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When Words Kill: A Health Care Glossary

…reason, those who select Death with Dignity tend to be white, upper-middle class, well-educated and well-informed; not the poor and disadvantaged who Republicans claim are at risk under these laws. The political right’s preferred term for aid in dying, “euthanasia,” has clearly contributed to the “death panel”/death camp rhetoric we’ve heard these past two weeks (and echoes Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann’s internment camp lies of a few months ag…

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New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense

…to membership status, trans folk in the church are to be treated as second-class members, in much the same way that Black people were treated until 1978. Trans people can get baptized and confirmed, but priesthood and temple ordinations remain tied to “birth sex.” Even attempts to socially or medically transition will now lead to other significant restrictions on membership. It’s important to note that in previous versions of the handbook such res…

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Atheists of Color Transcend Opposition to Religion and White Atheist Privilege in Working for Social Justice

…e re-energized secular activism. Yet Black secularists in poor and working class African American communities are especially disdainful of liberal white atheists who bemoan the Religious Right’s grip on the Trump White House and public policy, yet remain silent on the racist criminalization of communities of color or rising homelessness among Black and Latinx folk. Secular social justice is a way of defining and articulating these critical differe…

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2012 Film Heralds Progressive Utopia, No Effort Required

…vagueness is a well-worn and pragmatic combination. The former is good for business; the latter will stave off criticisms in 2013. While the movement’s means might seem a bit dubious to those who don’t otherwise rely on the Mayan calendar, its ends are noble. Pinchbeck and others imagine 2012 as an idyllic time of peace, environmental stewardship, and equality. The film asserts that whatever happens in 2012, it will allow things like rooftop farms…

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The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

…al ideas—the same stuff he tells those who visit his regular Sunday School class at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. For example, Carter told the Liberty graduates that “America has abandoned its leadership…as a champion of a clean and healthy environment,” an indirect reference to Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate agreement. He also reminded his audience that America has always had a difficult tim…

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What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

…ndustries; and even “class” (though how millennials were able to kill both class and not-exactly-classy chain restaurants like Applebee’s is anyone’s guess). The trend of bashing millennials shifted into high gear in 2013, when Time magazine published “The Me, Me, Me Generation,” prompting frustrated millennial cartoonist Matt Bors to publish an editorial cartoon response in which he eviscerated lazy stereotypes about his generation and insisted t…

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Bonnaroo Dispatches: Stages

…Catholic, she has been coming to Bonnaroo for years, where she also offers classes in body work and belly dance at an “academy” tent near the Solar Stage. Talking after her first yoga class of the festival, she mentions that Bonnaroo has played a key role in marking recent changes in her own personal life. She recalls, with some emotion, being asked to participate in an impromptu wedding conducted at the festival two years ago, an event that sugge…

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Obama Territory

…ty. For Rev. Miller, relevance means “meeting human needs” across lines of class and race. Miller looks younger than most of his flock. He preaches in the “prophetic” style but outside the service radiates concern and patience. In both guises, the man is eloquent. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he took his divinity degree at Yale, followed by time alongside acolytes of Obama’s incendiary former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Next February, Dr. Wright is s…

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They’re Not Coming Back: The Religiously Unaffiliated and the Post-Religious Era

…ch of anything. A group of white women chanting Hindu sutras in a hot yoga class is not spirituality: it’s an exercise class with a Sanskrit soundtrack. Spirituality, in that and too many other contexts to enumerate, is a marketing tool. And marketing-savvy younger adults are beginning to recognize and reject it. Hokey “young adult” ministries, clunky social media, static notions about gender, deeply skewed perceptions of sexuality, out-of-touch c…

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What Role do Feelings Play in Conspiracy, Racism and Climate Denial? Welcome to Phoning It In, Episode 1

…2 I’m claiming to have made up this game, but if you’ve ever showed up for class without having really done the reading—and I’ve taught long enough to know some of you must have—you’ve probably played it before. Here are the rules: I opened the book and looked at the introduction. Kind of. I definitely read the whole table of contents. I wrote down a few questions I could ask without actually engaging most of the text, because—and I cannot stress…

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