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American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…ments is almost as long as his list of publications. Ven. Bodhi and his students founded Buddhist Global Relief, which partners with local organizations around the world to increase food security and build local food capacity. He has also been deeply involved with climate activism, most prominently co-authoring the Buddhist Climate Declaration. And he has been active in both Occupy Faith and the Rolling Jubilee campaign, which is raising money to…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…r Jewish father and a mother who turned to Eastern meditation, Schneider found Catholicism as a college student. As he recounts the proofs for the existence of God, Schneider tests his own less definitive faith against them, the result of which is an engaging book that never resorts to tendentiousness or narcissism. [Full disclosure: I have worked with Schneider and consider him a friend.] God in Proof is a hybrid book, part history, part memoir…

Historic Prayer by Woman at LDS General Conference Signals Growing Concern with Gender Equality

By Joanna Brooks

…bility, representation, and access to Church leadership opportunities are being heard. Change in institutional Mormonism comes slowly and through the deliberations of a deeply intransparent bureaucratic hierarchy. But the last six months have seen several noteworthy changes pertaining to women’s education and participation, including last October’s widely-covered lowering of the age for women’s missionary service, January’s release of a new, more…

Marriage Equality: No More (Word) Games

By William Myatt

…, those who frame the argument in terms of equality—as if the question of identity has already been answered—are ignoring the more fundamental problematic. Smith bases his proposal on the verbal parallelism we see in the phrases “gender equality,” “race equality,” and “marriage equality.” “Gender,” “race,” and “marriage” all qualify the word “equality” and should, therefore, be considered analogous. In the first two phrases, “equality” essentially…

Just a Mirror of a Mirror of Myself: Episode Three Recap of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ght be said for many of us. Conservative Christian or no, these are fairly common struggles. Trying to meet competing standards. Confusing “support” with “agreeing to shame me when I do something that I think would make me dirty-bad-wrong-impure-ugly-fat-gross!” Negotiating one’s way into more responsibility, and then having to figure out what to do with it. Confronting the fact that another person could decide to totally disrupt one’s life while…

The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights

By Alan Michael Williams

…cussion on their Facebook forum where—in an attempt to appeal to the least common denominator of “love” to draw the most Mormons—the moderators delete comments and remove people from the group who advocate marriage equality or discuss doctrine on the question of “sin.” This is not to suggest that everyone in MBB believes same-sex intimacy is a sin, but to the extent that members stay silent (or are silenced) on the issue, they perpetuate the offic…

The Internet is Not Killing Organized Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t and Catholic young people exhibit significantly less robust and enduring denominational identities than do their evangelical, Mormon, and other more conservative religious peers. At the end of the day, that is, it is not so much “the culture”—digital culture, secular culture—that is driving young people from churches, it is religious culture itself. Particularly, it seems, the religious culture found in progressive mainline and liberal Catholic…

Unpacking the Giglio Imbroglio

By Sarah Posner

…ivil discourse” of the campaigns. Conservatives are already starting to protest that the complaints about Giglio were a mark of the intolerance of progressives for their conservative Christian views. “How is this substantially different from the Inquisition?” tweeted Brandon McGinley, a conservative activist. (Let me count the ways.) Naturally there’s no religious figure that no one would object to. Perhaps one solution would be to have multiple f…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…the bodies in a way that is religiously appropriate. Some Uttarakhand residents protested this decision, saying that the state government was proceeding with mass cremation in order to prevent the true number of deaths in and around Kedarnath from ever being known. One of the government organizations involved in rescuing survivors reportedly refused to assist with cremations. Even as the state government continues to conduct disaster relief there…

Scott Lively Defends Anti-Gay Uganda Work in Federal Court

By Peter Montgomery

…elanie Nathan for LGBTQ Nation, Ugandan Pepe Onziema told activists he had come to Massachusetts “to face the devil.” “Coming face to face with the man who has caused us so much pain is important to me. We want him held accountable for the escalating homophobia and persecution in Uganda. This case is about making it clear to people who have exported their hate agenda to Uganda that their actions have a very real effect on us and they must stop.” s…