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Beyond Tolerance: Helping Religions “Come Out”

By Mychal Copeland

…with open arms. A Jewish transgender young woman went to her first Sabbath service at an LGBT synagogue and discovered a warm, embracing community. These individuals are ready to bring their entire selves to their spiritual lives. We must ensure that our religious institutions are safe spaces for people to bring that kind of authenticity. When we find ways to integrate the diversity of people who are ready to bring their fullest selves to the tabl…

Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In

By Sofi Hersher

…form, personified in former-CEO Dick Costolo’s favorite description of the service as the “global town square.” Acknowledging that, it becomes clear how profoundly important the policy, execution, and precedent set by content removal was and is to the company and its understanding of itself. The Twitter Rules warn, in two places, that an account may be suspended if it “publish[es] or post[s] threats of violence against others or promote[s] violenc…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…. (Unhelpfully, this gave them the same acronym as Pakistan’s intelligence service, namely Inter-Services Intelligence). From very early on, however, al-Qaeda’s top leaders had trouble getting the Iraqi group to do as they asked. Al-Qaeda wanted its subsidiaries and foot soldiers to focus on attacking Western targets, and have increasingly demanded operations which avoid Muslim casualties, in the belief that this would cost them popular support. T…

“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?

By Marcia Pally

…t the best possible life for all of God’s creatures… the law stands in the service of a stable, flourishing, and life-enhancing community.” From the Jewish perspective, Hazony echoes: the biblical author “wished to persuade his readers that there exists a law whose force is of a universal nature, because it derives from the way the world itself was made.” While the ritual aspects of the Mosaic code aimed at guiding the Israelites, the theological,…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…part of a consumer culture in which practitioners choose yoga products and services based on individual desires and needs. Consumption of this kind appears rather hedonistic, or perhaps, as Jeremy Carrette and Richard King have put it strongly, is characterized by an “obsession with the individual self and a distinct lack of interest in compassion, the disciplining of desire, self-less service to others and questions of social justice.” The last p…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…zones.” (h/t Naomi Klein for that coinage.) Women from North Dakota joined Hawaiians who joined Filipinos in describing themselves as people who live in Sacrifice Zones. This is the same logic that has catalyzed Black Lives Matter and Occupy: some people are more human than others, this logic goes—you can sacrifice the people who are not as human as you are. You may even have to just to stay alive. The outcome at the COP21 shines a bright light on…

America No Longer a Christian Nation: And Other Critical Data from 2015

By Daniel Cox and Joanna Piacenza

…) say the same of the American Bishops. 4) Few religious Americans support service refusals to gay and lesbian people on religious grounds… Nearly six in ten (58%) Americans—including 53% of Christians—oppose allowing a small business owner to refuse products or services to gay and lesbian people, even if doing so violates their religious beliefs. On the other hand, roughly one-third (36%) of the public support such a policy. Majorities of many re…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…would have made short work of this piece by Jack Jenkins for Religion News Service: Q: Could Novavax win over some religious vaccine skeptics? A: No. This has been another edition of ‘Simple Answers to Simple Questions.’ These days, I’m willing to give Jenkins’ question a “probably not,” with some explanation. Let’s stipulate that the Novavax COVID shot, which is currently pending FDA approval, could potentially be attractive to some religious hol…