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The New Values Voters: Progressive Women

By Cynthia Hess

…Sandel’s view, this response to Obama’s words and campaign indicated that Americans are calling for a “new politics of the common good.” Progressive Women and Values This approach to politics and public life is not exactly new. For the past several years, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research has interviewed over 100 progressive women leaders and activists working as community organizers who are, in many ways, living out a vision for politics…

Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent ‘Abuses’

By Emma Cieslik

…ons in Amsterdam from 1945-1959, Mary herself requested the Church issue a new dogma. The Vatican later intervened in 1974 stating there was no evidence of anything supernatural, and four years later released norms for the approval of supernatural phenomena. These same apparitions were revisited in Dr. Daniel Galassini’s new book Mary: Fourth Person in the Trinity?. Galassini’s book centers on whether the Mother of God should be called the “co-red…

AIDS Anniversary: Thirty is the New Eternity

By Susan Henking

…s) and the ongoing celebration/commemoration of the Civil War’s 150th, the American History Museum opened an exhibit on June 3 entitled “Archiving the History of an Epidemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009.” Isn’t that special? Despite the archiving, or perhaps in part because of it, much lives on. People live on: many more of them than Magic Johnson, who first announced his HIV status in 1991 and has now reached a 20-year milestone. Activism, too, lives…

Gay Ain’t the New Black, But…

By Jonathan L. Walton

…y. Turning citizens into “intimidated, fearful and helpless subjects,” according to West, is what it means to be a Nigger. For this reason, Rev. Sekou argues convincingly that while Gay may not be the new black, with the passing of Prop 8 and other state constitutional amendments proscribing the lives and liberties of our gay brothers and sisters, “Gays Are the New Niggers!”…

Creationists Portray New Science Standards As “Big Government”

By Michael Schulson

…argument for why conservative evangelicals should be distressed about the new standards offers a useful portrait of how anti-evolution writers stoke fear—and a helpful demonstration of why the NGSS is so badly needed. Luskin is an attorney, a writer, and a staff member at the Discovery Institute, an intelligent design think-tank. (I recently reviewed a book by Luskin’s boss. In what might seem like a conflict of interest, Luskin did, too.) Writin…

Religious Exemptions and the New Non-Culture Wars

By Sarah Posner

…roviders describes these accommodations as “inadequate,” and adds that the new proposed requirements may violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. There’s a history here: when the Obama administration declined to renew a USCCB contract to serve trafficking victims because the USCCB objected to a contractual requirement to refer victims to a full range of reproductive health services, Republicans held hearings to gin up claims the administrati…

Spinning But Not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness

By Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst

…lness programs—the figure jumps to $3.4 trillion. Sweat Equity: Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body Jason Kelly Wiley Press (April, 2016) Wellness, of course, is where the mind meets the body—as well as the spirit, it would seem. Indoor cycling titan SoulCycle, for example, is “church” for many of its devotees (as covered here in RD) and yoga continues to trouble boundaries between “authentic” religion and popular, secular practice. In Sweat E…

The Exorcist Files, Getting Mad at God, The Obama Prayer…

By Michael J. Altman

…he state of New York has eliminated its entire kosher inspection division. New York Rep. Peter King is promising to use his new position as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security to hold hearings about Islam in America. Record numbers of Brits are converting to Islam, according to a new survey. Opponents of Scientology in Chicago are fighting for the right to protest outside the Church of Scientology. Atheists, agnostics, and humanis…

Harvest of Corruption: The Shame of the Scandal in New Jersey

By Benjamin Weiner

…bad taste, has already dubbed the arrest of several prominent Brooklyn and New Jersey rabbis last week the case of the “kosher nostra”. It is an ugly story, and not just how the Post tells it: alleged corruption among ultra-Orthodox leadership in the form of money laundering through charities and, even worse, strong-armed trafficking in human organs. Not two years after the breaking of the Agriprocessors scandal, we have another searing example of…

Condos on Mars: A New Kind of Limit Experience?

By Laurie Patton

…tion for the journey. According to legend, Phoenician explorers called the new land they discovered “Barr Ilu,” “The Continent of God.” The pilgrims coming from England via Leiden, were indeed that—religious pilgrims who longed for a new world in which they could imagine a society without religious persecution. The discovery of water on Mars is a moment in which we can imagine afresh the origins of life. On the one hand, exploration is one of the…