Dzmura’s arguments stand no chance of being adopted by the American mainstream any time soon. If we want to “move the needle” of public opinion, we need to make more moderate ones.
2010
A Progressive Religious Agenda Toward Gay Rights – A Response to “Ten Reasons Why Gay Rights Is a Religious Issue” by Jay Michaelson
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Essentialist arguments may win compassion from heterosexuals, but they don’t reflect reality. Let’s render marginal the idea that homosexuality is sin.
2010
Why a New Translation of the New Testament?
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As a Greek scholar, I undertook a new translation of the New Testament to give a chastely modern, literary version of a major world text.
2010
Ever Dying, Never Dead – That’s Life!
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On Yom Kippur we strive to be angels, but we are also reminded of our essential difference from them.
2010
Economics for a Global Community — A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz
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In this conversation U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, endorses economic equality and workplace democracy, and discusses how to accomplish the Network of Spiritual Progressives’ economic goals, with which he sympathizes.
2010
Q&A on the ESRA
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This Q&A explains why we chose the approach we did in the details of this amendment (including why it is so long and so technical).
2010
ESRA: Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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We invite you to read our Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment (ESRA) and to review the accompanying Q&A to understand why we have gone further than other amendments proposed to deal with the core problems of corporate power and the need for environmental responsibility.
2010
2010 Elections: Why Have the Democrats Lost Popular Support?
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Perhaps the November elections will not be as harsh on the Democrats as the polls predict, but the Dems’ behavior in power has decreased their popularity dramatically.
2010
Seventy-Five as the New Forty-Five
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What if, as expected, regenerative science and lifestyle improvements lead to another twenty-plus-year extension of life expectancy in the twenty-first century?
2010
Ten Reasons Why Gay Rights Is a Religious Issue
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The centrality of religion to civil rights discourse is amplified when the civil rights struggle questions a status quo largely supported by religion.
2010
Introduction to the Queer Spirituality & Politics Section
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What has lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activism accomplished, and where is it headed? And how might queer political activism move our society as a whole toward a more caring, just, and liberatory future?
2010
Reflections After My Home Was Vandalized
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Many of the most vocal defenders of Israel in the Jewish community personally assail anyone who criticizes Israeli policies toward Palestinians, declining to answer the actual criticisms and instead labeling the critics as “self-hating Jews” or “anti-Semites” or worse.
2010
Disaster in the Gulf: A Plague to Warn Us to Change Our Relationship to the Earth
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Instead of messing around with partial measures, President Obama should transform our approach to the environment by orienting it around this key idea: the earth is not a “resource” to be used for private profit.
2010
The Second American Revolution
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“Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” by Ralph Nader: Review by Charles Derber