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Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…-back in the Stonewall Inn on the day of the riots in 1969. “For our first pride parade, we had over 1,800 protesters and over 3,000 people holding a prayer vigil. This past year we had just one rabid protester. We’ve come a long way.” Loyd, a soft-spoken Vietnam vet who grew up in a rural area near Conway, credits the peace that the couple currently enjoys to their willingness to confront their would-be oppressors head on. “The night before our f…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…her rabbis and cantors, a member of the Rabbinic Cabinet of J Street, the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” Washington advocacy group that arrived on the scene less than a decade ago, billing itself as a pro-Israel alternative to the long-dominant American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Despite Stutman’s optimism about synagogues as the locus for difficult conversations about American Judaism’s most contentious topic, few rabbis believe they are able to c…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…d the Church whether it’s bishops, priest or the Pope himself when it is appropriate to do so.” The Knights are known for their charitable giving; in 2013, they donated over $170 million to various causes. Many of those include victims of natural disasters as well as man-made ones, like the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and the Newton school shooting, and they’re similarly well known for their support of the disabled. But the Knights have…

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

By Nick Street

…ader. What was the culture of the prison? At night, there was one guard for 800 prisoners. In the Rio prison system there’s no real government presence; state control in the prisons is just a façade. The prison gangs are the most powerful presence, but the church exerts a strong influence too. There were about 400 inmates in the gang camp inside the prison, and 40 to 50 in the church camp. The rest were neutral people who kept to themselves in the…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…t Coach Wooden. That was another of the amazing things about him. He was approachable, answering his own phone and mail, meeting with complete nobodies like me. I thanked him for the basketball lessons that I had learned from him, but more importantly for the life lessons. His beloved wife Nellie had passed away in 1985 after 53 years of marriage, and my wife had died suddenly in 1992. Coach gave me a powerful model for dealing with that loss, a r…

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

By Arthur Waskow

…ut our real life. The ritual foods, the bitterness of the bitter herb, the pressed-down bread of everyone’s oppression, the wine of joy in struggle, became the real meal. For the first time, we paused in the midst of the Telling itself, to connect the streets with the seder. Every year since I had learned to read, I had recited the passage that says, “In every generation, every human being is obligated to say, ‘We ourselves, not our forebears only…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d looking at all the ways that I see Christianity rupturing binaries in surprising, provocative ways. For example, in his person, Jesus queers lines between human and divine; in his work, Jesus queers the line between sacred and profane; and in his resurrection, Jesus queers the lines between life and death. Then you’ve got these extraordinary stories about Jesus where he’s reaching out to people in a healing narrative. When Jesus talks with peopl…

Gimme Shelter: Queer Space Is Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…because love is a sanctuary. Later I wandered back to religion, where gay priests heard my confessions, where I marched alongside lesbian Catholic sisters at protests, where queer Catholics read things I write and email asking for help finding the right kind of Catholic church, where the church I’d grown up in offered sanctuary to refugees but told its queer clergy to keep their mouths shut. The Catholic church, however, is itself a kind of queer…

Our Dance Clubs, Our Churches

By Peter Laarman

…bbath sunlight at 9 or 10 a.m. and head straight off to their real church. Praise and yet more praise for all of God’s blessings. So yes, this thing in Orlando is difficult to take, and it feels personal. There were goosebumps when I woke to the news, and there were unbidden tears when I discovered that a young friend’s college classmate was in that club when the slaughter began. I’m not ready for the reflexive liberal things that we do: the sign-…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…0s, after a series of coups, the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan to prop up its preferred client government, and the United States worked with select allies to back fundamentalist movements on the ground, preferring the more religiously extreme. Afghanistan has known war, occupation, starvation, extremism, and hardship, for some thirty-seven years now, and there appears to be no end in sight. Much more happened beside, but the nadir might h…