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Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…f persisting royal consciousness. Significantly, the battle lines here are between different cohorts of Democrats. And it is by no means a question of troglodyte teachers unions on one side and the enlightened advocates of social mobility on the other. This fight is emblematic of the larger fight for the soul (I use that term loosely) of the Democratic Party. It is about the reach of a Social Darwinist, or royalist, mindset of one segment of the p…

A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…ley, minister at the West Valley UU Church in Glendale, served as a bridge between the national UUA and local organizing work. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock provided travel support for those unable to get there themselves. Months of preparation went into making the experience a meaningful and effective one. Local folks participated tirelessly in coalition work, figuring out what roles they could play in conjunction with o…

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…

Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?

By Nicole Greenfield

…is sermons that his life and experience, his relationship with Jesus is no better than theirs. It is unclear whether Revolution will ever be the tight-knit, everyone-is-equal church community he envisions. Because even though people may be attracted to the message of grace, church in a bar, or to social justice, many ultimately go to see the rebellious son of Jim and Tammy Faye. It is his Christian star-power and his family history that will keep…

You Asked For It

By Amina Wadud

…ht occur due to some individual Muslims. There is no statistical corollary between fasting, Islam, Muslims and the (still unacceptable) violation. As the nature of the debates over the proposed Islamic cultural center a couple of blocks from Ground Zero has brought to the fore, Islamaphobia is alive and well. For me: I do not condone prejudice against Muslims or prejudice by Muslims. This blog is actually mostly about the latter. Zuhura’s question…

Degrees of Separation

By Amina Wadud

…speakers, not by the linguistics of the religion. So anyway, communication between the women and the dominant half of the mosque is either facilitated by the go-betweens of medium age or literally shouted across the courtyard. On the women’s section there is a sign prohibiting eating and drinking in the prayer area, so we either sit in the classrooms or in the long and wide corridor that wraps around the prayer hall and between the classrooms. The…

A Philosopher of Religion Calls it Quits

By Julia Galef

…values, and relationships, changing one’s mind is a daunting prospect. The central point of contention—the existence of God—is most fraught of all, not to mention starkly binary. “In philosophy of religion you do have this gap—either God exists or not. There’s no middle ground,” Parsons says. However, even philosophers bent on keeping their core beliefs can help move discussions forward. As in other subfields, much of philosophy of religion consis…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…ing Children vs. Religious 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…

Queer Religion and Community at HRC Summer Institute

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…come.) Sacred borderlands The truly unprecedented thing was, for lack of a better term, the creation of coalition on the axes of race and sexuality. It didn’t hurt that of the fourteen students who were selected to be in the program, eight were people of color. Not surprisingly only four of the eighteen teacher/mentors were, and this generational shift bodes well for the future of Queer/LGBT religious movements. And it also didn’t hurt that the wh…

Book Burning and the Scapegoating of Islam

By Eric Reitan

…he sin that leads to the cross, and were in need of conversion. We Are All Betrayer, Deserter, Denier If Heim is right about this, then Jones and Phelps and their respective congregations 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…