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Ground Zero is Sacred Space, But Not Just Because of 9/11

By Randall Balmer

…ies, but we Americans generally come around. The proposed Islamic cultural center, Park51, provides a case in point. Initially derided as the “Ground Zero Mosque,” even though it was not primarily a mosque and it wasn’t at Ground Zero, Park51 has gradually won acceptance. Perhaps we should read some significance into the fact that the loudest critics of Park51, notably Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, are not New Yorkers and represent a political mo…

Bonnaroo Dispatches: Stages

By E. David Morgen

…he class from the stage is Maria McGuire from the Gypsy Hands Healing Arts Center in Knoxville. “If you feel yourself come up against your limits,” she says at one point, “that’s okay. That’s where you are today. No one is going to judge you.” Recent studies suggest that while the number of young Americans who consider themselves religious or spiritual remains roughly constant, their spiritual practices are changing. They are more likely than thei…

Where are the Blessed Peacemakers?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ians claim? This relationship between Jesus’ death and salvation is at the center of atonement theology and of Christian faith. Perhaps more importantly for those of us wondering how to address violence today, it is at the center of Christian practices of activist nonviolence. Christians are called to nonviolence, that is, not because God asks them to be nice people, but because of why and how the God they worship through Jesus Christ ministered i…

After Mumbai: Winning the Global War on Terror

By Mark Woodward

…symbols of colonialism. It was the perfect target. A small Jewish cultural center staffed by an American-Israeli Rabbi and his wife, both of whom were killed, was also singled out. This indicates a transnational orientation. Mumbai does have a small Jewish community, but the center served a Jewish tourist community. It was a symbolic target because in South Asia and elsewhere in the Muslim world, “Jews” and the religion of Judaism are routinely im…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…alters. Walters remembers Farrakhan speaking at a Washington DC convention center to a packed house. A Washington Post reporter was taken aback that Farrakhan had come to town without the newspaper knowing about it, and that without any mainstream media coverage, the speech attracted such high attendance. “(Farrakhan) is one of the few members of our community who could fill a convention center on a whisper campaign,” Walters said The Nation’s inf…

Shameful GOP Tax Plan Taxes Reality

By Peter Laarman

…c moderates (and their pundits) would have you believe, the U.S. is not a “center-right” nation; if anything, we are a “center-left” nation, especially when it comes to opposing tax cuts for the wealthy. Faith leaders who say they care about the most vulnerable have a real opportunity here in relation to their own messaging and advocacy. As I’ve written before in these pages, tax plans are moral documents—as much, or more so, than budgets. Faith l…

Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Claims to Protect — As Author Lillian Smith Understood 80 Years Ago

By Matthew Teutsch and Emma Williams

…vers the connections between Moms for Liberty and the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, and Christian nationalists. A Kentucky chapter, Gilbert reports, had John Birch Society member Pastor Jon Schrock speak to them “about defunding public education.” Amidst a litany of conspiracy theories, Schrock got to his main point, that educators should be replaced with “pastors” who would teach a curriculum “rooted in Christian fundamentalism.” During the same…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…essaging project of the explicitly moderate Third Way think tank; also the Center for Faith in Public Life, which was launched by the Center for American Progress ostensibly to amplify a progressive religious voice, but which has since lurched sharply in the direction of amplifying a moderate and now White House-approved party line on faith and values. I don’t think it can be said often enough that there is a significant difference between the cul…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…t linkage or advisement,” says Steven Newton, a spokesman for the National Center for Science Education. As the Times article points out, “academic freedom” bills that are being introduced by state lawmakers around the country instruct educators to teach students about “both sides” of controversial issues—most notably on evolution. The Seattle-based, pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute is behind efforts to introduce many of these bills and…

Taking (Public School) Teachers to Church, and the Mosque, and the Temple…

By Lisa Webster

…ehind it? Kevin Childress: The Institute is co-sponsored by The Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY) and Union Theological Seminary, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. But the ideas that shaped the Institute came from Dr. Henry Goldschmidt, who is the Director of Education Programs at ICNY. From 2002-2010, ICNY offered one-week courses for teachers. That course was short, but it already contained the core ideas which woul…