Search for "CNN International cleantalkorg2.ru Headlines Videos Stories and Videos on News breaking newstoday bbc news news word BBC News World"

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…rgy: so that the liturgy may not be something alongside the reality of the world, but that the world itself shall become a living host, a liturgy. This is also the great vision of Teilhard de Chardin: in the end we shall achieve a true cosmic liturgy, where the cosmos becomes a living host. This Eucharistic revitalization of Teilhard de Chardin has continued with Pope Francis. In Laudato Sí he incorporated Teilhard’s vision into his own integral e…

It’s Not Just Evangelicals Who Should Worry About World Vision

By Sarah Posner

…he Trinity. The Supreme Court let stand the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that World Vision was a religious institution entitled to the same exemption as a church. Federal programs, though, can require compliance with Title VII by organizations receiving federal funding. Although civil rights advocates were critical of the pre-Bush Charitable Choice program because it contained insufficient safeguards against employment discrimination by f…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…And this meme of the West as other than what it says it is becomes deeply frustrating to a Muslim world that often feels its grievances are not heard, both internationally—Muslim nations punch far below their weight—and even domestically, as local governments are rarely responsive, let alone relevant. All of this means that when a solitary American pastor threatens to burn a Qur’an, he is no longer Terry Jones—his hatred of Islam is civilizational…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…rgy: so that the liturgy may not be something alongside the reality of the world, but that the world itself shall become a living host, a liturgy. This is also the great vision of Teilhard de Chardin: in the end we shall achieve a true cosmic liturgy, where the cosmos becomes a living host. This Eucharistic revitalization of Teilhard de Chardin has continued with Pope Francis. In Laudato Sí he incorporated Teilhard’s vision into his own integral e…

What Get Religion Doesn’t Get About “Monk” Class

By Anthea Butler

…ect readers to the actual course. Perhaps Matheson could have used another word, but that’s how she decided to construct her lede. Leaving aside the monk argument for a minute, discipline and practices are a large part of studies in religion. In our department at Penn, it happens to be an interest of several of our professors, including myself. Prof. McDaniel also taught this course at his previous institution, so he had a good sense about what ha…

Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency

By Andrew Aghapour

…their parishioners, who were largely ignorant of what other people in the world believed, and also keep secrets about their own inner workings and their own histories, so that it was easy to have a sort of controlled message that went out to people. Those days are over. You can go on the Internet and access to all kinds of information. This is going to change everything. Which do you think will be more likely: a shift from religiosity to atheism,…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ction from harassment and abuse against women and LGBTI people in the real world exists in the online world too.” Colombia: Court gives final approval to marriage equality The Constitutional Court gave final approval to legal marriage equality on Thursday, April 28, after waiting for nearly five years for Congress to act on a 2011 ruling that said couples had the right to ask judges and notaries to solemnize their relationships. From Human Rights…

Ross Douthat on the Brink

By Haroon Moghul

…erly deportation process,” he writes, “for able-bodied young men.” The key word here is “orderly.” That kind word functions to veil the violence, ugliness and nastiness of what he proposes, which is that rounding up tens of thousands of people and ejecting them—to where?—is possible. Preferable. Even defensible. This is, mind you, what Donald Trump proposes to do in America to huge numbers of people, including, apparently, American citizens. Remem…

ABC’s Good Christian Bitches Makes Feminists of Religious Right

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ton from the Women’s Media Center (love them, seriously) was quoted by Fox News as saying that “bitch” is an inappropriate word with which to describe any woman ever. I respectfully disagree, but that’s beside the point, which is: look, this is a well-established conversation and controversy in feminist circles. So maybe those of you who are coming in late could borrow the notes from someone else in the class, and maybe the rest of us could take…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…gainst the law quickly reached the country’s highest court, where it was struck down. If Trump cozies up to Putin, Byarugaba wonders, “Can the US be trusted to protect our rights?” “This is horrible,” said Olena Schevchenko, a Ukrainian LGBT activist who was also a leader of the “Euromaidan” protest movement that ousted the country’s former president when he moved toward closer ties with Russia. “The United States was a great example for us… Now w…