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Are They Jewish Bones? Battle for Separation of Synagogue & State in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…e graveyard be left intact and the ER built in another place. In any other Western country, such a confrontation between secular and religious authorities would have ended with the government getting its way, and with religious leaders girding their loins for the next church-state confrontation. But the Israeli parliamentary system renders the government vulnerable to pressure from its many coalition partners. These coalition partners are rewarded…

Martin Luther & the Mass Media

By Svend White

…ombard us today in our increasingly polarized times. A recent episode from Western political life was for me especially reminiscent of the uglier side of the debates of Luther’s time. A Swedish newspaper published a political cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad worthy of the vile anti-Semitic tracts that have blighted Christian-Jewish relations for centuries. Not so long ago, Jews were routinely portrayed in popular European culture as bizarre semi-hu…

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…t to the tenets of natural history, creationism retained the upper hand in Western thought until the mid-1800s. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed the terms of this debate by supplying a materialistic account of how species evolve. Every offspring differs from its parents and siblings, Darwin argued. With limited resources, only the fittest of these offspring survive to propagate their variations. In this manner,…

Roll Over Lenin: Russian Church Elects New Patriarch

By Konstantin Petrenko

…an ally in the new Patriarch. In a recent interview, Kirill criticized the Western interpretation of human rights that allows for what he sees as immoral behavior. “Movements are emerging that support the right to homosexual marriage, drug use, prostitution, and euthanasia. We cannot allow for democracy in our society to be measured by such criteria,” he said. In recent years, Orthodox groups have fought against public displays of homosexuality in…

Legalizing Polygamy: An Argument

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…ghts or protections from the law because their marriages are illegal under Western laws. Muslim polygynous marriages differ from the FLDS community’s in that there are a finite number of wives allowed and Muslim communities are not separated from Western society through the use of compounds, as FLDS communities sometimes are. However, both of these communities can find themselves trapped by the law if they no longer want to be a part of the polyga…

RDPulpit: Ahmadinejad Gives Another Victory to the Israeli Right

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…he context of domestic Iranian politics. Playing to anti-Semitism and anti-Western attitudes may be his only hope as he runs for reelection on a failure to deliver the end of poverty and powerlessness promised during the last campaign. What makes less sense is why some of his fellow Muslims have not denounced this anti-Semitism more vigorously. The creation of the State of Israel was a product of a Jewish nationalist movement that arose at the end…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed boasting, “I know that the materialistic Western mind cannot grasp… how this works.” Such savvy, so removed from MIT or the complexity theorists at the Santa Fe Institute, runs in tension with Bousquet’s master narrative that links scientific war-making with elite scientific fads. But works like Olivier Roy’s Globalized Islam show how network-consciousness has infiltrated contemporary Muslim cultures through infor…

Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…am and were willing to adapt their religious practice in order to fit into Western society. In the end, Caldwell does not delve into the social, economic, and migratory conditions that form the experience of many Muslims in Europe. An understanding of Muslims in Europe today cannot be achieved through facile analyses of a monolithic Islam; but instead in the unpacking of several important assertions that tend to conflate Islam, immigration, and so…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…that only an American would be concerned with. But Kulah thought they were promoting his document. The other thing, regarding President Obama: do you remember when Gene Robinson was invited to be part of his [inauguration], there was a lot of outcry from the American conservatives? One thing that was interesting was that [Rev. David Runnion-Bareford] the leader of the Association for Church Renewal, wrote a letter to Obama saying this will be seen…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…would be devastating for the children of our nation and for the future of Western civilization,” he told Christianity Today in 2005, “for us to say that homosexual unions or lesbian unions or any alteration of that has the moral equivalence of a heterosexual, monogamous marriage.” At the pinnacle of Haggard’s power, he moved seamlessly between the firebrand populism of evangelical believers and the institutional halls of fundamentalist realpoliti…