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Eddie Long Takes Break from New Birth Pulpit

By Anthea Butler

…anding that Long leave the church he has pastored since 1997. At its peak, New Birth boasted 25,000 members, a figure that sank as Long was accused of sexual abuse and assault by young male congregants last year, claims Long settled in secret in May. The Occupy group passed out flyers which read, “The People must rise up and occupy the pulpits, the tithe money bank accounts and portfolios of the clergy class.” The group says it represents an orga…

The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…graphical is the feeling of alienation; of being Jewish when you’re not in New York. Because some of the things I experienced in different countries, like these characters did, where, when you leave your enclaves, like New York and L.A., and you go to places like London or Warsaw, it’s still kind of weird to be Jewish. It’s just not that big of a deal in a lot of cities in America. But when you go abroad, you realize it’s a different thing to be….

Islamophobia is Real, Mr. Mayor—A New York City Muslim Explains

By Hussein Rashid

…tims of violence are to be appreciated more than others. If the words of Fox News can lead to an arson attack against a mosque, and general Islamophobia results in knifings in pizzerias, then the words and actions of the Mayor of New York have a much more profound impact. Muslims in the city are bombarded by media coverage that paints us as suspect. The city’s police department paints us as suspect. Advertising in the veins of the city paints us a…

New York Marriage Equality Set to Begin, Minus Two Clerks

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…uality law goes into effect. The state is expecting such a flood of same-sex applicants that day that New York City has even implemented a lottery for 764 slots for Sunday. Two clerks who won’t be busy will be Rosemary Centi of Guilderland and Laura Fotusky of Barker. Both women have quit their jobs, saying granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples violates their religious liberty. “I believe that God designed marriage as a divine institution…

A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…c folks—he made them a deal. It was very straightforward. It was like, he knew they knew that he was not the kind of Christian they have always said America needed. He said, “I’ll give you what you want. I’ll give you the Supreme Court you want, I’ll do away with the Johnson amendment to make you more politically powerful. I’ll give you Mike Pence as a vice president. I’ll make abortion illegal. I’ll do all that for you.” And they took the deal. T…

I’d Rather Go Back to Yemen than Face NYPD

By Hussein Rashid

…y independent oversight. The fact that the NYPD feels comfortable lying to New Yorkers on a regular basis means we need external eyes on the department. We need to know that information on non-criminal activity is not being retained and that the NYPD has not been diverting funds from crime fighting to support a misguided crusade (a term I do not use lightly) to harass New York’s people of color. And it wouldn’t hurt for the Department of Justice t…

Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment

By Christopher Douglas

…theism. Young’s later embrace of “spiritual but not religious,” while not exactly a sign of becoming an exvangelical, does suggest a toleration of ambiguity and uncertainty unlike some of the “emergent” and “postmodern” churches Silliman compares Young with. Indeed, as much as some evangelical churches imagined themselves to be “embrac[ing] the tension” and “becom[ing] postmodern,” the proof would always lay in the endurance of cultural conflict:…

American Jews: From Holocaust to New Age Hasidism?

By Martin Kavka

…the ex-Chabad Hasid who has become the intellectual leader of the Jewish Renewal movement that melds Jewish tradition with New Age thinking. It is Schachter-Shalomi who, styling himself “a Jewish practitioner of generic religion,” has blurred the boundaries between the Jewish and the non-Jewish worlds through halakhic creativity in response to intermarried couples, through mobilizing the tensions inherent within kabbalistic concepts to develop a n…

“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…is comedic space, enacting its own ode to Borat with a “Running of the Jieuxs,” a New Orleans style second-line parade, inaugurating that year’s King and Queen of the Jieuxs. The event involves traipsing through the streets alongside a brass band and handing out “Jew eggs,” small plastic eggs containing a yarmulke-wearing baby. These comic spectacles are more likely to produce nervous chuckles than full-throated belly laughs. When we use self-crit…

‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

By Chrissy Stroop

…stian rock scene that was growing with bands from DC Talk and Newsboys to MxPx, Switchfoot, and Five Iron Frenzy. I got super inspired as a teen to start my own band. I went off to Indiana Wesleyan University for a year, and then after my freshman year of college decided to pursue a record deal. I had heard about Lenny Kravitz playing his music in the lobby of a record label until someone would listen to him, and I think I just felt in me that I w…