Offers 1 800-299-7264 Cheap Flights to Key West – American Airlines | Search Results | Religion Dispatches

An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

…ves in Jeddah and Teheran. It is from first generation immigrants that the American-born Muslims learn this yearning for the homeland. First generation immigrant Muslims are a whole other story. Here is where I fall into the same category as most of my friends’ elderly parents. Many of them retain a desire to relax and let religious impulses loose again. As if their lives of prosperity and comfort were a form of secular boot camp. We first-generat…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…l obstacles. As he earnestly strums a guitar at the start of group, Patrick-as-Christian-song-leader provides a moment of absurdist comic relief. Hazel and Augustus share a cynical distaste for Patrick’s affirmations and therapeutic interventions. Theirs is a post-Twelve Steps worldview, one that trades “one day at a time” for the terror and glory of infinitude (Green has also mentioned an affinity for Kierkegaard). And then, there’s Anne Frank: i…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…inding meaning in the small things of life. My focus has always been on day-to-day spirituality, if you will. Finding value in the mundane. Over time, though, I began to see that what my family and I had experienced over a twelve-month period, though extraordinary, was part of our day-to-day life and had deep meaning; not only for us personally, but universally as well. The more I shared my experiences with the people around me, the more and more…

The Mystic in the Rye: JD Salinger’s Religious Fiction

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ost memorable characters. They are all teachers, parents, players, children-at-heart. Most of those characters come from the storied Glass family, the surprising brood produced by an old vaudeville family from Manhattan’s Upper East Side (the East 70s, to be exact… the museum district). Bessie (née Gallagher, though this family, if ever there were one, was a matriarchy) and Les Glass were both performers, but they landed their greatest role and ex…

Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…us. His address to the group also shows his evolution into someone less ill-at-ease with Bible verses and more attuned to the language of America as a Christian nation. Little wonder than the newly bonded duo of Eric Metaxas and David Barton have positioned themselves on the team’s offensive line. Religious right stalwart Gary Bauer warmed up the audience by comparing the election to Flight 93, a new standard even for the hyperbolic rhetoric of ev…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…ends this Thursday, thousands of Catholics will go to masses where they re-enact Jesus’ washing of his disciples’ feet. On Holy Thursday last year, Pope Francis washed the feet of refugees, including Muslims, Hindus, and Copts. Cardinal Dolan is scheduled to preside at Saint Patrick’s Holy Thursday service this week. The feet of undocumented immigrants are battered by their flights from violence, poverty, and war. Right now, they are also ready t…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nnounced support for the recently established LGBTI Rapporteur at the Inter-American Commission on Huan Rights and for the opening of a similar office at the UN Human Rights Council.” The Washington Blade notes that Argentina becomes the third Latin American country, after Uruguay and Chile, to join the Global Equality Fund. Kyrgyzstan: Profile of LGBT Activist Alturi has posted a profile of activist Michael Taalaibekov, whose work is “especially…

Blame Series Bonus: Why We Want That Dish For Free, an Uncut Interview with Bertram Malle

By Andrew Aghapour

…ing like, “Well, but in general our police enforcement is very fair and non-biased and not racist”, and so on. It doesn’t help. There would need to be much more detailed information. (And still, you would probably sometimes have the absolute right to blame individual people for individual behavior, even if the institution as a whole might be trusted and might be just.) So maybe one way to think about this is that if we find ourselves blaming insti…

Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem

By Daniel Albert Joslyn

…2Fwww.vox.com%2Fculture%2F2019%2F10%2F9%2F20906371%2Fellen-degeneres-george-w-bush-controversy Jamil, baffled about the outcry, took to Twitter to defend her friend and admonish her audience that kindness was a virtue, and that DeGeneres had made “an incredibly necessary point” when she argued that we should be kind to those “who don’t share the same beliefs.” In fact, Jamil stated, “we explore this [question] in season 4 of the Good Place.” As sh…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…olitically active, and socially dynamic. Two of our Congressmen are African-American Muslims—are they opposed to the West? I have met numerous European Muslims committed to their countries of residence and deeply shaped by those cultures. (One such acquaintance, a candidate for British Parliament from Glasgow, represents the Scottish National Party.) That Muslims are incapable of change is similarly inaccurate. I will let Caldwell disprove himself…