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Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…s are being posed. What does all this mean? What trajectory and direction will politics take in the Muslim world? What role will Islam play in Egyptian politics? The fact is that no one knows and this is an entirely unprecedented situation. It is entirely possible that this may well be a different type of Islamic Revolution and we must take that possibility seriously, like it or not. The interventions we are witnessing have fundamentally changed “…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…TV talk shows offered up well-known Tibetan poets and politicians to be grilled by combative anchors for not following the “law of the land.” And at least on this issue, the Indian news media failed disastrously by acting as stenographers, indiscriminately taking in whatever was fed to them by intelligence officials, police, and local politicians. Journalists seemed to become the medium through which any analyst and former official with a view on…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…l situations (breastfeeding, falling in love, job acquisition) in order to illustrate how their model behavior illuminates various theories in psychology, cognitive science, or sometimes philosophy. Brooks seems to assume that we, his readers, will enviously see this model couple as living the epitome of a “happy” and fulfilling human life as they struggle to define themselves as upper-middle class individuals in a cutthroat and careerist American…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…by having the House of Representatives intervene in this litigation which will consume 18 months or longer. As we noted, the constitutionality of this statute will be determined by the Courts, regardless of whether the House chooses to intervene.” If the Senate doesn’t approve the reallocation, and Pres. Obama rejects it, Boehner might not get the money he’s looking for—so much of Boehner’s moves to placate the anti-marriage equality crowd remain…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…hat. I’m not seeing a lot of evidence that “some” adds up to a significant number. Not, at least, on the grounds of Novavax’s supposed selling point. To be fair, that’s not all there is to the piece. In fact, the question about Novavax’s allure reads like a wrapper for a bigger narrative about anti-vaxx activism merging with right-wing Christian nationalism. There’s an interesting story to be told there, and you should follow all the links in Jenk…

Crowdsourced Catholicism: New iPhone App Lets Users Forgive Sins

By Vincent Gonzalez

…nigrating other Saints by name or mocking the application, Penance feels still untried, a community yet to crystalize around substantial moral challenges, a larval church which may or may not ever mature. In this still-innocent new church, maybe it is unsurprising that gluttons seem only to regret single instances of pizza, chicken nuggets, or cheesecake, never wrestling with longstanding food addictions, and the wrathful never repent of physical…

Evangelicals Clutching Pearls Over Student Debt Relief: Lord Have Mercy!

By Peter Laarman

…bject of ridicule and contempt in the 1980s. This is America, friends. It will be a cold day in Hell before you will find “Christian” commentary on these shores that refers to “opposition to redistribution as part of the basis for a new order of shareholder dominance,” let alone that ties contempt for the poor to white racism. Evangelical Protestants, especially the white ones, just don’t think that way. They don’t think about systems. They think…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…hose qualities with most people I know, even my children. I hope blogging will help fill this void—a surrogate companion, sorta. I already know what it is like to be alone in a crowd. The crowds at hajj will be many times larger, and I will even be sleeping with three strangers. Sure, new relations can come out of this, but then it might also be a bit like taking a fitness class, or going skydiving. These may be relationships of convenience and on…

Romney Goes to Bat Against Reid in Nevada

By Joanna Brooks

…spending fueled boom cycle, with many voters looking for a politician who will mirror their own feelings of fear and resentment. How ugly is it getting? Check out Sharron Angle’s latest television ads which depict Reid as the ally of scowling, bandana-browed Latino gangstas and Angle as the ally of white schoolchildren and college graduates—an open appeal to the racist us-vs.-them sentiment that always surges during economic downtimes. It will not…

Can a Greek Monastery Be Ground Zero of Global Financial Meltdown?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…se into the current state of the Greek economy. Those Greek citizens (who will be asked to foot the bill and to pay the cost of the austerity measures currently being imposed upon Greece by moralizing Germans and nervous French) are now calling for the heads of the Vatopaidi monastery as well. Father Arsenios’s way of deflecting the criticism is fascinating, if puzzling. “The Greek newspapers, they call us a corporation,” he observes. “But I ask…