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Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…threat’ to Polish identity.” Russia: Orthodox TV channel offers to buy one-way tickets to help gay people leave country Tsargrad TV, a channel affiliated with right-wing Russian Orthodox activists and modeled after Fox News, offered to pay for a one-way ticket overseas for gay people who want to emigrate. The channel was funded by Konstantin Maofeev, a billionaire known as “God’s oligarch” who dreams of Vladimir Putin becoming a Tsar. More from th…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…s indeed the brother of uber-Democrat (and former Clinton chief of staff) John Podesta. Is it any wonder that disenchanted voters mutter, “They’re all alike”? It’s Independence Day. Let us soberly consider the state of our democracy to observe that what remains is but a hollow shell. We retain the marble façade of formal democracy, but these well-fed people in no way represent us. They represent the fixers and the string pullers. The ancient Hebre…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…dents through civil disobedience and education. The network has expanded since its inception, with Tyler and T-Dubb-O becoming connected to Palestinian, Mexican, and Brazilian activist groups. Tyler and T-Dubb-O took us through the blighted suburbs of St. Louis that are slowly being eaten away by urban decay and overrun with dilapidated buildings and empty lots. When we reached the small community of Ferguson, I was taken by how normal and everyda…

The Threat to Democracy Runs Deep, But Mathematics Could Address the Abominable State of Representation and Voting

By Ismar Volić

…an uncle who’d already lived there for several years. The timing was a coincidence; my family had been planning this trip for a while. But midway through my visit, seeing that a fate similar to Croatia’s was not unfathomable in Bosnia, my mother suggested that I try to stay in Boston—maybe turn this visit into the fun and valuable experience of spending my senior year in an American high school, wait things out a little. I hated the idea. All I w…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…design is full of holes. She tells us to go into the churches and get the unconvinced Christians out, and I’m almost ready to follow her anywhere. She says that we need to go after kids who are already skeptics. We can be good role models—an honorable person who does not go to church. “When someone says, ‘Thank God,’ I always correct them, ‘No, thank me. I’m the one who did it,’” she says with her hands on her hips. According to Bey, being an oute…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…their 70s and 80s. And somehow we got on the topic of the Grateful Dead. “Oh oh oh oh!” Steve said, in the way he always did, “don’t you love the song ‘Ripple?’” Maybe I cringed, but he insisted we listen to it right then, so we did. Eventually, through years of conversations, we made it, song by song, through the entire American Beauty album. Steve passed away in June of this year. That was 15 years after our “Ripple” conversation, and today, th…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…was caught after the murder, fleeing halfway across the state, he had the phone number of an Operation Rescue leader on his dashboard—the tip of the iceberg in terms of the broader connections he’d built with anti-abortion extremists. The church, Roeder would later testify, emerged as the only place he could find a shot at Tiller, around the elaborate security measures the doctor had learned to follow at his clinic and home. “Justifiable homicide…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…s too orthodox? At what point does the pursuit of moral structure go from coherence to exclusionary for its own sake? In fact, Simon didn’t ask a lot of questions. None of the points I’ve outlined here are obscure—religion journalists here and elsewhere have been covering these trends for some time. Nor are they particularly controversial. In fact, aside from a few nuances, what I’ve reported is essentially the consensus of American demographers o…

‘Back Door’ Voucher Plan Diverts Tax Dollars to Religious Schools

By Lauri Lebo

…ing private school subsidy has been found sorely wanting. The Florida Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program has poured nearly $500 million in tax revenue into private schools since 2002, yet only limited oversight mechanisms have been put in place to ensure that students are learning, reported the Jacksonville Times-Union. Under the program, companies can choose to divert up to 75 percent of the corporate income tax they owe into non-pro…

A Real-Life Truman Show?

By Lauri Lebo

…from a cave would have no knowledge that anything bad could be headed its way. But then Rosemary Beach is designed to keep out the bad elements of reality. The private beach is only for those who own homes here. To get through the gate leading to the water, one must punch in a combination pass code. The town’s elegantly manicured gardens belie its state’s housing market collapse. But just outside of town, realtors advertise “Free Foreclosure List…