 2010), and I am not going to badmouth him. I think he has the next four years wrapped up. He has done some good. He got Osama bin Laden. That is a real big plus. Now on the home front, it is kind of fiddling while Rome burns. We are in trouble economically. I don’t think we can blame it all on one black man. I think we spent 50 years getting ourselves in t…

Many Religious Leaders Oppose Religious Exemption in Anti-Discrimination Order

By Sarah Posner

…to end federally-funded workplace discrimination based on religion. But a center-right group of religious activists have long used the hiring issue to pressure Obama, hinting that he would lose their support if he didn’t maintain an exemption, and claiming that they could not continue their federally-funded faith-based charitable work without being allowed to engage in what they call “co-religionist” hiring. As recounted by Tony Campolo, a pro-Ob…

Evangelical PR Blitz Before Midterms Won’t Fix the ‘81% Problem’

By Chrissy Stroop

…f a study in Christianity Today that uses data from Wheaton’s Billy Graham Center Institute (of which Stetzer is executive director) and Lifeway Research (a branch of a Southern Baptist publishing and retail juggernaut). Their analysis focuses on evangelicals’ self-described motives for voting for Trump, as if people don’t lie about their motivations in surveys such as this, and ignoring the possibility that voting for and continuing to support a…