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Holy Father, You’re Not Helping: The Problem with the Pope’s Plan to Consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

By Katherine Kelaidis

…t. Also, it’s genuinely a good idea to check with people before you try to help, whether materially or metaphysically. Sometimes people don’t want your kind of help. I mean, why didn’t the Vatican suggest special papal-led prayers to the Virgin Mary for Russia and Ukraine, perhaps including the Eastern Christian bishops resident in Rome? That could be worked out, in theory. Marian devotion is shared between the two ancient halves of the Christian…

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…lim organization.” Tatchell: “I hope that by taking up this position I can help build bridges between the Muslim and LGBT communities. We share a similar experience of intolerance and victimisation. I want to see us working together for our common good, so that we can live together in a society without hatred, discrimination and violence…While the tiny minority of Islamist extremists – and fanatics from all faiths and none – must be challenged, we…

Wage Theft in America: Why Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid

By Kim Bobo

…ers of Congress. The second audience is the religious community, which can help stop wage theft locally. The book makes the case about why wage theft is so important and then outlines how each of us can help stop and deter it. The congregational study guide (which appears in the book as an appendix and is also available as a stand-alone text, downloadable free of charge from the IWJ website) is designed to encourage congregations to study the book…

Raelians Push White House for Alien Embassy to Save Humanity

By Joseph Laycock

…ans have made over time, I know we will have the good sense to accept this help and prevent the extinction of life on Earth. It’s our duty to save our children from the disastrous consequences of our bad decisions. Let’s build the embassy and welcome those who truly can help/save us. These comments demonstrate the plasticity of millennial hopes. A quarter century after the end of the Cold War, fears of nuclear annihilation have been superseded by…

Does Atheism Have a Misogyny Problem?

By Julia Galef

…ther they’re akin to the driver telling himself that he wouldn’t ever need help, so therefore he feels no obligation to help other people who stuck. In other words, if you’ve never encountered situations which make you skittish about being propositioned in an elevator—or if you have, but prefer to deal with your discomfort yourself—you should make sure that you’re not retrofitting your ethical maxim (i.e., “People have no obligation to concern the…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…ssed when dealing with Darwin’s theory.” The Louisiana Family Forum, which helped DI lobby for LSEA, is affiliated with Focus on the Family and is dedicated to “persuasively present(ing) biblical principles in the centers of influence on issues affecting the family through research, communication and networking.” Also, Louisiana Family Forum has been trying to get straight-up creationism into public schools as recently as 2004. Until recently, the…

Christianity Today’s ‘Humble’ Hindu-to-Jesus Conversion Story is Still a Story of Christian Triumphalism

By Murali Balaji

…as I felt the oxygen leave my body, I turned the barbell enough to ask for help. A person nearby came over to help lift the weights off. That memory resurfaced when I read Kamesh Sankaran’s “The Humbling of a Proud Hindu” in Christianity Today, which mixed a genuine spiritual journey with the idea that Christianity is superior to Hinduism. This sort of triumphalism among Christians—particularly converts—is nothing new, but it also hides the realit…

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…r (Pluto, 2020). As a social scientist I’m curious about the theories that help explain the social phenomena, and this political economic analysis explains what’s been happening more than any other theory I’ve seen. And what do you think the larger and long-run impact is when we use political economic analysis for the US higher education landscape? We need to recognize that, as the business model of higher education changes, the knowledge that uni…

Maryland Voters Split on Marriage Equality, So Far

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…dy the issue. One man in the parish was against becoming a welcoming church, but agreed to do the study. When DeBernardo checked back a few months later, the man had experienced a change of heart. “He told me, ‘I thought we were doing this to help other people, but now I see we had to do this to help ourselves become free of prejudice.’ I asked that the delegates support the bill not just for gays and lesbians but to help all Marylanders appreciat…

When Medicine and Religion Conflict Around Children: The Case of Daniel Hauser

By Wendy Cadge

…pital Information Service of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, located in Brooklyn, help health care providers and families alike understand their teachings. Hospital chaplains, hospital ethics committees, and high-risk management groups all help with emerging conflicts. If cases are referred to courts, as they sometimes are, they are often resolved quickly as courts generally agree that the state’s obligation to protect children is more important than the…