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Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…s to tell. Anita Little: Can you explain a little about the purpose of the center and the significance of the new museum having a Center for the Study of African American Religion, especially funded on the large scale that it is? Yolanda Pierce: I just recently joined, the current staff has been working on this for 10 years. So a lot of the credit belongs to the team that’s already here. One thing they’ve done very well is incorporate religion thr…

The Kaaba: Center of the Universe

By Amina Wadud

…temper it with the communal interdependent message: “You are not the only center of the universe.” As much as you think you are important, so likewise are others important. And so it is with sacred places. Each in some way is the ultimate focal point. But then with so many, how does one decide between them? I don’t even think we need to decide. I like the idea that one place is not the only sacred place; the more the merrier, really. I’ve been to…

‘Jews Who Were Israelis’: Anti-Semitism and the Mumbai Chabad Center

By Shaul Magid

…s, carrying out in their corner of the world Chabad Lubavitch’s mission of service to the Jewish community. They gave selflessly of themselves to others, and touched many lives along the way. In other words, they neither represented Israel nor had any “Zionist” agenda. So why was the Chabad Center attacked? The sole surviving terrorist Amir Kasab told his interrogators that they were instructed to target “Jews who were Israelis,” a phrase that des…

LDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19

By Joanna Brooks

…by default.” Some reacted to the change by noting that women in missionary service would still not be allowed to baptize converts, a responsibility reserved to the male lay-priesthood. And some voiced disappointment that the policy change did not go further by eradicating gender differences in the terms of missionary services as well, as did writer Jana Riess who celebrated the policy change but expressed limited disappointment that the new policy…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…tervention? The digital prayer wall is similar to the Wailing Wall’s email service. Worshipers email a prayer to Jerusalem, where it is printed out by a courier and inserted into the wall on their behalf. If they still wish to pray “at” the wall via computer, 24-hour webcams record what is happening on location. But is it really the same thing to email a message to someone who inserts it in the wall on your behalf as to go there yourself? Is God “…

This Veterans Day, the Centennial of the Unknown Soldier, Skip the Platitudes and Talk to a Veteran

By Sara Jaye Hart

…an veterans who have served since 9/11, 40% of whom live with a certified, service-connected disability. “Thank you for your service”—America’s current public piety of choice—is insufficient to the task. It smacks of the obligatory and it leaves the person on the receiving end unknown, their service reified and past-tense. It’s time to leaven that ritual platitude with some authentic civic reflection, some historical and situational awareness, and…

Spinning Ft. Hood

By Hussein Rashid

…areem Rashad Sultan Khan, who is representative of the nearly 4,000 active service Muslims in the Armed Forces and the dozens who have given their lives in service to this country. General Casey is deeply concerned about this misrepresentation: “I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that [backlash against Muslim service members],” General Casey said in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union. “It would be a shame—as great a tragedy…

Reactions to Biden’s Korean-American Secret Service Agent Expose Christian Nationalism’s Anti-Asian Side

By Lucas Kwong

…of physical and verbal abuse, the sight of Biden’s Korean-American secret service agent seemed to augur change. Perhaps we might begin to rest secure in our status as “real” Americans, emblematized in a highly visible member of Biden’s security team. Those paying attention, however, know otherwise. https://twitter.com/JovanHPulitzer/status/1351947576950611972 https://twitter.com/DrAfzalNiaz/status/1351747330924556289 https://twitter.com/ForTrump/…

Conservative Military Chaplains Fight Repeal of DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r: Military chaplains are duty bound to provide pastoral counseling to all service members, even those of another faith or no faith at all. To refuse counseling to any service member, for any reason, would be a breach of that duty and would require an appropriate command action. So, yes, when you’re in the military, the military code trumps all: chaplains are bound to serve all members of the military whether they like them or not. As Interfaith…

How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches “Outlaw Christianity”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lost a loved one. You just can’t make it to that merry space. Where is the service for those folks to share those memories of what it’s like to no longer have their loved one there? I also went to a Unitarian Universalist service on Mother’s Day where they plumbed the history of the holiday and discovered it’s not just about feeling happy, but it was born as a day of grief and resistance to the war. It was designed by mothers who were tired of los…