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Will bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?

By Christopher Anzalone

…kistani 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 leaders such as Abu Yahya al-Libi and ‘Atiyyatullah al-Libi who will likely serve as capable new voices of militancy for al Qaeda and others for some time to come—as long as the list of grievances…

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…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…Far from Saudi Arabia holding a commanding position in the Muslim world, a new battle would open up between Fatah, Hamas, Iran, Turkey, and everyone else who claims to speak for Palestine—not to mention Israel, which is occupying Palestine. In case you think this merely a misstep, a case of not thinking through the consequences of arguing for a radical revision of a religion, here are 7 more: 1) Hirsi Ali describes the Council on American-Islamic…

Is Accreditation of Religious Institutions a “Farce”?

By Eric C. Miller

…nderstands nor values.” Fascinating, then, that freedom should also play a central role in the Dayspring case – arguably serving as a “verbal fig leaf” of another variety. As CT reports, Dayspring and its allies are “accusing the state board of overstepping the First Amendment and infringing on their rights to free religious exercise and free speech.” Among the colleges and seminaries that spurn regional accreditation, many justify their decision…

A Memoir of Jewish, Transgender Spirituality

By Joy Ladin

…ds. I am compiling a collection of essays, and am gestating proposals for two book projects that are close to my heart, one on how the Torah looks when read from a transgender perspective, and the other on the brand-new field of trans poetics, recently and spectacularly brought to American literary life by TC Tolbert’s and Trace Peterson’s new anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. …

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…e, which has become a symbol of both liberal and conservative scorn of the New York movement (conservatives scoff while some liberals cringe). Why Aren’t There 50 Clergy? But there was a tiny glimmer of progressive religious activism. I was there to meet a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Brian Merritt, the gregarious, affable pastor of the ecumenical, progressive Palisades Christian Church in the District. “I’ll be the guy in the Ben’s Chili Bowl…

Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?

By Sarah Posner

…endeavor. She added that faith groups are focused on affordability as the central feature of any reform bill, and that faith groups are “accustomed to diversity.” FPL and other sponsors of the teleconference, Sojourners and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, have been advocates for “common ground” proposals to reduce abortion. Sojourners president Jim Wallis, who serves on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnership…

Double Helix: Pro-Choice, Pro-Human, Pro-God

By Arri Eisen

…bing. Hunt writes about clergy who dared to encourage thinking beyond that promoted by the Church who were given the choice of retraction or dismissal from their orders. Science also has lent insight (and contributed its share of screaming and yelling) to the abortion issue. Could science and religion actually think about abortion synergistically rather than antagonistically? An unusual idea, but let’s think about it. As an example, let’s take one…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…omplicated discussion of the Trinity based on the prepositions used in the New Testament. As he wrote in one of his books: “A simple New Testament study of prepositions reveals that everything is ‘from’ and ‘to’ the Father; ‘by’ and ‘through’ Jesus; and ‘in’ and ‘with’ the Holy Spirit.” But if I remember anything from my New Testament Greek, the hardest part was the prepositions, because their meanings are notoriously ambiguous—but then, Federer p…

How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…red in recent years, making Evangelicals something of a testament to their centrality to the field. The text concludes with a new essay from each editor that seeks to steward evangelicalism’s future by way of its past. Marsden and Noll argue that growing evangelical movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America prove that the faith has not totally lost its way, while Bebbington explores the recent history of British evangelicalism in order to highl…