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The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…ices. Some people will be left out of those incorporated boundaries. There will always be conflict. But it’s a powerful tool. Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a lot of people have moved into PTSD town, and a lot more people know someone who lives there. A diagnosis makes a psychological condition more legible to the state, but also to the culture at large. Katniss’s PTSD isn’t an accident of perceptive fiction. It’s an authorial diagnosis….

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…s special roundtable, Peter Laarman leads a conversation with Oakes, along with Richard Flory, the director of research at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at University of Southern California, and Sikivu Hutchinson, atheist scholar and author. _______________ Peter Laarman: Kaya and those whom she interviews cite a range of aspects of traditional religious life that clearly repel younger people and help fuel the unaffiliated phenomenon….

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…ly, I might add). I have taken them on historical tours of Philadelphia showing them the wide array of churches and synagogues that flourish in the colonial city. And the cultural exchange goes both ways. Our family has developed a much more expansive view of God and we enjoy our rich conversations around the dinner table. Al Aqsa mosque is a prominent leader in Philadelphia’s interfaith efforts. Each year, their members join the hundreds of Chris…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…an most of our lives. I’m not asking for a Muslim heroine. Quantico appears to have that covered. (Sic.) Just someone not so evil that you can, maybe, fall a little bit in love with her, or wonder what it would be like to hang out with her—or at least give her a few lines to go along with the backflips and knife swipes. Watch Spy. After all, the Susan Coopers of the world are watching you. Take someone along. Preferably your worst enemy. Spy is ra…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…hes and a faint family portrait on the wireframe shelf, and something that will be familiar to anyone with a newborn child: a rocking seat next to a pink and yellow baby mat. With the caption “A Home Revealed,” the audience is left to make sense of these household portraits that are almost boring in their everydayness (except perhaps for the wall-hanging written in Arabic). In the right column is a headshot of Tashfeen Malik in a light peach hijab…

Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…ree grandchildren. They are my clients as I write and struggle morally for wisdom. I wish I could be optimistic about COP21, the climate negotiations coming to an end in Paris. I can’t. Even if the world’s countries keep their promises — known, in the mind-numbing argot of the UN as Intended Nationally Determined Commitments — the climate reductions they are promising don’t go far enough. . . . These unenforceable “commitments” are, at best, a ste…

As a Queer Catholic Woman I Had High Hopes Before the 2023 Catholic Synod on Synodality

By Emma Cieslik

…2, that God “does not disown any of his children,” or in 2023 that “people with homosexual tendencies are children of God,” a number of LGBTQ Catholics and advocates, myself included, got excited for a day or two—maybe even called our parents (if the Church hasn’t driven a wedge between them and us). But then the news cycle passes and, with each expression of anti-LGBTQ Catholic doctrine on diocesan and global levels, these small victories are tar…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…010) Asia as Method – critically reviews how global LGBT politics interact with local societies influenced by Confucianism. Along a perpetual competition between the universalism and cultural relativism of human rights, this article not only identifies the pitfalls of ‘Asian values’ from a cosmopolitan perspective but also contributes to a queered approach to human rights-holders against homonationalism. Indonesia: Court hears Islamist arguments f…

We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption

By Greg Carey

…d so may we. But when someone has demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with authority, with finances, or with the safety of persons under their care, institutions should exercise extreme caution in restoring them to leadership. Shallow forgiveness, excised from the social contexts in which vulnerable people face evils like sexual violence and intimidation, poses a grave danger. Quick and shallow forgiveness haunts American Christianity in thre…

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

By Gordon Haber

…see this in Jefferson’s rendering of Matthew 12, when Jesus heals the man with the withered hand. In Jefferson’s version Jesus talks about healing and seems to have the ability to do so and doesn’t do it. It makes you wonder what people are really talking about when they claim the Jefferson Bible is important to them. It is interesting how this book has been interpreted over the centuries. I see the Jefferson Bible as a kind of spiritual Rorschac…