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Impossible Possibilities: Obama and Power

By Jonathan L. Walton

…y vigilant as to not let the negative overtake the positive, even when we believe ourselves to be at our best. Like the 70s soul group The Persuaders said: “There’s a thin line between love and hate.” Sure, there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful. I am ecstatic that the majority of Americans were able to reach across the color line to form a multiracial coalition in support of a person of color. President-elect Obama marks the cognitive shift be…

T-Shirts and Minarets: The Rending of the Social Contract

By Hussein Rashid

…is an important component of civil society. From schools to hospitals to shelters, religious groups have always filled the gap when governments have failed. It is impossible for a religious person to stop being religious when it comes to politics. However, we also recognize that civic engagement means entering into a social contract where rights and obligations are married to responsibilities to civic society. This means, in part, that while we ca…

Bipolar Faith, an Autobiography of Race and Mental Illness

By Monica A. Coleman

…emphasize that freedom is often hard-won. The final chapter is now named “Free.” How do you feel about the cover? Initially, I resisted having my face on the cover of the book. When the publishers presented the idea to me, I gave them a list of all the memoirs without the author’s face on the cover. They gave me a comparable list of memoirs that have the author’s face on the cover. Between the Atlanta-based photographer Anne Simone and cover desi…

Of Love and Lodging: Doctor Who Part VIII

By Gabriel Mckee

…he loves Sophie, and wants to stay where she is. There is a symbolic parallel between the ship and the human characters. The ship cannot leave because it has no one to tell it to depart. Craig wants to stay but is hiding the reason. Sophie at one point talks about leaving to travel and do environmental work with animals, reciprocating Craig’s feelings but likewise keeping them secret, and looking for a reason to stay. And while the Doctor comments…

RDPulpit: Israel in Gaza: Right but not Smart

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…e conscious articulation of a Strategy of Generosity, it would do more to help Israel than all the armaments it can promise and all the shuttle diplomacy it might facilitate. If this new way of thinking could become a major part of US policy, it would have an immense impact on undermining the fearful consciousness of Israelis who still see the world more through the frame of the Holocaust than through the frame of their actual present power in the…

The Non-Existent Tea Party-Religious Right God Gap

By Sarah Posner

…church and state and seek to restrain evangelism (which is equated with “religious freedom”) by allowing gay marriage or other legislation conservative evangelicals disagree with (not true). Being able to practice your “faith” (i.e., demand that government legislate morality based on your faith) is freedom, in this view, which is a driving force of the religious right. That’s why Tim Goeglein, formerly of the Bush White House and now with Focus o…

Walt Whitman’s Sacred Democracy

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s of a number of the most curious headline-stories spanning the previous twelve months, RD’s “2010: What Did We Believe In?” invites a range of emotional responses. My own reactions tended to the extremes: extreme worry at some of the crass and narcissistic excess of a great deal of contemporary American religiosity; but also extreme interest in, and even a whiff of hope inspired by, the relentless creativity and imaginativeness with which America…

Christians Should Give Up “Christianity”: An Interview with Peter Rollins

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…l of doubts. It acts the same way as alcohol abuse—the alcohol makes you feel better about yourself, but then you have this hangover where you realize you’re just covering over some sort of brokenness. I’m saying when you’re in church around people who believe the same thing and you’re reading all those books, it feels great, but then, at night over a drink with a friend in a bar, you feel like that there must be a better way. It prevents us from…

Synod ‘Fight for Soul’ of Catholic Church, Flap On English Translation of Key Report; Anti-Gay Law Advances in Kyrgyzstan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…contributed greatly to this climate not only by advocating that they speak freely and boldly on the first day but also by arriving early each day, greeting participants when they arrive, and mingling with people at the coffee breaks. It is well known that in past synods a discreet but effective censorship was exercised by Vatican officials, but what was even more serious and damaging to the realization of an open and honest debate was the “self-ce…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…widowhood was made bearable through Ruth’s labor and second marriage. Like Elvira Arellano, the intrepid Ruth inserted herself into the messianic genealogy of her host nation. What a contrast to the modern Malthusian premises of zero-sum economics that tilt the lopsided analyses of the exclusionist think tanks, the muckraking reportage of cable news, and the scapegoating rhetoric of politicians! Like the biblical matriarchs, Americans and Mexicans…