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Tokyo Governor Says Tsunami is Divine Punishment—Religious Groups Ignore Him

By Levi McLaughlin

…are likely to look askance at explicit expressions of religious faith. The number of negative responses is particularly high among younger people in Japan; according to research by Tokyo professor of religion Nobutaka Inoue, only ten percent of college students in Japan will affirm that they are religious. Given those numbers, one might conclude that Japan is not a religious country. But Governor Ishihara’s outburst and the rapid response by relig…

The Leadership Failure of Park51

By Hussein Rashid

…an Islamic community center, but to build one near the former site of the Twin Towers. But while I support such a hypothetical project, I do not yet support this particular one. The New York Times ran its first major piece on the project in December 2009, but over the next six months no media strategy was developed. The fact that the organizers of Park51 did not see Islamophobia as a concern when announcing this proposal is disturbing. It reinfor…

Abuser Priests Were “Off Duty,” Lawyer Argues

By Patricia Miller

…e of the nation’s highest profile abuse suits of the 1990s occurred in his Twin Cities diocese. Flynn, Minnesota Public Radio reports, “led the national response to the clergy abuse scandal in 2002 and helped write the U.S. Catholic Church’s policy on abuse.” He said he couldn’t remember if he ever received a list of abusers from his predecessor, if he investigated cases of abuse, or why he never released the list of 33 priests “credibly accused”…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…n “inclusion, justice, and equality.” The organization’s resistance to the twin evils of anti-gay sentiment and racialized anti-Muslim bigotry has at once preceded and been magnified by the November 2016 election. LGBT Muslims have focused mainly on domestic challenges, aiming to capitalize on a new mode of grassroots intersectional politics galvanized by visionaries like Bernie Sanders and the leadership of coalitions like Black Lives Matter, Fig…

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Cheese State Reality Check: On The Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel

By Daniel Schultz

…more polarized as a nation than I can ever remember. We are plagued by the twin evils of hate and fear, combined with violent rhetoric that threatens to fracture our society. We distrust and demonize one another and point fingers instead of extending a hand. Young black lives are criminalized, immigrant families are ripped apart and rounded up, refugees seeking a better life are banned based on religion, women continue to be subject to violence an…

Christianity as American Horror Story in Joyce Carol Oates’ Newest Novel

By Spencer Dew

…ent, about acts of terror (during the narrative, planes are flown into the Twin Towers by God-inspired men), about violence and death and life’s purpose. It is impossible not to begin reading this book without the expectation that it will be a big novel not merely in terms of length but in depth and range. It seems, again, particularly weird that the issue around which Oates would construct a story of religion’s essential incommensurableness would…

Bannon’s “Alt-Facts” Satan

By Spencer Dew

…ms President Trump repeatedly insists he saw cheering in New Jersey as the Twin Towers fell, for instance. Likewise, we’d have no recourse but to take the President at his word that two people were shot at a political event in Chicago, or that a protestor at one of his own rallies was actually an agent of ISIS. When commentators on the right cautioned, during the campaign, that Trump’s statements should be taken seriously but not literally, they w…

Week in Religion: More Praying in Texas, First Hindu Chaplain, Modest Muslim Weightlifter

By Michael J. Altman

…rting to the Roman Catholic Church. From the “No that’s not a movie” file: Twin brother Franciscan friars died within hours of each other on the same day at the age of 92. The American Catholic Council is hosting a conference of liberal Catholics in Detroit this weekend. Army Captain Pratima Dharm is the first Hindu chaplain in the U.S. military. An Oregon faith-healing couple were convicted of felony criminal mistreatment when they chose to seek…

The Flaws in the Latest Anti-Gay Islamic Theology

By Omar Sarwar

American LGBT Muslims continue to face the twin challenge of resisting anti-Muslim bigotry in the LGBT community and resisting homophobia in the mainstream American Muslim community. But there is good news: polls suggest that the American Muslim community is becoming increasingly accepting of homosexuality. This has provoked a cultural backlash on the part of socially conservative Muslims who see absolutely no room for same-sex love and relations…

The Belly of the Beast: NYC’s Shiny New Transit Hub Is All Wrong for the 9/11 Site

By Carolyn Bratnober

…l says to all others, “You only wish you could be part of this.” The proud twin towers of the World Trade Center proclaimed the dominance of New York City’s finance industry. But what we remember is the horrifying day all the unsuspecting people in those towers were attacked—and the number of New York’s finest who lost their lives helping people to safety. This is a city that values sticking up for one another. We don’t look back on 9/11 with fond…