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Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…me that Jewish homosexuals today are far less emotionally stressed by the code that ruled out the possibility of being both Jewish and gay. Even among some Orthodox Jewish communities the issue is being addressed—though not yet resolved. I love your notion of “layered ethnographies”—in which you add to prior ethnographies rather than amend them. So, the ethnography of CBST includes the first and second editions of your book as well as subsequent…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…could be the impact of academia falling? Well, I would make the argument that the other structures that I’m going to talk about here had the root of their destruction because of academia. Because what academia does is educate the elites in our society, educates the leaders of our society, particularly at the college level. And they were the first to fall. What we have here, as Joe Laycock notes, is a meta-narrative of cosmic conflict between the…

Spiritual But Not Religious? Come Talk to Me

By Kate Blanchard

…than act as an usher or sit on a church governing body. Moreover, my child hates church, almost as much as he hates vegetables, and I cannot readily explain to him why he has to go when I myself would rather not. Does this make me completely lame? Perhaps. It is certainly true, at least from a certain perspective, that it is easier to stay home on Sunday mornings (or Friday or Saturday evenings, as the case may be) than to go listen to the bland p…

Perry Thinks Palestinians Should Be Shafted, No Surprise

By Sarah Posner

…dent Obama to Pharaoh, appeared via videotape at the inaugural Freedom Federation conference last year at Liberty University, saying, “we know you love us and want to commend you for unconditional support for state of Israel,” adding that “Christians and Jews share the same future.” That’s code not only for no state for the Palestinians, but a perpetuation of illegal settlements and purging of Palestinians from occupied land. For Danon, Hagee, and…

Queer Repentance: On Not Surrendering to a Text, to Guilt, or to Habit

By Jay Michaelson

…resting in the present moment” carries a slight whiff of the New Age, but what it means is that the mind has been practiced-upon enough that it can stop worrying, stop thinking so many thoughts, and stop rewinding and fast-forwarding through time. And, as such, it allows a wider, deeper journey to unfold. Objections, moral reasoning, pros and cons can be seen and held clearly. The body itself can convey messages of “works for me” or “doesn’t work….

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…of such change. I think #Occupy is too anti-linear for its own good, and that it should learn from the Kabbalah that balance between circle and line is important. And I think there are a lot of linear, incremental steps we as a society could take right now to close the wealth gap somewhat and make our economy fairer. I get irritated when more left-wing Occupy-ers suggest there’s no difference between the two major parties, because on these issues…

Mississippi’s Personhood Bill Makes God Look Bad

By Daniel C. Maguire

…etus and there is broad agreement on what is called “delayed ensoulment.” That was code for saying that the fetus does not attain to personal status until it is well formed. Early miscarriages could not be named or given religious funerals. Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas held that the early fetus had the moral status of a plant, and that not even God could infuse a spiritual, person-making soul until the fetus was developed; some put this tod…

How Many Ways to be Mormon and Gay?

By Joanna Brooks

…nce “same-sex attraction” or “same-gender attraction,” while adhering to a code of morality that forbids all sexual contact outside the bounds of heterosexual marriage. Others claim and openly affirm a gay identity while carefully negotiating a path to maintaining church activity and membership. All of these paths entail profound risks, costs, and consequences. All require a level of conscious deliberation on matters of sexuality and spirituality…

How (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop

By Joanna Brooks

…es his march to the nomination, readers deserve coverage of the candidate that moves beyond sensationalism and the entrenchment it engenders. It is important for readers to know that Romney developed his leadership style in a non-democratic, patriarchal, hierarchical church culture where he rarely encountered open challenge. And it is important to know that there are serious concerns about the status of women in the LDS Church. Those concerns meri…

Trump as GOP’s New Televangelist

By Sarah Posner

…ich has already paid a well-publicized visit to the church of John Hagee. That was while his campaign was in the tank but too long ago (March) to be seen as the divine bullet his campaign needed. That came by way of Herman Cain (also of the church of narcissism) and now Gingrich hopes the church of Trump will catapult him to the top of the fend-for-yourself heap. The televangelist pilgrimage is hardly new. Mike Huckabee is now himself a televangel…