All Your Dead Mormons Are Belong To Us
Finally, a website that allows you to baptize the dead into homosexuality.
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Does God Want Jeremy Lin to Win?
Two unlikely heroes, Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin, have rocked the sports world. Lurking behind their stardom is a whole lot of bad theology.
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God or Gay, No Need to Choose Sides
“The book for me is personal as well as political. A lot of people, myself included, were raised to believe that religion and sexual minorities were incompatible—that it really is God versus Gay. Personally, I chose the ‘God’ side for ten years, repressing my sexuality and cutting myself off from other people. Even when I finally gave up, I still thought that coming out would be the end of my religious life. In fact, it was the beginning of it.”
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The Good Liberal Fear of a Yoga Planet
By now, it should be clear that William Broad’s broadside against yoga (sorry about that) in the New York Times is thin on facts and thick on rhetoric. Excerpted from his forthcoming book, the article, “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” is a full-on, un-fair-and-balanced…
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Matisyahu Shaves His Beard
World’s first Chassidic Reggae superstar off the derech.
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Religious Belief Or Mental Illness?
The paranoid few who seem genuinely disturbed by the possibility of the coming end of the world may be responding the most reasonably to current events. Or not. This ambiguity is at the heart of Jeff Nichols’ recent film Take Shelter. The film explores whether its protagonist is crazy, or a prophet, or both.
Read MoreWhy an Orthodox Anti-Gay Declaration is Actually Good for the Gays
Reparative therapy—neither reparative nor therapy—is the lie that will not die.
Read MoreSwift-Boat Veterans of American Jewry Charge Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street
But the ECI is no friend to Israel.
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#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?
Ours is primarily a linear society which rewards building, doing, improving, and growing. It’s no surprise, then, that countercultural movements have tended to emphasize circles: consensus rather than hierarchy, egalitarianism, nuanced notions of ‘progress.’ Does this sound familiar? It should—it’s behind a lot of what observers have noticed about the Occupy movement: that there are no clear goals, no policy prescriptions, no realistic (i.e., incremental) demands.
Read MoreThe Religious Duty to Come Out
Bearing witness is a sacred act.
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