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Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…it the You Made it Weird channel at Nerdist.com to pick from any of a wide number of fun and thoughtful interviews. For a crash course on Holmes’ own religious beliefs you can listen to this interview with Emergent Church pastor Rob Bell. Category Winner. When it comes to conversations about religion, Krista Tippett’s On Being is the gold standard. The Peabody Award-winning radio program is also available as a podcast, and subscribers can access u…

Rejecting the Binary: Why Left v. Right Doesn’t Work

By Eric C. Miller

…hem and generate more campaign funds. Yet “winning” is not possible in the way they imagine, as differences of opinion will always exist. Some writers do seek some middle ground, such as Steven Waldman’s Founding Faith, David Hollenbachs’ The Common Good and Christian Ethics, and even to some degree, Richard Land’s The Divided States of America? Surprisingly, Barack Obama’s treatment of the issues in Audacity of Hope are very well informed. Yet, h…

Are They Jewish Bones? Battle for Separation of Synagogue & State in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…ni’s sentiments when they wrote on March 29 that “the time has come to do away with the Chief Rabbinate. This is the only conclusion any clear-headed observer, concerned about the way Judaism is being represented in the public domain, can draw.” Hilonim, especially the more vocal and militant among them In seeming to accede to the demands of his coalition’s Ultra-Orthodox constiuents, Benjamin Netanyahu (busy with international affairs in general…

Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”

By Jay Michaelson

…injustice, sexual inhibitions, whatever—are “God’s will” or in some other way beyond human intervention? Not always, of course, but bad religion often reinforces the very neuroses and limitations that hold human beings back… just like Scientology did for Al Bornstein. Now, there are important differences. Bornstein was thrown out of Scientology not for his sexual deviance or some doctrinal dispute, but because he unintentionally exposed a financi…

Anti-Gay Republican Senator Comes Out as LGBT Ally

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ith his votes to deny equality to gay and lesbian couples. But, as we’ve always preached in the LGBT community, the best way to bring about change is to get to know an actual living, breathing, LGBT person. Congratulations, then, to Portman for coming around to the right side of history. He’s going to have a rocky time in his own party, as Sen. Marco Rubio affirmed his opposition to marriage equality at CPAC, saying, “Just because I believe that s…

How To Engage Politics As A Community?

By Daniel Schultz

…ming opinions about public policy and arguing with people on the internet about it. Like the Guatemalan strategy, this approach is premised on individualism: if the debates have a point, it is to change people’s opinions, one by one, so that they will then vote the right way. When I look at things that way, I wonder if maybe prayer and fasting is the way to go. I’m not quite at that point, but yeah. What is the alternative to an individualistic, c…

After Her Remarks Pope JPII Was Never the Same — Controversial, Beloved Sr Theresa Kane’s Effect on the Catholic Church Endures

By Mary E. Hunt

…generations to make change, so we might as well enjoy ourselves along the way. She arrived early and stayed late at parties. She danced. She never stood on ceremony or exploited her position; she was always part of the group. I recall her once ducking out of a conference session a tad early to stake out a table in the hotel bar where she sat into the night with young women encouraging them with her wisdom and care. Theresa Kane and her generation…

Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…y she said again, “if the Lord tells me.” So, I asked her if there was any way she could speak to the Lord and she turned to me with indignation and said “I speak to the Lord, every day.” I think the way she explained it was, ‘I speak to him’ but I don’t tell him what to do. And I wait for him to speak to me, on this, that (and the other). Honestly, I found this very curious. Because I have always been taught, even as a Christian, that I had respo…

‘Leaving is Never So Simple as Stepping Over a Line’ — A Conversation with the Author of ‘Rift,’ a New Memoir on Christian Patriarchy

By Audrey Clare Farley

…not only your neckline, but also your every thought. You write, “Dad was always watching, which meant God was always watching.” What effect do you think this voyeuristic conception of God has on girls? I remember from a very early age being sexualized and objectified. My purity was of utmost importance to my father. I was told my value was in being sexually pure until my wedding night. Even kissing was forbidden. I held a lot of shame about my bod…

New York Times Columnist Peter Steinfels’ Letter To RD; With Author Response

By Mark D. Jordan

…f the St. Andrew Day’s Statement have not quite engaged their critics, The Way Forward? operates at a level far above the usual battling about a handful of biblical passages and the usual volleying of stereotypes and sentimentalities. Yet to read these essays is almost to despair. “For one thing, simply by way of contrast, they bring to mind how rarely it is acknowledged that the current debates about homosexuality involve matters that remain unse…