Don’t Write Obit for Liberal Zionism Just Yet: A Conversation With Israeli MK Merav Michaeli
Merav Michaeli, the Israeli journalist-turned-politician now serving in the Knesset as a member of the…
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10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015
From the passing of Iyengar to homophobic yoga to the Super Bowl, yoga made headlines and continued to evolve in 2014.
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Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015
There’s no reason to think the increasingly global culture war between advocates and opponents of…
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Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort
I went to India searching for spiritual enlightenment. I found a neoliberal heaven that catered…
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Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014
No other end-of-year list can hope to offer such profound juxtapositions: a groundbreaking female Mennonite…
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The No-Selfie Doctrine: A Theological New Year’s Resolution
In an interview in the current issue of The Paris Review, James Wood asks Norwegian…
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Not a Review of Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?
Asking how you reconcile faith and science is sort of like asking, ‘How do you reconcile being a scientist and a Detroit Lions fan?’
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“This is What Theology Looks Like”: Disrupting a Crucifying System
Protesters have taken to the streets this season to disrupt a system which perpetually declares black…
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Top Five Toxic Religion Stories of 2014
From religious violence to fear of contagion to economic and racial injustice: taking full measure of what we are up against.
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American Nuns and the Vatican: More Pain than Promise
Despite herculean efforts to make nice, the 12-page report and its presentation reinforce the Roman Catholic Church’s patriarchal power paradigm.
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