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Evangelicals Call Christian Zionist Uncritical “Support” for Israel “Appalling” and “Intolerable”

By Sarah Posner

…t the precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama Policy in the Middle East wasn’t naïve, arrogant, misguided and dangerous,” he said. “It must be said, first, that Israel is our oldest and strongest democratic ally in the Middle East and has been for more than 60 years. The Obama Policy of moral equivalency, which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a dangerous insu…

Israel Will be a 2016 Evangelical Litmus Test

By Sarah Posner

…oes he or she have proven wisdom and experience in dealing with the Middle East issues, or is the candidate too new to the foreign policy arena? In light of yesterday’s terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, Nance, in a statement, calls Israel a “cornerstone” for the 2016 presidential nomination, adding, “continued violence in Israel and constant turmoil in the Middle East makes a clear and comprehensive foreign policy agenda a must for any po…

Aasif Mandvi on Islamophobia, Acting, and the Long Shadow of Jon Stewart

By Haroon Moghul

…actor, a writer, a comedian, in a lot of creative spaces. What’s the line between free speech and bigotry? Wow. What is the line between free speech and bigotry? Look, there’s always going to be free speech, and it’s a fundamental right. We are allowed to speak our minds. But bigotry will always exist—there will always be a certain amount of prejudice, and I don’t think you can eradicate that. What I wanted to do was address some of that prejudic…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…l the incredible photograph Atif Saeed recently took.) Anything can happen between a wild animal and a human in the Anthropocene—it’s not surprising that gods and kings took the beast as the metaphors and symbols of their sovereign rule. The memory of that passing moment came rushing back to me yesterday as social networks filled up with the news that Cecil the lion’s killer had been identified. Earlier, I heard reports that the beloved thirteen-y…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…or a Sunni in Yemen, to remain unaffected by sectarian rhetoric, given how important religious language is, and how persuasive it is for many in the region. Political Islam has led largely to dead-ends or to new forms of despotism. The choice is not between imposed religion and enforced secularity, but between the kinds of beliefs that lead to decay and despair, and the kinds that lead to thriving and diverse societies. History suggests it is pos…

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ing the second millennium of the Christian era (including the great schism between the Eastern and Western church, the tragic campaigns of the crusades, the Ottoman subjugation of much of the Eastern region, the oppressive Soviet regime of the 20th century, and so on) led to the gradual disappearance of the pan-Orthodox conciliar structure in exchange for a more defensive, even ethnic element in order to survive. Pan-Orthodox Councils were largely…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…iod—came to symbolize the backwardness and even barbarity of the Christian East and was used to place Eastern Christians and traditionally Eastern Christian cultures outside of the parameters of the “West.” It did not and does not matter that Christianity was a significant pillar around which “Western” identity was built. Eastern Christians simply came to be seen as somehow not fully Christian. Nor did it seem to faze anyone that ancient Greek cul…

Reimagining Twentieth Century Harlem as a Jewish Mecca

By Jeffrey Gurock

…here were those who had succeeded economically downtown and fled the Lower East Side after the turn of the 20th century. But actually, a second group of immigrants was pushed uptown by the unintended consequences of urban renewal efforts on the Lower East Side that limited space for the poor. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? Obviously the descendants of those 175,000 Jews who once lived in Harlem—including my own family— are…

Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…isis in communities that are not the white-ethnic Catholic enclaves of the East Coast. Unfortunately New Mexico is a case in point. In the Archdiocese of Santa Fe alone, at least 82 clergy and religious have been formally accused of sexual abuse. 74 of these names were released by the archdiocese itself last year, and another 8 names not appearing on the archdiocesan list are cataloged on the website BishopAcccountability.Org. One lawsuit filed in…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…live as second-class citizens. On the other hand, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, who number some 200,000, cannot vote; their neighborhoods have been annexed to Israel, even though international law and the international community recognize that East Jerusalem would belong to a Palestinian state, assuming it were to have existed. We need even more hands to write this story out: The West Bank is cut open and torn apart by settlements, many…