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Sunni Leader Breaks Dialogue With the Vatican Over Pope’s Comments

By Amir Hussain

…e conference, I met Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, the Apostolic Nuncio in Egypt, who has done much work on interfaith dialogue between Catholics and Muslims. I do hope that Al-Azhar resumes its dialogue with the Vatican, precisely because difficult times are when dialogue is most needed. As William Blake wrote, “It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity”. It is much more difficult to stay together when things are tough. And the sa…

Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?

By Jay Michaelson

…Israelites. Genesis 43:32 states that eating with Israelites is toevah for Egyptians. Gen. 43:34 states that shepherds are toevah to Egyptians—the sons of Israel are themselves shepherds. In Exodus 8:22, Moses describes Israelite sacrifices as being toevat mitzrayim (toevah of Egypt), although obviously Israelite ritual is not an objective “abomination.” If toevah means abomination, then eating with shepherds, eating with Israelites, and Israelite…

Clinging to God, Guns, Obama, and Freud

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…iginary crime” that created a Jewish people, in his judgment: Moses was an Egyptian monotheist who led a revolt out of Egypt, but his followers killed him in a revolt in the wilderness. What Freud was prepared to do, and felt we all should do, was candidly to assess religion’s role in fostering and sustaining violence. Religion is not only nice; it can also be nasty. And when it is armed, with guns and with ethnocentrism, then it is without a doub…

Bright Lights, Big Bible: A Liberal, Literary Evangelical Keeps the Faith

By Liesl Schwabe

…his. During the First World War, when he was ministering British troops in Egypt, he saw German prisoners of war who were so sure that God was on their side. Obviously, the Brits thought so too. Oswald knew there were these divergent beliefs and he said that when you consider others, you should ask if you are looking with a “hard gaze,” meaning with superiority and judgment. He was always trying to cultivate a “soft gaze.” I would never say that w…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…ina to Spain, people around the world trying to replicate what they saw in Egypt. In the coming months, ambitious environmentalist, anti-corporate, and anti-war actions are being planned in the United States. People are frustrated, and they’re inspired. But Stout, a professor of religion at Princeton, insists on asking another question: How will they organize? Why are the organized “Blessed”? Well, one definition of “blessed” is fortunate. In a sh…

‘Soul Murder’ in the American Workplace

By Peter Laarman

…rner come to mind) who totally get the making-bricks-without-straw echo of Egypt in the contemporary US workplace. But a broad-based and growing network of theological types who have made good work the center of their focus? Dream on. We need such a network, and we need it soon, because even if the economy recovers and “full employment” returns we will still be encountering a US workplace that remains a site of utter terror in some instances, and…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…ued to echo throughout Enlightenment culture. When Napoleon’s army invaded Egypt in 1798, the Muslim world’s moment of “first contact” with the modern West, its better-read officers would have known Condorcet’s Progress of the Human Mind. Published just three years earlier, it singled out Islam among the world’s religions as “the simplest in its dogmas, the least absurd in its practices, and the most tolerant in its principles.” Faith in progress…

I’tikaf: Sacred Solitude

By Amina Wadud

…ng what they eat? We deal with food all the time and continue the fast. In Egypt, I noticed this most pointedly. As a visitor to the country I was invited often to break fast with a family. I was also told to arrive in the afternoon. The women of the household would give me a sleeping caftan and put me in the bed. Literally. Meanwhile, they went on with the laundry, the cleaning, the cooking, the children and their after-school work, whatever. I (…

Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)

By Peter Laarman

…questions can be both/and, not either/or. A perennial example of this kind of question: Are we still a puritanical culture, or are we now an unapologetically hedonistic culture—one quite happy to prefer the fleshpots of Egypt to the manna of righteous wilderness wandering? Both things are true, of course, and the really interesting story is how both can be true and how puritanical values and fleshly behaviors are intimately related….

The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’

By Daniel Schultz

…elf-identifies as “the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt,” so much so that Walter Brueggemann argues that it’s practically a synecdoche. This God isn’t jealous simply for the sake of jealousy, though. He’s jealous because he wants the Israelites to remember who liberated them from slavery, and it wasn’t that dumb (as in dumb) golden calf. There’s only one God responsible for liberation, and that’s God, not a statue of Donal…