Search for "cheap one way airline tickets to newark phone number 1-800-299-7264"

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

By Haroon Moghul

…organization by the United Arab Emirates.” Exactly. 2) “Muslims … use cell phones and computers without necessarily seeing a conflict between their religious faith and the rationalist, secular mindset that made modern technology possible.” Driving on an interstate highway? You can probably thank the Nazis for that. What about nuclear power, radioactive isotopes, etc.? Guess who got us started there. First man in space? Circumnavigation of the glob…

By the Way: Bush Commencement Opposed by Furman Faculty

By Randall Balmer

It’s probably safe to say that, whatever its considerable merits, Furman University is only the second most recognized educational institution in Greenville, South Carolina. The most familiar–some would say the most notorious–lies behind the gated walls of Bob Jones University. Due in part to the agency of my friend Stephen Fox, I had a delightful visit to Furman earlier this year, where I gave a lecture on religion and presidential politics in t…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e and rejection,’ Metropolitan Chrysostomos said. ‘We shouldn’t forget the way Christ responded to the sinful woman, according to the Gospels, which became his word. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” ‘That canon should be our guiding principle for the way in which we should handle every person and fellow human, regardless of their otherness or differences. The church doesn’t reject people.’ …In a follow up arti…

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…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…If not, why? Is it the music (the genre being very particular to the Anglophone world)? the underlying thought of treating “Muhammad as punk rocker?” BU: What an ignorant question. Anglophone world? Punk is ten times bigger in Kuala Lampur than it ever will be in the UK, France, or Germany. Or America. No, the reason for forming the Dead Bhuttos, and the rush to put a single online was to show, at least cosmetically, that Pakistan was as capable…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…d the Beatles to be important agents of change. Timothy Leary, too, made a number of pretty hyperbolic statements about the Beatles ushering in a new religious sensibility—a new way of being for young people. When the four came under the tutelage of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, it confirmed the worries of many. Eventually, after a few decades of desperately fighting rock ‘n’ roll, evangelicals moved to appropriate it for themselves. What was the tur…

Why We Should Stop Trying to Pigeonhole This Pope

By David R. Brockman

…le of the Bible’s internal textual contradictions? Perhaps there’s another way to look at it. What if the Bible’s unresolved tension between the individual and the collective is a creative tension? The text, read in this way, challenges us to respect and to foster both the dignity of the individual and the good of the community. I have called this creative tension prophetic relationality. Prophets such as Amos or Jesus are unmistakably individuals…

“Not a Fan of the Undergarments”: A Mormon Mother Blogs

By Karen Maezen Miller

…he boundaries of law or exploring the unpredictability of the heart, but always coming to rest on the foundations of her faith. It’s a mommy blog, but it’s also genuine interfaith dialogue: kitchen talk, over endless diapers and dishes. I asked her more about the touchy subjects she engages: Are most of your readers Mormon? I don’t think so. Most of my regular commenters are not. There are several ladies in my ward, or local congregation, who are…

Barack Hussein Obama and a Post-Religious America

By Hussein Rashid

…ese areas. Instead, I believe we must seize his election, his person, as a way to understand how we can talk about our various identifications, the things that make up our identity, in a more nuanced and sympathetic way. In particular, although I believe the US is a deeply religious country, I do not believe we have a sophisticated language with which to talk about religion. I fear that if we start talking about a post-religious America to mean re…

How to Separate Jewishness from Zionism

By Shaul Magid

…ng the idea of diasopra back to Palestine—which means, seeing the multiple ways it already functions there—might be useful for finding a way to think about cohabitation, and a critique of state violence.” Peter Beinart argues from the inside about what Zionism has become. Butler asks, why Zionism at all? Butler favors a return to binationaism not because it is the most humanistic solution but because to her it is the most “Jewish,” not in any self…