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Catholic Conscience Over a Woman’s Life?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…etail and mental storage of arcane knowledge to ask the obvious question! Because in fact, the only scenario we need to raise is this one: What if it’s an emergency and the woman needs the abortion or she’ll die? Which is, like, not outside the realm of possibility. From the American Journal of Public Health (PDF): Dr B., an obstetrician–gynecologist working in an academic medical center, described how a Catholic-owned hospital in her western urba…

The Happening and the Gospel of Bruce Springsteen

By Diane Winston

…nd prayer, but Parton has never been one to get specific about theology.” (Hmm—might there be a piece on the Bible, the Boss, and the Backwoods Barbie: sin and salvation from Nashville to New Jersey?) The folks behind Church Basement Roadshow do get specific about theology, and since they were good enough to show up at my synagogue Saturday morning (noshing not davening), I wanted to end this update on religion and culture with a mention of their…

Time is on Our Side

By Amina Wadud

…, the time of sun rise, and the time formaghrib, the prayer at sun set. Especially maghrib, because that’s when the fasting ends. Precise, detailed. When my kids were younger they would check the calendar and get the sunset time programmed in their heads. Each day they would announce its arrival loudly, “It’s time!” Down to the minute. No quibbling about it. In those many, many places in the world with mosques on every corner or at least in every…

Is This Light?

By Amina Wadud

…ely, at least the bride price or mahr, which is also mandatory in the contract according to the Qur’an, goes to her and not her father. Wow, we would really be in trouble. The other thing is why Muslims think using forensic evidence and DNA might somehow make their judgments un-Islamic, but something as stupid as a sleeping fetus makes sense? Oh, never mind. Now that I’m trying to write on this, I guess the avoidance techniques were safe defenses…

Forgiveness

By Amina Wadud

…sm finds such recompense in America. In Malaysia and Indonesia, at the end of Ramadan there is a custom to seek forgiveness zahir and batin for offenses done knowing and unknowingly. We do not know all the time how our actions affect another person. So to keep the level of humanity in forgiveness straight let me say, in writing this blog, if I have offended anyone knowingly or unknowingly, please forgive me and astaghfir-Allah….

Favorite Places, Favorite Prayers

By Amina Wadud

…my) God, indeed I ask of you the good from the great generosity of Your capacity to decree. Oh God, if this matter be good for me and for my faith and for the issue of my affairs, then, ordain it for me and make it easy for me. (But) if this matter is bad for me, for my faith and for the issue of my affairs, then, turn it away from me and turn me away there from. Turn me towards the good, where ever it may be, and cause me to be pleased with it.”…

Kyl Demands Condemnation of “Violent or Hateful Rhetoric,” But Doesn’t Follow Own Advice

By Sarah Posner

…ou done that or has your website done that?” I’m looking at Senator Kyl’s website right now. Hmm, where’s the condemnation of Bryan Fischer, who many of the presidential hopefuls in Kyl’s party are cozying up to, and who thinks that Muslims don’t have the same constitutional rights as Christians, and that Muslims should be banned from immigrating to the U.S. or building mosques? And look, Kyl was a guest speaker at one of Frank Gaffney’s events, j…

Remembering Gil Scott-Heron

By Mark Hulsether

…eless, Scott-Heron remained a significant creative force, and in 2010 his record I’m New Here was well received (for example earning a 8.5 rating on Pitchfork.com). There would be no Talib Kweli or other exemplary conscious rappers like Lupe Fiasco without the trailblazing work of Scott-Heron and others from his generation. So let us honor him today by remembering one of his most powerful poems, which has by no means has lost its relevance for mus…

Voices From the Womb

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…womb and doesn’t end until you enter the tomb. President Obama forcefully declared, in a Father’s Day speech, that “fatherhood doesn’t end at conception.” There is no excuse for men who’ve chosen to have sex, to then choose to avoid any and all responsibility, when the natural result of sexual activity brings forth Life. Our government, too, has failed miserably in protecting the rights of fathers to exercise that responsibility by stripping away…

Iz Not Okay Wif Our Sky Kitteh: Debating Repro Rights in Lolcat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…of the Goths is played by a foam-backed, life-sized photo cutout of Gavin Macleod. Or MacBeth, but reimagined in the style of the 1950s detective radio drama “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar” – except that that would be far too unoriginal on its own, so the hook is that the actors play pieces of furniture and vice versa. Why do I mention this? Because I want to lay copyright claim to what I’m positive is a viable project sure to be eligible for arts f…