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A Matter of the Heart: Talking to Gay Christian Rocker Jennifer Knapp

By Kristin Rawls

…of faith who is also a lesbian… But so many people who aren’t personally affected by this have said, “It doesn’t make sense that we wholeheartedly reject people because of who they love and experience the fullness of joy with.” It’s easy to talk about unsupportive dissenters, but I don’t think this has to be about being frustrated or angry with those people who haven’t yet had the experience of seeing LGBT people who are living out their faith wi…

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…power, to be sure (by various accounts, the fourth, fifth, or sixth most effective military in the world) which they frequently put on display. But all that expenditure of effort and money—much of it from American tax dollars, but a considerable amount from Israelis’ taxes—has apparently not purchased feelings of powerfulness, confidence, and pride. On the contrary, Israeli political life seems dominated by anxiety. So, for example, the fear of a…

Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right

By Dagmar Herzog

…r Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005), which offered a major revision of our assumptions about the Third Reich’s sexual politics and its aftermath, including close attention to the complicity of the Christian churches under Nazism. In his book American Fascists, Chris Hedges had drawn direct parallels between the religious right in the United States and the Nazis, but I thought that was not the point. As a Holocaust sc…

Meet The Liberal Tea Partiers

By Abby Scher

…an Alabama coalition of churches and advocacy groups was thwarted in its effort to repeal a state sales tax on groceries that amounts to $4 on every $100 food bill. On April 8, Alabama Arise failed to find the two-thirds vote in the legislature needed for the full house to vote on a Fall ballot measure that would repeal the tax—so burdensome to the poor—and replace it with a 1 percent tax hike on the wealthiest 4 percent of the state. Although t…

Walt Whitman’s Sacred Democracy

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…emporary American religiosity; but also extreme interest in, and even a whiff of hope inspired by, the relentless creativity and imaginativeness with which Americans by and large apply themselves to the pursuit of their spiritual dreams. On the hopeful side of the ledger, I’d like to invite reflection on two things that a great many Americans seem willing to consider sacred, in Laderman’s sense of a loose and somewhat unformed spirituality: dem…

Not Cause, But Effect: Jared Loughner and Tea Party Rhetoric

By Finbarr Curtis

…t the political sympathies of Jared Lee Loughner. Because Representative Giffords was the previous target of heated Tea Party rhetoric, many wondered whether the shooter was driven by anti-government sentiment. But the gunman proved to be an enigmatic thinker and many reported that his bizarre ramblings reflected no discernible politics. Lost in the debate over what triggered Loughner’s actions is any meaningful defense of the vitriol that does ex…

The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation

By Robert Marus

…d, if they go unchecked, Americans may one day be forced to re-learn the difficult lessons from centuries of European history that inspired the nation’s founders to protect the “First Freedom” (literally, the first 16 words of the First Amendment) by creating a clear—and unique, at that time, in the annals of human history—institutional separation between religion and the state. “Unfortunately, the clauses have been watered down to suggest religio…

An Atheist Hero is Something to Be

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…ave a good impression. I hope I do things that have some sort of positive effect on the world. I am far from a perfect human being, but in the way I think, write, and hopefully make more films like The Ledge, I am involved in what I hope is an important conversation. I’m an atheist who believes deeply in compassion, love, charity, hope. I’m an atheist who has been through a lot of suffering on this earth. I have some understanding of some of the t…

Spiritual (And Jewish), But Not Religious

By Martin Kavka

…state of Israel. It may even entail hiring secular leaders to join the staffs of synagogues. The history of Jews in America is a story of decentralization, in which Jews refuse to heed authorities telling them how they must perform their Judaism and/or Jewishness. If Jewish leaders fight that story, the time when Jewish “nones” cease to care about their Jewish identity will arrive even sooner than they fear. *Read more from “Pew and the Jews: ‘So…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…nder a detailed report on your unique genetic fingerprint. They sometimes offer information about health. They also offer information about ancestry. In a sense, they quantify heritage. In many ways, DNA is a perfect addition to the search for an authentic, unique identity—a search that is both a mode of consumption and of spiritual exploration for many Americans. Unless you have an identical twin, your DNA is one-of-a-kind. It permeates your phys…