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“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…o Jews. If we get too fixated on thinking that this discourse is always about about Jews, then we don’t understand why it’s so powerful in society. It has horrible effects on Jews. But it’s not in any way built out of a real Jew. A while ago, Chris Rock did a long interview with New York magazine. Rock started talking about how he would cover racism in the U.S. if he were a journalist. He said—I’m paraphrasing here—that when journalists want to co…

Lessons Learned this Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…are invited by Allah. Well, some people might think that’s kinda quirky, but it really changed my perspective on the whole: make-my-intentions-thing. It’s like the Qur’an says about provisions: if Allah provides, none can take them away. And if Allah does not decree, then how can it be? It just made sense to me. At the moment, I am not having the best relationship with the tour company I selected (online), so even now I feel a bit uncertain if th…

UNESCO on Religion, Culture and SOGI in Asia; Orthodox Family Sues to Stop Cremation of Israeli Trans Woman; Struggles of Iraqi Queer Activists; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es that prohibit the baptism of children of gay couples. Organizers told Reuters last Sunday that about 1,500 people had resigned. Church officials urged people to think twice. A Church spokesman said: “We don’t want to see anyone leave the Church, especially people who have been struggling with any aspect of their life. “It’s extremely important that our members read what leaders have said, and do not rely on other sources or interpretations or w…

Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

By J. Kameron Carter

…ppened in Charleston at Emanuel AME and indifferent, quiet or not equally outraged about what happened in Orlando at the Pulse nightclub on “Latin night.” Both are sanctuaries. The communion is ecumenical. It is shared. Emanuel and Pulse. Both are temples violently invaded, subjected to assaults on a sociality that calls out to us all and is sent to us all and that sends us all into the mission or infinite rehearsal of deregulated social life of s…

Looking For Answers at the Oscars: A Guide to This Year’s Contenders

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…going through a profound shift in light of the technologies of new media—but also in social institutions at all levels. Pope Benedict XVI apparently agrees, (as noted in these pages by Elizabeth Drescher last month) and has stated recently, “I would like then to invite Christians, confidently and with an informed and responsible creativity, to join the network of relationships which the digital era has made possible.” As if Zuckerberg’s kudos fro…

James Foley Prayed, But He Was Not a Martyr

By Alana Massey

…we cannot know whether James Foley maintained his religious faith throughout the nightmarish ordeal. But one can hope that whatever sense he had that he was prayed for, that he was loved from afar, and that his spirit was present with them in absentia did stay with him—and that it remains with his loved ones today. In describing how he and a colleague prayed together, he writes “It felt energizing to speak our weaknesses and hopes together, as if…

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

By Michael Schulson

…to observing Shabbat offers, essentially, shopping suggestions. “Get your phone out of your room and use this very effective and very good-looking alarm clock instead,” Arq suggests, with a link to a $65 battery-powered alarm bell. Take a relaxing ride on this $400 bike. Calm down with these meditation apps. Express gratefulness using this snazzy thank you-note stationery. Rituals change; traditions adapt. The question, always, is how far those r…

Gay Marriage Bill Totalitarian Says Head Bishop

By Peter Montgomery

…” and the Manhattan Declaration’s invocation of “natural human reason” to buttress their religious objections to marriage equality with a seemingly universal claim to nature and nature’s God. But as shifts in public opinion, and the ever-changing vote count in the state senate make clear, the views of Dolan and NOM are far from universal, particularly in New York, where polls show that marriage equality enjoys the support of a strong majority of t…

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…inued until nightfall. They continued until counselors and nuns in habits outnumbered wild-eyed parents. Then some guy came over and asked for identifying information about their children—jewelry, tattoos, dental records. Two women went outside and threw up. A man who was shot while watching the premier of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado this July remembers that he was sitting in the fifth row of the theater. When the theater filled with…

Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters

By Nathan Schneider

…es (often the best of its times), and of pointing a way forward. It showed the first interracial kiss on American television, and it invented the flip-phone. I hope, for our sake, that Star Trek has finally gotten out of touch….