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The Role of Spirit in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement: A Conversation with Activist and Artist Patrisse Cullors

By Hebah H. Farrag

…ing healthy and exercising “are essentially taken from us, black folks in particular. To reclaim our bodies and our health, is a form of resistance, a form of resilience.” While Cullors’s political prowess, devotion to community activism and critical understanding of community leadership and hashtag-avism has been featured in Essence, Ebony, the LA Times, and other publications, her dedication to radical healing, spiritual practice and self-care h…

French “Burqa Ban”: It’s Not About Religion

By Amina Wadud

…ent fears or inhibitions about “the other.” I was pretty strict about my scarf-wearing at the time and never uncovered in front of men not related to me by blood or marriage. This opened up one can of worms that I found interesting. The Christian and Jewish women admitted that they found the head scarf intimidating, off-putting and offensive. Now, I cannot say why this would be so, but I can imagine what it must be like in the public space when a…

Easter: The Underdog Holiday

By Mary Valle

Easter. It’s not much of a holiday compared to the Star Wars-franchise that is Christmas and the Avatar that is Halloween (now #2 in overall holiday spending). Easter, in cinematic terms, seems to me something out of Eric Rohmer: Frenchy, Catholic, seemingly full of fresh air and sunlight while remaining bittersweet and melancholy-tinged. Death is never far from the minds of Catholics, especially on this occasion. I would argue that Easter doesn’…

Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

By Beatrice Marovich

…iences. So I’m grateful for how much is being communicated across disciplinary boundaries. And I hope that this can, increasingly, go both ways. Perhaps, now, as the planet heats up and cooperation—not just between disciplines, but populations—becomes more and more a matter of life and death, there will be more interest in transdisciplinary conversations. Perhaps theologians, pastors, spiritual leaders, people who are spiritually attuned to irreli…

Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are ‘Serious Parody,’ Forcing us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…rk. On the other side of the coin, many queer and transgender studies scholars are still under the impression that religion is simply, always and everywhere, the opiate of the people and deserves little to no serious attention. More specifically to the Sisters, few people who don’t know the order well are aware that they actually do consider themselves, in all seriousness, to be nuns. Many think they’re mocking nuns, but parody or camp and mockery…

Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…a little exercise can make a big difference. Eat healthy: reduce fats, sugar and carbs. You know, the regular stuff. Last year my eldest brother died from complication related to diabetes. He never intentionally made simple adjustments in diet and exercise. Eventually he had part of his foot removed. During his last few months he lay flat on his back: no movement. Having had more than one stroke, he also had no speech left. It was a heart-wrenchi…

Charleston Killings: This is What a Sin Against the Holy Spirit Looks Like

By Peter Laarman

…ll houses of worship are sanctuaries, but the concept of sanctuary holds particular resonance in Black Church tradition on account of the church’s role as the one institution white people could not take completely away from the persons whom they never ceased to abuse in the most un-Christian ways imaginable. It is nevertheless true that the original African Church in Charleston was burned to the ground by whites following a major 1822 slave upris…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…embers of the UN Security Council to an August 24 meeting to discuss the “barbaric treatment” of LGBT people by the so-called Islamic State. Speaking of ISIS, writer Rukmini Callimachi and photographer Mauricio Lima produced an unforgettable, chilling New York Times story about the Islamic State’s enshrinement of a theology of rape and sexual slavery. Alturi, an organization launched to “educate and engage individual supporters who want to help im…

This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.

By Haroon Moghul

…ith you (hint: promise candy), and act as if they’re all yours. Remember: large numbers of Muslims walking through bucolic scenery is especially reassuring to Hungarians. Incidentally, if you try to order a TSA uniform and your name is, say, Muhammad, the least of your problems will not be flying again. Actually, many of these ideas could end badly. For you. So think twice. Stop, drop and Tootsie Roll.™ Hooded young men with candy, after all, push…

Kagan, “Jewish Bolshevism,” and the Legacy of a Nomination

By Gordon D. Newby

…Senator Roman Hruska (Republican, Nebraska), defending Nixon’s nominee G. Harrold Carswell, stated, “Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.” It should be noted that of the three justices mentioned by Hruska, two, Frankfurter and Cardozo, were Jews from New York, while…