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California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

By Sarah Sentilles

…. NRCAT offers practical tools for ending torture in US Prisons, including signing the national statement against prolonged solitary confinement. NRCAT and AFSC, as part of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, are also in the process of releasing a letter for religious leaders to sign that is addressed to Governor Brown calling on him to honor the five core demands of the hunger strikers. Why should religious communities stand in solid…

New Zealand Passes Marriage Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…had the most enormous big gay rainbow across my electorate. It has to be a sign. He also compassionately addressed those who expressed real concerns. We are allowing two people who love each other to have that recognized, and I can’t see what’s wrong with that for love nor money, sir. I just cannot. I cannot understand why someone would be opposed. I understand why people don’t like what others do. That’s fine. We’re all in that category. But I gi…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…the word of God with boldness. This shaking of the Spirit is not simply a sign of power, but of pleasure. God’s excitement is evident here. Here and now God’s people are one—calling on the faith and boldness of Jesus to do the divine will. Here and now the new order confronts the old order and God sees the unfolding of divine desire in and among God’s creatures. This is the Spirit’s quivering joy exposed in the impartation of holy power. Yet what…

A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…spoken at several evangelical Christian colleges that require students to sign agreements that prohibit “homosexual activity” and disbelief in God. These are instituions that would likely expel me were I a student. Agreeing to visit these campuses isn’t easy, but they are communities that perhaps need open conversations about faith and diversity more than many others. Though getting there requires me to deal with my own discomfort, I have never r…

A Long History of Blaming the Jews

By Gordon Haber

…by those who, in the pride of their kingdom, put the Lord to death.” By consigning Jews to the theological status of servus, or slave, Augustine laid the intellectual groundwork for the political status of Jews a millennium later. In the Middle Ages, European monarchs “insisted that the Jews belonged to them in a peculiar way, different from that of their other subjects” (emphasis Nirenberg’s). Thus the king could use the Jews as tax collectors an…

“We Want Everyone to Come to the Family Reunion”

By Joanna Brooks

…at Mormons for Equality will have its own delegation in the parade. Mormons who want to participate have a choice to decide how they will identify. For Mormons Building Bridges, our theme this year is “Family Reunion.” We are asking people to march in family groups and make a sign with their family name. We feel like family reunions are great Mormon events but they are often very fraught for gay people, who might ask themselves, “Can I come? Can I…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…k Street, which still has the faded outline of its Burlington Coat Factory sign on the front, and at least one NYPD officer standing quietly outside. The fact that the Arab-American neighborhood pre-exists the destruction of the towers flips their script about “Muslim” vs. “American.” Of course, the majority of Arabs who immigrated to the United States in the Little Syria era were Christians, some trying to escape the Ottoman Empire’s new policy o…

Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…Martin Richard’s gap-toothed grin, to the way his “No More Hurting People” sign was clearly carefully printed yet switched between upper and lower case, to the long eyelashes that his head had yet to really grow into… these are things I’ve seen in my own house, that I associate with one of the people I love most in the world. And, yes, God help me, the fact that Martin Richard is white, lives in the U.S., and speaks English makes it seem like “he…

#PrayForBoston: Prayer as a Meme

By Elizabeth Drescher

…stry on the part of traditional religious leaders, it nonetheless seems to signal the enduring, if redefined, significance of at least the concept of prayer: the idea of a reaching out, however momentarily, however noncommittally, to an imagined digital cosmos and whatever greater power makes it hum for a blip of connection and solace. Perhaps, in aggregate, that spiritualized pause in the noosphere is not nothing, mere microblinks of expression c…

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…odox Muslims. 3. Moro Islamic Liberation front and Phillippine government Sign Peace Accord regarding the four-decade conflict, which has cost over 150,000 lives. 4. Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Al-Nahda in Tunisia Claim Victories in post-Arab Spring elections to establish new governments and constitutions. 5. Bahrain Continues to Crack Down on Dissent and peaceful protests, violate human rights, and issue extreme sentences on detainees. 6. Ri…