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Tariq Ramadan in Montreal: Defining Ethics in Terms of Religion

By Spencer Dew

…most controversial biographical fact about Tariq Ramadan is also the most central. The self-described “activist professor,” prolific author, and recent headline speaker at the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting, is a subject of international fame and infamy; yet this infamy seems less tied to the revolutionary political agenda advanced in his work than to that central and most controversial fact—that Ramadan is a Muslim. Indeed, for Ra…

Derek Chauvin’s Defense, in Keeping with a Long Racist Tradition, Seeks to Criminalize George Floyd

By Alex Zamalin

…he trial of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who had lynched a fourteen-year-old African-American boy, Emmett Till, that he had made “ugly remarks,” to her. The jury took 67 minutes to find the two men innocent. Don’t believe your eyes; accept the racist myth of Black incivility. This is, at least implicitly, what Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney is trying to tell the jury. And what this time-honored strategy illustrates is that depictions of Black unru…

No Zombie Jesus: The Vatican and Roger Haight

By Jason VonWachenfeldt

…or Catholic theology as a whole. First of all, what briefly are the issues central to the controversy over Haight’s work? That depends on who you ask. If you ask Pope Benedict, who as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger played a central role in censuring Haight, he would point to several “serious doctrinal errors” in Jesus Symbol of God concerning, primarily, its lack of affirmation that Jesus is the logos, or preexistent word of God. From this base critici…

ISIS is the Islamic “Reformation”

By Ed Simon

…26th the Guardian reported that “Islamic State militants ransacked Mosul’s central museum, destroying priceless artefacts that are thousands of years old, in the group’s latest rampage…” As is the case in the Guardian‘s coverage, the story is often accompanied by Islamic State video showing black-clad, bearded extremists taking power tools to ancient Assyrian and Akkadian statues. We watch in horror as ancient statues of massive winged bulls have…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…rld. Shortly after New Year’s Day in 2018, a suicide attack in a market in central Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 20. The Amaq News Agency of ISIS said that the movement claimed credit. They also gave ISIS credit for attacks in Nigeria and in Egypt a few days before. Earlier in the year a group of Muslim separatists said to be associated with ISIS took over a town in Mindanao, the insurgent region of Southern Philippines, and controlled it for months…

As the Right Peddles a Conspiracy About Trans People and Easter, A Reflection on the Spiritual Nature of My Gender Transition

By Ryann Croken

…, and that with this “abhorrent” action Biden has supposedly “betrayed the central tenet of Easter.” Beyond the fact that Biden neither prohibited any traditional Easter activities nor set the date for Trans Day of Visibility, which has been held on March 31 for the past 15 years, the most important and overlooked truth here is that trans people have existed as part of the human family in every culture for as long as our species has been on this e…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…had organized pro-immigrant rallies in Chicago). Seasoned veterans of the Central American sanctuary movement and Bible scholars saw yet one more iteration of an ancient practice of legal and humanitarian relief. Like Rorschach ink blots, the Arellano case provoked vastly different interpretations. The current immigration reform impasse caps a decade of argument over the vexing question of strangers in our midst. What to do with the 12 million es…

American Christmas (Shopping) and the Protestant Reformation

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ked out with a Christmas tree, Christmas lights, and a manger scene in the central Piazza, this curiously Protestant concern with images seems a bit, well, a bit out of place. The thing is, in Rome, Jesus isn’t in Christmas, at least not until the morning of the 25th. Manger scenes in Rome don’t have a Baby Jesus; the cradle is left empty until Christmas morning. So there’s no question of getting Jesus out, much less taking him out, of Christmas….

‘Hell is a World Without You’ Shows Readers How Squarely They Would Have Been on Path to Jan 6 if They’d Come of Age in Evangelicalism

By Michael J. Altman

…ich caused eerie magic to happen, for better or worse. That brings me to a central theme of the novel: Hell. After reading, I realized that despite all the talk about Jesus, God, and country, the form of Christianity you depict is really all about Hell. More than anything else, the belief in a literal Hell is the heart of this social formation. In an early draft, Hell wasn’t in the title. Did you know how central Hell was when you started? After a…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…TQ+ community, educators, and institutions like schools and libraries. The central claim of this conspiracy is that these groups are engaging in the “grooming” of children, a term traditionally used to describe the way sexual predators build trust and emotional connections with potential child victims to manipulate, exploit, and abuse them. Because the conspiracy theory has at its core this presumed “abuse” of innocent children and a moral urgency…