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Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…lace each March, complete with cute little bags where you can put your cellphone and stop looking at it for awhile. There’s a clear Jewish inspiration (unplugging day goes from Friday evening to Saturday evening, just like Shabbat), but there’s no overtly religious content, and the organization is explicit about wanting to reach people of all backgrounds. When I spoke with Reboot communications manager Tanya Schevitz earlier this year, she said th…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…here: the clearing dimension, the out-of-the-blue dimension, is important. None of it will be transformational, however, unless a lot more people can be touched by the same spirit of exodus and be actively engaged in some form of active or even symbolic resistance. The vicarious identification thing will have a very short shelf life. Saying no to the death culture, to the money culture, takes practice. We would say religiously that it takes practi…

Does It Matter If Islam Is A Religion? An American Ahmadi Explains The Effects Of Religious Discrimination

By Daniel Schultz

…not sign it. So if you don’t sign it, you’re ultimately considered to be a non-Muslim. That is how they come up with a gauge. It starts to creep into everything. So now if I’m trying to open up a bank account, I’m doing a cell phone application, or anything, that statement is there, it has just gone into everything, every aspect of one’s life, it’s there. It’s ridiculous to have that, but nonetheless it’s real. The problems are not just administra…

Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…19 police officers waited in the corridor for an hour because a commander believed the situation had shifted from active shooter to a barricaded subject, a Texas law enforcement officer said today.” They don’t stop crime. They don’t stop violence. They manufacture violence. That’s another detail that gets me. We need to trust law enforcement. Yet law enforcement so often has us wondering why we should….

Let’s Stop Calling Rape and Harassment by Bikram Yoga Founder Just Another “Guru Scandal”

By Andrea R. Jain

…s revealed sexual corruption and secrecy as central to their lifestyles. A number of yoga gurus have been outed as sexually active, usually with young, white, female students. These scandals have left the American public thinking the “guru model” is problematic for its inherently undemocratic tendencies, suspecting the model is an extreme form of authoritarianism that inevitably leads to demise. In 1993, for example, Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad w…

The Quiet Part is Very Much Out Loud: Conservative Publication Calls For Embrace of Totalitarianism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…e else has to bend to their will, democracy be damned: “The left will only stop when conservatives stop them, which means conservatives will have to discard outdated and irrelevant notions about ‘small government.’ The government will have to become, in the hands of conservatives, an instrument of renewal in American life—and in some cases, a blunt instrument indeed.” This is an open threat—and a call to conservatives to use the state power to sup…

Why We Should Stop Trying to Pigeonhole This Pope

By David R. Brockman

…erican Right, he calls upon Americans not to “be taken aback” by the sheer number of immigrants, “but rather [to] view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories.” On the other hand, Francis’ critique of capitalism emphasizes the collective over against individualism. Quoting from the encyclical Laudato si, Francis calls business “a noble vocation,” but stresses that it should regard “the creation of jobs as an essential pa…

The Pastoral is the Political: Let’s Stop Hyde-ing

By Harry F. Knox

I am a Christian pastor. My faith tells me that I must love my neighbor. Now, when Jesus gave this instruction, he might have been framing it in a new way, but the call to show love and respect to everyone we meet runs deeply throughout most faith traditions. Despite this common thread across religions, humans have struggled to put this into practice. American history shows us as much. America’s founders set into motion a great experiment. Decade…

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…o continue your activism.” The gang then threatened Yiga that homos better stop “recruiting children” or they would “devise another way” to stop them. Thanks to Rolling Stone they have a network and know the whereabouts of many homosexuals who, they told Yiga, they will be “visiting one-by-one [on a] warning mission.” Warned not to go to the police, and that they had better cooperate on the next “visit,” the gang threatened to come back to steal t…

Yo, Gays, Stop Bogarting that Rainbow!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Since 1978, the gay and lesbian community has used a rainbow flag to symbolize the diversity of the community. Since then the flag has become ubiquitous at gay and lesbian events and pride marches. The symbol has become so associated with gay and lesbian rights that back in 2000, the University of Hawaii at Manoa changed its sports teams’ name from “Rainbow Warriors” to “Warriors” and redesigned its logo to eliminate a rainbow from it. Now, accor…