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Jews Violate Their Own Beliefs, Conservative Christians Say

By Evan Derkacz

…igotry. What is bigotry is opening a business and then denying some people service on the basis of their identities. Second, as members of a minority religion, American Jews have long enjoyed constitutional protection from the Christian majority, which has sought to compel Jews to say Christian prayers, yield to Christian holy symbols in civic spaces, and conform to all sorts of Christian religious practices. To twist the meaning of “religious lib…

Will Rand Paul Break the Religious Outreach Mold?

By Sarah Posner

…upporters, and none of them fit the mold of the sort of activists who were waiting for social conservative elites to rally around a candidate to decide who to vote for. I wouldn’t even really call them libertarians, in large part because of how they envisioned a drastically constrained federal government in order to cede ground to their religious ideology. Whether they were gun rights activists to the right of the NRA or avid home-schoolers, the c…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…ve them, President Obama has been extremely reticent to commit substantial numbers of ground troops to wars that have no clear exit strategy. He can however get away with this because he’s worked hard to build alliances and partnerships with other countries who bear some of the burden, put their own troops into the fight, and help us in the common war against ISIS. Many of these partners are Muslim, if they do not explicitly consider themselves Is…

My Congregation Tried to Help a Syrian Family Settle in the US

By Thomas Warming

…ill want to befriend them, or would they be cowed or converted by the mean-spirited rhetoric that has been flying loose recently? It’s that last question that has me thinking that my faith doesn’t need protection, thank you very much. Something has shaken loose in the American psyche this week, a vein of paranoid xenophobia that for a long while has been inflated with poison by people eager to take advantage of the cultural and economic anxieties…

“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?

By Marcia Pally

…t the best possible life for all of God’s creatures… the law stands in the service of a stable, flourishing, and life-enhancing community.” From the Jewish perspective, Hazony echoes: the biblical author “wished to persuade his readers that there exists a law whose force is of a universal nature, because it derives from the way the world itself was made.” While the ritual aspects of the Mosaic code aimed at guiding the Israelites, the theological,…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…part of a consumer culture in which practitioners choose yoga products and services based on individual desires and needs. Consumption of this kind appears rather hedonistic, or perhaps, as Jeremy Carrette and Richard King have put it strongly, is characterized by an “obsession with the individual self and a distinct lack of interest in compassion, the disciplining of desire, self-less service to others and questions of social justice.” The last p…

A Moral Galaxy: War and Suffering in “Star Wars: The Old Republic”

By Robert M. Geraci and Nat Recine

…rk moral decisions the players make, with their own loyalty (and continued service) dependent upon each player’s choices. It is common for people to treat computers as though they were people, and this is clearly magnified in the accountability systems of SWTOR’s companions. The computer controls the companions—but they accompany the players, fight with them, and respond to the decisions that the players make. The companions will like or dislike p…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tion; LGBT activist gets ‘alternative Nobel’ Renee Gadoua at Religion News Service profiles anti-gay religious right activist Scott Lively, who is on trial for promoting persecution of LGBT people in Uganda in a case brought by Sexual Minorities Uganda and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Lively also urged Russia to criminalize the public advocacy of homosexuality and called the country’s anti-gay propaganda law “one of the proudest achieveme…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…t out is what you will get back. So, the golden rule may still receive lip service, but it is too expensive to practice, according to the rich nations of the world. What about reparations or repentance? Karmic thinking alerts us that it is too expensive not to practice repentance and repair. Everything is connected COP21 is a success. It was more than we could have expected—and the Pope’s moral frame prevailed. The moral issue is the connection be…

America No Longer a Christian Nation: And Other Critical Data from 2015

By Daniel Cox and Joanna Piacenza

…of Christians—oppose allowing a small business owner to refuse products or services to gay and lesbian people, even if doing so violates their religious beliefs. On the other hand, roughly one-third (36%) of the public support such a policy. Majorities of many religious traditions—including Catholics (59%), non-white Protestants (54%), and white mainline Protestants (53%)—are opposed to these so-called “religious freedom” laws, with one important…