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‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…lation of Haiti is somewhere around thirty percent. In Port-au-Prince that number jumps to almost forty percent. The majority of these churches are Pentecostal. These churches are overwhelmingly independent, indigenous Haitian entities, though some are linked to North American denominational Pentecostal churches. Haiti, along with Jamaica and Puerto Rico, is home to one of the fastest growing Pentecostal populations in the Caribbean. As I watch th…

How Not To Respond to Haiti

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…came intensely and horrifically violent in the 1600s, inspiring increasing numbers of European colonists to flee the Old World and to cross the Atlantic. So bad had things become that the great “rights revolutions”—beginning with the so-called Glorious Revolution in England in 1688, and culminating in the French Revolution in 1789—allied themselves to various degrees with the cause of “secular politics.” If religious conflict was destined to be so…

Capricology: Big Ideas, Lack of Humanity

By Diane Winston

…to fully differentiate themselves from their parent. Tamara, aware of the toll that Joseph’s quest has taken, pretends to shoot herself, then de-rezzes him. It’s a noble choice. Zoe, maddened by the news that Daniel plans to “kill” her, launches a desperate bid to escape. It’s a last stand that may end up costing her freedom and her father’s company. Just as Joseph’s family—Tamara, Emmanuelle (a.k.a. God with us) and Sam conspire to save him, Dan…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…hree years to become law President Michele Bachelet, while speaking to the United Nations general assembly, mentioned marriage equality legislation and a partial decriminalization of abortion as advances in “individual freedoms.” But a local activist leader predicted that it could take two or three years for the marriage equality law to become a reality. From La Tercera: Opponents of egalitarian marriage and adoption, only wielding religious and i…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…nst Dillard, she defended the letter as divinely inspired—an expression of free speech and freedom of religion. Burkhart had trouble finding doctors for her own clinic, when she started exploring the idea of reopening the practice several years ago. One in-state doctor expressed interest, but after his local hospital learned about it, Burkhart said, they threatened to terminate his contract. An anonymous doctor who will work at the clinic describe…

Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

By Amina Wadud

…d inside the mosque one day, I came across Bab raqm tis’wa thamanin, “door number 89,” literally. The door with no name. Facing the mosque at door number one, bab maalik ’abd-al-’Aziz, this door is off to the left. Looking at the mosque floor plan, this is where the building structure of the mosque is deepest. This is “the women’s section.” I noticed as I was walking through the first floor toward door number one, the kings’ door, on my way out af…

Religious Freedom Historian John Ragosta on “Religious Freedom”

By Frederick Clarkson

…ormed people on all sides also tend to agree that the taproot of religious freedom in the United States is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, originally drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1777 and shepherded through the Virginia legislature by James Madison in 1786. The following year, Madison served as the principal (but certainly not the only) author of the Constitution, and in 1789, as the principal author of the First Amendment. In 1992 C…

Historian John Ragosta Discusses the Context and Inspiration for ‘Religious Freedom’ in the U.S.

By Frederick Clarkson

…ormed people on all sides also tend to agree that the taproot of religious freedom in the United States is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, originally drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1777 and shepherded through the Virginia legislature by James Madison in 1786. The following year, Madison served as the principal (but certainly not the only) author of the Constitution, and in 1789, as the principal author of the First Amendment. In 1992 C…

The Uncertain Post-Obergefell World of Religious Exemptions

By Sarah Posner

…isn’t covered because their boss thinks it’s tantamount to murder–dignity didn’t enter into the equation. We’re focused on the bakers and the caterers, in part because the religious right has made such a spectacle of them, with hyperbolic pronouncements about the end of religious freedom and free speech. It’s easy to forget that in most states, as well as under federal law, LGBT people are left unprotected in public accommodations, housing, and em…

In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…nd information overload on social media, it’s paramount that academics are free to introduce students to pluralist perspectives on controversial issues. Otherwise, we risk slipping into a state where corporations and elite donors decide and dictate conversations. I want to emphasize that, unlike many who make the “free expression” argument, my concern isn’t that decisions are being dictated by sectarian sensibilities or disagreements, but rather t…