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Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…ierarchy of information and affect is so intractable that new information, new ideas, new encounters can’t reshape your affects. And in a lot of ways, I think what we’re seeing right now is a sort of a struggle going on between different affects, different affective strategies for responding to the situation. I do think that people can be confronted with new perspectives that give them an avenue to another affect. The other piece of viral content…

Mitt Romney At Value Voters Summit

By Joanna Brooks

…ancy Pelosi’s numbers have being going down a chute faster than a Jet Blue flight attendant” and “President Obama’s idea of a rogue state is Arizona.” As for the substance of Romney’s speech, what was most notable was the absence of talk about values, let alone religion. Instead, Romney sounded every bit the corporate buyout and turnaround specialist, criticizing the “anti-growth,” “anti-investment” Obama administration for forgetting the priv…

In Case You Missed Them, the Top Pope Francis Quotes of 2016

By Patricia Miller

…mistreated women, to children forced to work. –In yet another impromptu in-flight press conference, Pope Francis said in June that Christians should apologize to gay people and others the church has mistreated. Today, children are taught this at school: that everyone can choose their own sex. And why do they teach this? Because the books come from those people and institutions who give money. –In a meeting with Polish bishops on World Youth Day, F…

Faith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL

By Douglas Harrison

…up to: “I strongly believe that goodness is contagious and that others will jump on board as the younger generation begins to populate the NFL.” It’s always been true that strategically applied pressure can destabilize entrenched attitudes and beliefs and create space for new norms and liberated possibilities (thanks again, Joe Biden). But who knew it would turn out that the NFL has a thing or two to teach the gospel church—born of, but these day…

Praying in Fear

By Shabana Mir

…endless. The physical motions it requires are simply too unfamiliar to the American gaze. For most Americans, just the sight of the salaah is so alien that they never get to the heart of it. Or maybe it is too familiar. When I first arrived in the United States, I prayed in the library stacks. I prayed in conference venues after sessions were over and people were milling about. I prayed in office spaces. I prayed in classrooms. The past six years…

“We Found My Father, Except for His Hand”

By Haroon Moghul

…much as postpone it till later, at which point, perhaps the hope was, some new means to defuse it would have been devised. The international community determined Bosnia’s post-war boundaries, dividing the country into a Muslim-Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska (RS), based on where each side stood when the fighting stopped. From the Bosniak perspective, this means Serb forces were rewarded for their ethnic cleansing, receiving 49% of the co…

Is Joel Osteen, Success Mag Cover Boy, Really “God’s Best”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…’re busy hanging on a cross? But, in his rush to assure folks of the “good news” that God wants you to be “God’s best,” Osteen misses a very important point. Perhaps on his next long flight he can pull out his Bible and take a gander at Luke 16:19-31—the story of Lazarus and the rich man. Daily, the rich man ignored poor Lazarus, but when Lazarus died he was taken to “heaven” or a place of eternal comfort. The rich man’s fate in Hades was terrible…

The Leadership Crisis at the End of the Megachurch Era

By Benjamin Dueholm

…yle could be separated from the enduring substance. But departure after departure and scandal after scandal suggests that it was not to be. If there’s another chapter left in American Christianity, it will likely require an embrace rather than a flight from the absurdity of its words and practices….

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…e said Bedi was still sleeping, exhausted from the previous day’s overseas flight, and needed to reschedule our interview for that afternoon. I called the number back, convinced the opportunity was lost. “I’m here at the hotel now, but I’m booked solid this afternoon—” “Hold on, let me check with her,” the woman told me. There was a brief pause. “She says to come on up, she’ll meet with you now. It wouldn’t be fair to cancel since you’re already h…

Pope Benedict’s 2006 Islamophobia Controversy Wasn’t an Isolated Incident — Islamophobia is an Integral Part of His Theological Legacy

By Wendy Mallette

…the words of Muhammad as “evil and inhuman.” Sohrab Ahmari’s piece in the New York Times goes as far as to claim that this lecture has been vastly mischaracterized; that it, in fact, made possible “deeper Catholic-Muslim dialogue.” But these apologetic reflections over a single lecture in Benedict’s 62-year career often miss the larger point. Going back decades before the fated 2006 lecture, Benedict’s fundamental convictions about faith and reas…