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North Carolina Feels the ‘Love’ in Amendment Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…sing you to sin, cut it off.” But he affirmed his insistence that “gender distinctions matter to God.” • Also this week, a person who declares on his YouTube account, “I vote for the Bible,” posted a video – since removed – of himself urinating on a “Vote No” sign. • That followed the posting of a video by a teenager shooting at a vote no sign he says someone put up near his house and concluding, “that’s how we deal with it around here.” Equality…

A Peek Inside the ‘Onion’ of Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…o join the Sea Org and sign the contract and that’s it; their parents must sign a document too, in which they give the Church legal guardianship and the right to act in loco parentis on the child’s behalf. The children are not expected to be independent actors. They are under the guardianship and direction of the Church. At this point, the Church says children under the age of 16 or 18 are no longer allowed into the Sea Org, and that may well be t…

Reporting from Paris During COP21: A Haunted Sabbath

By Donna Schaper

…for the cause. He had some good jokes about the various Buddhists who have signed on with Greenfaith. “Who knew Buddhists cared about who was listed first?” He called my denomination, the United Church of Christ, a “Fringe movement,” and I don’t think it was a compliment. His point was that you could expect people like us to sign on to GreenFaiths”s strong and inclusive positions. He was proud of how wide the religious coalition he has masterfully…

Please Bless His Eyes: Praying At The Hospital

By Wendy Cadge

…her blessings and asked for guidance with an important decision. Show me a sign, she wrote in one prayer, and in another, I guess I am more worried about what everyone else thinks instead of what I think and feel. Please help me to make the right decision Dear Lord. Two weeks after the initial prayer, she asked the Lord for courage to deal with her decision, offered thanks for yet another chance at motherhood, and asked the Lord to help a man, ide…

Hajj Journal: Friday Salat al Jumu’ah in Haram al-Sharif

By Amina Wadud

…she made a rift in our united efforts. What I mean is, the other women by sign language agreed with me to keep our space. At first they were going to lift up their prayer rugs when shifted by the security guards, but then I gave them the eye and also told the guard in Arabic, “We’re a group (of ladies) here.” Why should we move? To understand how this works, try to remember we are dealing in numbers of devotees so far from manageable that it almo…

New York Marriage Equality Set to Begin, Minus Two Clerks

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ion of marriage is between a man and a woman. It is a sacrament.” In her resignation letter, Fotusky complained that “There was no protection provided in the legislation for town clerks who are unable to sign these marriage licenses due to personal religious convictions, even though our U.S. Constitution supports freedom of religion.” Which completely misses the point. Fotusky is certainly welcome to believe that marriage is between one man and on…

It’s Not Just About Ground Zero

By Mark S. Byrnes

…sition to mosques around the country, an opposition neatly summarized by a sign held by one protester: “Mosques are monuments to terrorism.” The sign is from a protest in Temecula, California, which is over 2700 miles from the World Trade Center site. Protests have also greeted another proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and it became something of an issue in the recent Republican gubernatorial primary. While campaigning, Lt. Gov. Ron Rams…

To Pray or to Protest? The Both/And-ness of Black Christianity

By Jamall Andrew Calloway

…ssay on religion in Dust Tracks on the Road that she believed prayer was a sign of weakness and therefore has accepted the terms of the universe. But not everyone has. There are some who believe prayer actually affords strength to the enfeebled. Even Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. felt weak, bowed over a cup of coffee at midnight and “prayed a prayer… out loud that night.” Praying does not imply political ineptitude, just as being black, left, and ac…

Where the Wild Things Aren’t Just Jewish

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…, which for Jews has evoked exclusion and persecution, and renders it as a sign of inclusion: we are all in the Holocaust. Just as the cross incorporates believers into the body of Christ and into the community of the church, Sendak wants his sign of the cross to incorporate all readers into the body of Holocaust experience. This goes beyond a “fantasy of witnessing,” an uncanny desire to “feel the horror” of the Holocaust for ourselves. It is a f…

Response: Gay or Black, It’s Still Church-Sanctioned Discrimination

By Sarah Sentilles

…st her office, I noticed that someone had written “faulty argument” on her sign in tiny script with a ballpoint pen. Before I get into the specifics of my concern about this, let me be clear about two things. First, I am a white, straight, upper-middle class American woman, and I know my argument will be inflected with and infected by those privileges. I am willing to be held accountable for how my position (mis)shapes my argument. Second, I have…