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A Startling Number Believe You Can Be Jewish Jesus Follower; Why It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds

By Michael Schulson

…of Israel.” Among people who were ethnically Jewish and associated in some way with the Jewish community (i.e. not Christian), accepting Jesus as the messiah, at only 34%, was far and away the most damaging prospect for one’s Jewishness. It turns out that 94% of Jews, on the other hand, are happy to keep Sabbath desecrators in the fold, and 68% are fine with the atheists. Better to deny God’s existence altogether, it seems, than to allow Him a sin…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…tails ties to the Reichsbürger milieu. Experts attribute the stark rise in numbers to a heightened awareness and the agencies’ attempts to reduce the number of unreported cases. The conservative Minister of the interior of the previous Merkel administration, Horst Seehofer, had always refused to conduct a study of right-wing sentiments in the police and military, in spite of the warnings of social scientists who urged him to commission one. For ye…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…ay it is precisely the issue of autonomy—the freedom to opt for a Buddhist way of life and to establish such a way of life institutionally—that is the greatest source of conflict between the clergy and the Chinese state. Viewed from this perspective, the question of Chinese policy in regard to the Tibetan monasteries is the “Tibet question” writ small. How much autonomy is necessary to make monks (Tibetans) happy? How much is the Chinese governmen…

Letters to the Editors: On Gandhian Nonviolence

By Ira Chernus

…rd the good if those who suffered the evil responded in a spiritually true way. They defined that true way in different words and to some extent meant quite different things. But they agreed that no one is ever powerless to respond to evil in a constructive way. If the two had time and common language enough, they could have made these profound areas of agreement the starting point for a fruitful dialogue. Gandhi might well have convinced Buber th…

Einstein’s Religion, Darwin’s Agnosticism

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ibute to its unfolding. And Mozart remains as beautiful and tender as he always was and always will be. There is, after all, something eternal that lies beyond the hand of fate and of all human delusions…. For us there remains the privilege of experiencing beauty and truth in their purest forms. (38, italics mine) So heterodox religious identities give birth to forms of modern science in which the beautiful is privileged, and wonder is cultivated….

QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement

By Adam Willems

…but it seems as if the United States government as a monolith has no real way to respond to something like QAnon. If I look at something like the Jesse Helms bill, the way that the state tries to “defeat” things it sees as other and ‘cultish’ is through something like taxes. Or Supreme Court cases. We got a ton of adjudication around disestablishment and particularly free exercise if we’re talking about new religious movements or marginalized or…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…and can’t be practiced. By the same token, because religious groups will always find a way around the laws about this or that kind of therapy, citing religious freedom, I think the bigger issue is that people need to be educated about why this kind of stuff is so harmful, so we eliminate the demand for it. That’s happening bit by bit but there is still a lot of work to do to educate Christians. When I go speak I meet Christians all the time who ho…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…deliver those things. Thank you! I tried to be careful to not say that my way is the best way forward for anyone—atheist or not. Whenever someone decides they have discovered the best way and that other people should walk the same path, it’s a real turn-off. Atheist polemicists have done a lot to raise the visibility of atheists, but they haven’t made atheism all that attractive for many people and part of the reason why that is—fairly or unfairl…

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…in to think about the conceptualizations we have about God and to think of ways to describe God in ways that may not necessarily fit the normative conversation—but are nonetheless true. If I were to say that God is queer, what I’m saying, in essence, is that God cannot be boxed. Your book engages with the work of a number of womanist scholars. Talk a little bit about how you are using the term “womanist” and how it relates to theology. I use the t…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…e #BlackGirlMagic and #CarefreeBlackGirl? I think it’s just timing in some ways. The best way to talk about it is in terms of the reception we held. The reception was on July 7th—just after two very tragic killings of black men and subsequent killings of police officers. When the reception happened that same week, more than 1500 people showed up and that was really phenomenal. People were looking for a space to heal. When some of them came into th…