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Election Update: Oklahoma Bans Shari’ah Law

By Haroon Moghul

…to other places in the world, like the Persian Gulf, Turkey, China, India, Brazil, and so on and so forth, and people are hungry with ambition, eager to embrace the economic opportunities that our country’s desire for globalization enabled and sustained in the first place. Now, we are turning away; we are scared of monsters whose shadows stretch across the planet. But let me end with a note of hope. Consider that, for most Americans, Shari’ah is o…

Aussie Priest is Excommunicated for Support of Women’s Ordination

By Marian Ronan

…as not lost on us that even in the much-touted interview on the plane from Brazil, Pope Francis drew the line at women’s ordination. Indeed, the clear hierarchical distinction between genders underpinned by the refusal to ordain women has been the line in the sand since not long after the Roman persecution of the church. But since John Paul II’s 1994 statement declaring women’s ordination absolutely off-limits, it’s been a twofer: something the ch…

Ask a Muslim: No, Dear Reader, Sex-Obsession Isn’t Confined to Muslim Nations

By Haroon Moghul

…n who does or doesn’t get bombed, and not, say, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia, or Kazakhstan? How is it that one member state, China, has more people than the other four combined, and yet is treated equally? The Palestinians were told, in the run-up to 1948, that their country would be divided according to international law. In order to be a part of the body that made that decision, however, they would have to first forfe…

Useless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness

By Alan Levinovitz

…rally judge them—for taking pleasure in that aesthetic. But then I went to Brazil and achieved sagehood—seriously!—which, as you may already know, means that everything looks really different to me now. For one, it has become clear that Lin genuinely understands what it’s like to be a full-fledged cultivator of the Tao. His descriptions of advanced Tao cultivators match my own experience of the world almost perfectly—like, for instance, when he wr…

What The Church Needs More Than a ‘Good Pope’

By Mary E. Hunt

…by Eucharist—is this interview simply a puff piece, a case of the Jesuits promoting their own and their own promoting Jesuits? Is it meant as a way to attract people back to a church that may have a kinder face but just as steely a heart? Is the good will it has engendered trustworthy? The Roman Catholic Church has been around for several thousand years for a reason. I hope this interview is a beginning not an end of a new moment. These serious…

Can Atheist Billboards Kill Religion?

By Anthony B. Pinn

…nvince me otherwise, not in light of the rapid spread of Pentecostalism in Brazil, Prosperity Gospel-styled ministries in Africa, and so on. A word of advice to atheists and humanists: deconstruct theistic models of religions—and expose the illogic and destructive thought and practice by those that have done so much graphic damage to human existence; but don’t be delusional concerning the outcomes of such effort.It might be cathartic for atheist a…

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

…, Japanese, Kekchi, Korean, Kuna, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Quechua (Peru), Quiche, Quichua (Ecuador), Russian, Samoan, Swedish, Tagalog, Tongan, and Ukrainian. Translators will also do their work in real time for local congregations in Albanian, Bislama, Cakchiquel, Estonian, Icelandic, Kiribati, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mam, Nivacle (Chulupi), and Tzutujil. And translators working in Amharic, Efik, Fante, Igbo, Lingala, Twi,…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…pop philosopher Jordan Peterson, libertarian figurehead Ron Paul, and even Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. It has breached the highest halls of power here as well, with Trump reportedly expressing strong approval of a May 2017 opposition research memo, prepared by the “nationalist wing” of his White House, which warned of a conspiracy of “deep state’ actors, globalists, bankers” and others intent on attacking the president by “execut[…

Leahy’s Immigration Provision Sows Sex Panic Among Key Religious Groups

By Peter Laarman

…recognize same-sex couples for immigration purposes, including Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Israel, South Africa, Sweden, and the UK. It is estimated that 36,000 U.S.-based couples would be able to stay together if Leahy’s provision were enacted. If there is no change in the law, the non-citizen partner in these couples will eventually need to leave, or else the U.S. citizen will be forced to emigrate. This issue is somewhat personal for m…

A Pope, a Poet, and a Drug War

By Stephen Andes

…ing the once-a-decade Latin American bishops conference held in Aparecida, Brazil. There, he outlined the contours of the Holy See’s mission of “New Evangelization,” poised to bolster an institution losing its grip on the region’s cultural identity. Thus, the pope arrives in Mexico this week to address the Latin American Church at a crossroads. Inroads made by Protestant, especially Pentecostal, proselytism have eroded the once near religious mono…