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Gimme Shelter: Queer Space Is Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…ees’ family members, but American policy wanted them sent back to the violence. The Sanctuary Movement defied the government by offering shelter to these refugees. From Medieval times, churches have provided shelter to the displaced and the homeless. This is a covenant: sacred space is safe space. Pastors, priests and rabbis who opened their churches to Central Americans did so at great risk: congregations sometimes turned against them, some were…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…design is full of holes. She tells us to go into the churches and get the unconvinced Christians out, and I’m almost ready to follow her anywhere. She says that we need to go after kids who are already skeptics. We can be good role models—an honorable person who does not go to church. “When someone says, ‘Thank God,’ I always correct them, ‘No, thank me. I’m the one who did it,’” she says with her hands on her hips. According to Bey, being an oute…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Church: Pope slams gender theory; pro-LGBT pilgrims get VIP tix to see Francis Francis-watchers continue to get mixed signals. In our “stories to watch” for 2015, we included the Catholic Church’s targeting “gender ideology” as a way of challenging LGBT equality. National Catholic Reporter notes that in “Pope Francis: This Economy Kills,” released in Italy last week, Francis criticized “gender theory” and compared it to genetic manipulation and n…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…s without saying that teenage girls lack maturity. There is plenty of evidence that they also are cruel. The things I hated as a teenager—Catholicism, camping, sports, and the Grateful Dead—also were things that were important to the people who cared about me, including my parents, friends’ parents, and teachers. Rebellion is fun when you’re 15, but by the time you hit your thirties, rebellion in the form of mindlessly jeering at what other people…

An Architect Reimagines the Synagogue as Ark, Shelter, Floating Fortress

By Kathryn Joyce

…participation in the City Council of Glen Cove at the time of the 1990 Avianca airline crash in the nearby Long Island town of Cove Neck—a flight from Columbia to New York that ran out of fuel as it was held circling JFK airport awaiting permission to land, killing 73. In the midst of a subsequent council meeting, the mayor of Glen Cove sequentially cited the heroics of local emergency workers for responding to the crash, and then lamented the pre…

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men “Stand Up” for “Religious Freedom”… On a Plane

By Kara Loewentheil

…and cost the government time and money defending the law you tried to convince it not to pass, and then once you get an accommodation you sue to be exempted from that as well). The real difference here is that if you don’t want to deal with ultra-Orthodox men interfering in your travel, you can just take another airline. If only it were as easy for female employees affected by the numerous lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive c…

God Makes an Independent Film

By Eric Zassenhaus

…el Jacobs’ Audience of One, a documentary that follows the charismatic, avuncular pastor of a San Francisco Pentecostal Church on his divine mission to make a multimillion-dollar science-fiction film based on the biblical story of Joseph. But this won’t be just any film, Gazowsky promises. Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph, as his film is titled, will be so monumental, so inspired and otherworldly, it will change the process of moviemaking and shatter…

What’s More Frightening Than Snakes on a Plane?

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…dy up through an ad in a local shop or community center. Last minute emergency? Call the airline right away to see about possibilities for accommodating your needs. Likewise, if one is ardently anti-abortion for moral reasons, rather than only focus on making it illegal, prevent it by limiting unwanted pregnancies: help ensure adequate, healthy sex education and contraception are available to those who need or want them. Work to make affordable, q…

Can’t Get Away

By Kim Bobo

…ere paid by “the job.” Judging by all the homemade signs employees posted encouraging us to tip, much of their income came from tips, not wages. So were they employees one moment and independent contractors the next? Sounded fishy to me. Then we proceeded to Glacier National Park, where we were to spend three days before returning home. Our first breakfast in the dining room, my son overheard the manager telling all the wait staff to turn in their…

Religion and Reality TV: Is God Watching?

By Kent L. Brintnall

…parking place when running late for a conference, and the ability to convince airline employees to bend regulations so he could store camera equipment in overhead compartments. Oh, and God also helped Osteen in some Texas real estate ventures that, even on Osteen’s superficial account, sound kind of shady. Perhaps a God concerned with lateness and luggage does get invested in televised talent competitions. One final religious dimension to reality…