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Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…zed for recent attacks on marriage equality legislation that some see as a way to position himself for a return to politics: In a 45-minute prime-time TV interview, Sarkozy, The Guardianreports, “became animated at the end of the interview when asked about the Socialist government’s so-called ‘marriage for all’ legislation that legalised same-sex unions and brought hundreds of thousands of mostly rightwing, traditional, Catholic protesters on to t…

Muslim Voices Festival: Story-telling For a New Millennium

By Hussein Rashid

…ave been difficult for a text that seems to change slightly each performance, better real-time summaries were needed. Farooqi’s vision for reviving the dastangoi tradition is an admirable one, and his expert staging and acting show the value of the art form in a way simply reading about it does not. The performative aspect of the night was powerful, even if one could not follow the language, as many in the audience could not. With continued shows…

It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising

By Chrissy Stroop and Jessica Johnson

…report’s findings, which hardly warrants an “apocalypse.” It’s an indirect way of saving face for the SBC itself, in light of all the abuse uncovered. An apocalypse would mean destruction (and potentially, resurrection). We’re not there yet. Not even close. I’m also very tired of the ways in which these Manichaean us v. them “teams” are continually set up between “the Christian” and “the secular.” The righteous purity that this formulation require…

By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?

By Randall Balmer

…addressing religious right audiences about how the United States is and always has been a “Christian nation” and recounting his exploits in Alabama. In 2006, Moore thought that he could once again parlay his disregard for the Constitution into higher office. He ran for the Republican nomination for governor, but lost badly in the primary. (Several weeks later, in neighboring Georgia, another poster boy for the religious right, Ralph Reed, lost hi…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…sty in regard to the truth claims of one’s own beliefs). • Resistance as a way of life: recognition of the flawed nature of all existing political and social arrangements (for those Protestants who are actually and actively committed to religious life, the correlate here is taking sin seriously). Areopagitica in Reverse: The Shame of Today’s Domesticated Protestantism I turn now to the reason for this lengthy but necessary meander down historical…

Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…amous fundamentalist Mormons and mainstream Mormons still is. Yes, and the way polygamy was banned by the mainstream LDS Church in connection with Utah statehood means, I think, that the question of polygamy will always track politically. And polygamy as an eternal doctrine has not been negated among mainstream LDS people. It’s a very live idea still. Some orthodox Mormons expect to live it in heaven. So much of all faith is not now but later. Mai…

Filling the Awkward Silence: A Response to Laura Levitt on the Passing of Jacob Neusner

By David R. Blumenthal

…d yet done). Fifth, sometimes I would drive with Jack to Brown and, on the way, I would ask, “What are you teaching today?” He would answer, and when I inquired how he prepared, he replied, “On my way to the office, I decide what are the three important points I want to make. That’s it.” I was dumbfounded but, here too, Jack proved correct. I still make a conscious effort to decide on the three main points of the lesson. The rest is communication….

Freezing Our Way to a Fiery Hell?

By Steve A. Wiggins

Psalms of lament are being sent heavenward this winter. Like a kid, I’m hoping for a snow day today. The forecasters have gone apocalyptic again with inches of white fluff expected overnight. I wake at dawn and pull back the curtain, but not a flake has fallen. This winter has been like that. The south digs out from yet another snowstorm. Boston has drifts that could bury a yeti. The blizzard of the century last month may have missed us New Yorke…

Robert Bellah’s Powerful Legacy: A Mixed Blessing for Religious Studies?

By Ivan Strenski

…ng for republican civil religion, along with his desire to inform a “a new way of being religious within modern culture,” we can easily see how Bellah got the Berkeley secularists running for their guns. What was Bellah, a sociologist, thinking, anyway? Had he forgotten all he learned and taught about first-order religious institutions? What has happened to the role of religious faith communities in articulating “a new way of being religious withi…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…g Bishop and the national church have had to respond at times in an ad hoc way in the spirit of preserving unity within the church,” said Mullin. “Canons that were crafted in the nineteenth century could not have anticipated the way things have unfolded in the twenty-first, so of course there will be ambiguity. But,” he adds of the AAF’s charges, “there’s nothing new here.” You Might Be an Anglican Schismatic If… The first such ambiguity is the ma…