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Appeals Court Holds Oklahoma’s Shari’ah Ban Unconstitutional

By Sarah Posner

…ultures, let alone that such applications or uses had resulted in concrete problems in Oklahoma.” Despite the court’s level-headed ruling — that this ban was an unconstitutional solution to a non-existent problem — this will in short order become a campaign trail issue for Republicans. It combines their irrational fear of Islam and fevered denunciations of “activist judges” into one digestible soundbite about the impending fall of America to its…

In 2012, Get to Know an Atheist

By Paul Wallace

…avored religious majority.” She is exactly right about this. But there are problems, she says. One impediment to moving this agenda forward is the cartoon version of atheism many Christians—many of whom are in power these days—carry around with them. It is indeed a serious issue. The stereotype, held by many religious believers, of “atheists [as] bloodless elitists (never honest Christian folk) who substitute science with a capital ‘S’ for God wit…

Massacre Of Islamists By Egyptian Military Likely Strategic

By Haroon Moghul

…s lauded them as heroic defenders of democracy. When those who, rightly or wrongly, feel their vote was taken from them, and either attack or defend these same authorities, this is taken to be illegitimate violence. Either way, it’s to be expected, and we’d be quite naive if we imagined that security forces didn’t realize how this would all turn out. Or, indeed, they have gotten high on their own p.r. supply, and think they’re saving Egypt from pr…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…storal care will first come in the form of small groups, with more serious problems being passed on to relevant service providers. However, we want to take care of the whole person. Since launching the first Sunday Assembly in New York City () on June 30, 2013, this group experienced some growing pains with some the board of directors choosing to form their own group called The Godless Revival. Your thoughts? Jones: It’s my understanding that the…

Beyond the Miniskirt-Wearing Nun: What Catholic Reform Looks Like

By Colleen McDannell

…gh the transitions. Something called “the Sixties” gets blamed for all the problems in Catholicism, but the nitty-gritty scholarship has not been done to legitimate pointing fingers. Catholic history still is very much intellectual and institutional history. Consequently, I think we have underestimated the importance of the spirit of Vatican II, especially for Catholic women. Even though the documents themselves did not expand women’s roles in the…

The Kids are Religious Right: Punk Rock & Pro-Life

By Justin Philpot

…ear their fingertips on guitar strings and scream unintelligibly into microphones. All the elements of the indie scene announce themselves: the spiky haircuts, the leather, combat boots, the wide eyes, the acne. At one recent show, Matt Koldinski… took the mike and did something that would be unthinkable at most hardcore shows. Panting and solemn, he appealed to his audience of peers to come up to him after the show, to talk about their problems a…

Remembering Gil Scott-Heron

By Mark Hulsether

…en the mid 1980s and 2010 he released only one record, and he battled drug problems. In 2005, on the record Beautiful Struggle, Talib Kweli commented on “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” in this way: I’ve heard it said the revolution won’t be televised But in this land of milk and honey there’s a date you’ve got to sell it by Otherwise it just expires and spoils And these folks jump out the pot when the water’s too hot, because the fire boils…

Compassion for AZ Shooter?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nd uses it to rid the world of that “other” who is responsible for all the problems – the suffering, the joblessness, the despair. The shootings in Tucson are simply a logical consequence of all the violent words that have been exchanged back and forth. Exactly what motivated Jared Lee Loughner to start shooting is still unclear. It’s not like the shooter who opened fire in a Knoxville, Tennessee Unitarian Universalist Church. He had books by Sean…

Ralph Reed At the Helm of the Religious Right, Again

By Sarah Posner

…aturday, by describing it as Reed’s “revival.” Despite Reed’s past ethical problems, most notably his involvement in Jack Abramoff’s double-crossing of religious right groups, the resurrected hero suggests to the Times that conservative operatives came calling, saying that the GOP hasn’t had as good a grassroots operations as when Reed ran the Christian Coalition. Mr. Reed is pursuing these grand, some say grandiose, plans with a nonprofit group t…

Gays and Lesbians Can Save Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ately fighting against gay and lesbian people who want to get married, new numbers from the Census Bureau show marriage has bigger problems than gays and lesbians wanting to join the party. In fact, as the New York Times reports, the wedding party is getting smaller and smaller. Married couples represented just 48 percent of American households in 2010, according to data being made public Thursday and analyzed by the Brookings Institution. This wa…