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A Writer’s Murder Raises Fears of Death-by-Decree

By Shalom Goldman

…to the question of some of his followers regarding their responsibility vis-à-vis the Azeri journalist Rafiq Taqi’s writings, is as follows: “such a person with the foresaid confessions, if he is a born Muslim, he is an apostate, and if he is an unbeliever, it is a case of insulter of the Prophet and in any event, assuming such confessions, killing him would be necessary for whoever has access to him, and the person in charge of the mentioned pape…

BYU Skinny Jean Controversy: Sexism, Sizeism, or Standards?

By Joanna Brooks

…and who bears the brunt of the enforcement. Beginning in November, the BYU-Idaho testing center (responsible for administering academic examinations for many classes, especially large General Education courses) started interpreting and enforcing the school’s dress and grooming standards as a ban on “skinny jeans.” A flyer was posted by university employees instructing students who felt that “skinny jeans” might be permissible to “go home and pray…

Why Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?

By Salman Hameed

…ientists have also lent their authority to these claims. For example, Abdel-Baset al-Sayeed of the Egyptian National Research Centre claims that Mecca is a “zero-magnetism zone.” In fact, he goes on to say, “That’s why if someone travels to Mecca or lives there, he lives longer, is healthier, and is less affected by the earth’s gravity. You get charged with energy.” All of these claims are complete bunk. For example, even if one assumes that there…

Catholics Fire Back at Bishops’ Anti-Gay Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…strategies. On Wednesday, spokesmen for Catholics for Equality, a lay LGBT-equality group (full disclosure: I’ve done some work for Catholics for Equality in the past, though none since I became associate editor at RD), held a press conference to talk about this week’s gathering of bishops, and called the “religious liberty” campaign a way to distract attention from the yawning gap between American Catholics’ relatively tolerant views on LGBT iss…

Duggarmania, Stripped of Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ing to the report, almost crashed the “TODAYMoms” section of the program’s website, due to the volume of comments) mostly had to do with whether another pregnancy was healthy for mother or child, and whether people are capable of actually parenting 20 children. The Duggars, though, are just (in their mind) following God’s will. That’s their choice, obviously, but activist right-wing Christian organizations hold them up as paragons of not just Chri…

Pro-Life Rift in Ohio: Boon or Bust for Pro-Choice Movement?

By Katie Toth

…hoice organizers, where pro-choice senators are outnumbered by a ratio of 2-to-1. “It’s the strategy they disagree about, it’s not the goal,” she notes. “This is really… an indicator that in the last election, large anti-choice majorities were elected to the Ohio house and senate. People who want to outlaw abortion in our state have seen a real opportunity.” Gonidakis believes that Ohio has had a “banner year for the pro-life movement… we’re bless…

WikiLeaks Strikes the Vatican, a Camel in the Pews, and Luke Skywalker Tolerance

By Michael J. Altman

…njured, though the camel will not be part of the Christmas pageant when it opens this weekend. A donkey and sheep will still take part. Elsewhere in Florida, a dispute in Boca Raton is raising questions about whether or not a menorah is a religious symbol. But the Loudon County Courthouse in Virginia stands out as a beacon of winter solstice tolerance. The courthouse grounds features ten different displays ranging from Nativities to atheist displa…

‘Personhood’ Agenda is Theocracy

By Carlton Veazey

…elieve. In my view, we have a solemn responsibility to find balance in the complex area of moral decision-making around reproductive choices. Regarding abortion, I respect the value of potential human life while remaining firmly committed to women’s right to act according to their conscience in a decision about a pregnancy. This is a view held by many religious denominations and millions of people of faith. It is no secret that personal religious…

Praying to the Zombie Jesus: The Spirituality of Horror

By W. Scott Poole

…on the level of simplistic parody, barbs hurled at Christianity by its less-than-cultured despisers. You would be wrong. Zombie Jesus has provoked some serious spiritual and existential reflection. John Morehead’s blog Theofantastique has looked at Zombie Jesus as an image of spiritual reflection and even suggested that evangelical Christianity might learn a thing or two from the imagery. Matt Cardin has connected the zombie to Thomas Ligotti’s re…

I Would Also Like a Splinter Scouting Organization, Please

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…lical Protestant and conservative Catholic Christians in the United States.” So here’s my question, as a mom of sons: Where’s the radical sinister lefty non-body-shaming Judy Blume-reading version of the Boy Scouts? Can we please get on this?…