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Does the Secularism Movement Need to Check into Rehab?

By Sarah Posner

…ning segment, in which Jacques and I discuss the provocative statement in his book that the secularism movement needs to “check into rehab”:…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…State University, describes the hybridized practices adopted by some Asian Americans. He sees how Vietnamese Americans create home shrines that blend the traditional—a single photo of an ancestor beside assorted fruits—with a touch of “Americanization,” such as adding significant ornaments or a photo montage that personalizes the shrine. Meanwhile, second generation Korean American churches practice a distinct form of simultaneous spoken prayer, w…

Arguments That Caste Protections ‘Unjustly Target’ South Asians Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny

By Pranay Somayajula and Nikhil Mandalaparthy

…ecause casteism isn’t limited to South Asians—the largest survey of Indian American attitudes to date, which found that 5 percent of Indian Americans reported facing caste discrimination in the past year, noted that “caste discrimination is a surprisingly equal opportunity offense,” and that “Indians, non-Indians, and people of both categories are almost equally to blame.” This fear mongering is nothing new—similar talking points have repeatedly b…

Politics in a Fallen World: Lying, Fact-Checkers, and the Future of Civilization

By Michael Schulson

…g feels native to the internet age. It’s hard to imagine something like it existing even thirty years ago. There certainly were no fact-checkers during the period of the things that I was working on. Aside from the Garden of Eden, [The Devil Wins] is not about any particular lie. The issue of determining if what someone said is a lie doesn’t really come up as an issue in ethical discussions, for the most part, in that whole tradition. It’s really…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…department. Ramadan + deportation: Bonus points on Pakistan International Airlines. Which, like fasting breath (when you don’t eat for a long time, your breath starts to kick), nobody wants to get near. See also safe distance. Namauzea: Namaz is the Persian word for ‘prayer,’ and is traditionally used by all the peoples who were introduced to Islam by Persians or Persophones, which is kind of like a talking cat. (Think Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset wit…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…all its ecstasies and disappointments, it is a journey to faith that began with the loss of it. [We are grateful to the author, editors, and publishers of All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim for permission to reprint this excerpt. —The Eds.]…

Check Your Caller ID, Jesus Is Calling

By Sarah Posner

…Greg Laurie focused on the quest for a spiritual awakening, and why every American needs to be alert to it. America has enemies, after all, like North Korea and Iran. Laurie’s praying for another Jesus movement; to not pray for our country, he maintained, is a sin. “We can pray authoritatively and confidently,” he said confidently. Jesus is calling our country, Laurie said. He asked the audience: if you saw Jesus’ name in the caller ID on your…

Protesting the Pope’s (Not Yet Released) Environmental Encyclical? Check Your Doctrine

By Kevin M. Lowe

…f Catholic social teaching are intertwined, both Pope John Paul II and the American bishops included within their understanding of global ecology not only the intrinsic worth of nonhuman nature, but also social justice and this sense of a universal commonwealth. A Catholic environmental ethic, the American bishops said, needed at the same time to include attention to over-consumption, inequality, and poverty of all kinds. We can expect that Franci…

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Cheese State Reality Check: On The Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel

By Daniel Schultz

…171 free blacks were listed in the 1860 census, and just over 1,000 Native Americans, out of a total population of 775,000. The Republican-dominated government tried to keep it that way, with bills aimed at limiting black migration to the state. I don’t mean to slander the early GOP, or the founders of the Wisconsin Idea; their politics really were radical for their day. My point is simply that it’s easy to push radical ideas in a homogeneous soci…

Fact Check: Is the Evangelical Youth-Inspired Great ‘Awokening’ Just Around the Corner?

By Chrissy Stroop

Early in George W. Bush’s second term, not long after I started my Ph.D. work at Stanford, I met a cousin of mine in San Francisco. We had spent a lot of time together in early childhood in central Indiana, before her father went to seminary and then became a staff pastor at a large evangelical church in Solano County. Now I was the one living in California, and she was back to visit. Remembering this cousin as someone I could have “deep” convers…