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Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…perception of Islam? Now, if you talk to an average or semi-well informed American, you don’t have to explain yourself when you talk about mass nonviolent movements in the Middle East, because they will immediately associate that with Egypt and Tunisia. So the American image of the Middle East is changing, but I don’t think it’s changed enough. Still I think there is a lot of fear of Islam and negativity towards Islam. What are most overlooked e…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society, a group that has worked with American evangelicals to resist moves toward decriminalization of homosexuality. Caribbean: Report examines support for anti-gay laws in Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago Mahalia Jackman at the University of Manchester has published “They Called it the ‘Abominable Crime’: An Analysis of Heterosexual Support for Anti-Gay Laws in Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.”…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…he source of the teachings. You’re saying that modern mindfulness has lost contact with the source teachings? Absolutely. No doubt about it. Didn’t you help to bring that about? I hope not. The part that doesn’t concern me about the watering down of mindfulness is the intention of the practitioner. You go to Google and more than half the class is practicing mindfulness in order to become more successful. Is that a problem? I would say it’s not. I…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r Marriage President Brian Brown, Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton, and American missionary Scott Strim, who defends Belize’s colonial-era sodomy laws. United Kingdom: Poll Shows Low Support for LGBT Rights Among British Muslims Pink News reports on a poll of 1000 Muslims commissioned by Channel 4: Just 18% of Muslims surveyed agreed that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, while 52% said it should be banned. Nearly half (47%) said they w…

Why It’s Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…urch they can or want to go to so I am their church. I am the one point of contact outside of that community that makes them know they’re not crazy, because everybody else thinks they must be a Communist if they don’t go to church. I get letters from people who say they after they read one of my earlier books they burned it because it was so evil. Then, ten years later, they come back and say, “Now, I really understand what you’re talking about an…

Can You Become Un-Autistic?

By Michael Schulson

…autism. Like other toddlers receiving the diagnosis, Alex rarely makes eye contact, finds it difficult to communicate, and shows hypersensitivity to many stimuli. He undergoes behavioral therapy, attends special schools, and eventually shifts to a non-special needs classroom. By the time Alex is 10, he’s no longer displaying enough symptoms to fall on the autism spectrum. He has, in a sense, been cured. Is this a triumphant story of therapeutic su…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ocal human rights lawyer, police representative and doctor. The public can contact the group directly or on a dedicated hotline to seek assistance. The group has several paralegals in Accra and others in cities across the country. “We are not making it about LGBT rights, we want it to be human rights … These are our rights, and as every other human being in Ghana we also have our rights,” Abu says. Crimea: European Parliament condemns human rights…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…r to remember the humanity of the opponent. It was as if the caretakers of American football had made a contract with the propagators of American religion, agreeing that football would serve religion, but only if it was granted immunity for the ways it could damage bodies, young and old. Consider, for instance, the events that had transpired just ten days prior to the “Quarterback” series at Fellowship Church. On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, sixt…

Greatest Hits of 2015: Religion Stories Our Readers Couldn’t Resist

By Ellie Faustino

…nders of the Paleo diet, coming to RD in early 2016.) #1 An Open Letter To American Muslims on Same-Sex Marriage Addressed to “Our Fellow American Muslims,” this letter was penned by Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj shortly after the US Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage in all fifty states. It’s a fine example of how RD’s writers continue to stay ahead of the curve in prompting these needed conversations, and is our top post of 2015. Yo…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the Religion Section of the American Sociological Association. Elaine Howard Ecklund examines contemporary American religion and its intersections with science—specifically, how scientists interact with religion and how religious believers make sense of science. She is the author of Science v. Religion: What Scientists Really Think. In her writing, including including Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety…