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Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…inking that I think was absent in the book. More interesting is the phenomenon that gave rise to the book, and others like it, and what its implications may be for 21st-century American Jews who are the most privileged community in the history of the Jewish diaspora, yet are still dogged by the fear of anti-Semitism. And I think we are literally tied up in knots over what to think or do about it. So, when a book like How to Fight Anti-Semitism com…

Stop Debunking Climate Change Deniers

By Michael Schulson

…ive. As I’ve argued before, climate change denial is a sociological phenomenon, not a strictly scientific one, and its most effective response may be found less in scientific attack, and more in the realm of sociology, psychology, and, yes, religion. To understand why debunking may be harmful, it helps to read Judith Shulevitz’s recent, excellent piece at the New Republic, “This Is How You Should Talk to a Climate-Change Denier.” Shulevitz, drawin…

Stop Policing the Borders of Christianity

By Brandy Daniels

…who is in and who is out—and a logic that led radical philosopher Frantz Fanon to assert, famously: “This is why we should place DDT, which destroys parasites, carriers of disease, on the same level as Christianity, which roots out heresy, natural impulses, and evil.” What might this mean for those of us who call ourselves Christians? First and foremost, we need to take these claims seriously—there is a reason that over half of America believes th…

If Muslims Stop Drinking Will They Become Violent?

By Haroon Moghul

…and violence, is to overlook genocide. To make light of it. To focus on a non-threat when there were other, far realer threats. It is, in fact, to legitimate the rhetoric of those who attacked Muslims in Bosnia who saw any evidence of Islamic practice as a ghostly premonition that could be preemptively stamped out. Considering what we did ten years ago on the notion of hitting before being hit, with no evidence whatsoever except a sustained publi…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…all of the bishops were allegedly forced to tender their resignations, the numbers are plummeting. Ten years ago, 73% of Chileans called themselves Catholic. Today that percentage is 45 with reports that in Latin America as a whole numbers are down 20% in the same period. In Switzerland in November 2018, six prominent progressive Catholic women left the Church by filing the requisite papers that relieved them of contributing church taxes. Four are…

God Wants You to Work Harder, and to Stop Complaining

By James Dennis LoRusso

…ut workplace spirituality: the movement is not strictly an emergent phenomenon but is equally a carefully articulated strategy of some business elites, whose ideological positions are often at odds with the movement’s precepts of inclusiveness and compassion. The keynote addresses of two such business elites reveal these differences most clearly. Bill Pollard, former CEO of ServiceMaster Corporation, expressed dismay at the world’s current economi…

Wiesel to Romney: Stop LDS Baptisms of Holocaust Victims

By Joanna Brooks

…roviso that names of “Jewish Holocaust victims” should not be submitted by non-family members, and then must indicate that they are in keeping with policy when they submit names for proxy rites. But violations continue, and they are a source of great shame and embarrassment. Perhaps more can be done. Listening in on conversations among Mormons this week, I’ve heard important ideas bubbling up from within the community about how to instill greater…

Immortal Illusions: Should We Stop Trying to Live Forever?

By Beatrice Marovich

…ter. Cave is preparing to dismiss immortality—whole hog—all along, deeming none of the immortality narratives either credible or feasible. He advances, instead, what he calls the “Wisdom Narrative”: the counsel that we buck up and face extermination, but that we live well in the meantime. “Instead of dismissing existential anxiety by denying death,” he prefers to address “the underlying attitudes that make us think we ought to be afraid of death i…

Judy Shepard Takes on ADF: Stop “Exploiting Children In the Name of Hate”

By Sunnivie Brydum

Judy Shepard is no stranger to the heartbreak that anti-LGBT hatred can wrest upon on a family and a community. And while she has turned her son Matthew’s brutal murder into a decades-long rallying cry for hate crime protections and broad acceptance for LGBT people, the generally soft-spoken mother from Wyoming had some harsh words for the Alliance Defending Freedom in an op-ed published today in Time. She writes: I know my son Matt would be as d…

Please Stop Using Islam to Critique the Abortion Ban: It Only Excuses the Very Christian, Very White Roots of Anti-Choice Movements

By Sajida Jalalzai

Like many other women living in Texas, news of the Supreme Court’s refusal to block Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) hit me hard. This extreme law not only bans abortion around six weeks in all cases of pregnancy (including those pregnancies resulting from rape or incest), but also encourages citizens to bring private lawsuits against anyone involved in “knowingly engag[ing] in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion,” awardin…