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Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Jihadis?

By Haroon Moghul

…am. Don’t take her word for it, though. Take her word for it: 4) “Changing central aspects of Islamic doctrine became even more difficult in the tenth century.” Or: “Unlike Islam, Christianity has never been a static religion.” 5) In a screed concerning overly high Muslim birthrates: “If a man can marry up to four wives and have multiple children with each of them, the numbers grow quickly.” This is a noxiously common and baldly racist meme, up th…

Controversial Mary Statue Weeps Because ‘We’re Killing This World’

By Joseph Laycock

…ty can also serve as an outlet for end-time prophecies. While Jesus is the central figure of Protestant millennialism, when lay Catholics suspect the world might be ending they turn to Mary. Ibrahim has never preached of a coming catastrophe, but pilgrims agree that Mary’s arrival in Windsor signifies dark times. One visitor commented, “Seeing is believing, and definitely we do see her weeping—weeping for the world, weeping because there’s no love…

Will bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?

By Christopher Anzalone

…among these are the continued US and NATO military presence in Afghanistan and the extensive US military campaign in Pakistan that is believed to have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Pakistani civilians in air strikes. Even within the original al Qaeda bin Laden has probably not played a central operational role for many years, though he remained an influential voice and symbol. The organization has cultivated a new set of charismatic leader…

The Landmark 85-Year-Old Report Absent From Debates Over Missionary’s Death

By Amy Fallas

…conflicts such as the migration from the Horn of Africa in the 1990s. The central feature of these efforts was humility—a willingness to listen to local populations, to respect their agency, and the ability to self-correct. What I’m asking is that we consider the antecedents to Chau’s example and learn from them. Moreover, to remember how self-reflection can and has been an aspect of American foreign missions. One of the most curious and ironic s…

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…ected against the Uighurs, a largely Muslim Turkic group spread throughout Central and East Asia. More than 11 million Uighurs live in Xianjiang District of Western China, where officials have reportedly bulldozed over 800 mosques. Authorities have also detained hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in re-education camps. The scale of the suffering is difficult to imagine. In fairness, there’s been a lot of good reporting about the plight of the Uighur…

Catholic Bishops Now Push Health Care Bill They Held Up

By Sarah Posner

…e, with all its political and ideological conflict, seems to have lost its central moral focus and policy priority, which is to ensure that affordable, quality, life-giving care is available to all.” Note the words “life-giving,” which are loaded with meaning for the bishops’ stance on abortion and “conscience protections” for health care providers, insurers, employers, and the insured. In other words, as the bishops state in their letter, a refor…

It’s Not a Tea Party, Silly, It’s a Rebellion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…put the rebellion down. In a contest between the desire for security or decentralized state power, then as now, security wins. Power centralizes. Every revolution ironically wants to be the last one, the one that makes future revolutions unnecessary. And so the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights was ratified by the states in the early 1790s, and shortly thereafter, on the advice of Alexander Hamilton, a new excise tax was imposed on the fledg…

Confronting “Dangerous Memory,” Heeding the Power of the Moral Imagination

By Charlene Sinclair

…nd awakened, the head and feet will follow with purpose and steadfastness. Central to Barber’s work is a commitment to engaging what theologian Johann Baptist Metz terms “dangerous memory” rather than nostalgic retellings. It is these dangerous memories that force us to confront the world as it is and name the multi-dimensional, death-dealing policies that are killing poor people. It is these same memories that enable us to claim the possibility o…

NPR Largely Misses Critical Distinction on Religious Freedom vs. LGBTQ Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…correct in framing both freedom of religion and the pursuit of equality as central tenets of American culture. But as we have documented here at RD, today’s “religious freedom fighters” are waging a very different battle than did this nation’s Founders when they considered the concept of freedom of religion important enough to be included in the very first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The confusion begins to mount when Gjelten begins to dis…

The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…, still centered around a sacred text. 7) Coco There may be nothing more central to religious life than memory. Myths, rituals, and symbols all coalesce to help us forgetful humans remember past events and people. Which is what makes the Mexican-Aztec-Catholic Dia de Muertos an important holiday, and an ideal nucleus for a movie. Hollywood has not been kind to Latino/as, but strikes a resonant chord here, extolling without exoticizing, even deep…