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Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured

By Henry Jenkins

…torturer, her tormentor; yet in the process, she has been discovering her contact with the machine, relying on what the machine knows (such as the weight of the gun with a blank vs. with a bullet) to survive the way her father deploys what he knows about her. It feels like we are witnessing the personal trauma which might ultimately set the cylons against the humans: originating not in the inhumanity of the machine, as we were first presented wit…

White Supremacy and Orthodox Christianity: A Dangerous Connection Rears Its Head in Charlottesville

By Katherine Kelaidis

…egative Facebook and Google reviews and now the priest’s son was trying to contact them. I reached out to the priest’s son as well. His reply read, There was a massive misunderstanding about our parish on the internet spread by people who have never been to it. I reached out to these people to correct that issue, not to talk about any conspiracies within Orthodoxy in general. Our parish is not Neo-Nazi or Neo-Confederate. And despite some very que…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…an Christianity” in which faith is a private matter and does not come into contact with politics in the public sphere. David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam, authors of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, wrote in a New York Times op-ed last summer that what makes the Tea Party movement so unpopular to a large segment of the population is the conservative impulse to mix religion and politics. Americans, they suggest, oppose the mi…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…k marriage equality. Fairfax Media reported that the Archdiocese of Sydney contacted corporate CEOs who have publicly spported the Australian Marriage Equality (AME) campaign urging them to back off. Archdiocese of Sydney business manager Michael Digges previously wrote to corporations featured in the AME advertisements to outline his “grave concern” about their support for marriage equality, and appearing to threaten a boycott. “You may be aware…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…vacuous logic of fatwas, or legal pronouncements. Episode titles include: “Contact Lenses: Forbidden!” and the inscrutable, “About Using Carrots.” The skits are based on real fatwa texts issued by ‘questionable’ scholars. Each video is preceded by a disclaimer that the series does not mock Islam but exposes Muslim clerics “who are prone to criticism.” And the video is then followed by links to the original texts of the fatwas. Obviously, the seri…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…ing dangers and burdens from which Niebuhr was far removed. Niebuhr had no contact with Graham’s audiences, and by the 1950s he faced little prospect of confronting angry crowds of any kind. But even in his rarefied world of seminaries and lectureships, Niebuhr did not take the risk that he prescribed for Graham, that of challenging his group to interrogate its racism. Asking white liberals in the 1950s to confront their racism would not have gone…

Making Amends

By Amina Wadud

…ns, I must begin to make amends. Actually my list is not that long, once I contact my immediate family. This harks back to two things, in “making the will before hajj” one is also making plans for some kind of finality. If not physically then at least metaphorically. That is probably why so many people actually wish to die at hajj. This is the place and time where one’s life should come before one’s eyes and then washed as if a tsunami of purifica…

Degrees of Separation

By Amina Wadud

…) the library and the office. This means that women need to have access or contact with the men’s side or the main section for many of the functional matters of just being in the mosque, let alone iftar. On the women’s side are classrooms — and these were overflowing with women and children when I came for iftar last Sunday. I can see a kitchen door to the outside when I enter the courtyard and parking lot. It is in between the women’s entrance an…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…ransmitted diseases, which she asserts are transmitted from “skin-to-skin” contact. She insists that condoms don’t protect “all this extra area at the base of the penis and the scrotum” and “all the woman’s area.” All of this, of course, is a lecture for abstinence. “Nobody ever died from not having sex,” says Miral. Transforming Cities for Christ Welch says his pastors’ councils—replicated in a handful of other cities in Texas, as well as Sacrame…

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…talk much about the impending end of the world with the Stracks and their contact ended in 2008. Nothing in the Strack’s house (and nothing they said to their neighbors or friends or family, at least as far as has been revealed to the press thus far) indicates why the Stracks thought the apocalypse loomed near in September 2014. There has been no mention of fear of a terrorist attack or a nuclear attack, of Jesus’ return or the book of Revelation…