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A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…hich Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray of the UU Congregation of Phoenix, played a central role and UU singers participated in the joint choir. The more than 200 UUs, some in clergy garb but most in their bright yellow shirts emblazoned with the Standing on the Side of Love logo, were visible in the service and then in the march down the street. Once groups convened downtown, around at 9 a.m., civil disobedience actions began in multiple locations. Althou…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…itizenship under family reunion arrangements. Finally, an estimated 25,000 Africans from Sudan, Eritrea, and other countries have infiltrated the country via Egypt. Together with Arab Israelis, approximately 30% of the population (inside the Green Line) is not Jewish, similar to Belgium with a 30% Walloon and a 60% Flemish population or pre-1993 Czechoslovakia (54% Czech and 31% Slovak). Israel’s very raison d’etre is to maintain its Jewish exclus…

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…he union had 5,000 members, equivalent to the population of one very small Central Valley town. The labor in California’s agricultural fields was largely taken up by Mexican migrant workers—the very workers Chavez had been unable to reconcile to his American union, whom he had branded “scabs” and wanted reported to immigration authorities. This is far from the whole story. In fact Chavez did organize and reconcile undocumented workers to his union…

Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?

By Nicole Greenfield

…ly what, by McCracken’s estimation, make Aiuto and his church “hip.” For a central part of being hip is not trying to be, or at least not caring whether you are or not. And you certainly can’t be hip if you label yourself as such. “Pastors who think they’ll win over the cool kids by forming the church in the cool kids’ pop-culture image,” he writes, “are liable to find themselves even less relevant than when they started.” Criticizing “Cool” For M…

Rick Santorum’s Crusade To Save “Christendom”

By Sarah Posner

…antorum never let go of his old culture war issues — in fact they became a central facet of his ideology against Islam. I had the chance to interview Santorum in late 2007, as the Republican presidential primary was in full swing, and the candidates were trying not only to out-values-voters each other, but demonstrate their tough-on-terrorism cred. When I interviewed him, he was fresh off speaking at David Horowitz’s Islamofascism Awareness Week a…

Obama’s Supposed “Religion Dilemma” and American Exceptionalism

By Sarah Posner

…of the election. “To see issues related to religious or cultural issues as central to the 2010 outcome is, we believe, a mistake,” they wrote in their analysis of the PRRI data. Yet, in a crucial caveat that these two say portends an intense culture war confrontation between the right and the left lies a potential battle among Democrats: how to react to the right’s smears that Obama is neither a genuine Christian nor a genuine American. Dionne and…

Degrees of Separation

By Amina Wadud

…cin, Spain (across from Al-Hambra palace) in the month of December with no central heat. I got used to double and triple layers under my regular clothes, including a woolen cap under my hijab. Then they put me on a sleeper train without gender separation and my “bed” was literally on top of the heater. There I was unable to take off anything because there were strange men all around me, including in the bunk above me; and yet I was suffering from…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…us Concerns The Orthodox community’s reliance upon beth dins is one of the central stumbling blocks to combating sexual abuse. Typically comprised of three rabbis, they rule on family and business disputes such as divorce, inheritance, and contractual disagreements. Small Jewish communities usually have a single beth din while larger communities, like those found in New York and New Jersey, may have many. These include beth dins that specialize in…

Queer Religion and Community at HRC Summer Institute

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…not serve anyone’s interests. … In my tradition, Christianity, one of the central theological claims is that God extends love and mercy graciously—i.e., from a space of vulnerability, from a space where being wounded and hurt and misunderstood is always a risk. As we worked—and worked hard—through the course of the week, as we made mistakes, as we learned from each other, as we forged relationships, genuine relationships, by naming and confrontin…

Book Burning and the Scapegoating of Islam

By Eric Reitan

…egations are symbolically enacting the very thing that the passion stories central to Christianity were intended to repudiate. Where they are called to see the crucified Christ in those who are being symbolically burned at the stake, they instead see a righteous sacrifice to God. Where they are called to identify with the victim of sacrificial scapegoating, they become the practitioners. For those like me who see in the crucifixion what Heim sees,…