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AP: “Bush: Soldiers Live Out Gospel”

By Ira Chernus

…residents give Easter messages every year, just as they give Christmas and Thanksgiving and Rosh Hashanah messages. It’s a time-honored ritual. How much does the president actually contribute to the text of such a message, rather than merely reading what a staff writer has worked up for the occasion? We can answer that question for presidents long gone, once their archives are opened. I know that President Eisenhower, for example, took these messa…

God in the Inauguration: JFK, Bush, and Obama

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…to deliver the invocation. While Warren’s selection and his prayer raise a number of interesting and difficult questions about the relation between religion and politics, there are other religious aspects and implications of the inaugural ceremony that have yet to receive sufficient attention. Specifically, we would do well to pay attention to the religious dimension of the president’s inaugural address itself. A helpful place to begin is with soc…

E-vangelism: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Blog-Ranking

By Pauline Hope Cheong

…lture and anchoring cyberfaith back to local parishes. There are a growing number of social networking sites that have been constructed to incorporate religious themes, and that regulate online behaviors to specifically comply with interpretations of God’s word. These “faith-based MySpaces” allow users to exchange prayer requests, share favorite praise music, faith-related videos and photographs, and to find potential significant others. But users…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…Before Halloween, before the presidential election and well before Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade comes the first, albeit relatively kind and gentle, salvo in America’s “War on Christmas.” The Reverend Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association is proud to offer holiday trinkets sure to become a sacred hand-me-down in Christmas-embattled families all across the nation; a new Christmas button, and a glossy sticker, emblazoned with the slogan: “I…

J Street: Mainstream on Foreign Policy, But Are the Rabbis Listening?

By Sarah Posner

…ional Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace, urged moving beyond “Thanksgiving and recycling projects.” It’s true; discussions about interfaith dialogue are frequently dull, unproductive, and anodyne. But the rabbinical discussion had a real urgency to it. As some of the interfaith panel participants acknowledged, perhaps intrafaith dialogue is just, if not more, essential. With the Brit Tzedek merger, J Street is going to be right in the…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…

Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

By Amina Wadud

…d inside the mosque one day, I came across Bab raqm tis’wa thamanin, “door number 89,” literally. The door with no name. Facing the mosque at door number one, bab maalik ’abd-al-’Aziz, this door is off to the left. Looking at the mosque floor plan, this is where the building structure of the mosque is deepest. This is “the women’s section.” I noticed as I was walking through the first floor toward door number one, the kings’ door, on my way out af…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…ps, dresses, and scarves. I feel like I need one more scarf. Not for sheer number, but for style; there are so many styles, and one has to decide what works best individually. I have my long prayer scarves that do not need any pins to be neatly kept in place. But they are really long, and I wish I had at least one as neat, but shorter. I want to be hands-free and secure at the same time. I have long rectangular shapes that get draped, and I will u…

Why the ‘Confession & Redemption’ Path is Unlikely to Help Falwell Recover from Sex Scandal

By Chrissy Stroop

…aders caught up in sex scandals, and most commentators predicted this same cheap grace for Falwell when he was recently forced to take an indefinite leave of absence from Liberty after posting a picture of himself with his pants unzipped, his arm around the waist of a similarly (un)dressed woman who was not his wife, and a glass of something that looked suspiciously like alcohol in his hand. According to two experts on evangelicals and gender, how…

Playing Hooky: Will Boycott of Catholic Church Spur Reform?

By Nathan Schneider

…l that divides us, whatever it is. The bread and wine we use is materially cheap and unsatisfying; what we experience in them is supposed to come from a wealth beyond. In the presence of God, and among people of different races, classes, and opinions, the mass should nourish us in our common humanity. So whom exactly is one harming by boycotting, by staying home in solitary prayer? The earthly Church might miss your money in the collection—that’s…