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Santa Executed by Repent Amarillo

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t sense of the word – meaning the whole thing is a travesty. Living in the South I regularly encounter “non-violent” gun-toting Christians who believe Jesus would have packed heat if he could have, forgetting that Jesus truly abhorred violence, even when the disciples were defending him against arrest. In the rest of the video, some good points are actually made as viewers are encouraged to “do unto the least of these” as a gift to Jesus Christ th…

My Lowest Point

By Amina Wadud

The day after I ended my ihram, I headed to Makkah with a South Asian family: a woman nearly my age, her two brothers, and her nephew. She and I had shared a mat at Muzdhalifah. Also, the time I led the salah for a jama’at in our Mina tent she had come to tell me how much she liked that salah jamaat. NO transportation was provided by our tour group for these possible trips to Mina Makkah for people to perform the tawaf ifadah. That is tawaf plus…

Huckabee’s Second Bapticostal Bid for the GOP Nomination

By Sarah Posner

…urches, I several times heard him refer to himself as a “Bapti-costal” — a Southern Baptist with Pentecostal sensibilities. He positions himself with the Christian nation mythology, being the candidate of choice at the gatherings of Renewal Projects, which often featured Newt Gingrich’s “Rediscovering God In America” lectures. The Renewal Projects hosted “Pastors’ Policy Briefings,” and in Iowa, these gatherings were thought to be effective get-ou…

Indonesia: As Volcano Erupts, a Spiritual Loss

By Mark Woodward

…and terminates on the coast. The volcano is the abode of Sunan Merapi, the southern coast is the home of Gusti Kangeng Ratu Kidul, the Queen of the Southern Ocean. Both are powerful Muslim spirits. It is understood that on the Day of Judgment at the world’s ending, a lava flow beginning at the peak of Mount Merapi will flow through Yogyakarta, destroying the Sultan’s palace and ending in Ratu Kidul’s domain in the Southern Ocean. Here, a major eru…

Tony Perkins: Soldiers Will Quit if Gays Can Serve Openly

By Daniel Schultz

…ally conservative institution. It recruits heavily from rural areas in the South, the Midwest, and the Inter-Mountain states. In our larger cities, black and Hispanic recruits are encouraged to consider the military — which has historically been a great ladder of achievement for racial and ethnic minorities. These are the very areas and groups who have been most resistant to the demands of the homosexual lobby. These are the very regions and group…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…this series—though it goes far beyond that. In this dialectic of religious freedom and unfreedom, embattled ethno-religious communities actually deployed the American tradition of religious liberty (as well as their own spiritual practices and sacred writings) to compel redefinitions of freedom, autonomy, and the rights of citizenship. The discourse of American freedom, then, could lead to very different ends than envisioned by the Anglo–Protestan…

Obama in India: Missed Opportunities

By Anna Bigelow

…on with Muslim leaders like Abdul Ghaffar Khan—a man whose legacy as a nonviolent activist and peacemaker would serve as a powerful response to young South Asians seeking a model of a peaceful jihad for freedom and justice….

Post-Election, “Is The Black Church Dead?” Redux

By Anthea Butler

…r primaries), and two are heading to Congress. Tim Scott will be the first African-American Republican to represent South Carolina in Congress since Reconstruction. (He beat out Strom Thurmond’s son in the primaries.) Iraq war veteran Allen West will be headed to Congress from Florida, despite having been fined for improperly firing his weapon to force information from a detainee while serving in Iraq, and for his connections to a criminal motorcy…

Polling Place as Sacred Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s Sharron Angle in Nevada, Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, Nikki Haley in South Carolina and other women whose policy ideas seem just as vicious as many men in office. My line buddy may even have stepped up to the voting machine after our conversation and cast his vote for Haley, thinking her more kind than her male Democratic opponent simply because she is a woman. The atmosphere of the polling place, however, was much like Stewart’s idea of a “…

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…anarchists, hate war protestors, hate government, hate the North, hate the South, hate the gays…. Aside from the raw political value of hate, think of the potential for media exposure when you are a religious hater. When the Dalai Lama comes to town (to start with a counter-example) with monks, cultural activities, and lectures, the fundamental core of his teaching—compassion—is a media buzzkill. Even with Richard Gere in tow, his visits are mostl…