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2008: A Good Year For Egyptian Women

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…bashed sexual harassment and assault prevalent in Egyptian society. But in October, Noha Rushdie filed and won Egypt’s first sexual harassment case. In an interview with her, it’s evident that she faced a lot of cultural and even institutional opposition. Her bravery and determination in prosecuting her assailant invites Egyptian society to rethink harassment and could perhaps pave the way for other cases and judiciary rulings. Also in October was…

Faith-Based Anniversary: Has Anything Changed?

By Sarah Posner

…ind me that the draft recommendations were made available at the Council’s October 2009 meeting. I had recently asked her for the final advice the Council sent the president, and she had responded, “We’re still working on the final report. It will be released soon (should have precise date soon), but it’s not ready yet. Once it’s ready, it will be publicly available, and I’d be happy to get a copy to you.” I mistakenly understood her response to m…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…r RD. (Following the October 1st publication, the book will be launched on October 14 at Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, the oldest continuous congregation in America, going back, according to its web site, to 1628. The church features a dynamic, multiracial gospel choir that Clarkson says will perform. Far from a sleepy panel discussion, the church leaders in partnering with the publisher want an event that is more like a catalyst for a mo…

Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem

By Daniel Albert Joslyn

…named Doug picked a dozen roses for his grandmother, for which he gained a number of points. In 2009, another man named Doug also gave his grandmother a dozen roses, but actually lost points for doing so, precisely because in doing so, he supported global warming and the exploitation of labor on the other side of the world. Follow the money Yet, even though much of the characters’ motivations and the show’s driving argument for reform rests upon t…

Jesus Has Left the Building: Celebrating the Next Reformation

By Donna Schaper

…anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, most churches will celebrate it in October of 2017. Here at Judson, the church I pastor in New York City, we are celebrating the end of the Reformation in its 499th year. (If you want to quarrel about the actual date, read Brand Luther by Andrew Pettigrew. He argues that Luther actually did post the 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517.) We think the old Protestant imp…

Homosexual Thoughts and Feelings Not a Sin, Says New LDS Handbook

By Joanna Brooks

…and receive temple ordinances. As was the case in reading the LDS Church’s October statement in response to the controversy surrounding Elder Boyd K. Packer’s General Conference Talk, these are incremental but significant changes. The new CHI: 1. Removes the implication that same-sex relationships “distort” love. 2. Removes the imperative that members should repent for having “homosexual thoughts or feelings.” 3. Removes the instruction that Churc…

America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates…

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…, like Jesse Walter Bishop (who was the third person to be executed, on 22 October 1979 in Nevada) was executed voluntarily, causing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to complain that the death penalty was fast becoming “state-sponsored suicide.” The history of the death penalty since the landmark Gregg decision may be divided into three stages. In the first (1977-1982), there was a good faith effort by courts and legislatures alike to admin…

Are Mormons Changing Their Stance on Homosexuality?

By John-Charles Duffy

…ptimistic that the church is softening its opposition to homosexuality. In October, a General Conference address by Boyd K. Packer was edited in ways that suggested the church was open to the possibility that homosexuality might be a product of inborn “tendencies.” Shortly thereafter, responding to protests against Packer’s address, a church spokesperson read a statement deploring anti-gay bullying. Then in November, a new edition of the Church Ha…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…ssionary service for women from 21 to 19. The policy change, announced in October, was hailed as a welcome step towards leveling life expectations and opportunities for religious study and service among young Mormon men and women. And it resulted in a dramatic spike of new missionary applications from young Mormon women. (More here.) 3. Mormon athletes prove more popular than Mormon presidential candidate. That’s a hunch, not a scientific observa…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…a Yogananda, author of the famous Autobiography of a Yogi, was released in October 2014. The film tells the important story of how Indian-born Yogananda travelled in 1920 to the United States and established the Self-Realization Fellowship, a yoga organization that has attracted large numbers of disciples from all over the world to this day. The film serves as a reminder that modern yoga has not always been about the stretching and muscle-building…