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The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…t the police station where they forced him to strip naked and interrogated him. His wife received harassing phone calls. Kaggwa appears to be the target of intimidation. Kaggwa is also the executive director of the Support Initiative For People With Atypical Sex Development, a group that advocates for the rights of intersex people in Uganda. Kaggwa was born intersex, and raised as a girl. He “became very Christian, turned to God a lot to see if th…

Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice

By Peter Laarman

…y real attention to her. During the past year I have also had an unusually high number of encounters with different physicians attached to my health maintenance organization in Los Angeles. These combined experiences prompt me to consider what ails the practice of medicine these days. And if I may be allowed to state my diagnosis right up front: the problem is time. Doctors aren’t spending nearly enough time listening to and getting to know their…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…iginal fasters are Sister Simone Campbell, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez (National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference), and other national faith leaders. With some original fasters now growing too weak to continue to fast in public, organizers are calling for supporters of immigration reform nationwide to fast in solidarity. As evangelical Latino leader Gabriel Salguero explained, fasting is an “ancient discipline” that “seeks to move the conscience…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…urity issues all too well. It’s what they are counting on to beat Obama. But having made those issues central for the primaries, they won’t be able to push them into the wings in the general election. Do they really think Hillary can outbid McCain in the contest for evoking feelings of safety and security? If so, they are playing a very dangerous game. And if they lose, it’s not just their skins that hang in the balance….

Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…this country. Alexey Ledyaev was in the news two years ago when members of his church in California murdered Satender Singh, a 26-year-old Fijian of Indian descent. At the time, Lively called the murder “unfortunate,” and Watchmen on the Walls released a statement that refused to apologize for the murder. The statement insisted that the group is a “world association of men and women of all races, colors, and nationalities who believe in the superi…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…ory going back at least to the New Deal. The idea that faith can dislodge this kind of white supremacy and privilege on an electoral level is nothing more than wishful thinking. These people have faith, but it fuels a politics of resentment that isn’t susceptible to change. Perhaps Democrats will get “lucky” and Republicans will find a way to pass the AHCA despite their best efforts to shoot themselves in the foot. In that case, 17,000 people die…

Joyless Primaries Grind On

By Joanna Brooks

…orthodox Mormon friend about his strained relationship with his sixty-something, highly observant LDS father. My friend described a brief, tension-laden phone call between father and son, wedged into a few free minutes after a church meeting. “Now, I’m going to serve my family,” said the father, bringing the call to a close. “Because that’s what I do.” And Mitt Romney is going to serve his country. Because that’s what he does. Like it or not. That…

Pro-Choice, Progressive Jewish Groups Weigh In On Kagan

By Sarah Posner

…that supported the right ofprivacy, specifically reproductive rights, and this nominee is consistent with that commitment of his and her statements when she was before the Senate on the Solicitor General confirmation. So we feel comfortable about her commitment to reproductive rights, to Roe v. Wade, and to stare decisis, and we feel confident about President Obama’s commitment to find a justice that would protect those rights.” (Adding to the pro…

Madoff, Through a Glass, Darkly

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he wealth to resist, or just too dumb to discern? What is strangest about this third installment in Vanity Fair’s Madoff series is how flat it falls in the end. Did Bernie Madoff’s two sons, Mark (aged 45) and Andrew (43), know about the Ponzi scheme that bankrupted some 80,000 investors? If they did not, then which of the above hypotheses best explains their amazing lack of discernment. There is no answer provided in the article, and indeed, ther…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…it spoke with Miller, The Daily Beast published a review of The Spiritual Child highlighting errors and shaky interpretations. As reviewer Vlad Chituc (who, in full disclosure, is a friend) points out, Miller misrepresents key details of a study by the psychologist Paul Bloom. She also cites a pair of studies from The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine—one involving psychic communication, and the other discussing energy fields—neith…