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Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

By Shaul Magid

…ubled committed” now rules the state of Israel. Hartman may not be able to change that reality, so he wants to change the story. Is it possible, today, for one to not be a Zionist and still be pro-Israel? Can Israel be a state where Jews have autonomy and partial sovereignty but not be a Jewish state? That is, can one re-conceptualize Israel as a state of all its citizens without undermining the right of Jewish self-determination? I think so, and…

Better Gay at Work Than Gay in Church

By Paul Gorrell

…corporate culture they strive to emulate. Business as a Driver for Social Change A generation ago, as they marched and organized on behalf of civil rights for African Americans, many Christian churches embraced the central tenets of the social gospel, stood at the epicenter of a movement to combat racism and poverty, and joined hands with secular organizations, including progressive business leaders. But when it comes to LGBT rights, many of thes…

#IranRevolution: Iran’s Twitter Revolution

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…was a vote for his wife, Dr. Zahra Rahnavard. Mousavi ran on a platform of change, expanded legal rights for women, and economic reform. Most of his supporters are young, educated, and many of them are women. If Ahmadinejad legitimately won, why would so many people be so angry and go to such lengths for a vote they felt wasn’t counted? Videos of protests, Basij members trying to disperse crowds, and the images of attacks on university dormitories…

Nonviolence: Between Our Safety And Our Ideals

By Nathan Schneider

…ce between our safety and our ideals.” Let us, in turn, hold courageous ideals that will make a true and lasting peace. Our dreams can truly change the nation, and our nation can change the world….

Have White Evangelicals Become More Accepting of Candidates’ Personal Immorality, as New Data Suggests?

By Michael Schulson

…classified as biblical and/or theological. As noted earlier, the dramatic change among evangelicals documented in the PRRI poll may be more a matter of aspiration than change. Rather than having somehow been “Trumpified” into betraying their ideals, evangelicals may simply not have much of a problem pulling the lever in opposition to their previously stated preference when there are consequences on the table. The simplest interpretation of this y…

The Lament of the Christian Disney Dad: What Evangelicals Really Hate About ‘Wokeness’ at Disney World

By Josh Parks

…n sounded a lot like Walt Disney: “Imagination is the true magic carpet”; “Change your thoughts and you change the world.” For evangelicals in this tradition, the song from Cinderella is spot on: “Whatever you wish for, you keep.” But another kind of Disneyfied thinking is even more widespread in evangelicalism: the desire to see the past as a golden age of moral uprightness. This tendency has extreme versions, like evangelical pastor Doug Wilson’…

Health Care as Moral Drama

By Ira Chernus

…f-destructive path of resistance. First there is the simple uncertainty of change. Even the millions of conservatives who have suffered at the hand of the private health insurance system would generally prefer the devil they know to the purported devil they don’t know. Then (speaking of the devil) there is the American cultural tradition, dating back to colonial days, that sees people in power as either actual or potential devils. Why are these pa…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…giously inspired programs of social reform, insisting that the only way to change society is to “change men’s hearts.” That statement comported with his premillennialism, the belief that Jesus will return at any time—before the millennium, one thousand years of righteousness, predicted in Revelation 20—and that projects of social reform were essentially pointless. The only hope for meaningful change, according to Graham, lay in the aggregate effec…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…and our media mimicked our religion: much of it was still top-down, though change hung in the air. But it’s Benedict who has seen unprecedented change in communications technology—enough to make anyone wish for retirement. He’s observed the massive development of YouTube and Google, the ubiquity of smart phones and mobile devices, and the rise of Facebook and Twitter, which boast nearly a billion and half a billion respectively. For good and for i…

Benedict’s Painful Legacy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…can have influence,” she says, “is if Catholics sitting in the pews demand change. It’s time for the Catholic laity stand up and demand that the Church truly embody the teachings of Jesus Christ in protecting children.” She sees that as unlikely to happen between now and when the College of Cardinals meets in March to elect a new pope, especially in a Church that “evolves in geological time.” Pope Benedict, Casteix says, “offered empty promises an…