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Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

By Amina Wadud

…first floor, but especially as salat time approaches. Sometimes if it gets late enough and there is a large enough unyielding cluster, they may eke out a space behind some men. But the rudeness of the removal is so disturbing, I just do not want that encounter. But I do want to pray where I can see the Ka’abah. That is only possible from the first floor, and if you are right by the railing on the upper floors. So, I have missed this opportunity af…

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

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…igion Foundation. The foundation argued that the faith-based initiative violated the Establishment Clause by using taxpayer money to fund religious-based organizations. The National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown applauded the selection of Clement: At last we have a legal eagle on this case who actually wants to win in court! Thanks to Speaker Boehner’s actions, President Obama’s attempt to sabotage the legal defense of DOMA is not going…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…y or by a wannabe Martin Luther King. While the President sermonized about cheap grace, a daughter of the church climbed a flagpole and took down the American swastika. Like Mary and Elizabeth, Bree Newsome proclaimed that our salvation—wrapped in swaddling clothes—is here in our hands. As an ordained clergyperson nurtured in the bosom of the black church, I am all too familiar with the way in which we tend to spiritualize the material suffering o…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ite a letter to his supporters about how awful and sinful other people’s relationships are compared to his “real” relationship? I really should not be shocked by this display of political grandstanding on his wife’s grave. Garlow is, after all, the pastor of Skyline Church in La Mesa, California, and helped lead the fight to pass Proposition 8 in the state, denying marriage equality for gays and lesbians. He’s also remarked that Satan is behind th…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…ront cover of the paperback. In a subsequent tweet, Wolfe had the gall to claim, with classic evangelical passive aggression, that he holds “no animus” toward me personally. Wolfe’s willingness to use me as a prop to smear Du Mez, who has been undergoing similar attacks for years (including a coordinated campaign to get her fired, carried out by people who supposedly hate “cancel culture”), caught on quickly with other evangelicals, including past…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…he intersection of sexism, racism and classism? The Hyde Amendment and similar legislation gives people a space to stand in where they don’t have to identify with “the untouchables,” but can still claim to support abortion rights. It creates a barrier where people can easily cop out. The expectation is that a progressive politician or progressive faith leader would stand with people who are in need, but that is not the reality. You have talked abo…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…n 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 only for the moments. I’m sure what we will be experiencing will be phenomenal enough to share. Choosing a Tour Company I’ve already said this, but I repeat: there has to be a better way to choose. Later I will comment on how the logistics on the ground are managed as a way to suggest how someone coming…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…e. On average, an American spends 72 minutes a day in a car, getting from place to place. In one sense, a car is just functional arrangement of glass, metal and gears; driving just a matter of getting from place to place. But human beings are hardwired to address questions of meaning. Sacred meanings are conferred when they (are made to) imitate the sacred, according to religion scholar Mircea Eliade. One of the ways to achieve this conferral of…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…made more so here by massive research conducted in an earlier era by a scholar who had planned, but failed, to produce a volume commemorating the 150th anniversary of the organization. The writing of an institutional history, of course, requires that the historian use the institution’s records as his or her major primary source. This can lead to rich material that might otherwise be inaccessible. It can also, and inevitably, push the work in certa…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…ss bitterness, and the valorization of ignorance. It was as if the ruling class decided that the public was too inspired. A hopeful and energized populace was unruly and hard to control. We had, I guess, been a little rebellious, though never so dangerously out-of-control as a Nixon Flu-infected media still likes to pretend. Not long after our first trips to the Moon, American soldiers shot down American students at Kent State. There was the secre…