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Arguing Identity: Race, Religion, and Beyond

By Eboo Patel

…eir politics, their wives, their religions, their philosophies…they cannot change their grandfathers.” It seems at first blush to support the point that my critics make. Religion is like clothes or politics, and unlike race or ethnicity, easily changeable. But then Kallen goes on: “Jews or Poles or Anglo-Saxons, in order to cease being Jews or Poles or Anglo-Saxons, would have to cease to be.” Why does Kallen suggest in one sentence that it is eas…

“Ex-Gay” is Anti-Gay, Disguised as Compassion

By Tanya Erzen

…urch will immediately refer her to an ex-gay ministry and encourage her to change. I knew a man at a ministry who recalled coming out to his pastor at age sixteen as “someone who is gay and wants to change” because knew his religious community would never accept him. Now, there are also Jewish, Mormon, and Catholic versions of the ex-gay movement. As Haffner notes, many mainline Christian churches and other religious organizations lack consistent…

The Sexual Threat to Fundamentalism

By Michelle Goldberg

…ever existed. In their 2003 book Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World, political scientists Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris wrote that “human development brings changed attitudes toward gender equality in virtually any society that experiences the various forms of modernization linked with economic development. Modernization brings systematic, predictable changes in gender roles.” Modernization brings people to the c…

Bless Your Heart! The Religious Right Tries to Be Civil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ving Christ, says true dialogue only exists when both sides are willing to change – so openness and tolerance must be a part of true dialogue. If we think we monopolize the truth and we still organize a dialogue, it is not authentic. We have to believe that by engaging in dialogue with the other person, we have the possibility of making a change within ourselves that we can become deeper. This kind of dialogue is has absolutely nothing to do with…

God’s Heart Has No Borders

By Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

…d put their morality into action. They become agents of progressive social change, and that is a story of hope. And finally, I don’t pretend to cover all religious activists who are working for immigrant rights and inclusion here. But I do cover a diversity of religious activists and immigrant rights issues in this book. I focus closely on three cases: Muslim American immigrants working to defend their civil rights and civil liberties after 9/11;…

Believing in Johnny Cash: An Open Letter to Atheists

By Paul Wallace

…ed out that arguing doesn’t change people’s views: “Hearts and minds don’t change that way. They change when we share our stories…” This seems true to me, but I found myself wondering if a scientifically-motivated atheist would feel the same way—I have long suspected that some atheists may be ill at ease with stories. Before I say why, I need to say a few words about Johnny Cash, who died on September 12, this week, eight years ago. Why Johnny Cas…

Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…at is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes. And these Taliban—I’m not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that’s not what we’re saying. I’m saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House l…

Why $60K and Torture Beats Changing Divorce Law

By Rob Shryock

…challenge other patriarchal Orthodox theological principles. Additionally, change always threatens the very premise of many conservative religious groups: that they are manifestations of original, true religion, distinct from the turbulent, sinful modern world. Adopting the divorce laws of the outside world could potentially undermine the very legitimacy of the community. Because of this, it’s often easier to find work-arounds to rules and traditi…

New York Legalizes Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ways figured out, have no intention of changing their views – even if that change comes with a party and a cake. This is exactly the moral of Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son – an invitation to change not just our worldview, but our thinking on how God works in the world. When the younger son returns home — that sinful younger son who squandered his inheritance and did unspeakable things in pig sties – the father throws a huge party for him. The…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…Dominican Vice President Margarita Cedeño was forced to withdraw proposed changes to the country’s “Family Code” which would have “championed ‘traditional Catholic family models’” in legislation. “The bill drew withering criticism from left and right with newspaper 7 Dias calling it “a Trojan horse launched by the most extreme wing of conservative Dominican ideology.” The paper said the proposed language championed heterosexual marriages above al…