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On Whistleblowing, MLK, Jr., and the Politics of Resistance in the Digital Age

By Kevin Healey

…, generosity, and no vengeance, are as radical as you can get in Pharoah’s world or in Caesar’s world.” They are in fact “formulations for a counter-obedience.” Through WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning released videos purporting to show U.S. forces gunning down two Reuters journalists in Baghdad; in cooperation with Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, Snowden released PowerPoint slides showing how the NSA harnessed the data collection powers of tech comp…

Is a Secular System Right for Egypt?

By Austin Dacey

…edom for all Muslims under the authority of a single church. In essence, the state functions as the church, relying on the Ministry of Endowments, state-linked scholarly institutions such as al-Azhar, and the security apparatus to monitor and maintain politico-religious loyalty. For Ezzat, the struggle of the present moment in Egypt belongs to the larger search for “the church of Islam.” RD contributing editor Austin Dacey will be writing a series…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…I had planned to take my bags on Saturday and leave them with a friend who lives really close to the airport. Then with a couple of daylight hours on that last day, I could make my way to her house and not have to rush to the airport. At the moment, I’m not certain how I will get to the airport: family, friends, public transportation, or taxi. I only know I want to leave my car in my own garage. In case you’re wondering, neither my daughter who li…

Do Intelligent People Need Religion?

By Brett Beasley

…that can supersede the momentary disappointments or frustrations that the search for truth brings.” Religion, Hart says, has always linked this quest for truth with an inescapable longing for the divine. How we could be so blind to a divine reality that is “inescapably present to us” is, for Hart, not so much an intellectual deficiency as a cultural one. He argues that our assumption that material is all that exists has become culturally inevitab…

We Shall Not Stop at Evangelism: Remembering Evangelical John R. W. Stott

By Randall Balmer

…f the gospel. In his opening address at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, Stott—with characteristic humility—demolished the decades-old shibboleth that evangelicals should concern themselves only with evangelism and not with social amelioration. “Here then are two instructions, ‘love your neighbor’ and ‘go and make disciples,’” Stott said, referring to the words of Jesus: “What is the relation betwee…

A Report from America’s “Sacrifice Zones”

By Chris Hedges

…l. It is not. It seeks to examine a force, corporate power, that is as destructive to the lives of conservatives as to liberals and progressives. If we do not radically alter our relationship to the ecosystem on which the human species depends for life, we are finished. And we don’t have much time left. Other civilizations have collapsed in the past in similar fashion, but this time we will bring the whole planet down with us. Did you have a speci…

D’Souza: ‘Traditional Values’ for You, Freedom to Follow my Heart for Me

By Peter Montgomery

…o lectures on the sanctity of marriage from the likes of Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh. I can’t stomach too much delving into D’Souza’s writing, but here, courtesy of Amazon’s “search inside” function, are a few excerpts on marriage and morality from his book, What’s So Great About Christianity: “…abortion, adultery, and homosexual marriage, can be largely understood as a clash between traditional morality and secular morality.” (page 252) “As f…

The Master: “It’s Not the L. Ron Story”

By Joseph Laycock

…tside of Hollywood? What is the sense of satisfaction some people find in crusading against Scientology? Popular animosity toward Scientology is interesting because it seems to point toward much larger patterns in how Americans respond to minority religions. As if to prove my point, the comments sections below these articles were instantly filled with outraged posts from the opponents of Scientology. Failing to understand that I was writing about…

A Tale of Religious Tolerance… On Reddit

By Joanna Piacenza

…urn against him, “european_douchebag” finally apologized to the online community, Kaur, Sikhs in general and anyone else who might have taken offense to his posting. Reddit in search of mindless memes beware: between the cat videos and bizarre news stories you might just find some religious tolerance….

Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…e believable than some piece of paper from a government agency. And that “truth” is not just the Bible, but the supposed “truth” that God ordained America as a Christian nation. And by “Christian,” they mean not just some Christian like Obama who likes gay people. They mean, as Graham said to Christianity Today yesterday, “a true follower of Jesus Christ and not just by name,” someone who will “obey” and not, say, support LGBT rights. Someone like…