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Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

By Alana Massey

…plies that nourished their harvests and with only a single and congested route out of the city. Within the first year, the UNDP estimated that the wall had already destroyed 83,000 olive and fruit trees and 37 km worth of water networks. Devastated but not destroyed, some olive trees kept growing in the West Bank. As recently as August, Israeli civilians and on-duty soldiers of the IDF alike have been discovered destroying these olive trees. Walls…

Cafeteria Cockroaches and Synagogue-State Relations in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…ite the fact that most Israelis are not themselves “strictly kosher.” Without Kashrut supervision most restaurants and hotels in Israel would not survive—they wouldn’t get enough regular business. This system controls the work week of the restaurant and hotel employees: on the Sabbath and holidays no “forbidden work” can be performed in preparation of food. (There are non-Kosher restaurants in Israel, but no non-Kosher food in the Knesset building…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…” (Mother of God, i.e. the Virgin Mary) (rus. Богородица Bogoroditsa) to “put Putin away” and “become a feminist”. The song repeats “the Lord’s shit” throughout the choruses, presumably referring to representatives of the Church; while the Russian Patriarch, Kirill I of Moscow, is described as someone who believes in Putin rather than in God. Kirill had showed open support for Putin as a candidate before the presidential election. Although the int…

Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

By Kaya Oakes

…r families in Africa. Father Russell Pollitt, director of the Jesuit Institute in South Africa, says that complexities of African family life affect how people participate in the church as well. He says African bishops may claim that divorce is not an issue, “but when I was working in a parish it was an issue.” In rural areas, however, “it is not so easy to get divorced, as marriage in rural places is often between two families and not two individ…

New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

By Benjamin Weiner

…as, and 76% percent expressed some degree of support for the “two-state solution” as outlined in the 2000 Camp David and Taba talks. (This was the agreement, often said to have been rejected by Arafat, but which actually fell apart due to a complex series of failures on both sides). The 69% of respondents (the number is even higher among Jews under 30) opposed to Avigdor Lieberman, the ultra-nationalist politician who has advocated the “transfer”…

A Reforming Tradition Struggles With Change

By Brent Hege

…erge as a result of the votes. As it stands now, one year later, a growing number of disgruntled Lutherans have ignored the Presiding Bishop’s pleas for reconciliation and are taking public steps to leave the ELCA or to remain with certain reservations. A dissenting group called Lutheran CORE (formerly Coalition for Reform, now Coalition for Renewal) met in assembly in September of 2009 to discuss the possibility of forming a new Lutheran church b…

Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

By Christopher James Blythe

…t buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name… his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” (Revelation 13:16-18) In the early twentieth century, this prophecy became linked to American fears of a powerful federal government. A 1943 letter to the editor of the Pampa Daily News was representative of this growing resentment coupling conspiracy with apocalypticism: We should count it dishonorable for…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…God’s eyes. They believed “all men are created equal” to be the literal truth (although the author of those words did not), and they were acutely conscious that honoring the Declaration of Independence necessitated doing away with the institution of chattel slavery as soon as possible. Emancipation was on everyone’s mind at the turn of the 19th century, both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line. But as Boston clergy leader John Eliot told his…

RDPulpit: Israel in Gaza: Right but not Smart

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…And it asked for more. With hundreds of thousands of Palestinians facing acute malnutrition bordering on starvation, Hamas insisted that the borders be opened to counter Israeli attempts to starve the Gazans into submission. And in return for the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, it asks for the release of a thousand Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. Hamas has made it clear that it would accept the terms of the Saudi Arabian peace agreement,…

Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

By Mary E. Hunt

…s over this case—evil so deep and enduring that few people want to talk about it. The sheer number of victims and their willingness to come forward despite whatever stigma they might endure give this case special status. The colonialism alone is repulsive; the legal ramifications boggle the mind; and the religious implications for a very Catholic country are staggering. If this is how the new guidelines work with regard to sexual abuse victims, I…