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The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…, it’s practically required reading for anyone trying to live in a cramped New York apartment. There’s something spiritually satisfying about the act of pruning. Who hasn’t dreamed of simplifying their life, committing to minimalism, and limiting their possessions to the bare necessities? Many religious and philosophical traditions contain strains of such asceticism. From Epictetus to the Buddha, from Christian monasticism to Thoreau, there’s a lo…

Occupy in Exile: Sacred Space is Everywhere

By Donna Schaper

…is—and it is everywhere. On Monday night, November 14, 2011, the mayor of New York City ordered the police to evict the 500 or so overnight occupiers in Zuccotti Park. As part of the eviction, tents and computers, books and papers, food and toilet paper were destroyed, actually ground fine in dumpsters. Many falsely thought the movement wouldn’t survive its physical eviction and material destruction. They were and are wrong. Sacred space may star…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…ntretemps around the opening of the new REBAR in the old G Lounge space in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood is (again) quite typical. Evidently aware that G had finally, after many years, become a rare welcoming downtown space for people of color, the new management made a point of making REBAR distinctly unwelcoming to African American patrons. With Pride month upon us, I want to call out what should be recognized as the Gay Shame in the persisten…

Study Shows Mainline Women Clergy Are Significantly More Progressive Than Their Male Counterparts

By Melissa Deckman

…gender gaps among mainline clergy extend to broader protections for LGBTQ Americans. Today, women clergy overwhelmingly (96%) favor laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing, compared with 88% of men clergy. Women clergy (86%) today are also more likely than men (64%) to oppose allowing a small business owner to refuse, on the basis of their beliefs, t…

Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ew Israelites? Not that one either? I understand. Well, you had to see the New York Times story discussing the rise of exclusionary White Jewish Rabbanites (shoutout to the Karaites) within American Judaism? Hmm. You missed that as well. Guess what, gentle reader: I did too because none of these occurred. What am I referring to you ask? In a recent JTA story, “It’s not racist to say Hebrew Israelites, Jews of color are not the same” representative…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…se who live today are the survivors of nothing less than a campaign of destruction, led by the might of the State. New Ways Ministry profiles Paul Kelly, a Catholic priest who has led efforts to eliminate the “gay panic” defense in his state. Kelly became involved after the person to beat someone to death in Kelly’s churchyard used a “gay panic” defense and was convicted only for manslaughter. Iran: Supreme Leader warns against western moral decay…

How an Ancient Story of Renegade Rabbis Caught With Black Market Technology Can Help Us Navigate ChatGPT’s Apocalyptic Aura

By Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld

…eaching become untenable? Will my job be filled by a computer? Will robots rule the world? While these questions may not quite seem apocalyptic, the fear they express echoes Sam Altman’s comment. From fountain pens to movable type, major technological advances always precipitate crises. At the time, the looming change seems to threaten our way of life. But, in hindsight, the changes are drained of their emotional charge and often appear to have al…

Will Growing Alliance With Christian Zionists Split the American Jewish Establishment?

By Sarah Posner

…making for decades,” Beinart writes. This is evidence, Beinart argues, of new pressure on the American Jewish establishment—not, Beinart maintains, just from J Street on its left, but from its right, for example, from the Adelson-financed Zionist Organization of America. These changing dynamics are the product of demographic changes: the children of establishment but largely secular American Jews, Beinart says, are less likely to be strident or e…

The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…could get my hands on, carry around, bump into. One day in a bookstore in New York I did bump into a charming community organizer with dreadlocks down to his lower back who invited me to check out a church where he was a minister-in-training. I started going regularly and eventually joined. Then I went to divinity school, and now I’m starting my own church in Chicago. A lot happened to get me to the point of wanting to start a church, and at this…

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…the country on a five-week pilgrimage across the United States to educate Americans on the AHB and the American evangelicals who helped provoke this witch hunt. Rev. Mark Kiyimba is a Unitarian Minister and founder of the Unitarian Church in Kampala, one of the few churches in Uganda that welcomes LGBT people. During his four-day stop in Boise, Idaho, Kiyimba told RD, “I think [Yiga] was among the people who were outed in the newspaper.” Earlier,…