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South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o Nazis and Communists. Last week British official released figures on the number of same-sex couples who got married between March 29 – the first day marriage was legally available in England and Wales, and June 30. Of the 1,409 marriages, 56 percent were to female couples. According to Gay Star News, about 120,000 people are in civil partnerships, which they will be able to convert to marriages beginning in December. Costa Rica: Survey Shows Spl…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…f the total revenue of American religious congregations. To get that final number, the Grims took one estimate of the total number of congregations in America (344,894) and multiplied it by another estimate of the average revenue of each ($242,910). Depending on how you look at it, $378 billion is a lot of money, or it’s not very much money at all. It’s more than the net worth of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffet, combined…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty with sur…

Satan Has a Posse (of Bats)

By Gabriel Mckee

Posters like this one recently began appearing around Manhattan: Pray in mind a few minut a day Go church Mary Mary Mary beautiful gorgeous Mary The Devil makes bats of 2 million people children every year. In America You must keep the Ten Commandments Listen Christ Radio 56 AM and Christ will protect yous Religious crackpottery is hardly new to the subways and sidewalks of New York, of course. But is this the… legitimate work of a lone anti-bat…

Yearning For A God We Can Live With

By Benjamin Weiner

…gration to America for seminary training. He is the founder of Faith House Manhattan, “an experiential interreligious community” that attempts to establish a common space for devotion and social action, though by trade he is a Seventh Day Adventist minister. Michaelson, in his late thirties, is a freelance teacher of Jewish spirituality, known particularly as the leader of Nehirim, an organization fostering spiritual consciousness among GLBT Jews….

Why Hipsters May Be Perfect Source for Brooklyn Occult Revival

By Joseph Laycock

…the original Dutch settlers likely brought their own magical traditions to Manhattan. However, this is certainly the most stylish occult renaissance to date. A recent article in The Huffington Post profiles seven Brooklyn Tarot readers, each of which features lavish headshots, descriptions of ritual objects, and personal narratives of each diviner’s unfolding relationship with the universe. The website for the Brooklyn occult shop Catland also fea…

Because God Tells Me So; Do Jews Have a “Historic Right” to Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…t week B’nai Jeshurun (a.k.a. BJ), an independent progressive synagogue in Manhattan, made the front page of the New York Times after its leadership sent a membership-wide email applauding the UN vote granting Palestinians non-member “state” status. While it predictably met with mixed reactions, it became the most visible American synagogue to break ranks with the pro-Israel lobby protesting the UN vote. A few days later the Reform Movement issued…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, an off-Broadway mission parish serving the Manhattan theater community. Billy says, “Sidney said that to listen to preaching I had to learn to turn off the text.” Next thing you know Lanier is having Billy listen to Lenny Bruce records—an amazing genesis for a street preacher! BT: Rev. Lanier had me read Burton Mack, Elaine Pagels, and John Dominic Crossan, and I met Crossan at one of the Jesus Seminars. I would say…

The Dangerous Fact About QAnon Believers That Reporters Fail to Grasp

By John Stoehr

…spent her life in college prep schools and the Ivy League before moving to Manhattan to work at the Times is vulnerable to media representations of rural life, because they’re media representations created by and for other elites. Fact is, when rural Arizonans talk about “law enforcement” over a plate of eggs and bacon, what they mean is punishing the weak. When they talk about their “liberty,” what they mean is their dominance. When they talk abo…

What Was Your Sign?, Pro-War MLK, & Benched for a Headscarf

By Michael J. Altman

…fund raising face or spokesperson for the Park51 Islamic center project in Manhattan. The Council on America-Islamic Relations asked its California chapter to take down an image of a poster that read “Build a Wall of Resistance. Don’t Talk to the F.B.I.” As part of their counter-terrorism training, NYPD officers were shown the anti-Muslim film The Third Jihad. Musician Boy George agreed to return a stolen 18th century icon to the Orthodox Church o…