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Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

By Chrissy Stroop

…whereas befriending someone who’s different so you can deliberately try to change them–particularly if you plan to try to change something central to their identity–is objectification, and therefore unethical. In any case, no matter how you slice it, proselytizing is not the same as me telling a friend they should try my favorite sushi place or arguing that, for example, voting for Republicans is harmful and unethical. https://twitter.com/robinbri…

Power, The Presidency, and Social Change

By June O?Connor

…an analytical thinker and community organizer working for important social change. Like King, he has shown himself to be energized by a moral sensibility that bends toward justice, to display a keen intelligence, and to act decisively as a leader in dialogue with others. One key difference between a community organizer and the presidency of the United States, however, looms large at this time, namely, each one’s position vis-a-vis Power (with a ca…

Two Wars and No Peace in Sight: The Role of Faith-Based Pacifism

By Richard Ricketts

…ct has been around for hundreds of years. The peace treaty is not going to change cultural attitudes. It is not going to change the fact that most Catholics and Protestants are living in different areas, that they are physically segregated. I think more and more people are recognizing that conflict transformation is a very long process of change. Maybe you need those peace agreements to generate a ceasefire or establish some basic provisions, but…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y, even the liberals don’t agree with this.” The progressive church has to change first and then the moderate churches have to change next and once that’s happened, then it’s possible to even start the conversation in conservative churches. That’s where I feel like we are right now. In that sense, I feel like what I’m doing is just an extension of the groundwork that’s been laid and it’s probably the best sign of respect I can give to everyone who…

TED-Evangelism Harkens Back to a Forgotten 19th-Century Tradition

By Michael Schulson

…t the basic appeal is the same: here is an idea—here is the Word—that will change your life. TED, Lundberg argues, is tapping into “this really powerful cultural story about the character of redemption and the redemptive power of ideas.” If there is a single unstated question that animates the whole TED enterprise, it is this: what is the relationship between ideas and change? Against the catholicism of the academy, TED’s answer to this question i…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…and marginalizing their children. If the dynamic between parent and child changes, then there are seeds for change in the wider Muslim community. Many people expect dialogue and debate to begin with Imam and mosque leaders, but these will be the last to change their attitude and practice. Change will start first within the hearts of LGBTIQ Muslims, and then within their own families. I have heard some anecdotal evidence from email correspondence…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…ince it makes justice in this life less urgent. In her schema, cultivating change in oneself was far more important than cultivating change in the world. I hear similar ideas in contemporary yoga classes all the time; they allow people to feel like they’re doing something altruistic when they’re performing their asanas. Much as I love asana practice, I don’t believe this. Do you? I’d like to hear your thoughts about yoga and politics. Modern yoga…

Dispatches From the Rhodian Shore: A (Tough) Love Letter to Religious Studies

By Todd LeVasseur

…quiring skills and understanding how to adapt to and make sense of climate change. The ethical, normative, historical, and analytical skills that religious studies offer should indeed (and, I argue, must) be part of this future. However if many of those in religious studies are not systematically foregrounding and speaking to religion and nature/ecology interactions, let alone within the context of climate change, then we shouldn’t be surprised to…

Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

…etter, as the 60s not-quite-counter-culture-enough saying goes, to try to “change the system from within”? It Depends What You Mean by “Capitalism” Kevin Doyle Jones suggests something in between. Jones, a venture capitalist, founded SOCAP in 2008 with his wife, Rosa Lee Harden, a social entrepreneur and Episcopal priest, along with investor Timothy Freundlich, “to direct the power and efficiency of market systems toward social impact, leading to…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Daily Record of Glasgow: “Of 3,889 marriages in Scotland since the law was changed, 462 involved people of the same sex,” the Daily Record reports, citing data from National Records of Scotland for the quarter that ended March 31. The high proportion of same-sex marriages likely is due to pent-up demand from couples who were waiting to marry, and the percentage will likely drop later on, the paper notes. Still, the numbers are significant, said St…