Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap
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Praying With Eyes Open: Christmas is a Big Deal for Liberal Christians Too
Liberals like me can’t really bring ourselves to believe that Christ will be coming again in glory. This means we have to settle with what we’ve got: a man who showed us what God is like in the brief span of a still-obscure life long ago.
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Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work
A new book from married co-authors, Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt, explores the intricacies of mixed partnerships and blended heritages.
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Is It Immoral to Believe in Miracles?
Whether it’s the Christmas miracle, the dreidel proclaiming that “a great miracle happened there,” or Saturday Night Live poking fun at the miracle narrative, ’tis the season for miracle mentions to become commonplace.
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No Shocker for This Gay Ex-Jesuit, Vatican Rejects Gay Priests (Again)
I am not shocked by the Vatican’s recent affirmation of the 2005 ban on admitting…
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A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America
My prayer for 2017, then, is simple: I pray that we, the people, live up to the brave and beautiful example the rebels, the resisters, and the agitators have set for us.
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Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing
Even the protests of progressive evangelicals themselves offer proof that progressive initiatives have never be more than an aberration to the overwhelming prevalence of evangelical conservatism.
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6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun
There are bright spots in the Muslim world, but a sense of ominousness is inescapable. It doesn’t just seem like the Arab Spring is over, but that the winter is here to stay.
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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?
“Unless gay priests decide that it’s time for their Stonewall moment, Church leaders–some of them closeted, sometimes self-loathing, homosexually-oriented men themselves–will continue to utter the slander that affects not just ordained gay men and seminarians, but every LGBTQ person in the Church.”
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Filling the Awkward Silence: A Response to Laura Levitt on the Passing of Jacob Neusner
I had met Jack at an Association of Jewish Studies conference while I was in my first year as a professor and, after a brief talk, he invited me to apply for the position at Brown.
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