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Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?

By Meera Subramanian

…en out of view. It asks that any connection that animals might have to the spirit world remain tamely leashed to our household pets. There is a growing movement of people who are not farmers but are trying to get more in touch with their food, a la Michael Pollan, moving toward experiencing the death throes of the creatures they consume. They raise chickens in their urban backyards before butchering them and inviting their friends over to share. T…

Why I Am a “Cuomosexual”

By Donna Schaper

…We still want to be smart about the material while being enchanted by the spiritual. We are not going back to the time when we converted people in the soup kitchen so they could eat (are you saved?) so much as we are going forward toward an opening levered by the Holy Spirit and drawing us more deeply toward justice. From that place, we don’t really care if we get reelected or not. Or at least we care less. Politics are changing—and once again we…

What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ecognise that basic equality matters because its absence shrinks the human spirit and diminishes us all. After viewing the unity, solidarity and goodwill generated by the vote in Ireland last weekend I now recognise that gay marriage can be the pivot that shakes loose the shackles of oppression against the LGBT community across the board because it simply recognises us as an ordinary part of society, deserving of the same dignity and freedom as ev…

A Letter to the Religious Left on the Victory of Obama

By Daniel Schultz

…eir top four reasons to support Obama. Focusing on economic justice in the spirit of fairness and equal access to opportunity is consistent with Old Testament ethics. It is also likely to be a winner for a renewed Religious Left in that it allows you to play at the heart of a broad coalition. A word of caution, however. The economic agenda endorsed by voters is not identical to Jim Wallis-style poverty relief. We may have entered a new period in A…

Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017

By Peter Laarman

…to move forward on all the critical issues raised by #BlackLivesMatter. 6. Spirit of Standing Rock. The powerful Native American spirituality shining through at Standing Rock has not only given strength to the anti-pipeline protest in North Dakota but has also prompted long-overdue repentance on the part of some Christians. As well, the significance of American military veterans showing up in numbers offers another marker of the very important con…

Decoding Scalia’s Secret Hunting Society, From Jägermeister to Medieval Heresy to Buddhist Legend

By Joseph A. P. Wilson

…practicing animal “conservation” in a way that is starkly anathema to the spirit of the ancient text upon which the Latin motto is faithfully based. And to the extent that high ranking officials in the Order of St. Hubertus are also high ranking members of groups like the Safari Club (notoriously culpable in the destruction of endangered African mammals), the Order has misappropriated and undermined the ethical precepts of the sacred text at its…

Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

By Paul Harvey

…l excavation here. Clark’s work comes from the archives of the Afro-Creole Spiritualist group Cercle Harmonique from 1858 to 1877. By focusing on Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans, we get an extended, as well as intimate, look at how one very particular group, mostly men and free people of color, envisioned their ideal society through the voices of spirit mediums. In doing so, they drew from French thinkers and historical experiences (includ…

Satanist Religious Freedom Rally Successful Despite Neo-Nazis and Christian Heckler

By Joseph Laycock

…poignant. She argued that one can only become a Christian through the Holy Spirit, not the power of the government. She cited the gospel of Matthew in which those who hear Jesus must choose whether to follow him. “As God allows us to choose,” she said, “We should allow others to choose.” When all the speakers had finished, the statue was prepared for its trip back to Salem and the crowd began to disperse. At least one person had collapsed from hea…

The Bible, Brought To You By Wal-Mart

By Paul Harvey

…is dressing room to the set. The reverence on the set and in the film paid spiritual dividends. Years later, according to DeMille, a minister told the English actor who portrayed Jesus: “I saw you in The King of Kings when I was a child, and now, every time I speak of Jesus, it is your face I see.” 2. These films quickly become part of particular evangelical subcultures, giving them a long life long after the initial publicity of the premiere show…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

Full disclosure: The Spirit of Fes Foundation, organizer of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music, paid for my airfare and lodging to attend the festival. They also provided full access to all concerts at no cost. I recently returned from Fes, Morocco, where I attended the 16th Annual Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Almost a decade ago, I fell in love with a recording of some of the concerts from an earlier festival. The CD, B’ismillah, had…