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An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…d your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting from behind the branded tailfin of a cruising aircraft, I heard the unmistakable strains of George Gershwin’s “…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…men and boys in Srebrenica. And in Rwanda, by the time it was over, up to 1,000,000 were dead, and we had done nothing; but we had no regional mandate to act, and there was no army for us to destroy from the sky. So does that mean I’m okay with this? Actually, no. And that’s a solid segue to the substance of the matter. Here are six reasons why I don’t feel right about Operation Odyssey Dawn: 1) Just because Obama is a Democrat doesn’t mean the Co…

Why the Hell Does Hell Still Matter?

By Kathryn Gin

…en on the outs in America since at least 1800 is simply untrue. If anything, 1800 represented a turning point in the other direction. The idea of universal salvation had appealed to both elites like Chauncy and common folk in the late-1700s. The promise that all humans would eventually be saved represented an extreme backlash against the dominant Calvinist notion that God chose only some for heaven. Universal salvation seemed a better fit with the…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

The United Arab Emirates, or UAE, is the only functioning federation in the Arab world, composed of six states that joined together in 1971 and a seventh that decided to come along a year later. The two primary emirates are Abu Dhabi, the capital and wealthiest of the seven, whose territory is 87% of the whole country’s, and Dubai. Dubai is the second of the two, but easily the more famous. In the past fifteen years, the city has grown from a sma…

Personhood USA says Romney would Permit “Death Penalty” for “Babies Conceived in Rape”

By Katie Toth

…ople and placed it in the hands of unelected judges. Sounds pretty anti-choice, compared to the stance the former Massachusetts governor used to hold. But for Personhood USA, giving sexual assault survivors bodily autonomy—or even overturning Roe v. Wade—just isn’t fanatical enough….

Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ is No Joke

By Cavan Concannon

…ible inspired by America’s most recognized patriotic anthem, God Bless The USA,” Greenwood’s most famous song and one that’s been embraced by Christian nationalists. In fact, as you may recall, the GBUSA was originally planned to be released in 2021 by Christian publisher Zondervan with just Greenwood’s endorsement, but the publisher canceled the project after a number of its Christian authors protested. The latest iteration of the GBUSA still inc…

Spiritual Unplugging, Or What to Do When There is Wifi at the Ashram

By Matt Hamilton

…. “Just take it,” I inwardly begged. As a journalist, I live and die by my phone, email and Twitter. I call sources, pursue leads, check the news, and schedule interviews. I don’t know how not to do this. Yet here I was at the Ananda Ashram in rural India, expecting (and craving) swift condemnation by the monks and nuns at the sight of an iPhone. I was on a university-sponsored trip to the subcontinent with other journalists, all of us covering po…

Should Christians Confess to Plants? A Cranky Meditation

By Greg Carey

…o petty. As Christians, we ask God to forgive us for our bad attitudes, and we should. But the classic liturgies confront us with a bigger, albeit generic truth: we have sinned against God and against our neighbors. We have not loved as we should. We have sinned in thought, word, and deed. I’m not Lutheran, but I’m happy to confess: we are in bondage to sin, and we cannot save ourselves. How true that is of our relationship to plants and animals….

AFA: Native Americans Lost their Land for Not Being Christians

By Daniel Schultz

…the conversion of some tribes later removed in the Trail of Tears—how is it, exactly, that a lack of Christian belief translates into justification for deportation, oppression, and forced assimilation? For example: Regarding what he described as the “sexual immorality” of American natives, Fischer noted that certain tribesmen honored the arrival of the Lewis and Clark expedition in the early 19th Century by offering their wives to expedition membe…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…activists who are LGBTIQ Muslims in South Africa, the Netherlands, Britain, USA and Canada. I am now preparing a book that features their interviews, to show both the variety of activist activities they engage in and the common issues that they face. That book will be published soon by NYU Press and will be entitled Voices of Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslim Activists. I know you have already commented a bit on this, but can you say more abo…