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Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn’t Sure

By Jay Michaelson

…s his goal. That alone is good in itself. I don’t look to mindfulness as a way to change the way people think about the planet. You know, I once wrote a book called Ecological Intelligence which argued that if the environmental effects of what we do and buy were easily accessed at decision points, that that would be enough. But I think that’s wrong. I think that’s necessary but not sufficient. I think we need a different motivational system on to…

Gambling with God: Ryan Bell’s Atheist Bet

By Linn Marie Tonstad

…sible reaction to doubt is to see whether it can become as all-embracing—a way of life—just like faith. Pascal’s wager suggests that faith has long been part of a marketplace: in effect, Pascal shorted atheism. Bell’s marketplace looks very different. We might invest in Christianity, or in atheism, or in Buddhism. The choice is ours; we decide one way or another. Bell was an adjunct teacher at Azuza Pacific University and Fuller Seminary. His cont…

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…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…but with a twist. The red-clad heroine has been matched in a most spirited way to a local woodcutter since childhood; the two dream of running away together, to escape the small town and its wooded environs. But the girl has recently been betrothed to a well-to-do blacksmith in the town, so the lovers decide to leave. On the very day of their departure, the wolf strikes, killing Red’s sister. When the men go hunting for the wolf it strikes again….

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…

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…

Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ls have found that by excommunicating women priests they have a convenient way to distract from the criminal activity of priest pedophiles and bishops who covered up their crimes. Note that while every woman priest has been excommunicated, not one of those men has been. Contemporary understandings of priesthood are changing. Outmoded biologistic understandings of apostolic succession—the hands that laid the hands that laid the hands—are giving way…

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…

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…

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…