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Hamburg Shooter’s Manifesto Reveals the Complexity of the Influence of Far-Right Ideologies

By Annika Brockschmidt

…could justify the violence he committed.” The Hamburg shooter’s god is a brutal and cruel one, and while he seems to grapple with this in the beginning, at the end of the book he has come to terms with it. He doesn’t include open Islamophobia in the manifesto, or the classic “White genocide” or “great replacement” conspiracy theories that we’ve come to expect from far-right shooters’ manifestos, yet his writing shows, once again, that the ways in…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…refer Ajwa dates, myself, [faux cough], especially when I’m on holiday in Musandam.’ Musandam is Arabic for ‘the Hamptons.’ As for actual dates (of the non-palm tree variety), as long as you ask her out from a distance—like ten feet from your mouth. Non-dictatorial Mubaraks (congratulations) to the guy who can get a girl to go out with him for not-coffee (he’s fasting) by asking her out while covering his mouth with one hand and using his other ha…

Post-Zionism or Post-Judaism?

By Brian Britt

…Zionism. Restless, directed by Amos Kollek (son of the longtime mayor of Jerusalem), depicts the reunion of Moshe, a down-and-out Israeli poet in New York, and Tzach, the son he abandoned as a baby, now an elite sniper discharged from the Israeli Defense Forces. The Zohan, starring Adam Sandler (who also co-wrote and produced the film), resembles such willfully vulgar satires as Talladega Nights and Superbad. A renowned soldier and lover, Zohan gi…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…ng cultural narrative. In fact, the “rise of the nones” story is obscuring news of a different, equally fascinating trend in the world of religion. While small in total number, the fastest growing religious population in North America today (after Islam) is NOT the “nones” It’s “other religion,” a category that includes anything from Baha’i and Taosim to Wicca and Zoroastrianism. Part of the growth in “other religion” segment is being fueled by re…

Are We Entering the End Times for Mainline Seminaries?

By Elesha Coffman

…time of its announced closing, but it was losing $133,000 a month. Andover-Newton’s campus alone was assessed at $43 million, but trustees deemed its future as a free-standing institution unsustainable. Rich endowments can stave off the inevitable so long that, when closure comes, it feels sudden rather than inevitable. At the board meeting that determined Episcopal Divinity School’s fate, the (non-voting) student and faculty representatives entre…

News Flash: God Has Revised the Laws of Physics

By Paul Wallace

…must be some error. Because otherwise everything changes. We shall need a new physics. A new cosmology. New understandings of past and future, of cause and effect. Then shortly and surely, new theologies. Perhaps he is right. But I have my doubts about the “shortly and surely” part, because cause-and-effect and other human intuitions about the world have long been challenged within physics. And, with the exception of a small handful of thinkers s…

Religious Leaders Urge Obama to Condemn Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill at Prayer Breakfast

By Sarah Posner

…aper.” Moses displayed lists of suspected homosexuals published in Ugandan newspapers with headlines like “Top Homos” and “Homo Terror.” People lost their jobs and received death threats as a result of their names being published, he said. Two former evangelical powerbrokers who were familiar with The Family spoke at the press conference: Frank Schaeffer, whose father Francis Schaeffer was a key figure in the religious right, and Bishop Carlton Pe…

One More Day until Marriage Equality vote in New York?

By Peter Montgomery

…reportedly seeking broader religious exemptions akin to those contained in New Hampshire’s marriage equality law. CNN and other news outlets have reported that the governor can extend the legislative session beyond today’s deadline and has said that he would do so. Today, a Buffalo television station reported that the marriage vote would likely take place tomorrow; it said the governor and Republicans were still working on reaching agreement on ot…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in these times require special pastoral and cultural attention around the world.” (New Ways Ministry notes that the pope’s negative comments about “gender theory” and “ideological colonization” are “encouraging bishops around the globe to speak similarly when marriage equality or transgender rights are discussed.) Brian Brown of the U.S. National Organization for Marriage and the World Congress of Families attended the march, which had also drawn…

The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he fact of forced conversions—in a number of places, but especially in the New World). Next, Pope Pius V created the Congregation of the Index in 1571; it was designed to deal with texts, and became interested in scientific works, as I have said, mainly because their authors were believed to have displayed underlying Protestant sympathies. According to the editors, this new Office represented a Church’s conscientious response to a new “epistemolog…