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When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…cross the region, there is a sense of ominous paralysis. It’s not that the center cannot hold. It’s that there is no center. My grandfather was a well-educated man, versed in the traditions of a Muslim episteme that seems impossibly far. He and his forefathers studied Arabic and Persian in addition to Urdu, learned and wrote and shared poetry, and cultivated an urbane cosmopolitanism that required no travel to the West, no cultural alienation, no…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…against trans people has been brewing for a while. The UK seems to be the center of this radicalization, which sees so-called “feminists” partnering with right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation to spread their bigotry. In fact, anti-trans hatred has been shown to be a pipeline to right-wing radicalization. United by the biological essentialist definition of sex and gender as one and the same, right-wing vocabulary and buzzwords like “…

Catholic Prof Teaches that Same-Sex Marriage is Violation of ‘Natural Law’

By Mary E. Hunt

…ic Thought which he founded as part of the UI’s St. John’s Catholic Newman Center. The whole operation received funding from the Catholic Diocese of Peoria. He taught courses at the university with his salary paid by the Institute. Patricia Gibson, Chancellor of the diocese, said “We funded the position so he could teach at the UI. He has been told he cannot teach these classes in the future.” So he was also let go from the Institute/Newman Center…

For Black Buddhists Struggling with Intergenerational Trauma of Slavery, Segregation, and Incarceration, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Teachings are Vital

By Rima Vesely-Flad

…He told me: “Knowing that I now had the capacity and depth of practice to center blackness, to center the ancestors while the mind is quieting, the body softening, and the heart opening, and being able to practice directly with all that comes into my purview, was profound. I discovered that I am my own healer. That was a profound shift in my life.” Berry, who co-founded Deep Time Liberation retreats with Insight teacher Noliwe Alexander, now seek…

Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

…orce the religious left to understand that it has no choice but to finally center the poor people that sit in the pews of their churches on a day-to-day basis. We had one of our clergy partners urging other faith leaders to speak with their congregants and tap into those congregants with a call specific to their values, specific to some of the policies that are being voted on here locally. When it comes to the black church—at least some black prea…

Israeli Forest Fire as Divine Punishment, Religious Leaders (From Both Sides) Agree

By Ira Chernus

…g God talk to protect his political power as he moves his party toward the center, ultimately hoping for a peace agreement that will give Palestinians independence on terms they can live with. Ovadia is more ancient than modern—an ultra-orthodox rabbi using God talk to try to protect his followers from the 21st-century culture that they find alien and often inimical, playing politics to give his movement the leverage it needs to promote that relig…

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

By Arthur Waskow

…o had stood beside King in Arlington Cemetery as they mourned the war dead—American and Vietnamese. Who could write in the same essay that prayer was the joyful song the universe sang to itself, and that prayer was meaningless unless it was subversive. Who had arranged with Dr. King to celebrate his first Passover Seder in 1968 with the Heschel family. The Passover when, though King was dead—because he was dead—he lived in thousands of seders acro…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) and Community Health Services and Advocacy (CHESA) released a statement criticizing the government’s October 17 arrest and detention of lawyers and clients who were meeting to discuss a legal case challenging an earlier government decision to restrict the provision of HIV services. Among those arrested was ISLA’s executive director, Sibongile Ndashe, described by Human Rights Watch as “a South…

The Year in Reproductive Justice: 2015 Summary

By Harry F. Knox

…but also requires that they inform the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of their decision. The courts have ruled they could either fill out a form or send a letter, and the government will take care of the rest. These organizations claim that signing such a letter impinges on their religious freedom. The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and similar state-enacted RFRAs, also played a significant part in 2015. Spurred by the Su…

The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to ‘Cancel’ — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem

By Elad Nehorai

…. The Right is asserting its values by challenging the boundaries. But the center and center-left in America, beholden to the concept of the “marketplace of ideas,” are still largely convinced they need to operate with the consensus of the Right; or, at least, that all conversations should be on the table. So they don’t create lines in the sand, they simply adjust to them. The result is that the line keeps moving rightward. More to the point, we’v…