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When Religious Disagreement Seems the Least of Our Problems: The Future for “Interfaith” in a Divided Society

By Michael Schulson

…n puts me in circles where I am far more likely to be in relationship with highly educated, city-dwelling, liberal Jews than with evangelical pastors leading house-churches in western Oklahoma.” But why should Patel and those highly educated, liberal Jews want to fight in the first place? A little sentimentality is fine. But the schmaltz-iness obscures questions that Interfaith Leadership seems poorly equipped to answer. How well does interfaith o…

My Kind of Atheist

By Peter Laarman

…into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns. – Wallace Stevens, A High-Toned Old Christian Woman (1922) By now Frank Schaeffer’s critique of crazy right-wing Christianity is sufficiently well-known that he didn’t need to write that book again. We are much the richer for the book he chose to write instead: a book that expresses a very wise person’s irreducible double-mindedness in relation to things of the spirit. Schaeffer was once a shin…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…ergy to the Washington Mall as part of the Million Man March. In unrivaled numbers, men of color convened in DC for a program that challenged the conservative offensive of the Republican Congress, including cuts to welfare and Medicaid that disproportionately affected people of color. It also called for participants to commit to personal responsibility for themselves, their families, and their communities. “The Million Man March was high point of…

Was Student Who Claims She Was Suspended For Saying, “Bless You” Mimicking God’s Not Dead?

By Joseph Laycock

Did a high school really suspend a student for saying “bless you” when someone sneezed? And if not, what really happened? As school resumed this month, a story emerged about Kendra Turner of Dyer County, Tennessee, who was allegedly chastised by her teacher for saying, “Bless you.” (“Bless you” appeared on a list of words that were considered distracting or inappropriate for use in the classroom, alongside words like “boring” and “hang out.”) Acc…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for Pakistan’s LGBT community to connect and socialize, but they’re also risky: A man was recently arrested for allegedly using the apps to lure gay men and kill them. VICE News went to Pakistan to unravel the country’s underground gay scene and examine the ways that technology is being used to achieve sexual freedom. Australia: As Former PM declares culture war, plans for mail vote on marriage face legal challenge Australians not already on votin…

Modern Mindfulness, Continued: Chade-Meng Tan Follows Up

By The Editors

…ple knew back then was going to temples to ask statues for winning lottery numbers. There were (and still are) highly enlightened monks and nuns, no doubt, and they hold the purest Dharma of all, but most civilians had little access to or understanding of the practice. I know that things have been rapidly improving in Asia. In my carelessness, I expressed my frustration with the past in a way that sounded like a sweeping statement about Asian Budd…

In its Battle for ‘Life’ the Antiabortion Movement is Willing to Expose its Enemies to Death — And There’s an Old Christian Theology that Supports Them

By Beatrice Marovich

…rted that the maternal mortality rate in the United States is only getting higher. And while antiabortion activism threatens to make the situation even worse, reproductive rights advocates are highlighting the death-dealing dimensions of these “lifesaving” politics. A new lawsuit, filed by five women against the state of Texas, illuminates the violence at the heart of abortion bans by asserting that the denial of abortion puts their lives in dange…

Will Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…isle, Mark Joseph Stern at Slate laid bare the willful ignorance the Texas high court must have engaged in to arrive at the conclusion it did. Reading Obergefell so narrowly, throwing its hands up at its obligation to resolve conflicts of law in accordance with existing constitutional understandings, is a thinly veiled attempt to directly undermine that rule of law, Stern implies. He writes: “This maneuver is an oblique way for Texas Supreme Court…

The Untold Story of The Greatest Yiddish Poet in America

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…schmooze elderly donors and to seduce his co-worker, Clara Feld, a former high school tennis star from New Jersey who had rediscovered her Jewishness at Mount Holyoke College and has become a somewhat fanatical ba’alat teshuva, estranged from her parents and newly-Mormon brother. “I have learned the language to become something new,” the translator tells the poet. The outsider posing as insider, the gentile who passes as a Jew, is in a way the in…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…al gestures toward peace in the Middle East, we also saw a remarkably high number of attacks on Islam, on Iran, and on Arab Americans. There was the Republican outing of Barack Obama as a ‘secret Muslim’ and the promotion of this theory to both elderly Jews and conservative Christians. One survey, released in October, showed that at a sizable portion of the Texas voters polled actually believed Obama to be a Muslim. The other glaring example was t…