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Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…er heroes, like Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, and even South Africa’s Steve Biko. Having taught African religions in the States for more than twenty years now, I can say that it’s well time they should. Just as civil rights triumphed over Jim Crow, immigrant patterns in the US began to change radically, complicating not only the traditional white-black binary but the very nature of black America, which now reflects the diversit…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…le, American religious right groups will continue to back anti-gay laws in Africa and around the world. False Witness It is an entirely safe bet that anti-gay religious leaders will continue to misrepresent the much-maligned Regnerus study, as the National Organization for Marriage did in one of its year-end fundraisers. It’s likely we’ll be hearing NOM and its allies continue to claim that the Regnerus study supports their anti-marriage equality…

United Methodist Church Votes Against Israel Divestment

By Shalom Goldman

…ership in the anti-Apartheid struggle that led to the end of White rule in South Africa in 1994, called for a similar set of divestment campaigns to “to force an end to Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian territory.” Campaigning against the Israeli occupation is not a new cause for the former Anglican Archbishop of Capetown, South Africa, who won the Nobel Prize in 1984. And confronting the indignation of Jewish and Evangelical Christ…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…hat grant allowed me to also interview activists who are LGBTIQ Muslims in South Africa, the Netherlands, Britain, USA and Canada. I am now preparing a book that features their interviews, to show both the variety of activist activities they engage in and the common issues that they face. That book will be published soon by NYU Press and will be entitled Voices of Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslim Activists. I know you have already commented a…

Dems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal

By Daniel Schultz

…k City, and Berkeley, and LA, and all those other safe blue enclaves. I’ll bet you could find a liberal campaigner talking to people about their faith in one of those areas. I’ll bet you could find a bunch. Then too, the Dems-Should-Talk-More-About-Faith narrative generally means Candidates Should Talk More About Faith, ignoring the average party members. It’s to the author’s credit that she cites Pew statistics about just how many Democrats are r…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ndated that “In God We Trust” appear on U.S. currency. Neither required by free exercise, nor prohibited by establishment In the suit brought by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and several of its leaders, Judge Crabb ruled that the housing allowance exemption violates the First Amendment’s prohibition against the establishment of religion. Crabb had reached an identical conclusion at an earlier stage of the litigation, in 2013, but she was ov…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…rds in, but it’s not a good place to play this kind of music. We’d do much better in South Eastern Asia, which yes, we get a lot of traffic from online. Tons of people from Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia add us. We’ve been covered in the major Malaysian music magazine. I think it makes more sense for us to play in Malaysia then it does to play in Europe. SK: Many things remain to be seen, but I think it would be a mistake to deny that Mike’s b…

South Carolina Christian License Plates Blocked For Now

By Jonathan L. Walton

…e itself. Many private groups throughout the country have specialty plates promoting a particular organization or cause. In South Carolina this includes fraternities, academic institutions, wildlife organizations and the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry whose state license tag boasts “In Reason We Trust.” Yet none of these were originated by or within the state legislature. A non-profit group can create a specialty tag as long as 400 motorists…

Nikki Haley: Churches Should Take Over Universal Pre-K Education

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…” Yes, just imagine! As in most of the country, and especially in the deep South like South Carolina, when Haley says “faith-based organizations” what she really means is “Christian organizations.” Here in South Carolina, Muslims, Jews, or any liberal faiths like the Unitarian Universalists or the United Church of Christ, need not apply. What Haley proposes to do is put conservative Christians in charge of the earliest learning experiences of chil…

Anti-Gay Forces On Offense in Europe; ‘African Islam’ Challenged by Extremists; Irish Marriage Foes & ‘Sounds of Sodomy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and Nigeria. Among those featured in the story is Muhsin Hendricksi, a gay South African Imam, and Taj Hargey, founder of the “Open Mosque” in Cape Town. Egypt: Anti-Gay Crackdown Drawing International Attention Over the past year we have reported on the Egyptian government’s use of anti-gay persecution as a means of placating Islamist factions. Meredith Kucherov reported for Human Rights First this week that “the current crackdown is exceptional…