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South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Called “Raghead”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…idst the accusations from two men that they’ve had “inappropriate physical contact” with state Rep. Nikki Haley, the Palin-endorsed gubernatorial candidate, comes Knotts’ interjection: “We already got one raghead in the White House. We don’t need another in the Governor’s Mansion,” Knotts said during a live internet interview this week on Pub Politics — a laid back program usually conducted over beers in a local Columbia bar. Knotts issued an ap…

What’s in an “Om”?: How Women are Transforming Yoga

By Meera Subramanian

…tle sign if they don’t wish to be touched, but one girl who is open to the contact is extended in child’s pose, the front of her body pressed against the floor, arms reaching out. The teacher comes up behind her and gently presses down on her sacrum—a Latin word derived from the Greek hieron osteon or “sacred bone”, from the belief that the soul resides there. I have known the positive jolt of electricity that I have felt in yoga classes when a te…

Benedict’s Painful Legacy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Duddy-Burke sees the days ahead as “an opportunity for Catholics to get in contact with the cardinals who are going to be part of the conclave and talk to them about our dreams for the Church and what we need in a new leader.” Joelle Casteix, Western Region Director for SNAP, which advocates on behalf of some 20,000 survivors and allies of those abused by Roman Catholic priests, likewise sees the action of laypeople as critical to any meaningful c…

What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?

By Joanna Brooks

…) But the cover art makes those worthy questions moot. Today, I’ve been in contact with a few of the sources for the article, and they believe the mocking cover image will lead most Mormons to dismiss the entire article as an anti-Mormon hit piece. Trying to sell a few magazines, Businessweek destroyed an opportunity for a serious discussion. That’s not what any of the sources consulted for the article would have wanted. Another lost opportunity w…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…t vampires, Jesus is a prophet in Islam, Bible verses don’t burn people on contact—but that idea, that this gun, named after the holy wars waged by Catholics against Muslims, Jews, “pagans,” and other Christians from 1096 until they finally ended in 1798, is both a weapon for Christians to “hoist the flag of our faith and make a statement” and apparently anti-Muslim kryptonite—is a whole mess of Islamophobic Christian nationalist ideas in a single…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…erved the massive development of YouTube and Google, the ubiquity of smart phones and mobile devices, and the rise of Facebook and Twitter, which boast nearly a billion and half a billion respectively. For good and for ill, we are available 24/7 for communications via multiple lines of digital contact. Amidst this chaotic stew of interactive entertainment Benedict has worked to figure out, with increasing urgency and frustration, just what the Chu…

Of Mosques and Men

By Amina Wadud

…myself with the cloaking garments of prayer worship. When I must make eye contact and even hold conversation with others, next week. After all, Allah resides every where, even in the gender-apartheid mosques, so why not share it with Her followers? Before the blogging is over I will discuss how the Qur’an can both come down in one month, Ramadan and at the same time take 23 years… Editor’s Note: To follow all of Amina Wadud’s daily posts, as she…

No Room for Non-Theists at Boston Interfaith Service

By Becky Garrison

…On these pages one can find information about vigils, as well as emergency contact information for those students stranded during the city lockdown in the course of the manhunt for the two bombing suspects. Epstein’s Facebook profile picture has been changed to a photograph of Celeste Corcoran and her 18-year-old daughter, Sydney. (Celeste, close friend to a senior member of Epstein’s staff, lost both her legs at the knees in one of the bomb blast…

It’s Bring Your Gun to Church Day

By Bill Berkowitz

…y planning needs for other religions; the Christian Security Network is in contact with several of them to share information and resources, as well as serving on organizations such as the State Department Overseas Security Advisory Council and ASIS International, which address security for all religions. Are there established statistics showing increased multiple-victim shootings at Christian churches as opposed to other public venues? JH: Unfortu…

Ramadan: Third Day is the Charm

By Amina Wadud

…ocal mosque for the tarawih prayers and come out with out making any human contact. I think this is part of my preparation for hajj: how to perform the ritual requirements without invoking the politics of justice at every juncture. For example, in this mosque the women’s section is completely separated from the men’s, in a large room. Therefore to hear the imam, there is a speaker system set up. The volume on this puts young people who listen to r…