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Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…e situation.” In other words, the past is not a guide to the future and we cannot call on it to define this particular revolution. 3. We cannot know what new Islamic energies will be unleashed. Until now, Islamic political philosophy has failed to answer the question of why Western-style democracies are more effective than rival political systems. It is entirely feasible that the current waves of change, triggered by Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Sy…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…jects without citizenship, and it also shows how Tibetan refugees in India can get caught in the crossfire of a curious politics between the central government (led by the Nationalist Congress Party) and the state (under the Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP). Earlier, even after his own state’s highest ranking civil servant gave Karmapa “a clean chit,” BJP’s Prem Kumar Dhumal, chief minister of Himachal Pradesh, refused to do so, insisting to the m…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…to define themselves as upper-middle class individuals in a cutthroat and careerist American society, eventually becoming CEOs (of a cable company), presidential campaign organizers, or think tank operatives (who write articles that sound as if they quote, primarily, from Brooks’ Times column). But instead of inspiring figures of human potential, they come off more as cheap foils that Brooks is using to market his theories to the wealthy, literat…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…auxiliary system that by definition could not work to supply Bibles to African Americans. But in doing so, the ABS “also revealed its willingness to embrace the status quo of a ‘separate but equal’ America.” I would say “separate and unequal,” but the point is well taken. Another example comes from the passages in which Fea traces the various permutations the ABS has undergone as an organization. It has been all societies for all people at various…

After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

…eminds me that in rural areas, guns are symbols of independence, of taking care of your own, of putting meat on the table. Country people shy at the thought of giving up their rifles because they feel unheard and neglected by distant power, she says. I believe her; I know her people too. But the same law that buys a venison steak in the Great Northwoods brings a cheap Taurus pistol to Baltimore, to people who also feel unheard and neglected. (Neve…

Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution

By Kriti Sharma

…n this “geophysical intuition” to navigate airplanes, or to explain how it can be summer in Canada and winter in Australia. Many scientific theories—including evolutionary theory—are counter-intuitive, but this is why they are interesting, useful, surprising, and even awe-inspiring. Though design intuition may exist, this is hardly evidence for the existence of an intelligent designer. Axe, to his credit, admits this, so he builds up his main argu…

Ted Haggard on ‘Loveless’ Evangelical Church

By Lauri Lebo

…at the Lincoln Memorial; no one is trying to further a conservative political agenda by calling President Obama’s faith a “perversion,” as Glenn Beck said last week: “You see, it’s all about victims and victimhood; oppressors and the oppressed; reparations, not repentance; collectivism, not individual salvation. I don’t know what that is, other than it’s not Muslim, it’s not Christian. It’s a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ as most Chris…

Witches, Fine… Does Sarah Palin Believe in Religious Tolerance?

By Lisa Webster

…back to the Morningstar Ministries and the World Prayer Center in Colorado Springs and finally to C. Peter Wagner’s so-called New Apostolic Reformation. Here’s the thing, though, and it’s not as Halloween-y as the whole witch-hunting thing sounds. It has been fun, in a sad way, to think that Gov. Palin has so little discernment that she allowed a witch-hunter to lay hands on her (see video below). But that makes the whole thing too easy to dismiss…

RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare

By Kathryn Joyce

…(though incomplete) united religious right front, particularly the evangelical, Catholic, and Mormon alliance against reproductive freedom, women’s and gay rights, and church-state separation. A character in this narrative lesser-known outside of evangelical circles is the woman standing beside Schaeffer: his wife and trusted helpmeet, Edith Schaeffer. Edith was the indefatigable hostess of Schaeffer’s American expatriate community in Switzerland,…

Heresy, Bad Taste, or Capitalist Adventure: Is it Still Pentecostalism?

By Anthea Butler

…ew Apostolic Movement. The Pentecostal movement has been defined in historical, theological, and sociological terms; but to understand its mutations, focusing on Pentecostal practices is key. Pentecostal emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which can also function as a religious practice, are outlined in various New Testament Texts (including I Corinthians 12:8-10, I Corinthians 12:28, and Romans 12:3-8). These gifts/practices include healing…