By Patrice Vecchione — 2020
Patrice Vecchione on talking with Rich about spirituality.
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CLEAR ALL
Reflecting and shaping the culture in which it is embedded, religion has historically been hostile to LGBT-identified people and communities.
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum is spreading light this Hanukkah, not with a menorah, but with love.
As the president of Union, Serene Jones had the chance to spend a lot of time with Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she visited, both behind and in front of the stage she held so nobly.
The theologian Serene Jones, the first woman to head the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is one of the most visible faces of a group that sometimes seems to have got lost in Donald Trump’s America: the religious left.
Over the past year, streams of commentaries have analyzed the ferocious and alarming combat marking this year’s presidential campaign. Few among them, however, include wide-ranging spiritual or theological accounts of what is transpiring.
In the waning days of 2020, Serene Jones came face to face with the white supremacist hate that fueled the deadly mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6—and that poses the biggest security challenge to President Joe Biden.
Attempts at reconciliation are important, but we need to be very cautious because the word “reconciliation” is not stringent enough. The notion of reconciliation can easily continue the kind of comatose, fake inclusiveness that makes us vulnerable to deceit.
Daisy Khan, founder of the Women's Islamic Initiative for Spirituality and Equality, writes about educating Muslims to resist the false promises made by ISIS.
Rev. William Barber II . . . is now the face of a progressive Christian protest movement that's taking its fight from North Carolina to the White House.
Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.