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Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

…“not trying to protect the framers of the Constitution.” James Clyburn (D-South Carolina), responded that “it could have been very educational if all the members talked about the United States Constitution as a living document, talked about how this country wrestled with things like race and gender.” A Refuge for the Powerful It could be even more educational if a central tenet of American historical writing about the Constitution—that it was mad…

Yankton Sioux Revive Isnati Coming of Age Ceremony

By Joanna Brooks

I was deeply heartened to learn this weekend that in South Dakota women of the Yankton Sioux/Ihanktonw Oyate nation have revived the traditional Isnati coming-of-age ceremony for girls: four days after the onset of a girl’s first menses when adult women of the community nourish, bathe, teach, and rename girls and guide them in rituals of self-reliance like gathering their own medicines, making their own ceremonial foods, and erecting their own lo…

‘Id Mubarak and Many Happy Returns!

By Amina Wadud

…u) with health and peace.” I think in the United States, we take ours from South Asia and just say ‘Id Mubarak, “blessed ‘Id,” with the response, ‘Id Karim, “noble or generous ‘Id.” And everywhere there is food. So much food you can see why such a rigorous fast does not produce the world’s thinnest people: they’d eat it all back during the three-day celebration. And that’s what is should be: three days of celebration. The part that puts the ‘holy’…

Mike Huckabee’s Fox News Problem

By Sarah Posner

…bee won the Iowa caucuses in 2008, “McCain and Thompson kneecapped him [in South Carolina], claimed he wasn’t a fiscal conservative.” Then, Lewis maintained, when the candidates moved on to Florida, “Fox News reported that Huckabee wasn’t campaigning there.” Sean Hannity, she continued, “said it on his radio show and wouldn’t correct it” and it was an “outright lie.” “You could’ve made a case for election tampering,” she added. I haven’t, naturall…

It’s Up to You, New York… To Oppose Islamophobia

By Randall Balmer

…le Swedes and Finns became the early denizens on the Delaware River to the South. Early reports filtering back to Amsterdam told of Huguenots, Mennonites, Brownists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, even “many atheists and various other servants of Baal.” In 1654 the Sainte Catherine pulled into port, carrying twenty-three Sephardic Jews, refugees from Recifé. Why did they choose New Amsterdam? The Netherlands was the most tolerant society in Eu…

Studying Religion is Suddenly Popular

By Mark Hulsether

…global diversity,” deserving about the same amount of resources as Ancient South Asia or Chinese Religion in the Twelfth Century? Far from being embarrassed that Religious Studies is a good place to study how the history and current practice of Christianity shapes everyday American life, I maintain that this is a major reason the discipline has thrived—both in the past and present. In fact, the relatively “esoteric” parts of religious studies are…

The Tea Party Religion

By Sarah Posner

…e flag and God), despite initial worries that the tea parties inadequately promoted the “life” issues. The problem with much of the reporting on a tea party-religious right alliance has focused on the turf battles between leaders, and disputes over whether to emphasize the social issues over economic ones at tea party events. Based on my own reporting, though, the absence of bloody fetus posters at tea party rallies says nothing about the interest…

MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

…y that allegedly depicts Jesus during a sex act. See for yourself here. In South Carolina a woman claims Jesus is depicted in her MRI. Mixing scripture reading and prayer with exercise may be the best way to get the elderly to work. President George W. Bush is reading a new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, according to Laura Bush. As the November elections get closer, more politicians are showing up at church. An Algerian court acquitted two Prot…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…lso was a licensed mortician, coupling two of the historic occupations for African American men in the early portion of the 20th century. Born into a family of female preachers, Burke’s grandmother started a church in West Philadelphia, Solomon’s Temple: The Church of God for All People, twelve years before his birth, because of a dream she had about him. His godfather was Sweet Daddy Grace. Accompanying that masterful voice was his majestic prese…

Landmark OC Megachurch Declares Bankruptcy

By Joanna Brooks

…the money, youth (at least the white youth) and positivity have all moved south, away from the Cathedral and right into the heart of Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church territory. Nor has there been a successful transition from Schueller to a next generation of Cathedral leadership. In the last year, church revenues have dropped 30%, 140 employees have been laid off, and its opulent Easter pageant (which once drew hundreds of thousands) was cancelled…