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Chick-fil-A Has a Right to Open Crappy Sandwich Shop in Chicago

By Sarah Posner

…w restaurants. Chick-Fil-A “disrespects us,” says Emanuel, because “Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.” Can I say that I hate—almost as much as a chicken sandwich—when Democrats try to throw that “values” language back in the face of conservatives. Conservatives don’t own the “values” conversation—we know, we know! (I think Rahm is having a 2006 campaign flashback.) But since when do businesses get permits (or not) based on their religious…

Egypt and the Problem of Religion

By Asma Afsaruddin

…Can both sides be right or wrong at the same time? It is clear that political allegiances are driving the current situation in Egypt, even though such allegiances are frequently cloaked in highly emotive religious idiom. Despite the charged religious rhetoric on both sides, at the end of the day, the principal actors in this unfolding tragedy are motivated mostly bypolitical power. Many of us who study Islamic thought have been taken aback by the…

I’m Dreaming of a White Christ(mas)

By Evan Derkacz

…in the history of the United States, as Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey detail in their brilliant book Color of Christ: the Son of God and the Saga of Race in America. Blum and Harvey explain how we use pictures of Jesus to teach the story of Christianity and that Jesus has had countless makeovers since those early images. Christ had handlers who tried to rebrand him—like the time when fundamentalist Christians inspired Warner Sallman to paint the…

Rick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution

By Rob Shryock

…lines – jokes – in the Sermon on the Mount? The self-righteous missed them all while the disciples were undoubtedly giggling! Warren, possibly America’s most influential evangelical, clearly views his sense of humor as a crucial part of his pastor persona (his defensiveness even echoes comedian Daniel Tosh’s in the wake of an incredibly insensitive rape “joke” last year). At any rate, Warren, who is on the cusp of opening an international branch o…

Why the Women’s Ordination Question Will Shape the Future of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…hurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are governed and directed by an all-male organizational chain of command. Mormon women may participate in some decision-making at the congregational level. But at all levels most forms of institutional power—from the power to shape the church’s global policies and finances to the power to bless the sick, administer sacraments, baptize, and excommunicate—belong only to men. Does pervasive institutional g…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…about HIV/AIDS, and save their own lives. Gay men created not just political alliances, but alternate forms of kinship, out of their ways of relating to each other sexually. Lesbians have done this as well. Religious people continue to struggle within their communities to integrate their understanding of their traditions with the realities of the LGBT people in their midst as neighbors, family members, and fellow congregants. For many religiously…

Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nk you’ve found a way to re-engage those young people? There are generational realities and cultural realities. Most of the time if someone from a mainline church says, “We have young people who come,” they’re probably “old” young people who are not necessarily postmodern even though they are chronologically young. Post-modernity has created a very particular worldview and mindset and a particular set of critiques and cynicism, as well as a partic…

Buddha as Scientist, Entrepreneur & Self-Improvement Guru

By Michael Schulson

…calm, growth, and meaning in a wired world). Buddhist Geeks seem fundamentally unwilling to consider that there might be dimensions to technology, besides that pesky distractingness, that should concern us. At times, this blend of self-improvement culture, Buddhism, and technology can lead to outrageous and unfounded optimism. In a talk on “Mindfulness and Media,” for example, media consultant Megan Miller suggests, without any irony, that techno…

Pro-Gay Christians Breaking Out

By Peter Montgomery

…could be beaten within an inch of her life and still not be allowed to legally separate. The point is that nobody in the mainstream Christian church today would argue any of these propositions. A hundred years ago, that was not necessarily the case. In other words, the definition of Christian ethics is subject to change, based on analysis of the historical context into which the biblical writers were speaking at the time, and separating historica…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…otion of the tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr al-Husain ibn Mansur, or al-Hallaj: his famous ana ‘l-haqq, “I am the Truth” or “the Real.” This notion, as explicated by the French scholar Louis Massignon, author of the four-volume The Passion of al-Hallaj, forms the heart of a complex theology of witness—wahdat al-shuhud, the oneness of witnessing—wherein the entire being of the believer becomes a witness to the reality of the divine: God witn…