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Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…more emboldened and menacing. The anxiety we feel is therefore as much about losing faith in our fellow citizens as it is about having a hatemonger in the nation’s highest office. Among American Muslims, the reaction is not necessarily what might be expected after the election of a doomsayer who used anti-Muslim rhetoric to stoke American insecurities. Not everyone is gripped by intense dread. Rather, some* Muslims on social media describe a Trum…

The Banality of Bernie

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…as a seductive appeal, and once you’ve heard it you can’t stop thinking about it. The parallels are subtle, but intriguing. Hitler’s secretary from 1942 to 1945, Traudl Junge, claimed never to have heard her boss mention Jews or Holocaust. Not once. Squiallari, who served Madoff with personal distinction for over twenty-five years (at an eventual annual salary of $100,000), claims to have had no knowledge of what was going on two floors below her,…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…ama has an opportunity to appoint a new director whose greatest contribution to his administration will not be daily devotionals, but a commitment to the Constitution….

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…we seem to be these days—about religion, about the secular sphere, and about the future of both as embodying forms of political commitment capable of peaceable coexistence. Religious Studies gone public Religion Dispatches, itself a product of this same confused decade, is intended to provide one such place, in which ethically serious and politically engaged persons from a variety of religious and political confessions can reflect on the possibi…

Mother (Nature) Will Eat You: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ives. We run the films through our minds over and over, trying to edit it out, but it remains. I can’t even imagine what the feedback loop is for those who have lost their children. Like so many things, perhaps the grieving process cannot be taken on in direct ways: through brute, masculine logic; through doctrinaire doctors who know the way its going to go. In the end, maybe grief needs beauty. Or at least some semblance of the beautiful, fictiti…

It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…o The Blaze. John Fea’s auto-da-fé came not only in the comments section, but in nasty emails, phone calls, and demands for his firing from Messiah College. As he discovered, the culture wars are real, and practiced even on those (like Fea) who largely have been critical of Obama’s actual implementation of his promises about faith-based policies. More important than these blogosphere wars, however, is understanding something deeper about these scr…

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Problem of the Rape Exception

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…even to rape victims may indicate more than simply a hard line attitude about abortion, but also a negative attitude about a woman’s right to live free from violence… There’s widespread myths that rape victims are either lying about being raped or somehow brought it on themselves, and therefore if they get pregnant, they deserve to be punished for being liars or temptresses or both. This, despite the fact that at least one study suggest that sexua…

Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…obert Hoffman had been engaging in conversation with fellow attendees without incident, and members of their team handed out pamphlets, until they were all escorted off the premises shortly before noon on Wednesday. “There was nothing about our time here that was aggressive, protest-like, or disruptive,” Robertson said. “We refrained from using words like ‘bigot’ intentionally. We were here as registered guests, participating like everyone else.”…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…ic terms? The person who was most moved by this of anyone was a deeply devout priest. I think it’s a tribute to the hunger of people to understand spirituality through our lived human existence. I just wonder if I’ll be standing in synagogue one day and suddenly think, “Hey, this is making me 40% likelier to avoid drug addiction,” or whatever. That seemed like it might be a jarring experience. Well, “its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its…

Madoff, Through a Glass, Darkly

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…as long as the June exposé from Madoff’s secretary. That bears thinking about. The story about the secretary is much longer, much more substantive, than the one about the family. All we get from the family is confusion. One guy swears up and down that Bernie Madoff adored his sons and found joy in his work only because it was a family affair. Another guy, equally eyewitness, swears that the elder Madoff was a tyrant who never permitted his sons to…