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Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…lieve in transcendent ideals, whether they’re articulated in the religious language of God or secular language of justice. Religious cultures help people create meaning within the world, but religion isn’t the only thing that can do that. You have secular people who live very purpose-driven, meaningful lives. So up until modernity, many people experienced purpose to their lives thanks to religious systems of meaning, but then with secularism came…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…en fruit bowl, a few artificial flowers, half a bottle of Sprite, and some phone chargers. The two smaller images feature the cluttered interior of a walk-in closet with a bunch of clothes and a faint family portrait on the wireframe shelf, and something that will be familiar to anyone with a newborn child: a rocking seat next to a pink and yellow baby mat. With the caption “A Home Revealed,” the audience is left to make sense of these household p…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…hip that was literally 40 years in the making. Too bad I had already made plans to move to California and once again I would be the prodigal sister. Still we made up for lost time and had a relationship like none I have ever had as an adult. I believe I already mentioned that my second of three grandsons was born on the 22nd of December. We shared photos over Facebook that day and the next laughed about her car getting stuck in the DC blizzard on…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e Care Act, and is expected to be a key figure in the yet-to-be-announced plan to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. And Price is no friend to the gays. According to LGBT media watchdog GLAAD’s “Trump Accountability Project,” the Georgia Republican scored a zero (out of 100) on the Human Rights Campaign’s Congressional Equality Scorecard, voted against repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and in favor of amending the Constitution to ban marriage equali…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…g with regard to religious practice in particular. Both internet and smart phone users were more likely to participate in religious or spiritual groups than were people who do not regularly use digital media. By “participate,” the researchers were referring to physical, geographically located, face-to-face engagement: attending meetings, volunteering, taking leadership roles, and donating money. In all of these categories, participation was higher…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…was standing by the door like a “Walmart greeter.” Robert Reeder, from Maryland, also pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building, and was sentenced to three months in jail. He was filmed grabbing and pulling a police officer to the ground, but the Department of Justice declined to pursue assault charges. Afterwards, he tried to portray himself as an accidental tourist and the judge called him “disingenuous.” Reed…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…, I knew this 18-year-old Mormon kid. Real good kid. He said [fill in the blank], so [fill in the blank] must be doctrine, and Mitt Romney must believe [fill in the blank] too. And because of [fill in the blank], we should be worried about a Romney presidency. Try it out with any other religion or ethnic group, and see how that sounds. Garry Wills and his readers at the NYRB may indeed have plenty to worry about from a Romney presidency. But the b…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…re he arrived as part of a visit to bolster regional ties. He left for Thailand on Monday. … His allies in the House of Representatives, who control the votes there, have relegated a bill that seeks to protect the rights of gays and lesbians to the back burner, arguing that it was not a priority. The bill would have legalized same-sex civil marriage in the Philippines, where the Catholic Church wields substantial political influence. The church su…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…ainst Planned Deportation of Lesbian Nigerian Asylum Seeker Activists are planning a Friday protest against plans by the Home Office to deport 46-year old Apata Adejumoke, who claims she was subject to violence and her girlfriend was murdered in Nigeria and that she fears for her life if she is returned there. Anti-gay violence and official persecution has been on the rise since passage of a harsh anti-gay law in January. Amnesty International Pan…

The Banality of Bernie

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…-keeping, coupled with a mastery of spin. (Squillari suggests that Madoff planted several pieces of evidence in his office in order to be arrested on his own timetable and on his own terms). The most haunting line in the article is a description of the state of this office on December 12, 2008, the day after Madoff’s arrest: “It was filled with investigators, whose first act was to cut the wires to the paper shredders.” Madoff was a man for whom a…