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Gay Marriage Opponents Running on Empty

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. At the first, about a dozen volunteers spent the night making almost 300 phone calls and collecting pledges of volunteer support and contributions from 50 new supporters. Add that to the five other locations holding similar phone banks or collecting post cards of support, and I’m sure we easily got our 300 today. In addition, Equality Maryland hosted an interfaith meeting to mobilize supportive faith leaders. It was so great to see such a wonder…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…ur audience. This oversize sample inadvertently gives away the credit card number of some eight-five million men, most of whom live in Egypt. ⬆ Earlier on this day, I saw a South Asian gentleman crossing an eight-lane highway while drinking a cup of tea out of a white ceramic mug. He took his time, pausing between lanes to let cars whiz by (at roughly 70 miles per hour) and took measured sips to pass the time, enjoying his hot and fresh caffeina…

Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…er. Recently we convened at Santa Barbara a workshop of senior scholars of South Asia studies in the United States, and asked them to evaluate the US role in South Asia. The scholars agreed upon the following five principles as the bases for formulating a new US policy: 1. Support self-determination. The Obama administration needs to make clear that the people of the region shall decide their own future, and the United States or any outside power…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…If not, why? Is it the music (the genre being very particular to the Anglophone world)? the underlying thought of treating “Muhammad as punk rocker?” BU: What an ignorant question. Anglophone world? Punk is ten times bigger in Kuala Lampur than it ever will be in the UK, France, or Germany. Or America. No, the reason for forming the Dead Bhuttos, and the rush to put a single online was to show, at least cosmetically, that Pakistan was as capable…

South Dakota Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Urges Pastoral Endorsements

By Mark Bergen

On May 14, Gordon Howie, a Republican candidate for Governor in South Dakota, called on churches to rise in an act of defiant insurgency: buck federal law and openly endorse a candidate. Preferably him. His invitation, evocatively named the “Pulpit Challenge,” was answered affirmatively by at least one pastor. The Rapid City Journal reports that on Sunday, May 15, at Liberty Baptist Tabernacle, the parish minister, Rev. H. Wayne Williams, stated…

South Carolina Baptists Confuse Condemnation and Compassion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…but never compassion. The saddest part of this story is how far afield the Southern Baptists have strayed from their own history. While it’s true the denomination was established in a split with northern Baptists over slavery, the Southern Baptists have much to be proud of. They have often been strong supporters of the separation of church and state, and their denomination was set up to be congregational with the convention speaking “to” the congr…

His Life in Our Hands: Remembering Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…th African people, I wept with many around the world: “Comrades and fellow South Africans, I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you the, people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.” And so he did, winning a Nobel Prize in 1993 with the las…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…la Nation Joe Morgan of Gay Star News reported on New Year’s Day that some South African activists are concerned that the legacy of Nelson Mandela, which included the groundbreaking inclusion of sexual orientation in the Constitution, could be at risk in his absence. President Jacob Zuma, as well as several other representatives in South Africa, have made homophobic comments in the past. ‘When I was growing up, an ungqingili [a gay] would not have…

South Park Meets the Sacraments at Class for New Catholics

By Zachary Leja

…have looked centuries ago. In the alternate universe where the creators of South Park are serious Christians instead of masters of satire, this is the cartoon they would make. At one point Damien stifles a laugh. “In the past few months,” he tells me, “it seems like Father Shea’s been all about this chintzy visual stuff.” A few minutes later Justin has to choke back a laugh of his own during another animated sequence. But Father Shea doesn’t to no…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…y the “usurpers” will eventually be overthrown and “white supremacy in the South” will be “recognized.” Monuments to the Confederacy have long served to shore up the wounds—for white southerners and their sympathizers—of a devastating conflict, a catastrophic loss, and a humiliating occupation. The canonization, as folk saints, of men who led a slavers’ secession from and waged violent war against the United States is essential to an understanding…