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The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…it stands, in order to clear security, I leave my house for the airport in San Francisco before the time for fajr prayer is even started. This also disrupts my plans for how to get to the airport. I don’t want to leave my car there for 3 weeks. 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…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…igious right leaders seem to see this moment, even if Gingrich or Santorum can’t catch Romney, to build a Christian get-out-the-vote drive for the general election and beyond. Don Wildmon, the American Family Association founder, bankroller of Rick Perry’s The Response rally, and now-endorser of Gingrich, introduced the list of registrants at The Response to United in Purpose, writing at the time that “research has shown that it takes only 5 milli…

Republicans To Get Free “Spiritual, Historical” Trips to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…season with smaller events in early primary states that weren’t organized around a particular candidate. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is planning a similar event in Baton Rouge next year, and Lane is reportedly inviting 100,000 pastors. In the past, these events have focused on themes like “Rediscovering God in America,” and Lane has described his efforts—which he says date back to the 1990s—as “the mobilization of pastors and pews to restore A…

Good News Bad News

By Amina Wadud

…oward the ideas of Islam and change all the time. I retired early from US academia not because I wanted to keep myself away from Islamic thought or Islamic studies, but more because I had come to the end of my capacity to do so within the constraints of our academic system. At some point I hope to discuss this matter specifically as it relates to Islam and gender studies—if for no other reason than that I was at a similar progressive workshop last…

RD10Q: Holy Hullabaloos: A Fun Book on Church and State

By Jay Wexler

…of different presidents. I had just finished reading some other funny road-trip books like Steve Almond’s Candyfreak, and all of a sudden it occurred to me that maybe I should get out of my stuffy office and hit the road, see what I could learn by visiting the places where these church/state cases I’d been teaching about for so long actually happened. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? I think the overall biggest take-home me…

The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips

By Andrew Aghapour

…in your life, “Well, in the moment I wasn’t thinking about this, but now I can recall that that was chemically induced.” It’s not clear that after the fact explanations that are like that would really be such downers. It doesn’t change the fact that you had the experience or the characteristics of the experience. It would still be meaningful in the same way. Also on The Cubit: Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transp…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…itment to the old hatred of homosexuality. It’s always been a great ecumenical cause. The members of the Coalition range from minnows to mighty faiths, from new Pentecostals to the ancient Greek Orthodox Church. But the Coalition wouldn’t amount to much without a couple of heavy hitters: the Catholic and Anglican dioceses of Australia’s sin city, Sydney. The Sydney Anglicans threatened to split the worldwide church a decade or so ago when Episcopa…

Getting Back into Blogging

By Amina Wadud

…partially about the hajj. My flight itinerary is set. I fly directly from San Francisco to Paris, and then from Paris to Jeddah, which is like the port city for hajjis. Apparently in the dream, someone was so anxious to show they had gone through Paris, they sort of took anything—because, clearly in the dream, no merit was ascribed to that particular choice. It was worse than my stop at the tourist kiosks near the White House, with big signs “T-s…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…r array of social justice concerns. As Michael O’Loughlin reports at Crux, San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy, who was recently elevated by Francis, called the document “gravely hollow.” McElroy said, “In the specific key areas where it lays out how does the voter make a decision, it tilts in favor of abortion and euthanasia and excludes poverty and the environment.” The most aggressive revisions the bishops did make to “Faithful Citizenship” were to…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…in it at all. When I moved here I didn’t know anybody who went to church; San Francisco is apparently the least churchgoing city in America. In Jesus Freak you write about going around the country, to talk about your work with food pantries, and change in churches, and meeting many people who say something like, “Oh, it’s wonderful what you do, but we could never do that here…!” It’s this weird thing. Before I became one, I didn’t understand ther…