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Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…w dozen yards of the riders and take pictures of the scene with their cell phone cameras. Traffic on College Avenue begins to pick up. “You’re protesting God!” a motorist hollers when he catches sight of one of the Soulforce banners. Finally a slender young man wearing a “CBC Soccer” jacket ventures all the way to the sidewalk. “I just kind of want to show them I care,” says Jonathan Jacobs, a junior at the college. Jacobs, whose family moved to C…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…es would talk to me and let me do interviews. There were times when I made phone calls to inmates’ family members to let then know that visiting times had changed, to save them a long trip to the prison. I also visited the families of inmates with pastors and other volunteers to bring food, sometimes a gift a child’s dad had made. I basically become part of the lives of the people whose lives I wanted to document. How did a project you undertook f…

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…tian radical A. J. Muste calling Moses the organizer of “Brickmakers Union Number 1” and a pacifist Russian rabbi named Tamaret—wove them all into a new Telling of the tale of freedom. In that Telling, the then ongoing, even now unfinished, struggle of Black America for freedom was interwoven with the ancient story of the Israelites’ struggle to end their slavery under Pharaoh. Where the old Haggadah had what seemed to me a silly argument about ho…

The Belly of the Beast: NYC’s Shiny New Transit Hub Is All Wrong for the 9/11 Site

By Carolyn Bratnober

…ying day all the unsuspecting people in those towers were attacked—and the number of New York’s finest who lost their lives helping people to safety. This is a city that values sticking up for one another. We don’t look back on 9/11 with fond nostalgia for our financial monoliths; we remember the pain, the courage in the face of it, and how everyone came together. If a retired cop or fireman who was injured on 9/11 has to use a back-alley freight…

LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…followers of that Jesus guy, I checked ‘Yes.’ However, after perusing our site, the guy at the LGBT church site questioned our true dedication to the faith. Since we didn’t seem to meet the requirements of the Nicene Creed, we don’t appear to be a “Trinitarian” church. So I was asked to prove that we were a “real” Christian church. I replied: “We’re not creedal in the sense that we recite creeds or require others to recite them or affirm what are…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

In less than a week’s time, on July 11, I’ll be in Bosnia where, sixteen years earlier, Serbian paramilitaries stormed Srebrenica and killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys—a city the U.N. had previously declared a safe haven. This past May, I led a group of nearly fifty people on a tour of Spain’s Muslim heritage. The experience was wonderful—Spaniards were warm and their country was breathtakingly beautiful. But it was unnerving to see centuries of a…

Israel Claims Holy Sites, Reignites Religious Flashpoint

By Orly Halpern

…Yaakov, and Leah, were buried. “Netanyahu wants to make them solely Jewish sites and to take control of the land under these Muslim sites.” The structure over the Cave of the Patriarchs has long been under contention. Under Christian rule it was a church, under Muslim rule it was a mosque. Permission to pray inside depended on which religion and ruler was in power at the time. Crusaders prevented Muslims from praying inside, but when Salahaddin co…

“Marriage Savers” Lobbies for Repeal of No-Fault Divorce

By Kathryn Joyce

…t had no choice.” In a press release announcing the new Reform Divorce Web site, McManus argued that one spouse’s freedom to divorce the other without permission was the reason behind America’s high divorce rate. In the past, Marriage Savers’ organizational work seems to have focused on encouraging religious communities to adopt its Community Marriage Policies to make divorce and unmarried cohabitation less acceptable in their congregations; as we…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…though this, the men would hover around the tent entries, send notes, make phone calls, actually get their phone cords recharged, and send food and drink through every possible opening in the tent. As far as I could tell, it was always the men hanging around our tent and not the women hanging around the men’s tent. Pretty funny if you think about it. They were like lost puppies without their women. Yet patriarchy would have us think they are the m…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…th Park episode about Joseph Smith (who also shows up as one of the “Super Best Friends” in other episodes satirizing religion). If attention is flattery, the LDS Church should be pleased. Although the Church can claim only 14 million members (an exaggerated statistic that counts all baptisms and births, but not the actual number of churchgoers), representatives of the religion—and representations of it—have managed to become fixtures in popular c…