Religion Dispatches
…erase barriers. Although there is some material on Muslim Americans on the website, it is relatively paltry. A festival undertaking of this size, set in New York, and involving three major organizations with input from a fourth, is a massive undertaking, and this criticism should not detract from the overall value added of festivals like this. However, as these programs mature, they must be more conscious of the breadth of Muslim communities. The…
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…st outed by an anonymous writer for the left-leaning Orthodoxy in Dialogue website, and since then the media storm has intensified, ultimately culminating in Hodges’ bishop suspending him for three months. While Hodges might be the most prominent far-right Orthodox Christian in the United States in these first few weeks of 2021, he is but one figure in the growing movement of radicalized Orthodox believers who are often former evangelical converts…
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…raightforward. But surely it has something to do with the fact that on the website for his own congregation there is a tab that takes you directly to “Rabbi’s Products,” where Messer hawks everything from books to anointing oils to health and beauty aids and various “made in Israel” tchochkes. From Rabbi Messer, Bishop Long borrows a certain kind of legitimacy or a lineage—yikhes. In return, Messer gets a larger audience than most phony rabbis cou…
Read More…’m not sure Palin would find much disagreement with GOProud members. Their website touts their dedication to “limited government, individual liberty, free markets, a strong national defense and a confident foreign policy.” I think Palin would agree with all of that. Perhaps, though, this belief may be the sticking point: “We believe that every individual should be equal under the law.” Discuss … The American Family Association’s pit bull Bryan Fis…
Read More…proposed a Muslim invocation for one of its pre-meeting prayers. After its website was inundated with protests against the planned invocations, the council decided to cancel prayers of any sort at the meetings and will open with an “interfaith moment of silence.” Donald Trump offered to buy out one of the major investors in the Park51 project. The investors said thanks but no thanks. A North Carolina teenager whose family is part of the Church of…
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…the National Review, as originally stated. He left in 2019 to be senior editor of The Dispatch, a conservative news website….
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…thinks this is “humanly possible” and he is therefore a valid speaker. At the rate the ex-Muslim industry is growing, I suspect they will quickly outnumber Muslims—only, without the number of Muslims actually decreasing….
Read More…ased, openly gay Muslim,” secretly videotaped his journey to Mecca on his iPhone and other small phones. “I was terrified because they reserve the death penalty for people like me,” Sharma said. Several times he had his equipment seized and video files deleted by authorities. But he persevered with both his spiritual journey and his film. “I was there making this pilgrimage for the thousands of gay Muslims who were too scared to go to Saudi Arabia…
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…the church was created in the image of those values. As the congregation’s website says, We are proud that this church believed its calling was to follow the example of Jesus Christ, and in doing so to be controversial and even radical. It certainly was. A few years later, a meeting was announced at a church worship service. Members of the congregation helped to organize a new and uncompromising political party with a candidate whose very nominati…
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…orts BuzzFeed, “Grindr, Hornet, and a total of more than 80 other apps and websites with LGBT content face a ban in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, following a closed-door interagency summit held Wednesday at the country’s Ministry of Communications.” He reports, “The panel included representatives from the Ministry of Human Development, the National Police, and the Ministry of Religious Affairs, which was represented by a mem…
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