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“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…her they be in the Muslim world or in European countries, where there is a way in which thinking about Israel is a way of thinking about what is most in need of perfection in the world. We should probably worry more about something like these tweets because we’re in a space in which the use of anti-Judaism as a way of fantasizing the perfection of the world is already becoming very powerful. What’s the connection between anti-Jewish politics and u…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…clusion: Looking Forward I am not so dense as to argue that Muslims have always behaved innocently, and that is not the conclusion I want you to walk away with. We have more than enough examples of heinous acts committed by Muslims, sometimes justified in the name of Islam. In fact the first article I wrote for this magazine condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran for the hijacked 2009 election and subsequent crackdown. But I’m arguing that Muslim…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…of those people sitting at the luncheonette counters in the South, and the way that they were always respectful, even when they were being persecuted. That’s a good model for anyone. Those photos always comes to mind when people ask that question. It’s powerful for me, and that model of Dr. King’s response to persecution stands the test of time. There has been some progress in relations between the church and LGBT Catholics, but there’s also been…

A Matter of the Heart: Talking to Gay Christian Rocker Jennifer Knapp

By Kristin Rawls

…e I’m no longer an artist who fits their label. They can’t serve me in the way that I need a record company to serve me, and I can’t serve their record label and brand the way I would like to serve their record label and brand. I was 22 or 23 when I first signed with Gotee. I knew that they were going to grow with me. And we were going to be a kind of family, and they really held up their end of that. I can’t say enough about the way they’ve hon…

Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…’s version of “fantasy football” here.) And I give them the assignment I always give to my eighteen-year-old students: come up with your own definition of religion, see if you can put it in a sentence, and then give some paragraphs of support to back it up. The assignment has no singular answer, of course; I’m looking for their ability to think coherently and offer support for their ideas. This is something at which Maher and cohorts would mostly…

Don’t Blame Black Voters: The Obama Non-Effect

By Jonathan L. Walton

…which breeds religiously-sanctioned homophobia; but simply to suggest the ways race, sexuality and religion—the holy trinity of American oppression—come together to inform the way many African Americans interpret this issue. As the roots are more textured than simple African-American homophobia and hate, we must combat and confront it with more than race-baiting and misdirected blame. Conversation is the key. As we say every Sunday, “It’s time to…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…uch they need people like you to get the word out in a more public kind of way. They need to find a way to work with those who reach out in new ways. I would entirely agree with your activist friend who says that people like me depend a lot on the detailed work that people like you do. Unfortunately, most of the general public will not engage with those studies. So what I’m trying to do is make that work accessible to people who need to know this…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…tward and can become all about taking power, or they can do their thing by way of withdrawal from the larger society. Sort of like the contrast between the 17th-century Puritans who pursued statecraft in a major way as against some of their contemporaries (e.g., the Diggers ) who just wanted to live their purified lives off to the side of the historical stage. An intriguing sidelight here is the question of how much greater impact OWS could conce…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…life forms far more advanced than us in the universe just given the sheer numbers. Given how close we are to developing artificial intelligence right now, it’s also easy to think that another species did that on a planet somewhere far away and changed the universe. Given the fact that we’ll have A.I. in two hundred years that will potentially be a million times smarter than us, it could expand through the universe very quickly. I wrote this artic…

A Tale of Religious Tolerance… On Reddit

By Joanna Piacenza

…, my kids will forget my voice, and slowly, all physical memory will fade away. However, my impact and legacy will remain: and, by not focusing on the physical beauty, I have time to cultivate those inner virtues and hopefully, focus my life on creating change and progress for this world in any way I can. After watching his mobile upload turn against him, “european_douchebag” finally apologized to the online community, Kaur, Sikhs in general and a…