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Don’t Blame Secularism: Reading Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion

By Jeffrey Feldman

…ll at the head of the classroom. Anybody over the age of 40 remembers this classroom setup. While most countries were divided up into states and territories, a huge chunk of real estate was occupied by a big swath of pink, enigmatically labeled ‘U.S.S.R.’ By the time I got to my grade school homeroom, institutionalized ignorance of the Soviet Union was not just a problem, it was a tradition. Far worse than not understanding the details of the vari…

RD10Q: Holy Hullabaloos: A Fun Book on Church and State

By Jay Wexler

…banning school prayer and the like. This is absolutely not true. Private individuals and organizations can say whatever they want in the public square about religion. Students can pray in the schools. It’s just that the school itself can’t participate in the prayer; it can’t draft the prayer or encourage the prayer or lead the prayer. But if students want to get together before class or after school or at recess or whenever to pray, they can. Did…

‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…fective way of coping with uncertainty. However, try to explain it to an individual who has just suffered the loss of a loved one—or a country that has just lost thousands. The lie of controlled divine uniformity is exposed by indiscriminate tragedy. The selfishness of an egotistical God is revealed. What exactly is exposed? The fragility of our worldviews. The tenuous grasp we have on God and our doubts as to whether s/he exists. The fact that th…

The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

By Dianne M. Stewart

…ine character of their colonizers’ Christian God. What the colonial ruling class understood to be either divine or demonic in the Christian pantheon, the enslaved African laborers had to have understood as one and the same evil force. Prayers for protection While the details concerning how Vodou traditions played a role in fortifying Haiti’s foundational freedom fighters during the revolutionary period are inconclusive, the devil is not in the det…

Prominent Evangelical Pundit Accuses Obama of “Abusing” Faith-Based Office

By Sarah Posner

…assed. To them, passing the bill was about helping the poor and the middle class, and they even enlisted Obama to perform on a conference call to prove how much his faith informed his action. See how this will never be good enough for the conservatives? If they don’t like the health care law at all, then Obama talking about how there’s a moral imperative to have health care reform won’t make them think he’s faithy. Nor will talking about Jesus. Th…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…ut ways that people can resist the military script. One of them is to seek diversity within the church, because that kind of authoritarian system can’t abide diversity within itself. So when you fight for same-sex equality within the church, or women’s ordination within the church, or making a racially diverse church, you’re depriving that authoritarianism of the oxygen that it needs. Walter: Which comes to its pinnacle in the gay presence in the…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…up for any but the very wealthiest—that cuts affecting working and middle-class families will be extended. As for the “job killer” rhetoric of Sen. Hatch and the rest, the president could actually have some fun poking holes in the fantastical idea that handing rich and powerful people still more money means they will dutifully make productive, job-creating investments in the domestic economy. There has never been a shred of evidence to support…

Quiz: The Outer Limits

By Becky Garrison

…Anti-American Extremists i. Dawkin’s Demons: Dissecting his Dark Night of the Soul j. Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War [The real titles are: b, d, e, h, j]…

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…That includes September 11th, 2001. I was a senior in college, walking to class on an unbelievably clear day, when the towers were struck and then fell, and we saw clouds of debris fill the sky. The World Trade Center was there and then it wasn’t. As president of New York University’s Islamic Center, I saw some of the hurt firsthand, I felt some of the anguish, I received some of the hate and I knew, immediately, how far across the world the effe…

Of Mosques and Men

By Amina Wadud

…le my children were with their father since we had already processed for a divorce. This meant I had no family schedule. I lived in a dormitory and besides going to class and a small part time job, I was a free bird. In Ramadan a free bird, flies high on the rituals of the month. I stood for 20 units or tarawih every night that I was fasting. Like the first time reading through the Qu’ran in Arabic on my own this was exhilarating. Somewhere around…