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Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…d calls for zero carbon, zero poverty. I guess she is not serene. “Climate change will lead to further radicalization of those already isolated and in poverty,” she said. Doesn’t that motivate people to change what they can? Do we really want to live in a police state? Naomi Klein argues that people have to reclaim the streets on Saturday, no mater what the agreement is or isn’t. Why? “For Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.” All week the glitter and gl…

Pro-Gay Christians Breaking Out

By Peter Montgomery

…te should be able to recognise same-sex marriage. I also believe that this change should legally exempt religious institutions from any requirement to change their historic position and practice that marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman. For me, this change in position has come about as a result of a lot of reflection, across a long period, including conversations with good people grappling with deep questions of life, sexuality and f…

Of Sports and Social Justice: An Interview with Rebecca Alpert

By Susan Henking

…rginal. Perspective is, indeed, everything. What do you see as the biggest changes in the last decade, and how do they affect your view of your earlier work? Since 1997 the Queer community has experienced a total sea change in the religious and secular worlds; a level of acceptance that was unimaginable then. I give the liberal Jewish community a lot of credit for responding openly and wholeheartedly to the first generation of lesbian rabbis and t…

Presbyterians, Change Hearts & Minds, Begin Ordaining Gays

By MaryAnn McKibben Dana

…d ways to keep people together in the midst of disagreements. In terms of policy, Rev. Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, described an argument she heard during debate in the Presbytery of the James: This amendment is not about sexuality, it’s about methodology. [Fidelity and chastity] was put into the Book of Order to answer a question posed by the larger church—to settle things. But it hasn’t settled thing…

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

By Jesse James DeConto

…es 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 social media that supposedly helps us stay connected. When people are in an experience where they’re closer to others, it just helps us remember that we’re here on this pla…

The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…hat their regimes, and their societies, facing myriad problems, could ever change. They would believe that white folks were somehow just superior. And then they watch some guy punch Snooki in the face, and they know in their heart: Yes, we can, too. The magic power of white culture is taken away, revealed to be human, the product of historical events and decisions, and thus susceptible to change, transformation, failures and successes. Just like a…

Anti-Gay Comments Change MD Lawmaker’s Vote

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…v. Martin O’Malley has signaled his willingness to make it law. Before his change of heart, Brochin had planned to introduce a civil union amendment to the bill, and says he still will. But when that amendment fails, he says, he’ll “vote for gay marriage.” “I’m not going to be part of the vilification of gays on the Senate floor,” Brochin said. “I’m uncomfortable with the word ‘marriage’ but I am much more uncomfortable with the vilification of ga…

Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal

By Ira Chernus

…so gives them the paradoxically reassuring feeling that they are resisting change—even when change is desperately needed to improve the well-being of the entire society. Liberals, on the other hand, have a more open-ended worldview and are thus more accepting of change—not just for themselves but for the whole society. Which brings us to the most glaring flaw in Haidt’s basic “Moral Foundations Theory.” It glibly assumes that liberals are so con…

Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

By Mary E. Hunt

…t this is a process run by media people with little thought to how it will change anything. Perhaps that’s because it’s not meant to change anything foundational. Color me skeptical, but language like “journeying companions,” “co-responsible in mission,” and “common obedience to the Spirit” bear little resemblance to reality. Such spiritualized, stylized, not to say slippery, phrases make for wonderful copy. But they bear no resemblance to a churc…

Welcome to the “Spin-od”: Conservatives Look to Halt Reforms on Divorce and Other “Family Matters”

By Patricia Miller

…trine was not going to be touched during the synod, but it was possible to change pastoral practice to reflect today’s realities. … The new practices, it was claimed, simply fit better with the current situation of many people in the Church. But that wasn’t manipulation—it was the key purpose of the synod and the question Francis asked it to address. Most of what conservatives term “manipulation” was newly empowered progressive bishops pushing for…