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Meditation is the Multi-Tasker’s Answer

By Andrew Aghapour

…ly and lead happier lives. On the other hand, capitalist institutions like businesses and corporations are constantly looking for ways to increase productivity and workflow, and “brain optimization” is a great way to get more work for the same pay. In study after study, meditation is getting drawn into both of these goals. Perhaps the lotus position is coming to a training video near you. In related news, I have a business idea for meditation cush…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ng my hearing, I strongly believe that the U.S. should unabashedly promote American values. If confirmed, I will work to advance human rights for everyone.” Outright’s Executive Director Jessica Stern said she is “reassured” by Haley’s statements, but added: At the same time, I can’t help but notice that Governor Haley didn’t say the words lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex. This is important. At the United Nations, diplomats fight to…

The Folly of Arab-West (Elite-Elite) Dialogue

By H.A. Hellyer

…, but fail miserably without realizing the local context. This cuts across business, media, and diplomatic sectors, and is invariably due to either the outside actor attempting to interpret what the local scene is all about without actually relating to local interpreters, or else the outside actor deals with the ‘usual suspects.’ Those usual suspects are often drawn from an elite who are local but inevitably drawn from the same cloth as the Wester…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…f global warming, check out the Evangelical Climate Initiative. ++++++++++ American Family Association’s voting guide The Rev. Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association, one of the major Christian Right organizations spearheading up the drive to pass Proposition 8 in California—the anti-same-sex marriage initiative—has issued its 2008 Voter guide. Not too extensive in its coverage, the “Voter Issue Guide” for the 2008 Presidential Race is divid…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…major battle over Manassas in Virginia the smug Washington politicians and business patricians buggied out to the ridges to watch their volunteer boys send the rebels packing. But the southern confederates won the day and the war picnic-goers fled alongside the hopes of a quick end to the conflict. They came to feast their eyes on killing and revenge and ended up with a cowardly diarrhoea. Like a bloated drunk, they could not stomach what their ey…

Dear Dr. Dobson, Concern Troll

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…italism, disguised as Christianity, isn’t hidden for long as he re-aired a portion of his 1992 interview with now-deceased financial expert Larry Burkett, who advised: ”There’s no better time to start a business than when everybody else is going out of business.” In other words, the least of these are struggling—time to cash in! Forgive me, Dr. Dobson, if I choke on your sympathy….

The Peril of Criticizing Rick Warren

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…don’t need the headaches that come with that much “success” in the church business. Jesus counted success differently than we do these days. He didn’t build a big church, didn’t send letters to his followers asking for donations, didn’t seek to give high profile prayers. He simply went about the business of helping people. He didn’t seek acclaim or write any best- selling books. He simply went to where the hurting people were and healed them. His…

Scientology Woes Continue with Fines and Homophobia

By Gabriel Mckee

…d is one of the most ancient pitfalls of faith. The Didache, one of the earliest ecclesiastical texts, warns the first Christian communities against itinerant prophets who demand money in the name of the Holy Spirit. The Church of Scientology has built a business and a religion on that kind entrepreneurial charlatanism. But their business model requires good PR, and good PR requires a tight lock on secrets. At the moment, Scientology doesn’t have…

Mormon Leader: ‘I’m Sorry’ For Hurtful Legacy of Prop. 8

By Joanna Brooks

…oblem that to many is even exacerbated because the church wants to just do Business As Usual. I know plenty of LDS people who are in no mood to do Business As Usual. Even in the heart of institutional Mormonism, many LDS people remain conflicted, sensitive, unclear, ambivalent, and tender about why the Church became so involved in the Proposition 8 campaign; what was lost, what was gained, and what purposes it will ultimately serve. In tenderness,…

The Evangelical Sex Disconnect

By Sarah Posner

…ation promoted by anti-choice activists have driven other providers out of business?) But the Republicans refuse to admit the clear evidence: that not a single dollar of federal money pays for anyone’s abortion, and that all the federal money that pays for family planning services is spent with the aim of preventing unintended pregnancies and therefore diminishing the number of abortions. The “ideal” Christian woman — chaste until married, and pro…