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The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…exuberance. Sorta like skydiving tandem before following up my lessons for free-fall skydiving. That way I can focus on the details I am trying to learn now and be better prepared. As far as umrah, the lesser pilgrimage, goes; it stands to reason that people can visit the ka’abah any time of the year. And so it is. There are still the same ihram prescriptions. There are still certain rites that should be performed. But unless a journey to Makkah c…

Dubious Diversity at America Mag

By Patricia Miller

…” was “the best thing we ever did.” Alvaré was the spokesperson for the pro-life committee from 1990 until 2000, where she frequently testified before Congress on behalf of the bishops’ efforts to limit access to abortion. She was also a leading proponent of efforts to delegitimize U.S. family planning funding, and contraception use in general, by making unsubstantiated claims such as “when you give money to groups that not only promote contracept…

The ‘Common Sense’ Argument Against Marriage Equality

By Kate Blanchard

…er and their children.” (The infertile, asexual, post-menopausal, and child-free by choice need not apply.) Anderson echoes precisely what same-sex proponents have been saying all along with regard to children: that the desire to marry is in fact a desire to be more traditional. As Frank Bruni put it, gays and lesbians are no longer cultural rebels; “We’re aspirants to tradition, communicating shared values and asserting a fundamentally conservati…

Palin Bus Tour Like Gideon’s Fleece

By Anthea Butler

…ng off her day was a visit to Trump Tower, a monument to the Donald, whose comb-over was perfectly coiffed as he took pictures with Palin and Piper before having a dinner at a chain pizza parlor, La Famiglia, in New York City. Palin asked for the meeting with Trump, and since he was fresh off of a meeting with pastors arranged by televangelist Paula White, one might begin to think that Trump is becoming a conservative Christian power broker. Wheth…

Trump’s SOTU Address Was a Christian Nationalist Dog Whistle

By Andrew L. Seidel

…McConnell — thank you, Mitch — and his colleagues in the Senate, we have recommended 180 new judges to uphold our Constitution as written. This includes Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.” Those aren’t Trump judges, they’re McConnell/Federalist judges. And they’re the ones who will make Trump’s religious freedom subtext a legal reality. It’s also worth noting that immediately following this nod to Christian nationalism Trump claimed to be “defendin…

Right Wing Suspicion of Experts is Martin Luther’s Fault

By Jonathan Malesic

Instead of opening presents first thing Christmas morning, I opened the New York Times. Inside was a column by well-intentioned liberal Nicholas Kristof headlined, “Pastor, Am I a Christian?” The Wringing of the Hands is not a holiday tradition in my family, so I turned away without reading it. I returned to it in the New Year, after the Times published a slew of letters in response—letters debating, of all things, Christian doctrine. In the orig…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…nd certainly any responsible reporter—could see that the excerpt from Reyes-Chow’s book In Defense of Kindness did not in any way condone violence. The pastor’s point Rev. John Edgerton, a 2009 graduate of the UCC-affiliated Chicago Divinity School, in many ways epitomizes the history and direction of the UCC. He came to Oak Park from previous pastorates in Minnesota and at Boston’s Old South Church, whose origins date to the early days of the Mas…

Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

By Mary E. Hunt

…d that killing people who act badly only results in more evil; charging sky-high interest rates offends the common good. Male-only deacons (priests, bishops, cardinals, and popes while we’re at it) contradict postmodern norms of gender equality and limit the pool of those who are enabled and empowered to engage in ministry. Revelation provides direction toward increased justice; it’s not a checklist of historical givens. One cannot help but notice…

Enjoy the Kosher Collard Greens, But Understand This: Hebrew Israelites Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Jewish Community

By Andre E. Key, Walter Isaac, and Tamar Manasseh

…margins of the culture to its center, the Atlanta emcee was putting the hip-hop community on notice that Southern rappers had their own style. They didn’t need to imitate the content, norms, and styles of their East Coast and West Coast colleagues, because they had a distinct and culturally-rooted approach to the genre. Similarly, in the wake of public outcries about antisemitism and religious animosity, Andre3000’s message to the world of hip-hop…

Not Cause, But Effect: Jared Loughner and Tea Party Rhetoric

By Finbarr Curtis

…ment (or the expenditure of tax dollars). As Loughner explains, algebra is free. Charging a student for an algebra class amounts to selling a free product and is a scam. If the world worked properly, grammar and currency would convey real value without distortion. But because of government practices of mind control and currency fraud, they do not. As a way out of these misrepresentations, individuals need to learn to dream, a practice that he lab…