It’s time to develop new, compelling arguments about why faith communities should eagerly welcome and fully include LGBT people — arguments not based on the claim that people “can’t help” being lesbian or gay.
2010
The Transformative Promise of Queer Politics
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The story of Lt. Dan Choi’s protest action is a useful entry point into a discussion of the current trajectory of gay and lesbian organizing because it emblematizes one major reality of the activist moment: the widespread sense of urgency in pursuit of the assimilationist (rather than radically transformative) goals.
2010
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stern College: Gender Transition and Jewish Ethics
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I was sure that coming out as trans would end my employment by Yeshiva University, but after months when I was forbidden to set foot on campus, the unthinkable happened.
2010
It’s Time to Heal a Mega-Church Psychosis
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There is a psychosis that permeates many churches with regard to the presence and involvement of same-gender-loving (SGL) people, who have great love for God and for their church communities.
2010
Coming Home to Who We Are: Buddhist Spiritual Practice and Transformation
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As a young Asian American boy living in a mainstream Philadelphia suburb, I experienced many events of discrimination and racism that I did not know how to handle in my little life
2010
Same-Sex Weddings, Hindu Traditions, and Modern India
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Same-sex desire and even sexual activity have been represented and discussed in Indian literature for two millennia, often in a nonjudgmental and even celebratory manner, but a new virulent form of modern homophobia developed in India during the colonial period.
2010
Islam and Homosexuality
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In 2002 I began a long and lonely journey, daring to visit some of the darkest corners of the taboo that permeates the consciousness of that unlikely character: the gay or lesbian Muslim.
2010
Christians Seeing Red: An Evangelical Perspective
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To many in my faith, I’m a walking contradiction. I’m a Southern-bred evangelical Christian pastor and a “gay ally” (as straight advocates for the gay community are so awkwardly called).
2010
Does It Really Work?
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Can we scare criminals into being good? A look into a new attempt at crime prevention.
2010
Self Transformation, Social Transformation
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Traditional Buddhism is a spiritual path for individuals, not a platform for social change — yet is it always clear where one ends and the other begins?
2010
Philosophers of Catastrophe and the Last Kantian in Nazi Germany: How Judaism Redeems Western Philosophy
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A death-camp dog knew better than many philosophers. It took Jews like Rosenzweig and Levinas to point out the flaw and the remedy.
2010
Are Israeli Policies Entrenching Anti-Semitism Worldwide?
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Critical discussions of Israeli policy are too often tarred as “anti-Semitism” and shut down. In reality, holding Israel to an ethical standard is necessary to stem a rising tide of real anti-Semitism.
2010
The Machiavellian Dilemma
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Has the Obama presidency failed? No, resistance to social and political change
is not a sign of failure—it’s inevitable, and can be overcome.
2010
After the Reform
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Did we fail on health care? The debate is vigorous. Richard Kirsch and Lauren Reichelt respond.
2010
Spirituality in a Time of Crisis
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It’s not self-sacrifice but liberation that the Tao and all deep spiritual wisdom offer us.
Facing climate change, we must free ourselves or collapse.