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Anti-Gay Activism Falling Victim to Capitalism?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…kids are just human beings like the rest of us. They believe a general anti-bullying policy will do when research has repeatedly shown that to make a difference, bullying policies need to be specific – especially in the area of LGBT people. As Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, made it clear last year, “when school level policies actually mention sexual orientation and gender identity, rates of bullyin…

Why I Am a “Cuomosexual”

By Donna Schaper

…king. And that theological statement matters more to the deportee, the down-and-out, and the gay 17-year-old who jumps off a bridge than any horse-trading we could ever do. We still want to be smart about the material while being enchanted by the spiritual. We are not going back to the time when we converted people in the soup kitchen so they could eat (are you saved?) so much as we are going forward toward an opening levered by the Holy Spirit an…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…ed as refugees will have to leave Israel as a result of the Jewish state’s new anti-immigration bills, which are as harsh as those of Arizona and Alabama here in the United States. Thousands of illegal African workers will lose their jobs before being detained in the desert until deportation. When I saw William in January, he was hoping to go back to Sudan with the assistance of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. He was planning to…

How to Choose a Tour Company for Your Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…to send a two-thousand dollar refundable deposit. I did, and so the counter-commitment began. So I start with my questions: knowing the Saudi restrictions that women cannot travel without a mahram, I asked if there would be a problem for me. I get an answer that borders on a fiqh explanation about mahram “in Islam.” I thought, well now, that’s an interesting way to respond to a visa question. However, for me they are just way too slow or to incons…

Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…conversations with the young people in these paintings. I certainly didn’t feel as comfortable making this work as when I was working on The Hymnbook Project, precisely because I only spent a very little time in Kenya. In painting these paintings, though, I felt like I was speaking from this very particular place and that by using my photographs of the peace march, and the tree planting, I could make paintings that were personal, but also a docume…

The Value of Crazy-Making Dialogue

By Daniel Schultz

…beral expressions of the faith that come out of the denomination are touchy-feely hippie nonsense. There. I said it. But what unites us is that we all participate in the same discussion and the same struggle. We come together around the common search to discern what it means to be Christians in today’s world. What makes us the United Church of Christ is that we talk to one another, not that we agree with one another. For that reason, I have been s…

We Shall Not Stop at Evangelism: Remembering Evangelical John R. W. Stott

By Randall Balmer

…ndment. What it does is to add to the command of neighbor-love and neighbor-service a new and urgent Christian dimension. If we truly love our neighbor, we shall without doubt tell him the Good News of Jesus. But equally, if we truly love our neighbor, we shall not stop there.” The other remarkable characteristic of Stott was that he was no sectarian. As a priest in the Church of England, he chose to remain there rather than head off in a separate…

Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist

By Peter Montgomery

…other contemporaries are self-evidently not). It is not some kind of guilt-by-association stretch to ask what it means that Bachmann describes Christian Reconstructionist John Eidsmoe as a mentor and major influence on her thinking. Neither is it surprising that Rick Perry’s political prayer rally would bring greater attention to the extremist nature of the event’s sponsors and speakers, which has been extensively documented. Dominionist thinking…

Religion, Marriage, and Maine’s Tortured Soul

By Peter Montgomery

…lso makes it clear that religion was a motivator for many people on the pro-equality side as well, documenting campaign events organized by pro-equality clergy and people of faith. One of the most poignant comments comes from a No on 1 (pro-equality) volunteer, a woman raising a child with her partner (and who is, herself, a churchgoer) who asks of her opponents, “Do they think God created 10 percent of the population for them to revile?” Question…

What Would Ai Weiwei Do? What the Smashing of a Million-Dollar Artwork Has to Teach Us

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…tion becomes itself an iconoclastic act. One of Ai’s great works is a large-scale, three-panel photo artwork from 1995 titled Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn. It is iconoclastic, smashing an object of the past and by extension smashing the tradition itself. This week, Ai’s artwork is back in the news. On Sunday, Dominican-born artist named Maximo Caminero walked into the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and smashed one of the vases that was part of Ai Weiwei’…