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Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…r, and as a chaplain he’d been trained to always keep bottled water in his car. Much of the work chaplains do is simply about talking to people and taking care of basic needs: hydration, warmth, companionship. Chaplains are not there to proselytize or convert, and many times, religious conviction comes second to a ministry of presence to the grieving and worried. The Federation of Fire Chaplains explains on their web site that they are “non-denomi…

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

By Susannah Crockford

…the Chamber and sitting in Mike Pence’s chair. Colt drove with two others carrying a cache of weapons in the car including a Glock 43 pistol, two magazines of ammunition, a handheld taser stun gun, knives, gas mask, body armor, an expandable baton, walkie-talkies, and bear mace. He entered the building and repeatedly said “let’s get to the Senate, bro!” A Facebook post by a collaborator said Colt was “ready for the boogaloo,” and depicted him lyi…

It’s Marketin’ Time!

By Luis Amate Perez

…e. As he told it, one day Frank and a partner “did statistics on Christian numbers” and decided that it was a huge market to tap into. According to Frank, in their first year alone (2008), they did over $250,000 in sales, and the J.D.T. line is only growing. In February the New York Times published R.M. Schneiderman’s article “Flock Is Now a Fight Team in Some Ministries” about the “growing number of evangelical churches that have embraced mixed m…

The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion

By Andreea Nica

…ntacting them and not a single one of them has reached out to me either by phone or Facebook to see how I am. There were a good 5 people in that friend group that I thought I was very close to, but since I stopped attending Church events, none of them have contacted me though I know they are all still involved in the Church. Heather describes her coming out as a nonbeliever to family as “difficult and still a work-in-progress” and further explains…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…e else wondered if it might be seven days considering that seven is a holy number, or forty, the same amount of time Noah was forced to sail around with a boatload of animals. When those deadlines passed, another narrative took shape. What happened was a test. God knew that believers would be mocked when He failed to return on the assigned date. Would believers hold firm or would they allow the jeers of the world to weaken their resolve? The Lord…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…This went on for four years and then suddenly, in 2006, she picked up the phone. We began a relationship 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…

AAA: Like a Good Neighbor

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…perks. My partner has a gold card with her name on it as well. The account number on both cards is the same. Years ago, when we signed up for the cards with the venerable roadside assistance company AAA, the woman at the counter smiled sweetly and never blinked an eye when we asked for the “family” plan. We were granted a generous discount under the family plan over buying two individual plans. The American Family Association is just hearing about…

Scott Roeder’s Religion

By Sarah Posner

…raphed a piece of paper on the dashboard of Roeder’s car: It contained the phone number of Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue’s senior policy advisor, who served two years in prison for conspiring to bomb abortion clinics in 1988. Roeder also told me that Sullenger was present at the lunch with Newman where they discussed “justifiable” homicide, and that Newman had given Roeder the autographed copy of his book just three months before Roeder kille…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…in Spy (20th Century Fox). Sure, Spy is about an everyday woman—Melissa McCarthy as the tragicomic Susan Cooper—in a feel-good, world-hopping, butt-kicking romp. Are you just what you look like? No! What if you’re not tall, fit, and narrowly sexy? Who cares! Do nice gals finish behind even nice guys? Nice gals aren’t always nice! Why are Pakistanis so good-looking? God knows! Why don’t European police departments seem more prepared for the numero…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…further why even when so few Muslims do resort to violent actions, a good number of their co-religionists are reluctant to entirely dismiss them. Indeed, many more Muslims protested peacefully against “The Innocence of Muslims” than did violently, even though their numbers together were still incredibly small. In his introduction to Sufism for Non-Sufis?, University of Southern California Professor Sherman Jackson notes that we cannot separate Is…