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Multifaith Weight Loss: The Problem of Fat, the Promise of Peace

By Shaina Hammerman

…ants claim of their experience. It is unclear whether such events actually change how these Jews and Muslims perceive each other, or if they only change how Jews and Muslims view themselves. In this sense, Luttwak is correct in asserting that Slim Peace is not a conflict-resolution group. The women are not there to bridge differences; they are there to redefine their differences. “I had never spent any time with any Muslim people before this gro…

Presbyterians Make Right Choice on Israel Divestment

By Jay Michaelson

…’m not saying this is a good thing, I’m saying it’s a reality. What might change that? A sign, somewhere, that change is possible. A tangible plan, endorsed by the Palestinian leadership, the Israeli leadership and progressives in the world community. A way forward that won’t lead to more disappointment. A way to reenergize the Israeli Left, which has cared in the past, and could care again. American activists should amp up the pressure on Israel…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mbers of the junior governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) are pushing to change that. They are calling on their coalition partners, the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), to go along with a change of law that would grant same-sex couples the right to get married and not just obtain civil unions. DW reports that a gay DCU deputy, Stefan Kaufmann, said religion is part of the resistance to marriage equality: “…

Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Religion?

By Galen Watts

…f recovery? I think it’s helpful to consider the wider social and cultural changes that have taken place over the last century. With the rise of secular liberalism and the gradual dissolution of religion from the public sphere, sources of meaning and purpose are less self-evident than they once were. Although in Canada and the U.S. we have the freedom to choose what to believe in, it’s not always clear what we should believe in. Granted, not all e…

Will Religion Finally Give Peace a Chance? Rising to the Challenge of Nonviolence as Armageddon Looms

By Peter Laarman

…metimes even turning the other cheek—can be incredibly effective in making change. The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s wise counsel comes to mind: “An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.” Revenge and recrimination leave no space for the application of restorative justice. Who is actually leading now If anyone makes the turn toward effective nonviolence in this country, it will most likely be younger progressives who begin to apply ancient spiritu…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and even murder.” Lithuania: Parliamentarians push for ban on legal gender change This month 31 members of parliament introduced legislation that would ban medical procedures for gender reassignment as well as any legal recognition of gender change or transgender status. The language used by the parliamentarians echoes anti-transgender language used by religious conservatives who refer to gender reassignment surgery as “mutilation” and insist that…

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…they provide the sense of a high degree of order and stability in times of change (which is something that many scholars argue), I think that there’s more going on under the surface that’s quite pliable and dynamic. As the previous discussion on chaos rhetoric shows, I’m interested in how CWA uses a series of rhetorical techniques that permits them to continuously shift their platforms as is politically expedient, leaving little that is actually s…

Transforming America’s Israel Lobby

By Dan Fleshler

…ming America’s Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change (excerpted below), Dan Fleshler, an American Jewish activist in what he calls “the pro-Israel left,” explains the reluctance of Jewish liberals to criticize Israel on the human rights front, even when they share the rest of the world’s objections to Israeli behavior. And he urges them to stop censoring themselves, both for moral and practical political reasons. _____…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…systems,” he said. “I never pursued that strategy.” He said the reason for change is the National Academy of Science’s revision of its definition of science as “the use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena as well as the knowledge generated through this process.” As McLeroy also wrote, on March 25 in the Austin-American Statesman, the change from the previous definition from “natural explanation” to “…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e equality, a fact that some activists suggest shows a social and cultural change in Chile. DW quotes activist leader Ramón Gómez suggesting that cultural change “is closely related to the loss of credibility of religious institutions, especially the Catholic Church.” In fact, a few months ago the country experienced a viral episode in much of the Castilian-speaking world in which an evangelical pastor was expelled from the program “The Switch”, t…