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So Deep a Wound: Home, and the novels of Marilynne Robinson

By Garret Keizer

…operty in dissolute living. —The Parable of the Prodigal Son The two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. —Frederick Nietzsche 1. Had I an atheist friend who asked, “Can you tell me please what this religion business is all about, not as some metaphysical hypothesis or historical phenomenon, but what it really means to be religious?” I might hand him or her a copy of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead. “Read this,” I’d say, “and it w…

‘Rome is Gay’

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ate. And then the barbarians came. Fifteen hundred years later still, when European travelers (from England, Germany and elsewhere) made Rome the main stop on their “Grand Tour,” a new problem emerged in this Christian imperial center, now dominated by the Vatican: what to do when many of them died, and died outside of the Catholic faith? There was quite literally nowhere to bury these unsettling, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox corpses. So a new,…

Egyptian Da Vinci Code Author Angers Coptic Christians

By Joseph Mayton

…nded that both the book and movie be banned. Now, three years on, Zeidan’s bestselling novel is is prompting angry demands from that same community. In early May a group of Coptic lawyers demanded that the government imprison the author for five years, arguing that he “defamed the Christian religion.” In 2008, when it was first published Azazeel did create a minor furor among those in the Coptic community who felt it was an attack against the Copt…

Spain Bans Burqa

By Joanna Brooks

…ho veil) are to be saved from their own religious choices by “enlightened” European nations. Please open your copy of Frantz Fanon’s classic A Dying Colonialism (1959) to the essay “Algeria Unveiled”— controversial, perhaps a bit dated, but still salient, yes? And read with me these lines: “To the colonialist offensive against the veil, the colonized opposes the cult of the veil.” What’s that, Spain? You don’t have a copy of Frantz Fanon’s A Dying…

Seven Years After Hurricane Katrina, Reflecting on the Fallacy of Divine Retribution

By The Editors

…er, the proper question is how can I act in such a way as to represent the best of my convictions (whether framed as the consequences of religion or whether more secular in origin)? Our theologizing Hurricane Ike and other disasters, again, is an understandable impulse, but it does not help folks rebuild and revive their lives. Unnatural Disaster: When Conservative Theology & The Free Market Meet Wildfires PAUL HARVEY • Jul 2, 2012 Fires are diff…

Obama’s Bunker-Busters to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…of the Russian army, the Antichrist—identified by Hagee as the head of the European Union—will rule “a one-world government, a one-world currency and a one-world religion” for three and a half years. (He adds that “one need only be a casual observer of current events to see that all three of these things are coming into reality.”) The “demonic world leader” will then be confronted by a false prophet, identified by Hagee as China, at Armageddon, th…

Jesus, Muslims, Mormons. And Missouri.

By Haroon Moghul

…ates to prophecy—for Muslims, prophecy begins with Adam and runs through a number of persons, and concludes with Muhammad. Twenty-five of these persons are named by the Qur’an, although Muslim tradition holds that there were tens of thousands of Prophets, left nameless to us. Of those named, most are familiar to us from the Old Testament: Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Joseph, Job, and so on and so forth. Islam demands a recognition and acc…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ure that these children are not ignored by the Church.” Spain is one of 12 European nations to legalize same-gender marriage, and in 2005 it was the third nation in the world to do so. The Diocese of Osma and Soria is in the Castilla y León province, in the west of Spain, and it is headed by Bishop Gerardo Melgar Viciosa. The Vicar General of the diocese, Father Gabriel-Ángel Rodríguez, said that the same “prudence and charity” should be shown to…

Are Muslims as Dangerous as Nazis, as ESPN’s Curt Schilling Tweeted?

By Haroon Moghul

…million Jews and millions more Roma, unwanted Slavs, inconvenient Eastern Europeans and others who were methodically massacred. All told, between 50 and 80 million died, in twelve years, six of which they weren’t even really fighting through. Using the low estimate that comes to over 4 million people per year, or roughly the city of Los Angeles. Wiped out. Annually. How many people have Muslims killed? Noted Islamophobe Pamela Geller has been ban…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…place of gay people and families in Catholicism. Boorstein reports that a number of pro-LGBT groups have been denied permission to have a booth in the exhibition hall at the World Meeting. Among them was Fortunate Families, a group for Catholic parents seeking equality for their LGBT children. Its president, Deb Word, and her husband run a safe house for LGBT youth in Memphis. The World Meeting’s director of programming, Mary Beth Yount, told Wor…