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Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…true. I also think, more to the point, that feminism (and, I’d argue, queer- and trans-liberation) has the ability to save Judaism, to help it return to our highest ideals. Religion can and should help us to live our greatest aspirations, and any time that it fails to help us, individually and as a community, live out our potential in the greatest possible way, it fails us. Feminism has asked vitally important questions of Judaism and Jewish life,…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…with 300 being incidences of pedophilia, and 600 priests defrocked in a ten-year period. These cases, according to Monsignor Charles J. Scicluna, represented sexual abuse cases that had occurred over the last fifty years. Unfortunately, this is a very small percentage of the cases worldwide, in part because Scicluna states that between 1975 and 1985, “I do not believe that any cases of pedophilia committed by priests were brought to the attention…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…here a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? Yes, The Re-Enchantment of the West, Volumes I & II by Christopher Partridge. I first discovered Partridge because he has written on the modern vampire community. The term “re-enchantment” appears with increasing frequency, but it is usually invoked rather than defined. Partridge convincingly argues that secularization has actually created the conditions for new and meaningful forms o…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…anding ovations at the conference. Declaring that “the regime today is anti-White anti-male and anti-Christian,” Azerrad condemned the “browning of America,” the “intentional demographic transformation of America into a majority-minority country through large scale immigration.” Taking more talking points directly from White nationalist organizations like VDARE—a group he cited—he mused: “who knows when Whites will be reduced into a minority in Am…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d, but 41% say gay and lesbian relationships are moral. Resorting to pseudo-science is the last gasp of anti-gay groups and they will certainly tout this study, ﬂaws and all, as proof that same-sex couples make awful parents and raise terribly troubled kids. Again, it’s no shock – the religious right wing is always quick to twist science to its liking – and they will still continue to quote Robert Spitzer’s study on “ex-gays” even though Spitzer h…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…tten? Which one? Why? I think most academic historians want to write a best-selling, Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize-winning work with the prose skills of Michael Chabon! I don’t know if there’s a specific book out there that I wish I had written. For me, I want to improve my craft all the time. That being said, Gail Bederman’s Manliness & Civilization and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s Barbarian Virtues are two of the most influential books for me, so I’d h…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…pollsters, like Lifeway, have found that 50% of those who identified “born-again, evangelical or fundamentalist Christian,” believe legal support for such unions is inevitable. Overall, 64% of those asked said same-sex marriage would become legal across the U.S. By the way, not everyone in Atlanta was pleased that it was mainly gays and lesbians who spearheaded the rehabbing craze in their city; afterward, however, they seemed quite happy to pay…

Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead

By Gary Laderman

…still a dreadfully pleasurable sense of anticipation for the start of trick-or-treating. My kids want me to go trick-or-treating Friday night, hoping that I will finally come through on a promise I made a few years ago to dress up as Elvis (not the young one, I’m afraid!) and participate in the ghoulish fun of resurrecting and playing with the dead. While I have a predilection for the macabre generally, and tend to be a little too preoccupied with…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…counterculture of Indian ascetic renouncers, to the counterculture of turn-of-the-century American practitioners of tantra, to the counterculture of Transcendentalism and metaphysical religion, to the counterculture of proponents of physical culture. It wasn’t until the 1960s that it no longer opposed prevailing cultural norms and became readily available to the masses. The 1960s proved to be the ideal time for the global dissemination of yoga,…

Will Iowa’s Abortion Ban Respect Religious Freedom?

By Christine Ryan

…e, the result is the same—a termination of a pregnancy. The law is so clear-cut that anti-abortion activists and states cannot mount good-faith legal arguments in opposition. Instead, they attack the plaintiffs’ beliefs, claiming they aren’t genuinely religious. This tactic rests on lazy assumptions that religion is intrinsically anti-abortion and bears no relationship to the lived experiences of religious people who have abortions. What it does o…