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Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer

By Katherine Kelaidis

…, this tension is about a fundamental disagreement over how to engage with Western modernity, arising from a Christian part of the world that has never been wholly Western. It’s a conflict that also highlights Orthodoxy’s ongoing problem with “rogue holy men,” who seem to inevitably take the side of the most difficult and destructive. Again, to be clear, the Orthodox Christian world’s most senior bishops have universally—whatever other disagreemen…

Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…and thousands of homes consumed in flames. Last year’s conflict in Burma’s western Rakhine state, also saw thousands of homes destroyed and roughly a hundred thousand people displaced—mostly Muslims—in ethnic violence between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas. There has been violence on both sides. Recent rioting in Lashio began when a Muslim man attacked a Buddhist woman shopkeeper—but in each of these instances the preponderance of organize…

Secular End Times & Apocalyptic ‘Roosters’

By Gordon Haber

…odern Era, in Landes’ telling, brought the “four humiliations of modernity—Western superiority, Israel’s existence, women’s liberation, and globalization,” resulting in the bloody, triumphalist fantasies of apocalyptic jihad. While apocalyptic jihad does indeed pose a serious threat, Landes’ narrative reads like warmed-over Bernard Lewis. While we can’t completely dismiss this narrative (Christian apocalyptic texts, from Revelations to Left Behind…

Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…our last shot. It’s time to roll. It’s time to run down the aisle and save western civilization . . . This country is the equivalent of that hijacked plane right now. We’re headed to a disaster, unless we can get control of the cockpit again. Trump made clear what it meant to save Western Civilization. In a nutshell, it is to resurrect and defend “our Christian heritage,” and protect children from a media culture of mockery. Trump will tell the me…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…would be devastating for the children of our nation and for the future of Western civilization,” he told Christianity Today in 2005, “for us to say that homosexual unions or lesbian unions or any alteration of that has the moral equivalence of a heterosexual, monogamous marriage.” At the pinnacle of Haggard’s power, he moved seamlessly between the firebrand populism of evangelical believers and the institutional halls of fundamentalist realpoliti…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…personally religious, proud to identify as an Egyptian, an Arab, and a Muslim. Because Egypt never went through the radical secularization that Turkey went through from the 1920s onward, it is unlikely Egypt will ever become that Westernized of a society, with such stark oppositions in public lifestyle between the religious and the non-religious. But Westernization is not a precondition for democracy, nor is there only one form of secularism in a…

Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots

By Max Zahn

…ntary, has pointed out crucial differences between traditional and modern (Western) mindfulness. “The Buddha himself defined sati as the ability to remember,” he writes, whereas contemporary teaching vivifies the breath as something continually discovered anew. The traditional focus on remembrance draws upon a practitioner’s experience in cultivating the technique. But for modern-day meditators, instructed in the benefit of practicing just five mi…

Decoding Scalia’s Secret Hunting Society, From Jägermeister to Medieval Heresy to Buddhist Legend

By Joseph A. P. Wilson

…Christ. Mani’s followers redacted Buddhist narratives under the rubric of Western theology. Saint Augustine was the most famous ex-Manichee, and Manichaeism for Western Christianity is regarded (since Augustine’s time) as a contemptible heresy. Nonetheless, Manichaeism was the most successful Gnostic Church in history, and enjoyed a degree of state support in Central Asia at precisely the right moment to act as a permeable “membrane” between Budd…

State Director of Christian Right Legislative Group, ‘Project Blitz,’ Calls for Lynching of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Updated)

By Frederick Clarkson

…. and even “America’s Foundation.” A short video produced by the rightwing Western Journal to which Witherington’s Facebook post was responding, claimed that Omar had called for the “complete dismantling of the American way of life.” This false characterization was taken as fact by Witherington who then claimed it was also representative of Islam and incompatible with the Constitution. Omar’s actual quote read (and is even to be heard in The Weste…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…re the WCF meeting, the Christian Broadcasting Network ran a story titled “Western Invasion: Inside Georgia’s Battle Against the Gay Agenda,” in which televangelist and CBN founder Pat Robertson complained that “the fact that the European Union and the U.S. is trying to impose this lifestyle on a little country like Georgia that wants to stay Orthodox is incredible.” This portrayal of the EU as a cultural bully is echoed by anti-LGBT advocates in…