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Muslim Students Shocked By Professor’s Column

By Haroon Moghul

…t pose: “a seemingly integrated Muslim American—a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the US Army at Fort Hood—discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence.” Friendly Muslims! Seemingly integrated! Beware, America. Freedom of religion might doom you: Must we continue to be neutral in handling all people from different groups even though we know tha…

The Gospel of (and for) E.W. Jackson

By Peter Montgomery

…merican pastor and speaker at religious right political gatherings—and the Republican nominee for Lt. Gov. of Virginia. Jackson’s penchant for extreme political rhetoric, anti-gay and otherwise, has been well documented and is reaching a much wider audience since his recent surprise selection by delegates to the Virginia GOP convention. National Review’s Betsy Woodruff visited Jackson’s congregation and reported, among other things, on all the way…

Markets and Morality: Faith-Based Investment Group Profiles Polluters

By Frederick Clarkson

…faith-based investors are particularly good at… it is possible to envision new ways to incorporate environmental concerns via new ‘valuation models’—such as the Trucost data—for corporations and investors.” These she says, are key to changing how we think about business decisions, especially when we look at both short and long-term concerns. Faith-based investors, she says, have been way ahead of the curve on several major issues, noting that they…

“Mass Graves, Child Soldiers” and a Crusading Army of International Evangelists

By Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Randal L. Hepner

…at the hands of the Lord’s Resistance Army. “Gulu has just entered into a new season—one of salvation, blessing, and miracles,” declared Kolenda in his daily blog from the site. Yet northern Uganda, as the rest of the country, is predominantly Christian (85%), with churches of all denominations full to overflowing. The first missionaries arrived in the region at the beginning of the twentieth century and, by the 1940s, local converts were serving…

Speaking with Palestinian-American Republican Who Confronted GOP at Debate

By Haroon Moghul

…nervous quiver in his voice, Hassan went for it (video below): How would a Republican administration help bring peace to Palestine and Israel when most candidates barely recognize the existence of Palestine or its people? As a Palestinian-American Republican, I’m here to tell you we do exist. Awkward silence. The jarring discomfort between a discourse of intolerance on this very subject, and the presence of the object of such intolerance could onl…

Boos, Jews, and Progressive Religion at DNC

By Daniel Schultz

…, Pat Spearman of Nevada, bears a similar connection. Spearman stuck it to Republican VP nominee Mike Pence: “Governor Pence signed a law that allows individuals and businesses to deny services to LGBTQ Americans, and he used religion as a weapon to discriminate. As a lesbian, that hurts me. As a person of faith, that offends me. And as a legislator working hard to create jobs, that baffles me. Spearman is more than just “a person of faith.” She i…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…nday dress with a baby stroller. I try to strike up a conversation with an African woman dressed in a pagne. “Where are you from?” I ask her. “Congo,” she says, then looks at me pityingly. “Je ne sais que parler francais,” she says. I do not speak French. But the Brazilian Mormon standing on the other side of her does, and the two continue the conversation without me. I leave elm-lined walkways of Temple Square and cross the street to the sparklin…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ne, not Hawai’ian, but rather the 19th-century rebel leader from the South African Xhosa tribe known as Makana the Prophet, who led something of an occupy movement against the British in 1819. Though taking a toll on the British, the Xhosa were out-manned and out-gunned, and Makana the Prophet eventually surrendered himself to prevent further bloodshed. He was imprisoned on Robben Island, where he perished while leading the escape of some thirty f…

The Audacity of Melancholy: Race, Tragedy, and the Anguish of Progress

By Joseph Winters

…se of tension has been experienced recently as the opening of the national African American museum happens amidst daily incidents of police violence against working-class black bodies. Finally, this book was inspired by the collective excitement and optimism that gathered around Obama’s ascendancy. I was struck by how many people—inside and outside of the academy, across the political spectrum—read his 2008 victory as a collective triumph for blac…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…know-who. But as the article points out, Sanders has made a lot of hay “by promoting a similar message in a more secular way,” and yes, both Barber and Sanders seem to resonate with millennial voters. It’s fascinating to wonder what might have happened in North Carolina had the Sanders campaign built a careful coalition with the Moral Mondays movement. Given Hillary Clinton’s deep reservoir of support with African-American voters, it might not hav…