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Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

By Lauri Lebo

…I have spent much of my morning rereading Rainbow Pie. For me, some of the most powerful moments in his writing came from his descriptions of the inherent conflicts in his people’s faith and his unflinching look at the hard-edged doctrine of his evangelical upbringing. “In any case, Guilford County, North Carolina, didn’t hand out money to people, no matter how miserably poor, if it could be avoided. And it could indeed be avoided through court or…

Qaddafi Dies; Should it Matter How?

By Haroon Moghul

…palaces and attacking him in his own gaudy vanity projects. He made his last stand near the buildings he had lavished Sirte with. He who accused al-Qaeda of being behind Libya’s revolution ended his life releasing audiotapes only the Syrian government dared share. What do we learn from that? He was apparently found in a drainage pipe in Sirte, his hometown; ending where he began, under the ground not far from where he came into the world. Could h…

Why I Won’t Leave the Mormon Church Alone

By Holly Welker

…at the public school were often held at the Mormon church, and vice-versa. Most of my classmates, virtually all my friends, and much of my family were Mormon. At church I was commanded to keep a journal, examining my life for the narrative threads that guide my choices and determine my character. I will never shake this habit, no matter what. Truth be told, if the LDS church somehow lost all it leaders and members tomorrow and existed only as a hi…

AAA: Like a Good Neighbor

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he side of the road with a flat tire, or a broken down car, that help is just a phone call away. It also gives me discounts on lodging and other perks. My partner has a gold card with her name on it as well. The account number on both cards is the same. Years ago, when we signed up for the cards with the venerable roadside assistance company AAA, the woman at the counter smiled sweetly and never blinked an eye when we asked for the “family” plan….

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…reproductive justice advocacy group. “But it is also so narrowly writ that most of their initiatives and arguments don’t hold up under international law.” WCF, however, is gradually chipping away at international laws designed to protect human rights, posing a direct threat to LGBTQ people, women’s reproductive freedom, single parents, mixed families, and other family structures that do not fit into the parameters of WCF’s “natural family.” At bes…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…nd more, serious business is being done through Twitter, a Web site with a most unserious-sounding name. On Twitter, you tweet out a tweet, which everyone who is following your tweets can see. True to the name and its accompanying noun/verb, the site’s architecture seemingly confines it to the trivial. Every tweet must be under 140 characters (which this paragraph has already long exceeded). Even its built-in instructions emphasize triviality—“wha…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…just about wiped out my little savings, which I ended up using to pay for most of her funeral expenses. Then I learned she had made me the beneficiary on two life insurance policies. Sometimes when you have limited financial means you may dream of inheriting some money—but let me tell you, it is an awful, awful thing to inherit money from the death of some one you love. There is no amount of money that alleviates the pain of losing my sister. So,…

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

By Joanna Brooks

…e coming to the US for work get villainized. “Illegal alien” is one of the most unbelievably pejorative terms you can apply to anyone. Your experience seems to reflect something I’ve found in Mormon politics: there is a contradiction between incredible concern Mormons show for the individual and yet a reticence or even a resistance to thinking about the systematic problems and injustices the put individuals in impossible and even harmful situatio…

Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice

By Peter Laarman

…ly to be compensated under the system of “Relative Value Units” by which almo*]}*st all physicians are now paid: There is a compassionate, altruistic core of medical practice—sitting with a grieving family after a loved one is lost; lending your experience to a younger colleague struggling to manage a complex case; telephoning a patient and listening to how she is faring after surgery and chemotherapy for her breast cancer; extending yourself beyond t…

The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…ttempting to get arrested under the new hate crimes law for preaching against homosexuality. (They were not arrested; contrary to their claims, the law protects speech.) “There was homophobia to feed on, and the circumstances were so right to try to activate and intensify the homophobia,” said Kaggwa. A year after Lively’s conference, Lou Engle and his revival, The Call, extended further support to the bill. Kaggwa is dismayed by the spread of hom…