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Response to Nicholas Kristof on Religion and Women

By Mary E. Hunt

…That’s a context that religions have helped shape, and not pushed hard to change. The “not” is misplaced. It is more accurate to say: That’s a context that religions have helped shape, and pushed hard NOT to change. Otherwise, one misses the fact that many religions, Catholicism for example (my own tradition, though as a woman I have no decision-making power), have been tireless in their efforts to keep women subordinate. One passes over the long…

The Boa Has Been Passed to New Generation

By Mary E. Hunt

…r longtime “gal pal” Kate Clinton whose comedy goes to the heart of social change. March organizers made clear their disdain for Congressman Barney Frank whose lack of support for the event proved that not all queer people think alike, a sign of movement maturity among other things. Speaker after speaker expressed impatience with President Obama’s incrementalist approach that even he admits we need not accept. The big star was someone I dated myse…

Despite Excommunication, Door to Women’s Ordination Not Closed

By Roy Bourgeois

…o abuse their power and oppress others, but from the oppressed themselves. Change will come—not from the top down, but from the bottom up. At the core of the crisis in the Catholic Church today are men who claim that only they can know the will of God. And the God they tell others to worship is effectively male and heterosexual. Most young Catholics are leaving the Church because it is anti-women and anti-gay. If the Catholic Church does not chang…

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…

The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…ow that the fight ain’t fair So we keep on waiting—waiting on the world to change. “Waiting” has been called the anthem for a generation, but crystallized within its pretty melodies is a sad and mysterious impotence. The American young adult is powerless while the average Egyptian’s salary is roughly $2000 per year? The Egyptian educational system is far less developed than America’s, and the opportunities for young people are far less numerous. S…

The Sad Incoherence of Jeb’s Abortion Position

By Patricia Miller

…e change encyclical that the pope should keep his nose out of both climate change and economic policy, suggesting that these are “political” issues that don’t fall in the pontiff’s wheelhouse: I don’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinal or my pope. I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting in the political realm. He also said that he doesn’t “go to Mass for economic polic…

American Jews: From Holocaust to New Age Hasidism?

By Martin Kavka

…dds with the contemporary world, one can either change Judaism, or one can change the world. The latter path is well on display in the frequent worries about the future of Jewish commitment and in the expansion of the Taglit-Birthright Israel program. Magid’s hypothesis, however, is that time is not on the side of the fretters: “The Holocaust and Zionism have arguably been the glue that has kept American Judaism intact since the Second World War….

Response: We Might Need the End of Progressive Christianity

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…the core of their identity as progressive Christians. They approach social change for the underclass in benevolently paternalistic ways because they know what is wrong and can speak truth to power on behalf of “the least of these.” They neither make themselves vulnerable nor offer positive alternatives to those whom they denounce. They are impatient with other Christians who don’t see as they do because they are so convinced of their rightness and…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…lly happen in the political realm. We almost never know exactly why things change, or why at a certain point they can change and why at another point they really must change—we only recognize the inevitable after it has occurred. Just ask a random group what ended the Vietnam War and you will see what I mean. KL: I can’t decide where Billy wants people to be after a Fabulous Worship—is it in a secular position? I think I’d be interested to hear mo…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…on the right – gun rights hysteria, black helicopter conspiracism, climate-change denial, and more.” There’s a lot here to chew on, and I’m certainly sympathetic to the argument that there are unanticipated sympathies between postmodernism and some conservative ideas, as I will explain shortly. But the real problem with this account is that it overemphasizes academic postmodernism and hippie New Ageism as origins of America’s post-truth fake news…