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“My Prayer Flies Like a Word on a Wing”: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 5

By Mark Dery

…great salvation/ of bullshit faith,” then makes an about-face, paying lip service to the Buddhism of his hippie days: “If I don’t explain what you ought to know/ You can tell me all about it/ On the next Bardo.” Finally, just to keep his bases covered, he makes an offering at the empty altar of existentialism: “Don’t believe in yourself/ Don’t deceive with belief/ Knowledge comes with death’s release…” “Questioning my spiritual life has always be…

Arguments That Caste Protections ‘Unjustly Target’ South Asians Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny

By Pranay Somayajula and Nikhil Mandalaparthy

…ndu American Foundation Executive Director Suhag Shukla told Religion News Service that the protections would “[single] out, [target], and inadvertently [discriminate] against Hindu students and faculty … as presumed perpetrators.” In 2021, when a similar resolution was being considered by the Santa Clara County Human Rights Commission, Shukla warned in her testimony that the proposal would “uniquely target South Asians, Indians, and Hindus for et…

Christian Terrorism Comes to Milwaukee

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…cal operations. Though it is not clear what Page did in this branch of the service, in general psyops attempts to influence an enemy or a foreign audience through propaganda or other means of influencing attitudes. Though he never saw conflict, he was clearly in some sort of personal skirmish, since he was discharged from the army in 1998 for “patterns of misconduct.” He then relocated to Chicago and then to Milwaukee where he joined the skinhead…

Karma Chameleon: From Zen Practitioner to Episcopal Bishop

By Nick Street

…actly, does Rev. Forrester meditate on? In an interview with Religion News Service, he said that in his daily meditation, he doesn’t think about Buddhism or Zen philosophy. In fact, he tries not to think about anything at all. That’s consistent with the “Rules for Zazen” established by Dogen Zenji, the 13th-century Japanese master who founded the Soto School of Zen Buddhism—the practice lineage at the Lake Superior Zendo, where Forrester is a memb…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…C Resident Psychotherapist & Consultant, Goodpoint Counseling & Consulting Services Valerie Miles-Tribble, PhD, Associate Professor, GTU-Berkeley School of Theology (ABSW) Rev. Melanie C. Jones, Director of The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership, Instructor of Ethics, Theology and Culture, Union Presbyterian Seminary JoAnne Marie Terrell, PhD, Associate Professor of Theology, Ethics and the Arts, Chicago Theological Seminary Barbar…

The Christian Worldview Revealed by Sessions’ Use of Romans 13

By Susan B. Ridgely

…family’s role as educators and caregivers, and the church’s role as social service agency. To this concern about scope, Focus added a moral and, for many of its viewers, a biblical component to the proper role of government as Tackitt’s quote articulates. This articulation reaches back to the conservative Christian view of the seminal relationship that God had with his own son and wants with us now. This view of government did not spring into exis…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…ted that we might ask congregations whether they would care to hear from a service member or a military family member, someone who would simply tell their story, rather than hear from one of the well-briefed peaceniks. My suggestion was rejected, as this would have deprived the peaceniks of a chance to sound off about how wrong (how very wrong) George W. Bush and Don Rumsfeld had been in regard to principles of international law. I withdrew from t…

Podcast: Eboo Patel on Islam, Pluralism, and the “Faith Line”

By Robert P. Jones

…d international nonprofit that is building the interfaith movement through service and dialogue. His blog, The Faith Divide, explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together. Eboo is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the soul of a Generation. About the Podcasts This podcast is the third episode of Progressive Religious Voices, a bi-monthly podcast of interviews gleaned from nearly 100 int…

How Will We Teach About Sikhism After the Tragedy?

By Laurie Patton

…ental human transaction of all. To feed people is seva—voluntary, selfless service. A Sikh community in Medford, Massachusetts, Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar, is typical of many Sikh places of worship in this tradition of hospitality. On Sunday, August 12 the Gurdwara is holding a vigil for those injured or killed in the Oak Creek shootings. Everyone in the community is welcome, and non-Sikhs are invited to show their solidarity. Just underneath that…

Why Won’t Conservatives Call Gay-Bashing a Hate Crime?

By Eric Reitan

…epeal sodomy laws and to gain rights to such things as uncloseted military service and civil marriage? How does any of that qualify as an effort to destroy the family? In a May 23, 2004 televised simulcast to hundreds of churches, entitled “The Battle for Marriage,” Dobson offers his answer: “Traditional marriage between one man and one woman cannot co-exist with homosexual marriage. It will destroy the family.” In other words, if this minority gr…