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Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…the most dangerous among them have not wavered in their commitment to intimidate minorities. If anything, they are more emboldened and menacing. The anxiety we feel is therefore as much about losing faith in our fellow citizens as it is about having a hatemonger in the nation’s highest office. Among American Muslims, the reaction is not necessarily what might be expected after the election of a doomsayer who used anti-Muslim rhetoric to stoke Ame…

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…that, every December, America collectively visits its family. Every year, millions of families unplug from their day-to-day lives and reunite. Siblings compare their parallel lives. We peruse old photo albums and take mental snapshots of our aging parents, forming a past-and-future flip book of our own aging bodies. We get scared. We tell old stories and overeat. New Year’s resolutions are what happen when bloated Americans go back to their lives…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…ndidate, Obama promised strict constitutional protections, only to quietly relent in the face of protests from evangelical figures. Under DuBois’ leadership, the office has elevated the profile of religious leaders it saw as enmeshed in its mission, yet dismissed concerns over church-state separation. With DuBois’ departure, Obama has an opportunity to appoint a new director whose greatest contribution to his administration will not be daily devot…

It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…atism from the early twentieth century forward. Matthew Sutton details a similar assault on the FDR administration, one with numerous parallels to the contemporary campaign against Obama, in “Was FDR the AntiChrist?”—a Journal of American History article whose findings are distilled in this New York Times piece. These themes carried forward into the “suburban warriors” who empowered the rise of the Goldwater Right in Cold-War California, and then…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tican Council’s “new openness to the modern world” (another product of the mid-1960s) may be read in similar terms, as may Khomeini’s reaction against many Iranian clerics’ proximity to, and collusion with, the secular reforms of Western-leaning and Western-style political leaders like the Shah. We live in that world still today, and it is in this sense that we did not need the September 11 attacks to learn that a certain form of neotraditional re…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…mon liberals who go public on sensitive issues like marriage equality or feminism do so bearing in mind that someone at LDS Church headquarters may bring their activities to the attention of local leaders who are empowered to take disciplinary action. It’s a touchy subject to write about. I have to admit it’s always puzzled me that a global church of 14 million members bothers itself with the doings of a minority of liberals in the United States….

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…le finger to the human rights community, Putin signed a decree this week naming Dmitry Kiselyov a recipient of the “Order of Service to the Fatherland” for his contributions to Russia’s social and economic development, and “his services in the humanitarian sphere, strengthening the rule of law, protection of the rights and interests of citizens, and many years of diligent work.” Putin put Kiselyov in charge of a new government news agency created…

Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ryone affiliated with FIA had gone to great lengths to maintain warm, welcoming postures, and were not looking to be confrontational. Robertson says that he, Mitchell and Tim Gold, and FIA interim executive director Robert Hoffman had been engaging in conversation with fellow attendees without incident, and members of their team handed out pamphlets, until they were all escorted off the premises shortly before noon on Wednesday. “There was nothing…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…As reviewer Vlad Chituc (who, in full disclosure, is a friend) points out, Miller misrepresents key details of a study by the psychologist Paul Bloom. She also cites a pair of studies from The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine—one involving psychic communication, and the other discussing energy fields—neither of which is an acceptable source for a work that purports to be scientific. For an academic researcher, this presents seriou…

Madoff, Through a Glass, Darkly

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…face.” Everything hinges on the architecture, not the architecture of a family, any family, but rather the literal architecture of Madoff’s three-story securities complex. The two boys worked on the 19th floor; the Ponzi scheme was handled on the 17th floor. The boys claim they hardly ever set foot on the 17th floor. Others insist that building floors are very porous membranes indeed. The money, like the guilt, flows freely. The mystery deepens i…