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Can the “Spiritual Left” Make the Change They Wish to See?

By Arielle Levites

…ough emotional self-development. Spiritual practitioners argue that we can best change the world through changing ourselves. If we properly govern our own emotional responses, lowering negative emotion while cultivating positive emotion we make our country a better place, one interpersonal interaction at a time. And so, when Yoga Journal asked 10 yogis to offer reflections on the presidential election results, it’s not surprising that they emphasi…

Why I Will Not Submit to Arrest, Or, the Problem With Moral Mondays

By Amy Laura Hall

…arismatic hero is simply not true to the best of Southern populism. At our best, people in the South have agitated for change in break rooms, classrooms, prison yards and such, pausing for rallies rather than mistaking rallies for the real thing. While well-orchestrated arrests of large groups, at the instruction of a religious leader, may have the power of nostalgia, egalitarian democracy requires other models. It also does not matter to me wheth…

Why Uruguay’s Move to Legalize Abortion is Not a True Victory

By Katey Zeh

…s rooted in the belief that a woman cannot be trusted to determine what is best for her own life and her family. Requirement 2: The panel must advise the woman about adoption and resources if she decides to parent. This assumes that a woman has not carefully considered the alternatives prior to requesting an abortion. While every woman has the right to comprehensive, accurate information about all of her options, the appropriate time to provide th…

Megachurch Pastor: We’re “American Al Qaeda” for Opposing Homosexuality

By Tom Bartlett

…time in our conversation, Chandler lowered his booming voice. The gays are best discussed in hushed tones. Like Chandler, Giglio said homosexuality was not a focus of his ministry. But notice what he didn’t say. He didn’t say that his views had evolved since the 1990s. He didn’t say that he no longer thought gays and lesbians were hell-bound. He didn’t say that the dreaded homosexual agenda had ceased to be a threat to these great United States. H…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…students in a myth of Christian exceptionalism and fear of Islam. Even the best publishers can fall victim to that pressure. It’s up to all of us to keep a close watch on what goes into public school textbooks. For scholars, that means ensuring that textbook content reflects the best available scholarly consensus. For parents and other citizens, it means identifying the decision-makers responsible for adopting textbooks (this will vary from state…

Bagels Aren’t Enough

By Jay Michaelson

…cal, and more than a little awkward. It’s hard to see Jewish Millenials speaking in tongues. A tongue sandwich, maybe. This leaves those of us invested in a Jewish future contemplating either smaller, boutique forms of Jewish engagement, or perhaps a Judaism that transcends the Jews. Perhaps the best of Jewish spirituality becomes as accessible to non-Jews (i.e. 99.5% of the world population) as the best of Jewish humor. Or perhaps anti-semitism w…

Christian Passover, Yes or No?: A Response to Rabbi Moffic

By David Greenspoon

…different interpretations and practices from other faith-traditions is at best syncretism. At worst, it is a violation of the integrity of all faith-traditions. Go to top A Christian seder, some suggest, crosses […] boundaries. The way to address this concern is not to condemn the seders. It is to bring in rabbis and other knowledgeable Jews who can help facilitate them […] President Obama has held seders at the White House every year of his Pres…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t of technical scholarly debates about what they did and did not mean. The best you wind up with is a statement that says, “Well, these passages don’t mean what you think they mean.” It was essentially an argument from silence, which I don’t find compelling. As I was writing this I was trying to keep in mind a couple of families in my congregation. They were just regular folks who had children come to them and they were very upset with this. We ha…

A Pastor Takes on BP in New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

…ht be transferable to other types of available labor, and to “build on the best practices learned from Katrina and Rita.” A United Neighborhoods Approach Some of those best practices were honed at the Mary Queen Viet Nam church, where those helping to rebuild gathered, eating together from their own hands for months in the flood’s aftermath. They didn’t stop at bricks and mortar; community activism gave birth to organizations such as the Mary Quee…

For Douthat, Church Either Uncompromising or a Secular Den of Promiscuity and Irrelevance

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…adviser. Teenagers, you will be shocked to learn, do not always elect the best-qualified student council members. They are occasionally swayed by other concerns, like popularity. Rather than spend a lot of energy trying to convince teenagers to be more thoughtful about their elected representatives—not her place, and besides, there’s little chance of success—Dr. Tinker tries to get the best outcome possible for the very specific projects with whi…