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Despite Religious Violence, Egyptian Mosques Calling for Muslim-Christian Unity

By H.A. Hellyer

…gypt – as we do in the US. It’s important that we face those problems, head-on, without allowing ourselves to become complacent; but to face those problems with any degree of seriousness, we have to face them together. Otherwise, we might as well admit defeat, and send out an official message to al-Qa’eda and their friends entitled “You’ve won.” Because that disunity is what they’ve been aiming to achieve all along. Egyptians and Americans have go…

Creationist Publisher Says No Plans for Pandas Redux

By Lauri Lebo

…I wrote last week, FTE is the same publisher who wrote Of Pandas and People, the intelligent design textbook that was so famously exposed as rehashed creationist literature during the trial of Kitzmiller v. Dover. The Board of Education will review materials submitted by publishers in March and just because FTE will not be a contender in the race, doesn’t mean that anti-evolutionists will now back off. The Texas Freedom Network, which monitors rel…

Jesus Is My Savior… and I Oppose the Bladensburg Cross Memorial

By Judd Lienhard

…aning tool of a fallen world. My belief in my lord savior does not need tax-payer-funded monuments and it doesn’t want them either. God does not have a nation. He does not honor the dead of one nation, he only mourns the evil that led to such senseless slaughter for pride, power and wealth. When I die I want my family to place a cross above my human remains. I want my country to place a flag. Government shall not and must not be allowed to honor m…

Can Art Save Us From Fundamentalism?

By Philip S. Francis

…ping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I’m just a song-and-dance man. What alternative title would you give the book? Can Art Save Us From Fundamentalism? How do you feel about the cover? I like it. The cover for this book had to walk so many lines. I wanted it to convey the seriousness of the journey that my participants had embarked upon, and to connote the disruptive power of the arts without being heavy-handed. I kept pict…

Embattled Professor Took a Stand for “Human Solidarity,” Versus Entrenched Evangelical Fear

By Ivy George

…ke it difficult for them to see Hawkins—the college’s first tenured African-American professor—as anyone but a transgressor of the American evangelical church-state complex. Sadly, one can only conclude that the sanctions against Hawkins have little to do with any serious concerns for Christian orthodoxy but rather show a deep fear among evangelicals that faith in Christ might lead the believer to encounter the radical humanity of others outside t…

10 Years Later: An American Muslim Looks Back at Iraq

By Haroon Moghul

…ncluded would happen. But everyone lost their courage. They saw in a fourth-world devastated country a threat to Rome. But the Romans would have conquered Iraq and then offered them citizenship. In an age of nationalism, there can be no empire, only play-acting at it. We make mistakes; countries are doomed. We are like a giant who does not realize the havoc he can wreak. Now word has come that one of the most famous ‘traditional’ scholars of Sunni…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…te a Judaism that undermines these stereotypes. Jews have been labeled self-absorbed, self-interested, and parochial. A Judaism that reaches out to the world, that takes the world seriously, that shows it cares about and is invested in contributing to matters of global concern as well as self-preservation, would counter the stereotype that Jews have come to believe about themselves. As Neusner suggests, acting from self-hatred by focusing on anti-…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…nti-marriage equality efforts by proving that children raised by intact mom-and-dad families do better than kids raised by two loving moms or dads. It won’t matter that the study didn’t do that. Blamers Also a safe bet: natural disasters like Hurricane-Superstorm Sandy will continue to be chalked up to God’s anger at the advance of gay rights. So will tragedies like the mass murder of students and educators at Sandy Hook elementary school. But tho…

Beck Fuels End-Times Hysteria Over Egypt

By Anthea Butler

…but it is the dog whistle that calls together conspiracy theorists, rapture-watchers and end-times purveyors. His constant refrain that this is our “Archduke Ferdinand” moment no doubt will sear a vision of an impending World War III into the minds of his listeners, and his blackboard will continue to contribute to the growing right-wing conspiracy theories that President Obama is engineering this from the White House. The upshot of all of this is…

Pope Francis Walks With LGBTQ People, One Step Forward, Big Steps Back

By Kaya Oakes

…ogue, many Jesuits also train in spiritual direction, which is a guided one-on-one conversation about faith. Jesuits often teach and write in addition to working in pastoral ministry during their formation, all practices that involve a fair amount of back and forth with people from all over the Catholic spectrum. Rather than “either/or,” Jesuits like to talk about “both/and,” another invitation to dialogue. Even their daily prayer, the Examen, is…