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Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…his church—the diocesan cathedral, a small brick structure, very humble by Western Anglican standards—was looted and burned, as was his home. Andudu came to Washington to call on the international community to intervene in order to save his people. In so doing he carries a Christian message at odds with those voices seemingly eager for religious war with Islam. As the head of an Episcopal interfaith committee in South Kordofan, he says he maintain…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ent of the Iraq War, Regnery has added defense of the Bush administration, promotion of the war on terror and Islam: [This year] Regnery published two books that fanned fears of Islam and justified the U.S. invasion of Iraq and war on terror using the clash of civilizations language of Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington: Mark Steyn’s America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, and Mark Sieff’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle…

Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

By Chrissy Stroop

…the largest concentration outside Israel in the United States. In medieval Western Europe, where the notorious blood libel—the false belief that Jews need the blood of a ritually murdered Christian boy to make Passover matzah—originated, Jewish communities’ positions were always tenuous relative to the Christian rulers in power. The Jewish population was expelled from England in 1290, and Jews and Muslims were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula i…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…ect its authors to make strong arguments, informed by the best thinking of Western religious traditions. First Things is published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life “to confront the ideology of secularism, which insists that…faith has no place in shaping the public conversation or in shaping public policy.” So I was astonished by Mark Regnerus’s laughable piece, “The Death of Eros,” which makes an entirely secular (and frankly tired) ar…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…omen for America, who has lavished praise on Putin’s Russia for resisting “western LGBTIQ fascists” and suggested that Islamic jihadists are right about the “moral and spiritual bankruptcy” of the “decadent West.” Political Network for Values: Conservatives on Offense in Global Culture War In December, 60 parliamentarians from 20 countries gathered in New York with leaders of religious right organizations from around the globe for a “transatlantic…

“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…l and a board member for the Couple to Couple League, an organization that promotes Natural Family Planning based on Roman Catholic principles. Laird’s remarks came in response to HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ recent announcement that insurance plans will be required to offer contraception without copay, unless they meet the conditions allowing for a religious exemption. The HHS guidelines follow recent recommendations issued by the Institute o…

What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe? Easter Reflections from a Non-Christian

By Gary Laderman

…stians to shape the content of educational textbooks in Texas, country and western music has been given a seal of approval as a significant cultural movement worthy of study. Yet for rappers as well as country crooners, Jesus inspires musicians and the music they create. What do the Christians believe? Same-sex marriage, euthanasia, immigration, race relations… the list of topics that demonstrate the vast and often heavily contested views of Chris…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…can counterculture and the lifting of immigration restrictions to much of Western Europe and the United States, resulting in an influx of Indian gurus ready and eager to deliver yoga to a counterculture grasping for something radically opposed to what they perceived as the puritanical, body-negating Protestantism of their upbringing. Iyengar was a part of a much larger movement of Indian gurus—including Muktananda of Siddha Yoga, Maharishi Mahesh…

Manchester—Last Gasp of a Failing Terror Movement?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lman Abedi would do such a thing. Was he motivated by a deep hatred of the Western culture that surrounded him as he grew up in Manchester? Was he brain-washed into a religious ideology that made him think that his act would bring him instant salvation? Or was his motivation more personal, simply a longing to prove himself, to make a mark on history? The motivations for Abedi are not yet clear. However, in my monitoring of online Twitter chats amo…