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Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured

By Henry Jenkins

…ome ways, it is a continuation of the tattoos that we’ve discovered are so central to Tauran culture—a set of marks through which we negotiate between our identities and our histories. But we can also see it as the opposite of the tattoos. It looks like Taurans use tats to mark their social identities onto their bodies, while Tamara seems to use the mark to leave a trace of her personal identity upon the physical, external world. But given the way…

Rev. Smith Goes to Washington

By Frederick Clarkson

…isplay religious symbols in my office. A government seat is not a place to promote religion. I have not in this race campaigned in churches and I have declined to answer questions from all religious organizations that publish candidate voter guides. In your last post on the UCC’s national blog before your campaign, you took Fox News provocateur Glenn Beck to task for his claim that churches that advocate for social and economic justice are like Na…

Satire is Religion

By Austin Dacey

…se. In practice, the creators seemed to acquiesce all too easily to Comedy Central’s imposition of black bars and bleeps on their episode. However, Stone and Parker were exercising their freedom of religious conscience, and their supporters and detractors alike—whether they know it or not—are taking a stand on religious questions. Progressives who oppose the publication of Muhammad images like to think that they are demonstrating tolerance and bro…

Conservative Media Firm Pushes Claim That Gaza Withdrawal Caused BP Disaster

By Sarah Posner

…expertise of conservative guests on the topics of the day. Today they are promoting John McTernan, who claims that the BP oil spill disaster is “Obama’s Katrina” because Obama’s poor treatment of Israel caused the catastrophe. McTernan, a former federal Treasury agent, also claims that the Bush administration’s sanction of the 2005 Gaza withdrawal has a biblical connection to Hurricane Katrina. The Special Guests press release adds, “In 2010, th…

Film Follows Teen Exiles from Polygamous Sect

By Becky Garrison

…stream Mormonism and punished by the state, it has become the defining and central expression of faith. At the Tribeca Film Festival, I sat down with directors Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten for an in-depth discussion about their documentary. How did your background as Mormons influence the making of this film? Tyler Measom: We both were active Mormons. I served on a mission for the LDS church for two years. Our families are still active in the…

Clueless in Gaza

By Shalom Goldman

…that Harkabi’s research of the ’70s and ’80s had led to a revision of his central thesis was not publicized in the United States. According to Harkabi, in the 1980s “Arab attitudes,” as expressed in the aftermath of the 1967 War, were changing, and were far from monolithic. If a settlement of the conflict was to take place, Israel’s attitudes and actions would determine it. In 1986, Harkabi spoke critically of the Jewish settlers in the territori…

Religious Leaders Speak Out Against Physician Complicity In Torture

By Sarah Posner

…esponse to a new report revealing that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency used doctors to assist with experimentation of torture techniques on detainees, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) has released a video calling for an investigation. Scott Allen, a co-author of the Physicians for Human Rights report that detailed the CIA physicians’ activities, says in the video, “Not only did the US engage i…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…played with equal fervor by farm boys in Indiana and gang bangers in South Central. And not only did he survive in the wilds of Los Angeles, he thrived, voted by the Sporting News in 2009 as the greatest coach of all time. As a young Muslim kid growing up in Toronto in the 1970s, I had very few Muslim role models. One of them was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Coach Wooden’s 7-foot-2-inch center at UCLA. In learning more about Kareem (born Lew Alcindor), I…

“Not a Christian Book”: The Perils of the Amazon Book Review

By Charlotte Gordon

…Ishmael, the son of Hagar. To dismiss this double blessing is to dismiss a central principle of the Bible, the law of love, not hate; of peace, not war. To slam the door against other religious traditions is to shut the door in the face of the stranger. Isn’t it our duty to reach out to those we do not know and treat these individuals as we would like to be treated ourselves? I suppose I should be grateful to my critical reviewer. In the past I ha…

Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), consisting of China, Russia, and four Central Asian countries; Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and India have membership as observers. At a recent meeting of the SCO, Russia proposed an interesting solution to stabilize the Afghanistan security situation: it would activate the UN Contact Group on Afghanistan and expand it to include its six neighboring countries along with the United States, Russia, and NATO. It i…