The protests in Turkey started on May 27 with a modest resistance movement against the destruction of Istanbul’s Gezi Park…
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An excursion through the partitions of Taksim Square
Taksim Meydanı. Partition Square. Although it has taken on potent new resonances in recent days, the name of Istanbul’s throbbing central…
Global reflex
As both Marcia Pally and David Gushee note, there is no historical reason why evangelicalism should identify with a single…
Faith and the Occupy movement: What would Jesus do?
From very early in the movement, spirituality and faith have played a role in the Occupy movement. Religious observances began…
AA Bronson lecture on art, religion, and social justice
AA Bronson---artist, curator, writer, teacher, and activist---will speak at Union Theological Seminary in New York City on Wednesday, October 6,…
Parodic politics
Perhaps the upswing in religious individualism in this postmodern, postsecular period doesn’t herald the breakdown of community after all—nor does…
Carrying the blank banner
For the first time in over a decade, reports CNN, members of St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church marched in…
So you want to be a new atheist
If you want to be a New Atheist, first and foremost, you need to possess an unrelenting desire to help.…
The global evangelical
Evangelicals, contra their isolationist or xenophobic image, have become a well-traveled group, going to places usually reserved for anthropologists and…
A progressive evangelical movement?
When people hear the words "progressive" and "evangelical" together, a sort of cognitive dissonance occurs. Meshing the notions of Jerry…