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

By Benjamin Weiner

…l, and 69% of respondents view his position on the Middle East favorably. (More on this in a moment.) *88% want active American involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and a slightly smaller number would tolerate pressure being exerted on both sides. *69% were in favor of negotiations with a Palestinian unity government that included Hamas, and 76% percent expressed some degree of support for the “two-state solution” as outlined in the 2000…

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ion Y.) In general, students participating in the Astins’ surveys showed a movement through the course of their undergraduate education toward a more holistic sense of spiritual practice less connected to traditional religious institutions, their liturgies, and other rituals. Feeding the poor, housing the homeless, tending the sick, and exploring other religious and philosophical traditions seem for the students in the Astins’ study to incarnate w…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…ck’s quest for leadership in the Christian Right, he wouldn’t be the first Mormon to advocate a right-wing alliance that stretches across faiths. Beck follows hundreds of Mormon “pro-family” activists who have united with conservative Catholics and evangelicals to form a common front in the culture wars. Since 1997, when Beck was just a baby Mormon, a coalition of mostly US-based religious right groups, the World Congress of Families, has attempte…

For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…e 1960, so cosmology has been a live issue for him. How does he handle the mount Mount Meru question? Very simply. On Monday he laughed and, waving his arm above his head, said happily,“No Mount Meru!” Buddhism: Pretty Much Amenable to Enlightenment Types On the surface, Buddhism can look pretty messy. There are a number of conflicting stories about the founder of the tradition. Many Buddhists consider Gautama Buddha to be divine, a savior of huma…

Why We Must Reclaim “Religious Freedom” from Christian Conservatives

By Bill Berkowitz

…he Republican Party in many states. The Christian Right remains one of the most powerful movements in American history. I should add that the implications of these things are broader than may meet the eye. Donald Trump’s calls for restricting Muslims from traveling, emigrating, or enjoying refugee status in the United States is an affront to our country’s best traditions and aspirations for religious freedom and equality under the law. President O…

A Reforming Tradition Struggles With Change

By Brent Hege

…essions) but will deny that right to gay and lesbian persons in committed, monogamous, lifelong, publicly accountable relationships. The ELCA has decided, for now, to live with this tension and to avoid active measures to discourage the exodus of congregations and members from the church. I think this is a wise and prudent decision. After years of fence-straddling and multiple “studies,” the ELCA has taken its stand for justice and has given every…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…if you leave out mention of most of it.” Holy Ghosts is a memoir and like most memoirs it leaves out a lot of the day-to-day experiences that a person has—standing on a line at the grocery store, cleaning the house, cooking food, doing laundry, the mundane but necessary things we do at work. To include all those things in a memoir would make for a cumbersome story and probably just bore people to tears. So, this book really does focus primarily o…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t of open communion, would significantly distinguish the Episcopal Church among most mainline Protestant denominations. As with other controversial—for some, “prophetic”—actions in the denomination, it is impossible to know whether opening communion would encourage newcomers or turn away existing members, but it is certainly an issue worth following. The End is Where? It goes almost without saying that mainline Protestantism is in an extended peri…

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

By Alana Massey

…g, it was almost guaranteed by one gunman and that even if his weapon was among the more obscene military-grade automatic types, he could have only carried so many bullets with him. Americans knew how to watch the number of reported casualties go up, but we lost our collective minds when we watched the number of confirmed active shooters in Paris go up. The images coming out of Paris in the immediate term were of a city devoured by chaos and fear…

ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ety of belief and are foreign to black life and thought. Sure, there are humorous moments, but in general the episode is marked by affirmation of problematic assumptions limiting the number of those who qualify as “black” by restricting what constitutes an acceptable relationship to dominant religious claims. For example, Dre wrestles with the origins of his daughter’s turn away from God, and concludes, based on a survey of his co-workers, that wh…