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Preaching to the ‘Moveable Middle’: Bishop Gene Robinson on Marriage Equality and the Election

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…itself. Robinson has used his experiences, and his high position, to pen a new book, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage, that seeks to answer the ten most popular questions he has heard about marriage equality for gay and lesbian people. In the book, he tackles questions like why marriage is an issue for LGBT people, why straight people should support it and why civil unions, while they are a good first step, simply won’t be en…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…nowadays, so we’ve got to figure out something. That makes them a lot more open-minded, and hopefully that can generate change and help everybody to see the possibilities more clearly. Your bio on the Fremont Abbey website says you wanted to “change the city through community arts interaction.” What needed to change in Seattle? I think people in Seattle and other cities are increasingly disconnected from each other in spite of technology like soci…

Trump and Hindu Nationalism: A Match Made in Bollywood

By Andrea R. Jain

…t to claim yoga as the intellectual property of India, which have gone hand-in-hand with attempts to disenfranchise Indian Muslims. Trump insisted, “We must fix our terrible trade deals and protect America’s intellectual property, something you know a lot about.” While Modi and his fellow Hindutva neoliberals want the state out of the way of private enterprise, they want the state to use public resources to actively promote a form of Hindu yoga. U…

The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru

By Michael Schulson

…l to the arch-capitalist set. For one thing, it jibes with an entrepreneurs-as-social-heroes mentality—only instead of being “winners” or “job creators” they’re creative minds unlocking a better world, their ideas transforming the texture of reality. For another, it affirms, rather than polices, the expression of desire (sound familiar?), and it does so within a pleasingly vague moral framework that doesn’t offer much by way of fixed ethical deman…

What’s the Matter With Jewish Studies? Sexism, Harassment, and Neoliberalism For Starters

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…nd accordingly traffics in methodologies that are empirically-oriented, outcome-driven, and data-rich—what would, in the Christian context, be referred to as research designed to “get butts in the pews,” so to speak. These ostensibly neutral rubrics are ideological and it’s unsurprising that they promote scholarship that duplicates and reconfirms hegemonic norms. It is difficult not to sense that the field of Jewish Studies continues to promote an…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…narrative, why is it inaccurate, and how did it come to be so popular? The book opens with what I call the myth of the redemptive Depression. I guess you could call it our nation’s welfare origin story. Basically, it’s the idea that the Great Depression really wasn’t all that bad—or it was bad, but from adversity came redemption. People gave up luxuries they didn’t need, turned to their families, their communities, and their churches, and together…

“American Values” and “Standing With Israel”

By Sarah Posner

…with their home improvement reality show following reporting of their anti-gay, anti-abortion, and anti-Muslim statements.) “Despite our differences about Jesus,” said David Benham, apparently referring to Christians and Jews, “we are united because we recognize that God has a plan for Israel.” But, he went on, “there’s someone else who has a plan for Israel:” Satan, who “has waged war against Israel” since God made his promise to Abraham. Benham…

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ike Burning Man, to wholly idiosyncratic practices such as completing paint-by-number paintings of The Last Supper. Feeding the Poor, Housing the Homeless A 7-year study with nearly 15,000 undergraduates at 136 colleges and universities across the country by Alexander and Helena Astin of UCLA’s Center for Spirituality in Higher Education provides some clues to the shaping of contemporary American religious practice. The Astins’ work has shown that…

A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

Tears. Laughter. Jubilation. Shouts of “Yes We Can!” and “O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma!” I was one of the quarter of a million people gathered in Grant Park on election night; these reactions, these shouts, and the music—everything from Stevie Wonder to Eric Clapton—continue to play out in my mind. There are several moments that stand out in what continues to be a haze: The news outlet of choice for “the event” was CNN, and there were a dozen or so jumbotron…

Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers

By Eric Reitan

…cy to think that philosophical arguments for God’s existence have to be all-or-nothing. Either they prove once and for all the existence of the Judeo-Christian God of Love, or they’re failures that should be tossed in the trash heap of bad ideas. The truth is much more involved. First of all, even if the traditional arguments for God’s existence fail to show that a personal loving creator exists, they might show something more modest—for example,…