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Reports of the Death of the Episcopal Church are Greatly Exaggerated

By Becky Garrison

…uch as the GAFCON (the Global Anglican Future Conference), arranged in Jerusalem by these breakaway bishops, demonstrated a clear Anglican gaffe that was largely ignored by media reports. For instance, the Jerusalem Post reported that it was “a meeting for ‘orthodox’ Anglicans to be getting on with things, doing the work of the church.” Such analysis is refuted by Dr. Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, who observed, “The rationale of GAFCON is: ‘The Co…

How Herbalife’s Gospel of Health and Wealth Fuels a Billion-Dollar Deception

By Michael Schulson

…osis to its customers—and it sells the prospect of financial ascent to its salesforce. Of the two groups, the Members (who are also encouraged to use the products) might be the more important. After all, they’re the ones who actually write Herbalife’s checks. Fundamentally, the company sells people the possibility of making a sale. This pitch lends itself to a distinctively American gospel of rebirth, which is what Herbalife founder Mark Hughes se…

Purpose-Driven Empire

By Bill Berkowitz

…a land of religious liberty and justice for all.” ++++++++++ Churches for Sale The usually optimistic J. Lee Grady has some bad news about the current state of charismatic ministries. In his November 19 “Fire In My Bones” column, Grady, the editor of Charisma magazine, wrote: “In the last two weeks, three charismatic churches that once enjoyed huge popularity have fallen on hard times.” Without Walls International Church, a Tampa, Florida-based c…

It’s Only a Game: How Not to Think about Video Game Violence

By Joanna Brooks

…, which in recent years has in the name of freedom of speech legalized the sale of animal torture videos and struck down limits on corporate political spending on the grounds that corporations have free speech rights too. But in his dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer asked, “What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting the sale to that 13-year-old of an interactiv…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…Pleiades, or Wincinchala Sakowi (the Seven Little Girls). The area up for sale this coming Saturday, August 25 is in the shadow of a mountain the Wasicu (white people or, literally: ‘takers of the fat’) call Old Baldy, which figures into Lakota mythology and has been sacred to the Lakota since the Before Time. Pe’sla is part of a complex of sacred sites which include Devil’s Tower in Wyoming and various other sites in the Black Hills, all of whic…

Will Gender and Sexuality Rend The Anglican Communion?

By Becky Garrison

…ery five hundred years, the church feels compelled to have a giant rummage sale. During the last such upheaval the Great Reformation of five hundred years ago, Protestantism took over hegemony. But Roman Catholicism did not die. It just had to drop back and reconfigure. Each time a rummage sale has happened, in other words, whatever held pride of place simply gets broken apart into smaller pieces, and then it picks itself up and to use Diana Butle…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…mber of flashbacks from when I was a young boy). In addition, there were a number of things I didn’t get the chance to explore for a very practical reason: I had a deadline. Working in publishing I’m very conscious about how important deadlines are. Writers need to make those deadlines and because I worked in the industry I wanted to be respectful about that. There were a number of frightening episodes that my wife experienced that I didn’t have t…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…h buildings, starting right around the same time. Talk about luxury on the cheap; it’s hard to deny a feeling of similarity. (The tower is to the Burj as a certain toupee is to hair: might the Trump Tower inadvertently mimic an Islamic motif?) The regal twin palm trees in the foreground are the world’s tallest, at some 3,500 feet each. Recently a falling coconut crushed an entire apartment complex, punching a massive hole that has filled up with…

Burying the Future: Youth Violence in Chicago

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…Walcott Avenue to be exact). It’s become a statistic to keep track of: the number of school-age children who are murdered, sometimes on school grounds, during a school year, which means the academic year is properly hyphenated. The punctuation gives bone to the unholy facts, but it also creates another set of suburban record-keeping to conjure with. In other words, it makes the reality more abstract, a bit easier to study as citizens. I teach in D…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t publicly opposed marriage equality and declared she would boycott Qantas airline “where possible” to protest the company’s support for marriage equality. She also told a Christian radio station that “tennis is full of lesbians.” Navratilova has said that while Court was “an amazing tennis player,” she is also “a racist and a homophobe.” Court charged that money from America was behind the “conspiracy” against her. Myanmar: Prejudice and a bit of…