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

By Michael Schulson

…of the great labor victories of the century. One high-profile rabbi, Abba Hillel Silver, went further, framing Shabbat as a model for resistance against the excesses of a consumption-driven culture. (The University of Iowa scholar Benjamin Hunnicutt has done some fascinating work on this period). Of course, these issues haven’t gone away. Questions of time, labor, and standardization are more relevant than ever. The loss of weekends and the techno…

Gay Marriage Bill Totalitarian Says Head Bishop

By Peter Montgomery

…use his power to keep marriage from coming to the floor for a vote. Meanwhile, Archbishop Timothy Dolan is getting increasingly shrill in his efforts to stop the shift toward equality. This week, on his official blog, he wrote: “Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in New York, in the United States of America—not in China or North Korea. In those countries, government presumes daily to ‘redefine’ rights, relationships, values…

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…ued 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 s…

Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters

By Nathan Schneider

…James T. Kirk’s ne’er-do-well youth and obsession with unilateralism is eerily familiar as well. Only barely are we spared the requisite hand-to-hand fight over a bottomless-pit-area, which has made its way into most recent Star Trek (and for that matter, Star Wars) movies. But in that same spirit, once again the villain is beaten mostly by well-placed brawn rather than anything more worthy of utopia. Am I asking too much? It is, after all, just a…

ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…ded the Klan’s right to march in the Holocaust survivor enclave of Skokie, Illinois. It has also defended Rush Limbaugh, so there you go. Still, it always makes for an interesting conundrum when the ACLU and TMLC are on the same side of anything. In Jones’ case, fresh off his stint burning a Qu’ran, the Florida pastor decided last week to ride the wave of ill-gotten publicity by going to Dearborn, Michigan to protest outside the Islamic Center for…

White House Position
on Exemption from Contraception Coverage
“Not a Done Deal”?

By Sarah Posner

…” The Washington Post reports this morning that Democratic Senators, on a phone call yesterday with White House senior advisor David Plouffe, argued against adopting the Bishops’ position. My source says it’s “not a done deal” yet, but expected action from the White House within a week. UPDATE: Another womens’ rights advocate tells me that she has “no reason to think” that the Obama administration feels it “owes” the Bishops for health care refo…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…yists, political leaders, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the bank bailout, while naming the refusal of party politics and the embrace of social media that makes “occupation” a much bigger ideological and practical strategy than trampling tents at Zuccotti Park or in downtown Oakland even begins to understand. And then, so not for nothing, he manages to sum it up with a catchy refrain (played, he says, some fifty times at the APEC dinner): W…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…in your life while getting more benefit of yoga in your life, with the WisePhone. Will Ultra Spirituality ever replace science in the classroom? No. Ultra Spirituality will replace the classroom. Learning in schools is very old school. With Ultra Spirituality, I teach it by not teaching it, and you learn it not by traditional learning in classrooms but by not learning it at all. So the need for classroom learning will go down when there’s nothing…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…e supremacist movements.” I catch up with the Rev. David Ostendorf by cell phone while he is waiting for a plane at an East Coast airport. He is the executive director of the CNC where Ward works. Ostendorf, A United Church of Christ minister, once led PrairieFire Rural Action, a group that tried to save family farms during a major agricultural economic crisis in the 1980s. “Back then we helped build a popular economic political movement among fam…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…damn religion class taught by dyke.’” I laughed out loud —and a new, if still uneasy, friendship began to take root. After that, he stayed more often after class, one day whipping out his phone to show me a photo of a white supremacist leader standing up in a convertible during what was obviously a white pride parade. The red-faced, fist waving man in the picture was flanked by two little girls sitting in the back seat, arms crossed with very pro…