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Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…thorities keen to stanch expression that they think will inflame their populace. The latest to pile on is the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Last Wednesday, issues of the magazine hit newsstands with a front cover showing an Orthodox Jew pushing a turbaned figure in a wheelchair with several caricatures of the Prophet on its inside pages, including some of him naked. In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera last Friday, the editor defe…

Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee

By Eric C. Miller

…ship leader, destroyed by the cancer that had crawled across his body, had lain in bed at home with a phone against his ear while my pastor, who had called him from the pulpit, pointed a cordless phone toward the congregation; we all wept and sang him love songs as he lay dying. These are uniquely evangelical experiences that shaped me, that will always be a part of me. I still long for this kind of community—the kind that journeys together throug…

Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…ous Americans as a stigmatized minority is bound to be contentious, particularly when the Secular Survey’s respondents—a convenience sample recruited through secular organizations rather than a representative sample—skew so disproportionately white (92.4% vs. a U.S. Census Bureau estimate of 76.5%, including white Hispanic/Latinx) and male (57.8% vs. 49.2%), a profile that inevitably recalls elevatorgate and the racism, misogyny, and alt-right vie…

Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette

By Michael Schulson

…the Pew study asked respondents to gauge the appropriateness of using cellphones in various places, including whether it is “generally okay or not okay for people to use their cellphones…at church or [a] worship service.” A full 96% of those surveyed chose “generally not okay,” which was slightly higher than those who condemn mobile use in movie theaters. This finding indicates not only that the secular chambers of the cinema still don’t command…

Education, Texas-Style

By Lauri Lebo

…n teaching students about the U.S. Constitution, teachers must give equal play to the Declaration, which Jefferson wrote. The reason? Because nowhere in the Constitution is the word God ever mentioned. However, in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson refers to a creator, as well as “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” Voila! Proof that the founding fathers intended us to all worship Jesus Christ. In a wonderful wonderful piece “Why is T…

Are You There God? It’s Me, Donald: A President at Prayer

By Peter Laarman

…e. The media lied about it, of course. They said I didn’t know Douglass. They just can’t stop lying. Oh, gotta go, that’s my man Douglass on the phone right now. #amen #maga…

Will Catholic Voters Support LGBT Rights in Washington State?

By Joanna Brooks

…United for Marriage has set up on Wednesday nights and we assist with the larger phone bank at the Jewish synagogue downtown. A great deal of our work is communicating with Catholics on our email list and Facebook. As a Catholic, how does your faith shape your views on marriage for LGBT people? My faith blossomed in the 1960s after Vatican II. I had always been a very pious child, and my faith became about service to others and seeing everyone as…

The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…ue with this survey has to do with the way the central questions were formulated. Most popular polls, like Pew studies, are conducted over the phone using a list of simple multiple choice questions. Many forms of public opinion are accurately predicted this way, including voting behavior, because they are easily distilled into multiple choice questions. “Are you voting for Hillary/Sanders or Rubio/Christie next week?” is a straightforward question…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…011 would bring minorities greater freedom. Indonesia: Province Passes 100-Lash Law We previously reported that the province of Aceh, described by NBC News as “the most orthodox corner of Muslim-majority Indonesia,” was considering legislation to make gay sex punishable by 100 lashes with a cane. That law has passed. The sting of a rattan cane is only part of the punishment. Aceh’s officials admit the primary objective is shame. That’s why they in…

My Lowest Point

By Amina Wadud

…i family whose daughter was not feeling well. According to her school of Islamic law, it is not mandatory to stay more than one night in Mina. See, how useful it is to be better informed about the options? We went to the second floor of the mosque to make tawaf and then sa’iy. We chose it 1) because the lower courtyard with the Kaabah was really crowded, and exposed to the sun, and 2) the third floor was exposed to the sun. I held onto the woman,…