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Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…itor NYU Press, 2009 Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg has spent much of her career writing about Judaism. Her first book, Yentl’s Revenge (2001), is a collection that features young women writing about how they have reconciled their faith and their feminist beliefs, and explores topics like marriage, body image, transgender theory, and environmentalism in order to redefine Judaism for a younger generation of women. Ruttenberg followed up Yentl’s Revenge las…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…ersecution” they suffer in the United States, the culture wars they are igniting and supporting around the world subject LGBT people and their allies to very real persecution. The role that American religious right leaders have played in fomenting anti-gay bigotry in Uganda has been well-documented, but never before with the emotional punch delivered by God Loves Uganda, a new documentary by Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams that…

Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ering his final address as a congregational pastor, Rev. William J. Barber II, decried the celebratory tone and mood of Juneteenth as improper. “They want you jumping around and drinking,” he said. “That’s not what Juneteenth is.” With all due respect, Rev. Barber is wrong here. Juneteenth isn’t an African American Yom Kippur, it’s a time of joviality and happiness. Photographs from the turn of the 20th century show African Americans in decorated…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…’s enemies should expect come January 2025: President Donald J. Trump is waiting in the wings. And when he assumes office again, let me tell you, the globalists and their entire regime will be smashed to pieces and scattered to the winds. Keep in mind that he derided “globalists” at a conference with a distinctly global focus. It’s a bit more legible, of course, when you recall that the term “globalists” has a distinctly antisemitic history. The e…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…ask their doctors for a prescription for lethal drugs. When his pain intensified, Randy Niedzielski said he wanted to move to Oregon, where he could end his own life, he told his wife, in a controlled, calm manner. Doctors told him it was unlikely he would be able to establish residency in that state before cancer killed him. “He was angry,” Nancy Niedzielski said. “Before he died in 2006, he asked me to make sure the same law passed in Washington…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s study “the gold standard” of same-sex parenting studies, FoF’s afﬁliate CitizenLink crowed that among those “social problems” were “strong tendencies, as adults, to exhibit poor impulse control; suffer from depression and thoughts of suicide; need mental health therapy; identify themselves as homosexual; choose cohabitation; be unfaithful to partners; contract sexually transmitted diseases; be sexually molested; have lower income levels; drink t…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…g meeting. It’s understandable that their earliest meetings during his pontificate didn’t necessarily reflect his imprint. It takes time for a pope to make his priorities known and to issue the formal encyclicals and other documents that leave the permanent mark of his papacy on the church. One could argue, therefore, that the lack of alignment between the priorities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Francis wasn’t a willful rejection…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…at Are Men Now Serve Him? I am fascinated by the ways in which people’s religious beliefs change how they see and understand the world around them. Of course, to the faithful, this is axiomatic—they expect their faith to change their worldview. Yet, with a few notable exceptions, I had not seen many scholars seriously examine the ways in which faith influenced gender construction. There are important works on how faith had an impact on the roles t…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ore likely than straight couples to share cooking and chores. Without the rigid gender roles pushed on gay and lesbian couples, roles have to be worked out in a way that plays to each partner’s strengths or tastes. In my household, I wash dishes, do laundry, change out the bed sheets and generally do the “women’s work,” while my partner is in charge of the garbage disposal and lawn mowing chores. She also does most of the cooking, though. Those di…

Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead

By Gary Laderman

…nd graves in the yards of my neighborhood, and the number of skeletons—reclining on lawn chairs, sprouting up from the ground, beckoning from the shadows—has transformed the suburban landscape into a set for a George Romero film. In addition, and beyond bland suburbia, monsters, ghosts, skeletons, vampires, and other playful dead inhabit stores and sell products, entertain across the television dial, and instill a dreadfully pleasurable sense of a…