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Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…of Time and Newsweek, still the two leading weekly magazines, known to all Americans and read by many—especially in airports. On my flight to Istanbul, Time was available in the first airport lounge, Newsweek in the second. Against a backdrop of shouting mobs, smoke and fire, Time’s headline reads: THE AGENTS OF OUTRAGE An embassy attacked. Diplomats murdered. The new calculus of violence against America. Published on September 13, its author is B…

How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

By Monica Black

…n local settings, many people in the 1940s and 50s remembered how the Nazi new order had settled in when the dictatorship took hold in 1933—the way property, power, and position had been seized by the new masters and handed out among friends and allies. After 1945, the task often fell to denazification committees, formed of citizens with clean political records, to interview fellow community members and examine their documents and hand down verdic…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…in that history. The book’s publication has coincided with his arrival in New York, after more than thirty years at Williams College, where he now chairs Columbia University’s Department of Religion. He is attempting to reorganize the department’s faculty around problems, rather than religious traditions or academic disciplines, in order to create a new, dynamic kind of scholarly community that can be responsive to pressing questions as they aris…

Pope Francis Walks With LGBTQ People, One Step Forward, Big Steps Back

By Kaya Oakes

…ender reflect his complex responses to the pervasive machismo of the Latin American culture in which he was raised. When Argentinian president Christina Kirchner helped push through legalized same-sex marriage in 2010, Francis—then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio—lead a march against same-sex marriage and sent a letter to all Argentinian priests asking them to speak against the law for the “unalterable good of marriage and the family.” In response, Kirch…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…. We got the religion we paid for, and now we’re paying for it—believe me. American media sometimes does the same: We don’t value people who tell us what we need to know, or otherwise wouldn’t hear, but lavish attention on what would be easiest for us to believe, or drives ratings. Short-term gain+Fox News+Ayaan Hirsi Ali=long-term pain. (See: Operation Iraqi Freedom.) Things don’t look very bright for many parts of the Muslim world. Now, more tha…

Does Liberal Theology Profane God?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ones (that today would look as though I were at the shooting range or on a flight deck) to even listen to the album for fear that my mother would know that I was even listening to such language. But, as Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler, Jr. rightly pointed out in a recent interview, when we’re forbidden in the Ten Commandments from taking God’s name in vain, it’s not just outlawing such phrases as “God damn,” or “Oh, m…

Hicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm

By Timothy King

…icultural self-education program that has involved trips to the deserts of New Mexico to hang out with farming monks, Portland(ia) to learn “Old World”-style butchery techniques, and have just departed the old sod of New Hampshire again, this time for farming stints in the hills of Turkey and along coastline of the Adriatic. My story bears little resemblance to struggle of the Immokalee workers or the army of poorly-paid farm hands who are the bul…

The “Nones” Are Here… And Have Been for Over 100 Years

By Emily Mace

…liberalism’s failure to stem the tide of strays into the religious frontier will remain a vexing problem for today’s religious leaders, even as it was over a century ago. Ironically, it was during that same era—the late 19th century—that secularism and positivism, the New Atheists’s forebears, first enjoyed a “golden age” in American culture, as historians such as Jackson Lears have noted. The religious “nones” are coming, and while there may be l…

Pope Francis Dismisses Condoms in AIDS Fight

By Patricia Miller

…ly 37 million people living with HIV/AIDS and some two million people were newly infected in 2014. Sub-Saharan African remains the global hot spot, with 26 million infected people and 70 percent of new infections. Even the considerably more theologically hardline Pope Benedict said that condom use could be the lesser of two evils when it came to a person who is HIV positive thwarting the spread of the disease as a “the first step of responsibility…

Passover with Mohammed: A Jewish Journalist in Yemen

By Sam Kestenbaum

…o America, death to Israel, curse the Jews, victory for Islam. Part of me knew this was politics, the language of demagogues, but still I wondered, would the friends that I had made turn on me, curse me? “So, Passover is the story of Moses, Musa,” Khalid says, smiling. He knows the story, of course. “These are our prophets, too.” I feel relieved and also silly for hesitating to tell him about my heritage. “Do you know the story of Sana’a?” Khalid…