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Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…to Restore a Christian Nation.” It was so controversial that the far right news site that published it, World Net Daily quickly took it down (though it appears to have been quietly reposted at some point). In it, Lane expressed doubts about the ability of the Christian Right to establish theocratic governance via the tools of democracy alone and thus suggested that violence and elections are not mutually exclusive, and that horrific confrontations…

Ask a Muslim: No, Dear Reader, Sex-Obsession Isn’t Confined to Muslim Nations

By Haroon Moghul

…reality. Should it be practiced today? No. Is it necessary? No. There were times in Islamic history when treaties created mutual obligations to defense instead of jizya. In a democratic age, I believe in a democratic alternative. Though let’s not get carried away. We in the U.S. practice dhimmitude as well. We believe we have the right to attack anyone, anywhere in the world, and we have the right to prevent others from defending themselves. I’m t…

Welcome to the “Spin-od”: Conservatives Look to Halt Reforms on Divorce and Other “Family Matters”

By Patricia Miller

…of ground on the most contentious issues facing the church. Writing in the New York Times, retired Bishop Francis Quinn argues that for the church to be truly renewed, especially among increasingly disaffiliated young Catholics, it must consider not only a pastoral path to communion for divorced Catholics, but also accepting married and women priests—two issues that aren’t even on the table. Thirty-five years ago, however, at the last family synod…

Feeding on the Faithful: How Supernatural Thinking Empowered the Third Reich

By Eric Kurlander

…rst “supernatural” history of the Third Reich, encouraging scholars to ask new questions and pursue new lines of research, whether they agree with my conclusions or not. What alternative title would you give the book? Early on the working title was Consuming Terror: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. It was based on my hypothesis that the Nazis used “horror,” “terror,” the fear of a “monstrous” other to attract popular support and pursue t…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…possibility of their coexistence without the comprehensive affect of their mutual intellectual cooperation. This bred a new paradigm, for the time (which some mistakenly think we need to revert to in order to go forward at this juncture in history). Yeah, I know you know the bylines about Islamic philosophers who revived, preserved, and further developed Aristotelian and Hellenistic philosophical traditions; or about Arab and Muslim medical treati…

Papal Encyclical Becomes Part of Congressional Record

By Sarah Posner

…e begun to prosper so well. Nothing, finally, could be more harmful to the mutual relations of trust and cordiality that have recently been established between bishops and theologians. So what has happened in the past 25 years? Father Dulles’s worst fears have become reality. Nearly 20 years after that, I’m guessing the these same dissenters would be shocked by how that loyalty test is now a litmus test for American public health policy. And even…

Sarah Palin Calls Biblical Patriarchs “Neanderthals”

By Julie Ingersoll

…leader (and Tea Party activist) Doug Phillips reminds readers of Vision Forum’s position that Palin was biblically ineligible to run for vice-president because she is a woman, highlighting crucial fault lines in conservative Protestant, even fundamentalist, gender theology, part of a longstanding debate. The primary division is between egalitarians and complementarians. (You can read an earlier post I wrote on egalitarians and evangelical feminis…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…hole range of domestic social policy and priorities? And how will the Arab world possibly be any different? The source of much of the Arab world’s recent unrest lies in income inequality, injustice, authoritarianism, and economic stagnation. No country in the world, the United States included, can now pursue domestic policy independent of international financial markets. How much more so the Arab world—considering how much poorer and less develope…

Polling Place as Sacred Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lace. As I observed the orderly line and patient and courteous voters, the words of Jon Stewart at the end of the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, came ringing in my ears. Stewart spoke these words as a video of cars merging in traffic was being shown on the jumbo screens: These cars – that’s a schoolteacher who probably thinks his taxes are too high. He’s going to work. There’s another car — a woman with two small kids who can’t really think…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…istorical movement of Islam, with literal wars between extended family sometimes because of this nascent religion, it makes sense that some restrictions might be needed. But our times are radically different. And that’s the thing. It’s like restricting some wealthy person from being Muslim unless they want to be disinherited. That seems a bit odd. Likewise, more families contain both Muslims and non-Muslims in these times (Obama being the most tal…