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Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…Islamic philosophers who revived, preserved, and further developed Aristotelian and Hellenistic philosophical traditions; or about Arab and Muslim medical treatises that led the world until modern medicine; or about Muslim contributions to building the foundations of math, astronomy, agriculture, and a host of other disciplines. It is clear that there is an important value in thoughts, in the world of ideas, or in ways of knowing. I see this theo…

‘Atheizing’ the Dead, Religious Doughnuts, & Tax-Free Witching

By Michael J. Altman

…the holy city. Hordes of dirty tourists may be ruining the the Sistine Chapel’s priceless artwork. Two stories on extreme sports and Islam: A skateboarder foiled an attempted Qur’an burning in Texas. As he put it to the book burners, “Dude, you have no Qur’an!” And BMX bicycle rider Shintaro Misawa has converted to Islam and changed his name to Rayyan Ibrahim. On the opposite end of the sports and religion spectrum, the US Ryder Cup team is chock…

Values Voters Summit: Preaching Wins the Morning

By Sarah Posner

…ues with the tea party movement. That’s a trend, of course, rooted in the religious right’s efforts to portray constitutional rights as divinely ordained, and a government that is exceeding authority they claim was given it by God. See my dispatch from Ralph Reed’s conference last weekend. But to win over this crowd, the presidential hopefuls — and tea party king- and queenmakers like Michele Bachmann and Jim DeMint — have to know how to preach it…

Religious Right Panic: “Anarchy” will Result if DADT is Repealed

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nd water. The question we should be asking ourselves is whether you would tell somebody putting themselves in harm’s way for you that they should be denied the spiritual counsel of their chaplain and their God as they are looking at death. There are several underlying assumptions going on here. One is the false dichotomy of gays versus God. There are plenty of gay and lesbian Christians in the world, and some of them even serve in the military. Be…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…around them. Often, it’s better to part than to remain in a soul-killing relationship. I do believe, however, that conservative religious people who preach against the evils of same-sex marriage have long needed to clean their own doorsteps before going off on gays and lesbians who want to marry. Jesus, who said nothing about homosexuality, had plenty to say about heterosexual couples who divorced. Throughout the Bible, divorce has been strongly…

The New “Values Voters” Mantra

By Sarah Posner

…ll and voting for the abortion provisions in the health care law that the religious right falsely claims includes federal funding for abortions. This is the terrain of the religious right-tea party alliance: government is the enemy, they agree. Any further alliance will be forged not on whether tea partiers start to talk about abortion and gay marriage at rallies, but whether they can agree on a second point, after government is the enemy: that th…

Why Aqua Buddha Ad Failed to Harm Rand Paul

By Joanna Brooks

…e no reason to talk about them in public. Is it really so shocking that rebellious young white men at Baptist Baylor University smoked pot and tied up women for fun? That sounds like standard weekend behavior for the young white conservatives I grew up around. (Never mind America’s long national history with sexualized bondage in the form of slavery.) And what about secret paganistic societies with odd behind-closed-doors rituals? That too is clas…

In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

By Benjamin Weiner

…rst time that Christianity has played “the Jew.” One could argue that the religion itself is founded on an appropriation of Jewish identity, with one Chosen People (refined, rather than rejected by, Christianity) replacing another, under a new dispensation. Historically, however, it has been a triumphant church laying claim to the victor’s mantle. Here, in the heart of a wounded church, a play is being made for the shroud of the victim. Victimiz…

Final (Probably) Thoughts On The Aqua Buddha Ad

By Sarah Posner

…oach has been, especially since about 2006 or so, to try to make themselves out to be the “authentic” Christians who truly care about their neighbors and all that. The Aqua Buddha ad may have been a bad strategic move in Kentucky; we’ll never really know. But Conway — without, as far as I can tell, invoking treacly religion — takes positions on economic issues that would, if enacted, actually help his constituents. Rand Paul does not. But Democrat…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…that, while Hernandez “had a different version of the facts,” he had nonetheless been relieved of his duties. However, at a hearing to renew the protection order in March, and again in June, Hernandez came to court accompanied by nuns who worked at the Archdiocese’s Centro San Juan Diego: Hispanic Institute for Family and Pastoral Care, where Hernandez had taught. The same month, the Birges discovered that Hernandez had been transferred to the Col…