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Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Jihadis?

By Haroon Moghul

…lieves roughly 3% of the world’s Muslims are Medina Muslims, but that’s ~45,000,000 too many. She and I are in concord. The belief that ‘sharia’ exists to be forcibly imposed must be rejected. Second are ‘Mecca Muslims,’ who practice Islam the way Hirsi Ali thinks Christians and Jews do, which is really the wrong way, because it’s contrary to Islam. Mecca Muslims refuse to recognize that ‘Islam is not a religion of peace’; that groups like ISIS ha…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…k because I was so anxious about the hajj that I could not sleep. As it was, bus number one had not yet departed and I was ordered to get on it. Good thing too, because bus number two did not leave for another eight hours! Anyway, eventually we are all there in the camp and there is only one night before we proceed to Arafat. Wuquf Arafat, standing on the plains of Mt. Arafat is the hajj, the penultimate event, which only happens once a year on th…

Anti-Choice Activists Look for Silver Lining in Personhood Defeat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…go in once it does. First we have Keith Mason, a co-founder of Personhood USA, who blames the failure on Planned Parenthood, suggesting that Planned Parenthood misled and confused voters. This response is consistent with the video made for Personhood USA by Lila Rose and Live Action. As near as I can tell, frankly, the response boils down to this: “Here, we recorded some employees of Planned Parenthood—who most of us enjoy referring to as outrigh…

Personhood Activists Regroup as “Next Civil Rights Movement”

By Sarah Posner

…ic, if not its tactics, undergird the current anti-choice zeitgeist. Indeed, Lila Rose, the guerrilla “investigator” whose deceptive undercover videos fueled the current Republican assault on Planned Parenthood, has been moving toward a civil rights agenda. At the Values Voters Summit in 2009, Rose suggested that abortions be performed in the public square. A few months later, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Rose upped the ante by…

Pro-Life Rift in Ohio: Boon or Bust for Pro-Choice Movement?

By Katie Toth

…pro-choice advocates. Dr. Patrick Johnson, a key organizer with Personhood USA, writing on the conservative website WorldNetDaily: “The advocates of the Heartbeat Bill have proven their willingness to push one person out of the boat to try to save another. How? By way of the bill’s exceptions, its inappropriate penalties, and its counterfeit moral standard.” Phil Burress, a supporter of the Heartbeat Bill and member of the Ohio Pro Life Action exe…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…President of the Board of Trade. The church paid its pastor, E. P. Goodwin, a $5,000 salary—more than ten times the earnings of the average worker—and there were other fringe benefits besides, including lucrative investment opportunities. One member at First Congregational, who was also a leading man on the Board of Trade, advised Goodwin to invest in his watch company rather than the mines. The pastor did so and received a congratulatory note in…

A Reforming Tradition Struggles With Change

By Brent Hege

…ch will include disaffected “confessional” Lutherans from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Lutheran CORE will remain as a network for dissenting Lutherans not wishing to leave their current denominations. Lutheranism is at Heart a Reforming Tradition What are the issues at stake in these discussions? First, I put the term “confessional” in quotes because I consider its use in this context to be disingenuous; it implies that only those Luther…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…andfather mentioned. Within seconds, she has called the store on her smart phone, and Yusuf’s grandson—who answers—has likewise opened Google to research visas for a reunion too long denied. We can understand the implications of this storyline by putting it into conversation with its longer historical context. The logic of the plot—that Google’s pastoral power can heal colonialism’s wounds—resembles cultural tropes that have been central to US for…

How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…munity step into this.” Umar Hakim—executive director of the ILM (Intellect, Love, Mercy) Foundation and a member of the advisory committee for LA Voice—echoed Jawaid’s excitement about the movement that formed around Prop 47. “It’s like stone soup,” Hakim said. “People are realizing how much they have in common and contributing to the effort because of that.” Like Galedary and Jawaid, Hakim worked with Muslim congregations to distribute voter ple…

The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…the iPhone might be my means of connection with the world—it is, after all, a phone—but it is also my own little password-locked garden that I carry with me wherever I go. Moreover, I can remake the landscape with a few flicks of my fingers whenever I choose. As a result, the territory necessarily mixes the sacred and the profane. My Pontiff app sits next to my iLightSaber, my virtual US Constitution, and an app that can tell me how much money I’…