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Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…ing” the violence so they can intervene and reassert their position as the agent of social order in Burma? Considering the Rohingyas in Rakhine state, they have lived in Burma in Rakhine state for generations, if not for several hundred years. The former military regime’s 1984 law excluded them from among the nation’s 135 recognized ethnicities, denying the Rohingyas citizenship and basic rights. Neighboring Bangladesh, a predominantly Islamic cou…

CPAC Conservatives Shun “Crazy Bigot” Gaffney

By Sarah Posner

…gs, he was a secret al Qaeda mole, and now, from Gaffney and WND, a secret agent of the Muslim Brotherhood. Gaffney, said Khan, “definitely believes there is good political capital to be made in scaring and fear mongering, there may be some who may be swayed by alarmist and racist assertions, and worse, he makes a good living doing this stuff. Who knew there was money to be made in being a professional bigot?” Because Gaffney’s group was not invit…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…the liberation of performance and activism, the value of being an outside agent,” she says. For the most part, though, they’re using the campaign to do more of what they have done for the past decade: reaching out to people on the streets and “talking,” says Talen, “about the homemade spirituality of a funky, fascinating, messy democracy.” Gesturing toward a world beyond the Shopocalypse, Reverend Billy calls out the unquestioned perversity of co…

Religion, Lies, and Videotape: Planned Parenthood and the Latest Fake Sting

By Donna Schaper

…rder is wrong, then murder is wrong. When I make moral arguments as a free agent—and I know many on the right don’t believe women have these prerogatives—I make them as a proud relativist. A Niebuhrian, even, one adult enough to know the truth that some tragedy often accompanies some virtue. The Planned Parenthood lie-by-video is so absurd that it deserves little comment. But the powers and principalities are strong. Saying nothing won’t make them…

Shukr: Gratitude

By Amina Wadud

…that truth with worship and service, as is proper for the created servant/agent, the Kafir will deny this truth, cover it over as it were. He or she will then refrain from humility. So the opposite of kufr is shukr, gratitude. Everywhere in the Qur’an we are given reminders (dhikr) and signs (ayat). The Qur’an clearly asserts that these signs and reminders are for our purposes: for our guidance, and even, for our daily life: things like hearing a…

In a Time of Irrational Fear and New Media: The Deadly ‘Dance Plague’ at 500

By Ed Simon

…ic well-being of your fellow citizens? At a time when a disturbingly large number of people believe in the “QAnon” conspiracy; when “pizzagate” inspired a gunman to raid a pizzeria; where “flat-Earthers” have a growing fan-base; or where people ingest Tide Pods; can we really argue that these aren’t as foolish a bit of mass hysteria as dancing oneself to death? Scottish journalist Charles Mackay contends in his 1841 classic, Extraordinary Popular…

“Who Is This God?”: The Controversial Sequel to the Jesus Seminar

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…attributed to Jesus were really said by Jesus. The Jesus Seminar has had a number of critics, and neither the criticisms nor the responses were always irenic. (Those wanting a play-by-play will enjoy Walter Wink’s essay from the Bulletin for Biblical Research in which he likens the whole ordeal to a boxing match that, as of the 1997 publication date, was far from over.) The intervening years, though, have shown that the Jesus Seminar—and by extens…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…ood. It conceives its public role as a steward of civil society, not as an agent of special interests, practicing what sociologist Mark Chaves calls “bridging”: a distinct form of civic engagement emphasizing the connections between issues and the complexities of moral responsibility and citizenship in a pluralistic society. Liberal Protestant denominations are more likely than Roman Catholic and Evangelical communities to engage in public work o…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…ne American democracy through its embrace of people like convicted Russian agent Butina. But I digress. Thanks to Doug Coe’s astonishing prestidigitation skills, it would seem that there’s really nothing to see here. Every last one of The Family’s supporters and apologists who speaks on camera swears on a stack of unread Bibles that there can’t be anything nefarious about just a bunch of guys (and it is almost all guys) getting together to pray an…

Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

By Peter Laarman

…dly apologize some more, then go quietly back to “work” as an unregistered agent for big money. Yesterday he “deeply apologized” (at least it wasn’t shallow) to the President, to his former colleagues, and to the American people, still insisting that his failure to pay taxes for three years was “completely inadvertent.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was predictably soothing: “No one in this administration or in this building is insensitive,” said G…