Religion Dispatches
When people learn that, as a lifelong and practicing Christian, I am married to a Jewish man and that we practice both religions in our house, I often become the safe person to ask about Judaism. I like this advocate role for the opportunity it gives me to gently encourage folks to look at ways in which their privilege as a member of a majority population can sometimes cause them to cause offense.
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Do we just want to believe?
Read MoreThe controversy over Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus has bolstered politically engaged religious groups in the United States and India to censor alternative voices.
Read MoreThis week’s global LGBT recap
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Read MoreLiberal and orthodox evangelicals battle over the future.
Read MoreThe Noah controversy has more to do whether or not Aronofsky approached the sacred text with the proper reverential attitude, placing himself under the authority of scriptural truth; Biblicism is the issue, not biblical literalism.
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Opponents decried the Charter as a thinly disguised attack on religious minorities, especially Muslim women […] and to that extent, a sign of Quebec’s lamentable endorsement of a broader Islamophobia that has swept the Western world in the post-9/11 context. The defeat of the government at the polls on 7 April would seem to indicate that the agenda of the Charter has now come to an end.
Read MoreFear of women’s equality.
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