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

By Mati Wagner

…the middlemen for the chance to come or simply to enjoy Israel’s economic boom. Others came as near-indentured servants who were forbidden to work for anyone but the employer who first hired them, until the Supreme Court finally ruled that this arrangement violated basic human rights, annulling in the process their discriminatory work permits. These “guest” workers, who today number between 250,000 and 400,000 (half of whom are illegal) did not on…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…White House will end up conceding to the braying anti-tax forces. This looming fight offers a tremendous teachable moment for public ethics if President Obama would only seize it and lead us into a national conversation on the subject of wealth and taxes. Such a conversation could be filled with implicit theological content, inasmuch as what I like to call “good religion” has a big stake moderating extreme wealth for the sake of commonwealth pr…

How To Control Your Ungodly Urges… On a Budget!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ten)? A weekend retreat teaching you to name male privilege and learn to look critically at sexism? Well I don’t know. I’m not an expert on such matters. But evidently that shouldn’t stop me from reactively pronouncing that I’M SURE NOT GONNA PAY ONE CENT FOR IT, even indirectly. With that in mind, I hereby present some budget-friendly tips for misogynists trying to control their urges: 1. Sell plasma! Patricia Heaton says this is a good way to…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…es, massive die-offs of long-established species: it’s all so very scary. Looming over all of it is the idea that we foolish humans have triggered some deep-level physical processes (methane gas release, ocean acidification, etc.) that now possess an ominous life of their own. In these circumstances the word that slides naturally from the tongues of pundits is “apocalyptic.” It strikes many that we are now entering an apocalyptic scenario without…

“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…lly had to see for myself: the Krewe du Jieux. It was a warm, sunny afternoon, Saturday, January 19, and the streets of the French Quarter were teeming with day-drinkers long before that night’s parades lined up. Krewe du Vieux is one of the best loved and crudest of carnival season spectacles. The parade’s theme was “Krewe du Vieux Comes Early,” playing on the early date of Mardi Gras this year and the adult themes of many of the parade’s sub-k…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…famous Palestinian—Jesus of Nazareth. In this time that’s dedicated to a poor child born to an unwed mother, my conscience has forced my hand to the page. The disdain for protest within our blessed community has troubled my spirit to the point that I cannot sleep. It is with great trepidation that I write you as your son—heavy-hearted and ashamed. Having been baptized into the faith at 15, my formative years were shaped by the best of the black p…

After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

I returned home this lovely and generous summer morning to find a book of essays by the equally lovely and generous poet Gerald Stern waiting in the mailbox. My son opened the package for me, as he likes to do, and I took up a wicker chair on the porch to dip into Stern’s prose. It won’t be long before my son, a teenager, discovers the magic of girls. We worry about helping him navigate the new world he is about to enter. There is some sweet spot…

When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument For Hiding Your Faith

By Jonathan Malesic

…lems he thinks we have, and he would suddenly have nuclear weapons in his toolbox. Among Christian intellectuals, Reno’s pro-Trump nihilism is matched only by that of the writer Eric Metaxas. In an October 12 article in the Wall Street Journal, Metaxas writes in apocalyptic terms about a possible Hillary Clinton presidency, assigning her responsibility for things she has no control over, but still claims that “God will not hold us guiltless” if Ch…

Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s. To unpack the deep historical, religious, and conservative culture war roots of this sweeping effort to roll back access to safe, effective birth control, I turned to fellow RD senior correspondent Patricia Miller, author of Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church, and RD’s Remapping American Christianities editor Anita Little. In this special roundtable, we talk about what’s in this new draft, how some Catholic leaders…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…have a beautiful wife to put on ostentatious display (preferably with a brood of beautiful babies), sexual pleasure was until recently viewed by most Christian thinkers as a distraction from the more important life of the spirit. Saints no less than Augustine and Aquinas were clear that sex existed for procreation, with companionship (begrudgingly) as a secondary purpose. Following Jesus’ own path of virginity, however, was seen as the best life…