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Don’t Write Obit for Liberal Zionism Just Yet: A Conversation With Israeli MK Merav Michaeli

By Sarah Posner

…nce,” she added. “What started as a tactic has become the essence.” On the domestic front, Michaeli has championed reforms that go to the heart of Israel’s conflict between being a Jewish state and a democratic one. She has pressed for taking marriage out of the hands of religious authorities and making it a civil matter. Current law recognizes marriages between Jews only if performed by an Orthodox rabbi acting under the authority of the Chief Ra…

Popesplaining: Women Remain “Strawberries” in Francis’s Book on Happiness

By Kaya Oakes

…y like America with such high divorce rates on the one hand and increasing numbers of people in interfaith and same-gender marriages on the other, very few of the families around us look a Christmas crèche. Strawberries on a theological cake Francis devotes an entire chapter to “The Blessings and Challenges of Womanhood.” His statement that “the role of women in the Church is more than maternal, more than being the mother of a family,” gets us off…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…gger and stronger than in America. So the conservatives are relying on the numbers of African leaders; they start fighting mainline church leadership using Africans to win the American battle, and come across as though they care about Africa. Do these renewal church conservatives in America actually care about Africa? They have some explaining to do: here conservatives came to fame because one of the governments, in a broadcast program, accused ma…

Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ke the White House-backed “It’s On Us” campaign to stop sexual assault and domestic violence, seem like they have a greater chance of reaching men who need to hear this message than a glowing profile in a magazine that has always catered to women. None of this critique is intended to discount Bono’s important, life-saving work through the ONE Foundation, or the critical awareness he’s raising about the fact that, indeed, Poverty Is Sexist. But per…

DREAMing of Faith

By Sarah Posner

…Act call, led by Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and Joshua Dubois, Director of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, included Noel Castellanos of the Christian Community Development Association; Rabbi Jack Moline of Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, VA; Pastor Joel Hunter of Northland, A Church Distributed in Longwood, Florida; and Pastor Rich Nathan of Vineya…

Prophetic Counterterrorism: Avoiding the Insanity of Repeated Failure

By Eric Reitan

…be an increasing emphasis on prejudicial profiling to expand the scope of domestic surveillance of the private lives of individuals who have done nothing wrong (other than commit the “crime” of, say, being Muslim). In other words, the success of forceful interdiction of terrorists may depend on increasing both discrimination and “big brother” intrusions into individual privacy. Unless, of course, we radically rethink our approach. Violence Begets…

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…tched around several city blocks, districts that were used to double-digit numbers were overwhelmed with thousands of participants, and the vast majority were adamant Sanders supporters. The night was unprecedented in the modern Mormon world. https://twitter.com/sltrib/status/710953531021221888 Close observers expected the “Mormon Vote” to go Sanders’s way—the latest polling had him up eight points, Sanders held huge rallies in both states, and Hi…

California Tribes Denounce Catholic Church’s “Fraud” and “Blatant Fabrication” on Serra Sainthood

By Peter Montgomery

…ding” of the descendants of mission Indians, who struggle with depression, domestic violence, substance abuse, and teen suicide rates that are triple the national average. The Catholic Church, of course, has been telling a much different story in which Serra, a man of his time, was a protector of Indians who evidenced concern for both their physical and spiritual well-being. In June, the Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley quoted a church officia…

Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…tion to deal with defectors, murderer of opponents, likely orchestrator of domestic terrorist attacks in Russia to justify warfare, champion of the Russian Empire directly in opposition to America: it seems strange that he would find American champions on the Christian Right. But they love him because he loves violence. He loves the same violence they crave. And unlike them, he has unleashed it repeatedly, and is busy doing it again, against the s…

Masturbation & Porn Bigger Priority Than Planet & Poverty for US Bishops

By Patricia Miller

…ugh to scare you off porn, other potential consequences include “adultery, domestic violence, the abuse of children in child pornography, and sex trafficking,” as well as abortion and contraception, since pornography “promotes and even celebrates promiscuity and a view of sexuality devoid of love or openness to new life.” It’s a little rich for an institution that’s still struggling to come to terms with sexual predators in its midst to warn about…