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How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…done to the region and its peoples, regardless of their religion and ethnicity, you would certainly be shocked to watch Paradise Now. Many may be deeply upset by this film, and for good reason. It is at times hard to watch, but harder to look away from. It is the best of what a movie can present: an image that continues long after the screen has gone dark. And it has an ending that you and your friends will be talking about for hours more. The Bu…

An Atheist Hero is Something to Be

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…my Carter and do the hands-on work he does. Instead I live in an expensive city, and I can’t get far enough ahead so that I can do that. I have a friend who is a parole officer and he takes me all over the city to homeless shelters where a thousand men live in a dormitory, each with all of his possessions in a small metal box. They have nothing and you just can’t believe it; it’s Dickensian London. I will write about it, but I do feel guilty for n…

‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

By Shane Burley

…Them,” Truthout, March 14, 2021, https://truthout.org/articles/conspiracy-theories-are-killing-us-and-trumps-departure-hasnt-ended-them/. 6 David Neiwert, talk at Powell’s City of Books, November 5, 2017. 7 Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (New York City: Columbia University Press), 2011. …

Unnatural Disaster: When Conservative Theology & The Free Market Meet Wildfires

By Paul Harvey

…lyptic.” The fire struck especially hard in the geographic quadrant of the city that hosts many of the best-known religious activist organizations, and has attracted a large population of religious conservatives who see in Colorado Springs a center for the religious and political values they seek to espouse. Seven of the homes lost belonged to those who worked for one of the oldest of these organizations, The Navigators—including the current direc…

Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right

By R.L. Stollar

…nts that native Alaskan women have abortions to obtain “a free trip to the city,” that Joe Biden is like Adolf Hitler, and that fatal child abuse is “actually a benefit to society because there aren’t needs for government services.” But Eastman’s rhetoric is more than incendiary. It’s an intentional and carefully constructed aspect of Eastman’s identity as an alumnus of the evangelical homeschooling movement, specifically the academic debate leagu…

Israel Claims Holy Sites, Reignites Religious Flashpoint

By Orly Halpern

…, the prayers at this ancient holy site at the entrance of the Palestinian city of Bethlehem come only from the mouths of Jews. “Muslims have no connection with this place,” declared Bracha Mansour-Khoter, a religious Jewish woman who comes to pray twice a month. “I’ve never seen one here. They’re not allowed. This is a Jewish place.” Ori Landau, a 21-year-old student from Hadera, said she prefers praying at Rachel’s Tomb over the Wailing Wall. “I…

Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…support Brewster, using the hashtage #ImWithWally. Brewster told the Windy City Times last week that he has never questioned the support of the Obama administration, saying that “the President of the United States has our back and so does the administration. So we’re going to keep doing our job.” Malawi: Pastors Threaten to Sue if Govt Does Not Arrest Gays The Young Pastors Coalition of Malawi is threatening to sue the government if it does not ar…

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

By Amina Wadud

…me personally, I chose to wear the niqab way back in the mid-1970s in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia. I was strongly influenced by a few things. Once I had accepted to practice Islam, I became very ambivalent about my relationship to all things not Islamic, especially those which I had once been a part of. I wanted a partition between myself and the rest of the world. All of it. It’s like taking literally the spiritual implication of th…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…put increasing pressure on artists and entertainers, including a Siberian city’s ban on a planned performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Malawi: Catholics and Evangelicals join forces to oppose decriminalization At the press conference announcing the formation of the International Organization for the Family, a pastor from Malawi denounced “cultural imperialism” and made reference to marches carried out earlier this month in all 28 of the count…

How the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

…films and frequent spying on everyday college students outside of New York City, Rascoff’s op-ed is timely. But it is tackling complicated questions, for which it isn’t easy to find answers. On what basis do we determine how to engage Muslims, if we are engaging them as Muslims? How do we possibly avoid religion, when we are identifying them (us) by religion? In fairness, Rascoff’s op-ed only skims the surface of his research; look to his Stanford…