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Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…h young people create discourses that will (and do) sway public policy. As students joke, “It didn’t happen unless it was on Facebook.” If this election has proven anything, it is that political activism is not limited to particular age ranges or media forms. One of my friends predicted that Obama would win the election, and someone (who had, by the way, changed her middle name to “Hussein” to show support for Obama) responded, “I hope that your r…

Fear of a Black President

By Jonathan L. Walton

…n a racist, he’s white. Newsweek magazine told us this. We know that white students are destroying civility on buses, white students destroying civility in classrooms all over America, white congressmen destroying civility in the House of Representatives. —Rush Limbaugh, Sept. 15, 2009 Ever the statesman, and often candid to a political fault, President Jimmy Carter asserted this week that much of the animosity directed toward President Barack Oba…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…y. It’s because of this that watching those same teachers, pastors, former students and the like develop a sudden interest in posting black squares or release statements to the effect that they “stand with their black brothers and sisters in Christ” is at best, laughable. At worst it stirs up old trauma that I and others who share my experience have spent small fortunes in therapy and other personal work to undo. And in some sad sense, we’re the f…

High Schooler says Barbara Ehrenreich’s Book Violates his Civil Rights

By Sarah Posner

…cialist like Ehrenreich would propose. I don’t know what else Bedford High students read in that personal finance class, but given the job market likely to face today’s high school students, they should probably be attuned to the prospect of earning crap wages. Even if Ehrenreich hadn’t written about Jesus’s teachings, her book probably would have still been subject to the McCarthy treatment — no doubt she’ll soon be appearing on Glenn Beck’s chal…

Massacre of Jesuits in El Salvador: 20 Years Later

By Richard Amesbury

…too are acknowledged as presente. In what has become an annual tradition, students on Saturday decorated the main street of the university’s campus with alfombras, elaborate murals made of colored rock salt. One shows two child-like figures with broken shackles trailing from their legs passing through a gate labeled Liberación, Dignidad, Justicia [Liberation, Dignity, Justice]. Celina Pinada, 30, who is studying accounting at the UCA and helped t…

The Next Generation of the Pro-Life Movement

By Bill Berkowitz

…bate to high school and college campuses.” The Survivor team “challenge[s] students to rethink their position on abortion at hundreds of campuses every year,” and uses displays that include “graphic images of abortion, descriptions/photos of fetal development and abortion techniques, and [information about the] factual consequences of abortion.” In late June and early July, the Survivors conducted their annual “ProLife Training Camp 2009” in Los A…

A Memoir of Jewish, Transgender Spirituality

By Joy Ladin

…that centered on relationships with my family, with God, with friends and students and colleagues. At the same time, I wanted to register the effects of my transition on those relationships: the anguish of my wife and children, the breakdown of my marriage, the strain on my Orthodox Jewish university, the extraordinary generosity and patience of the friends—surrogate mothers— who saw me through the death of my male persona and messy birth and bab…

American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets

By W. Scott Poole

…ince. I mostly teach the history of twentieth-century horror to my college students though I have one class, a history of monsters of the ancient world, that contemplates the roots of the modern genre. These roots run deep in the world’s religious systems. I, and I hope my students, are often struck with how Christianity created a world of poisonous, deadly creatures with which to populate its mythology while other religious cultures managed to ma…

We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization

By Chrissy Stroop

…and dialogue. But how much does it really prove to get privileged college students who can afford to study in private institutions but tend to have opposing political leanings to find common ground and engage in respectful dialogue? To bring Worthen’s concern with polarization down to earth, multiple academic disciplines and approaches have established a causal link between wealth inequality and economic decline in a society on the one hand, and…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…ty’s newspaper, The Threefold Advocate, faculty member Deborah Dana warned students about yoga, arguing “yoga has its roots in the worship of demonic Hindu gods.” And, in County Donegal, Ireland, Father Padraig O’Baoill warned his parishioners against “endangering” their souls by practicing yoga, which he suggested is “unsavoury.” 9. Awake Awakens Moviegoers to Yogananda’s Vision Awake, a documentary about the life of Paramahansa Yogananda, author…