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State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…rt of… something more consequential than party or political preference. We are part of the American family… We share common hopes and a common creed… We can… we must… work together. But he went further, making the newfound clamor for “civility” a mark of American exceptionalism: All American children share “the dreams of a little girl in Tucson”; all Americans believe that those dreams “deserve the chance to be fulfilled”; and that shared belief “…

Trump Support Will Harm Catholic Church in America

By Kaya Oakes

…e the American church. It’s clear how this happened. The American church, particularly the USCCB, has swung so far right that it became a natural ally of Trump. Still, the USCCB has defended the rights of immigrants. Even if it’s done so as a form of self-preservation as the white Catholic church shrinks and fades, it has at least made gestures at acceptance. On the other hand, Catholic media has been complacent, and—in the case of EWTN, which off…

When Is Hosni Mubarak?

By Haroon Moghul

…will be rewarded for their decency, and only if it stays that way. A temporary caretaker government, perhaps a unity coalition guaranteed by the military, leading to free and fair elections after the shortest time possible within which campaigning can be organized. This requires all the stakeholders on the ground, who are not representatives of the dictatorship, to come to the table, and to receive guarantees both from one another but also from re…

Violence Came To Tahrir Square With Pro-Mubarak Protests

By H.A. Hellyer

…corded with the utmost respect. After we ask them for their personal I.D. cards and search their trunks, we give them a password to speed things up at the next checkpoint, and we send a sign to the next check-point to let them know all is well. Today, we’ve added something less: are you with him, or against him? It was a different mood than yesterday. In traditional Muslim societies, its often been taken for granted that the existence of a bad rul…

However Dull or Ham-Fisted, TV is not Oppressing Mormons — In Fact, We Have a Duty to Scrutinize Religious Institutions That Endanger Vulnerable People

By Megan Goodwin

…easingly seeing positive, nuanced on-screen portrayals of Muslims (from We Are Lady Parts to Midnight Mass), the vast majority of US media treatments of Muslims and Islam have reinforced, bolstered, and even celebrated the legal and cultural oppression of Muslims on the basis of both religion and race. Television is neither the cause of nor solution to all life’s problems, but it can and does drive popular understandings of and responses to Americ…

The Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’

By Hollis Phelps

…the contemporary religious right itself. For instance, in 1984 well-known Harvard Divinity School professor Harvey Cox claimed to see the emergence of a more left-leaning Christianity. In light of this, he advocated for a public “postmodern” theological and ecclesiastical movement, one whose inclusivist and liberationist bent would counteract the myopic conservatism of the religious right. Likewise, a group of religious leaders calling themselves…

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…eras, and eons down the page until they converged on the dark Hadean eon, marking Earth’s very assembly 4.5 billion years ago. I was stupefied. With its boxes and numbers and colors and fine print the timeline seemed to me a thing of great elegance. The words—Ordovician, Silurian, Jurassic, Eocene—were themselves rare discoveries, whatever they signified. Yet standing at the edge of that precipice was, for me, secretly scary. It was profoundly dis…

LDS Church Responds to South Park Mormon Musical

By Joanna Brooks

…this year will be The Book of Mormon, a Broadway musical written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone with help from Avenue Q’s Robert Lopez, telling the tale of two naive but well-meaning LDS missionaries to Uganda who, faced with the realities of mass human suffering, collide with the limits of their insular Book-of-Mormon-Belt worldview. Reviewers are reporting that despite the shock value of the show’s obscenity-laden musical cent…

Gay Rights Activists Condemn “Spiritual War” in Uganda

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…aul LeGendre, of Human Rights First in New York City. “The police are not particularly trustworthy,” LeGendre said. “I think it will be hard to truly believe any conclusion that they make in the end. There isn’t a history of trust between the LGBT community and the police.” LeGendre said his organization had urged the Ugandan police to seek out international law enforcement support in their investigation to ensure the credibility of their findings…

Talking to Noah Screenwriter On Being an Eco-Wacko

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…suddenly now you are allowed to eat meat. A real reading of Genesis is toward stewardship. In the Garden of Eden, God says he gives man the earth to “tend and keep it,” so to not have those ideas in there…it’s like a weird editing job. We believe those things and we are oriented that way, but it’s not like it’s artificially grafted onto the story. But it’s funny, the same people who say, “Hey, how come you’re not biblically accurate?” are also th…