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The Myth of News Media as Secularist Conspiracy

By Diane Winston

…through Western newspapers in the 1910s and 1920s. Reporters were no more open-minded, judicious, or incisive in the 19th century. Newspapers went all out to cover religious scandal and sensation: the Tilton-Beecher adultery trial, the David Swing heresy case, and Dwight Moody’s barnstorming revivals were all reported in exquisite detail. Although many observers decried the lack of thoughtful reporting on the substantive religious issues of the d…

No Space for American Islam?

By Mark Bergen

…stage when Sarah Palin weighed in, lambasting the proposal on her Twitter feed. New York’s Republican candidates for governor, Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino, are competing for who is most egregiously against the center. Far behind in the polls, Lazio recently challenged his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, to a debate focused solely on what he once dubbed the “trophy Mosque.” Shortly after Palin’s statements, Newt Gingrich, considered by many an…

Historic Prayer by Woman at LDS General Conference Signals Growing Concern with Gender Equality

By Joanna Brooks

…ion to the theology of gender and equality is also evident, both among rank-and-file Mormons and on the part of leaders. Last month, advocates of women’s ordination to the Mormon priesthood—a lay priesthood that enfranchises all male members of the Church above 12 years of age—launched a new online campaign to foster conversation by profiling LDS men and women who support ordination at OrdainWomen.org. On Friday, the LDS Church responded to the he…

Tajwid: To Read with Love… and Competence

By Amina Wadud

…side of the mosque. When I leave after my eightraka’at, I don’t feel so out-in-the-dark-woman-alone kind of thing. There are a lot of women in these prayer lines. That’s pretty cool too. According to their choice of dress, reflecting their cultural background, they are from all over: Arab, Middle Eastern, African, and South Asian. I at least saw one other African-American woman once. Keep in mind that I am arriving only to time to join the already…

Marriage Equality: No More (Word) Games

By William Myatt

…ragraph 14, the implicit argument is that marriage is best defined as a one-man-one-woman institution. I appreciated the intellectual care that went into Smith’s analysis. Following the example of some of history’s best thinkers, he took an issue that most people considered straightforward, complicated it, and then redirected the discussion. Ultimately, though, I found his deconstruction unconvincing. Let me explain… Dr. Smith’s article begins wit…

The Trials of Janie Spahr

By Richard A. Lindsay

…church member may file a charge under the denomination’s constitution, or Book of Order, if they feel she has carried out her ministry in a way that is not in accordance with church polity. (The charge in this case was filed by one member of a congregation in the Redwoods Presbytery.) Having received a complaint about one of its ministers, the Presbytery must investigate the allegation, and if they believe the case has merit, they refer it to the…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…hat, The Bible!) Omar, devoted to the life of the Prophet Muhammad’s father-in-law. Omar began his life as a fierce enemy of Islam, nearly killed Muhammad in a fit of rage, converted to Islam on the same day he planned his assassination, and ended his life as the second Caliph of Islam. Under Omar, the first Muslim polity expanded into Jerusalem, Damascus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Central Asia. (Muhammad died in 632; Omar was Caliph from 634-644.) T…

The Power of (Glenn Beck’s) Myth

By Julie Ingersoll

…was the montage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (as inapposite as Beck’s self-comparison to King is). The music, too—from Aaron Copeland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” to “Amazing Grace”—facilitated this experience. And of course there was the lofty rhetoric about “vision” and “values.” Perhaps most powerful of all was the booming voice of the narrator shaping the audience’s understanding of the event, as the narrator sounded like the “voice of god”…

The Mother of Christian Feminist Ethics, Beverly Wildung Harrison: 1932–2012

By Mark Hulsether

…us thought, Making the Connections. Many chapters from these books warrant book-length treatment, but she published just one such monograph: Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion. Although Bev’s interests ranged widely, this book is a good example of how she taught her students to frame issues—to think concretely about what is going on, using the best social theory and evidence from history, public policy, medicine, law and so on—and…

Favorite Places, Favorite Prayers

By Amina Wadud

…people who let the hustle and bustle of city life get the best of them, I highly recommend such quarters: blissful darkness, with a gentle hooting owl in an otherwise silent night. But I was up and out this morning before the sunrise, because I have a full day ahead of me and needed to be in my own reclusive space to get it started. I have far less need of time away and alone than I have of good company, I realize again and again. Hmm, maybe this…