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Departments

LETTERS

THE CONTRARIAN: Do You Want to Know Your Future?

Editorials

Disaster in the Gulf: A Plague to Warn Us to Change Our Relationship to the Earth
Now's the time for an Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the Constitution!

Reflections After My Home Was Vandalized:
Stop the Assault by Right-Wing Extremists on Israel's Critics Efforts to delegitimate Israel are only helped by the equation of reasonable critique with anti-Semitism.

Politics and Society

SPECIAL SECTION: QUEER SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS

• Introduction
• Ten Reasons Why Gay Rights Is a Religious Issue by JAY MICHAELSON
• Christians Seeing Red: An Evangelical Perspective by JAY BAKKER
  
• Islam and Homosexuality by PARVEZ SHARMA
  
• Same-Sex Weddings, Hindu Traditions, and Modern India by RUTH VANITA
  
• Two Spirit Activism: Mending the Sacred Hoop by RICHARD (ANGUKSUAR) LAFORTUNE
• Coming Home to Who We Are: Buddhist Spiritual Practice and Transformation by LARRY YANG
• It’s Time to Heal a Mega-Church Psychosis by YVETTE A. FLUNDER
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stern College: Gender Transition and Jewish Ethics by JOY LADIN
• The Transformative Promise of Queer Politics by ALANA YU-LAN PRICE
• Queerness in the Contemporary Goddess Movement by STARHAWK
• Re-Envisioning LGBT Welcome in Faith Communities by AMANDA UDIS-KESSLER and PHOEBE LOSTROH
• The Intersection of Anti-Occupation and Queer Jewish Organizing by WENDY ELISHEVA SOMERSON
• The Uganda Controversy: Solidarity vs. Imperialism in LGBT Organizing by EMI KOYAMA
• Dismantling Hierarchy, Queering Society by ANDREA SMITH
• Bisexuality—Theology and Politics by DEBRA KOLODNY
• It’s So Queer to Give Away Money by DEAN SPADE
• Online Exclusives (click here for web exclusives)

Is BDS the Way to End the Occupation?
Or can American Jews and peace activists get Obama to pressure Israel directly?

OYL!—Corruption, the Spirit, the Earth, and Us by ARTHUR WASKOW
Oy. Corruption has consequences. For BP—and all of us—it’s time to renew our covenant with YHWH.

Rethinking Religion

Ha’Rav Kook: Master of the Lights by ITZCHAK MARMORSTEIN
It’s seventy-five years since the beloved poet, scholar, and rabbi passed away. His words live on!

Word Jazz: Music and the Poetry of Rav Kook by JAMES STONE GOODMAN
A rabbi on the sax, another on the mic: feel it.

Speaking Our Pain: Anguish, Wonder, and Comfort in the Psalms by PAMELA GREENBERG
Are you a progressive activist worn down by life? Try this tonic.

Culture

Film

Colateral Healing

• Budrus
  
  Review by MICHAEL NAGLER
  

BOOKS

The Second American Revolution

• Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader
  
  Review by CHARLES DERBER
  

Why the Propaganda?

• A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad
  by Robert S.Wistrich
  
  Review by MILTON VIORST
  

Prophetic Courage in an Imperial Age

• The Man Who Knew God: Decoding Jeremiah by Mordecai Schreiber
  
  Review by BARRY L. SCHWARTZ

POETRY

The Well by TOM SLEIGH

HUMOR

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