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Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?

By Jay Michaelson

…s, and Jebusites. So, toevah is serious, but it is serious as a particular class of cultic offense: a transgression of national boundary. It is certainly not “abomination.” Toevah is used four times in Leviticus 18—once to refer to male homosexual acts, and then three times as an umbrella term. As in Deuteronomy, the signal feature of toevot is that the other nations of the Land of Israel do them: “You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgm…

Obama Recognizes Gay Dads

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…atement this past weekend in recognition of Father’s Day, he mentioned one class of fathers that no other president before him has acknowledged: gay dads. Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a stepfather, a grandfather, or caring guardian. His acknowledgement of the labor of love two men may put into their relationship with their children drew quick reaction from t…

Seeking Jobs, Beach Clean Up Workers Come From All Walks of Life

By Lauri Lebo

…said. People seeking jobs have come from all over the Gulf region. Middle-class plant workers who lost their jobs in the recession and convicted felons recently released from prison. Mothers and sons and uncles and nephews. The work is hard. There is no shade and when the heat gets too unbearable, they can’t run into the water to cool off. They are black, white and Hispanic. I guess Kumrits and Jones fill the demographic of designated hippies. Th…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…in mind a kind of selflessness and community that risked the merging of “individual identity in the identities of others,” leaving us with “a chameleon-like character who responds to others but has no personal identity of his own”. (This fifty-year-old characterization may indeed have been prophetic—of, if nothing else, our poll-driven democracy.) But it points to more; Saiving quotes Lionel Trilling as well: The American educated middle class is…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

…in their performance. This geographic nearness with a strong performative divergence helped to illustrate that geography is not sufficient to tie people together. Jordi Savall, a Catalan composer, performed his piece, “Jerusalem: City of Two Peaces (Peace on Earth, Peace in Heaven).” The work attempted to show how Jerusalem is sacred to all three Abrahamic traditions, working through the history of the city. In the beginning, there was an odd mom…

Humiliation and ‘Success’ in the Great Recession

By Peter Laarman

…ease has to be endured.” I can see how it’s possible, eventually, for an individual to receive job loss as a gift. But no sane religious leader would open a conversation with desperate jobless people in anything remotely like an Aren’t you lucky? mode. Some people may eventually discover a new kind of life-giving humility in the wake of a life-destroying humiliation, but that passage cannot be assumed or forced. There is also something profoundly…