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Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…at from 1880 to 1940, the stretch of the Lower West Side of Manhattan from Park Street down to Battery Park, along Greenwich and Washington Streets, was known as “Little Syria.” An exhibit of the same name has been running this month, created by the Arab American National Museum of Dearborn, Michigan, in a space rented from Three Legged Dog, a multi-arts space carved out of the ground floor of the Brooklyn Battery Parking Garage. This very block w…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…l Ryan clarifying how Trump’s ban on Muslims is “not what the [Republican] Party stands for.” While it is the Republican Party’s responsibility to extend this critique into unequivocal opposition to Trump’s bid for presidency, the ban on Muslim rhetoric only feeds into the Islamophobic words and acts we see all over the country. From the death threat calls and messages to Islamic community centers and mosques, to a string of violent acts of hate—i…

War on Christmas Affirmed by Southern Baptist Convention

By Mark Gstohl

…offensive resolutions. I’ve done this since 1997 when I was awakened by a phone call from a Lutheran friend that began, “What’s with you Southern Baptists and Mickey Mouse?” I was unaware that the messengers voted on a resolution to boycott Disney because of its policies toward homosexuals. One resolution approved by the messengers this year that may not be so widely publicized is a resolution “On Affirming the Use of the Term ‘Christmas’ in Publ…

Pennsylvania Rep. Says Contraception Mandate Is Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nd by gum he’s not going to pay for a policy that lets her do so without copay. Maybe the evidence that contraception improves women’s health does not enter into his analysis at all. Or maybe he was just charmed by his own rhetoric. I don’t know. I honestly have no idea how to respond to this. It’s one thing for people to oppose the contraception mandate. It’s another thing to… do whatever Rep. Kelly thinks he’s doing. I give up. Here, have a vide…

Finding the “Good Girl Role Model”

By Kathryn Joyce

…of real or fictional single gals living differently (chastely)?” It’s not “Pam” from “The Office,” Lopez decides, nor is it “the 90210 newspaper editor who’s infamously a virgin … well, until she gets her repressed self pregnant. Not the Britney who pretends while slutting herself out on stage.” She’s looking for “Real, normal, cool 20somethings whose lives are so full and they are so loved or at least have such self-respect that they don’t need a…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…t the Jamaican Supreme Court allowed nine conservative Christian groups to participate in a lawsuit challenging the country’s anti-sodomy law, but blocked the LGBT-friendly Public Defender from taking part. More from a press release from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network: “This is truly a David and Goliath situation, requiring me to respond to not only the government’s, but also the religious groups’ arguments,” says Mr. Tomlinson. The legal cha…

The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience

By Michael Schulson

…narguable. When you walk down any standard neurology ward, and you look at patient after patient—at people who have had a stroke or a tumor or a traumatic brain injury—what you see is that they’ve changed. They can change entirely: their decision-making, their risk aversion, their personality, their capacity to name animals or see colors or understand music. That clarifies the whole picture about the relationship that we have with our brains. Phil…

Maryland Governor says Support for Marriage Equality “Very Much Informed” by his Catholicism

By Peter Montgomery

…ce at winning, given the state’s Democratic leanings and promising polling numbers. O’Malley said that expansive religious freedom language in the law was important to its passage and in keeping with the traditions of the state of Maryland. The referendum language makes clear that the law protects clergy from having to perform any ceremony that violates their beliefs, guarantees each faith control over its marriage doctrine, and “provides that rel…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…the wake of the seminary revoking the award, it appears the intent of the painstakingly worded letter was overlooked. Many seem to be conflating the award’s revocation with censorship. https://twitter.com/DaleHurd/status/845248456092463104 https://twitter.com/David_Fairchild/status/844961424224899072 https://twitter.com/absonjourney/status/844603619118907392 William Stell, a recent PTS alum who is now a PCUSA pastor in New Jersey and identifies a…

Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize

By Frances Kissling

…he theologians at the meeting included Joseph Fuchs, who had served on the Papal Commission on Birth Control and chaired the committee’s majority report; Richard McCormick, who is recognized as one of the founders of modern bioethics; then-Catholic University star Charles Curran; Albert Jonsen, a Jesuit bioethicist; and Father Drinan, Dean of Boston College Law School, rounded out the team. According to Giles, the moral theologians and priests met…