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Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…cation, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourg…

Presidential Pep Talks and the Religion of Fear: How did an Uncontroversial Speech Become a National Controversy?

By Eric Reitan

…happened. And in response to the controversy and the barrage of outraged parental phone calls, many school systems decided it was safest not to air the speech at all. Others required that alternative activities be arranged for children whose parents refused to permit their kids to be subjected to an encouraging presidential pep talk. The evening after the talk, the local news station I was watching aired a report on the event, complete with footag…

Remembering the Legacy of America’s “Green Preacher,” Rev. Ike

By Jonathan L. Walton

…that desire God to provide the keys to the kingdom, a new house, and nice car! This is why Rev. Ike was so ahead of his time. He had his finger on the pulse of a segment of the black community and understood their spiritual strivings and material longings in the emerging post-civil rights era. And by theologically framing this message in such a way that leads persons to believe that the power of their pocketbooks was within themselves, he tapped…

Tajwid: To Read with Love… and Competence

By Amina Wadud

…apter, when I take it out for my morning reading and then return it to the car. So anyway, I’ve got Qur’an coming at me in every direction. My morning reading is the most intimate and also the one where I pay the most attention to what I am reading. It’s my daily reading that gives me food for thought for this blog sometimes, as you may have noticed. So I’m really attached to that. On the practical side, it gives me something to do while I let the…

Driving While Pregnant

By Shabana Mir

…The National says it happened because she didn’t keep far enough from the car in front. Salah Bu Farousha, head of traffic prosecution in Duabi, said women in the third trimester of pregnancy should avoid driving altogether to protect lives of mother and child. I’m reminded of the multiple trips I made on the insanely crowded Beltway to my unpleasant bully of an OB-GYN in Rockville, MD. I sure as hell didn’t want to drive there, but as a 35+ preg…

You’re Worse When You’re Hiding The Cocaine: A Moral Psychologist on Character and Blame

By Vlad Chituc

…fferently? My sister is a wonderful, wonderful person, but if she’s in the car and thinks someone cut her off, she yells, “What an asshole! She meant to do that! What a fucking asshole!” And then I see her cut people off, and I say “You just cut that person off,” and she says, “David, I couldn’t, there was another car right there, I had to do it.” And I think to myself, here’s a good tactic: pretend that that other person was you, or pretend that…

Prominent Russian Orthodox Church Rejects Pro-Putin Patriarch Kirill, Raising Tensions Within Orthodox World

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ay, Archbishop Elisey arrived unannounced at St. Nicholas (in a diplomatic car, according to church witnesses). He said his aim was to ensure that Patriarch Kirill would continue to be commemorated at St. Nicholas. Then, after the service, he told the clergy that their dispute with Kirill was of great concern to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The clergy of St. Nicholas refused to relent. It was at this point the threats began. A service…

I’tikaf: Sacred Solitude

By Amina Wadud

…o a woman, who is strictly observant of hijab, would have to sleep in her scarf. Or it would have to be women-only. I am really curious if the all-women mosques in places like China have this female-only i’tikaf. In lieu of the mosque as the location of the retreat, I used to invite women to spend at least one weekend night, during the last ten days, in my house when I lived in Virginia. I thought if we could give women a reprieve from their regul…

Satanic Temple Organizing a Rally for Religious Liberty

By Joseph Laycock

…rs later, Arkansas resident Michael Tate Reed allegedly rammed it with his car. (He had previously destroyed a similar monument in Oklahoma.) Reed, who suffers from mental illness and describes himself as a “Jesus freak,” explained he did this to defend the separation of church of state. In response, TST postponed their lawsuit. Since constructing Baphomet, they have been clear that it may only be placed next to and never instead of a Christian mo…

Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights

By Kathryn Joyce

…e, a victim could have said in an email that the priest drove a light blue car. In a criminal trial, the predator’s defense lawyer will ask what color car, and they might say dark blue, and they’ll pounce on that. That’s how you defend the indefensible. By picking away and trying to find even the tiniest inconsistencies. We’ve seen it happen in criminal and civil cases. Would sharing the documents like that be legal? That remains to be seen. We co…