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What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…Islam he speaks for is assumed to represent a static and unchanging force. II. Don’t Ask, Tell Addressing a panel at the 2011 American Academy of Religion Conference, Hussein Agrama illuminated the contradiction in the French government’s restrictions on hijab and the niqab, or face-veil. France banned both on the argument that they were either the sartorial embodiment of a politically Islamic identity, the tip of an Islamist iceberg so to speak,…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…ign, Kranish writes, “made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes, that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidate’s defeat, given the revolutionary turnout tactics and tactical smarts of President Obama’s operation.” To wit: Team Romney was (as we all knew) far too timid in telling the candidate’s personal story—especially his faith and his service in his faith community. Team Obama had way better tech guys. Team Romne…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…s earned DuBois praise from his admirers. As I wrote just last week, John DiIulio, the first director of the previous iteration of the office started by former President George W. Bush, extolled DuBois as “a brilliant young minister with a graduate degree in public administration from Princeton.” Yet for all of DiIulio’s regard for DuBois’ efforts at partnerships and service, there has indeed been doling out of money, as under Bush. DuBois’ cozy…

Intensive Care: Preachers’ Daughters Episode Five Recap

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ans! Last night on Preachers’ Daughters, the Koloff, Coleman, and Perry families—with the help, presumably, of post-production staff—ran the emotional gamut. Some highlights: LOLumwhut?: Victoria and Nikita Koloff, divorced parents, were sent on a date by their four daughters. Nikita was in on the scheme, but it was a complete surprise for Victoria. What the audience saw of the date actually involved no rekindled romance, just awkward conversati…

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

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…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 was the first destination for the waves of immigrants from the Ottoman Empire-occupied lands known as “Greater…

Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…ty. She’s right, of course. In putting on the table the question of how religion relates to the verdict, how religion has been operative under the radar, so to speak, inside of the verdict, and how religion is the larger horizon of the shooting and subsequent trial, Dr. Butler has done us all a profound service. But as a theologian or a Christian intellectual, I want to up the ante on her provocative and important analysis and propose that the onl…

Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

…begs for explanation, and there is no shortage of theories. David Denby, writing about World War Z for the New Yorker, notes, “The zombies aren’t like us; they are us, just degraded a little.” But what do zombies symbolize really? Are they us or aren’t they? Or are they symbolic of larger themes like consumerism, terrorism, neoliberalism, or epidemics? And how did these monsters become representative of our current moment? Much of this ambiguity c…

Why is Liberty Institute Still Defending Phillip Monk?

By Rob Shryock

I can’t believe I’m writing, yet again, about Phillip Monk, the Air Force sergeant who lied when he publicly insisted he had been “essentially fired” for his beliefs (Parts 1 and 2 are here.) When the Air Force released the investigation into Monk’s case, which stated what was then obvious (Monk had lied) but did not punish him, I figured Monk’s defenders would just stop caring, since the story no longer fit their worldview. I was very, very wron…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…, Mormon parents of wayward kids sent their sons to pick pineapples in Hawaii. Were watermelons the Arizona version? [Laughs.] It wasn’t like that. My dad grew up on a farm and wanted me to have the same experience, so I spent my summers in Phoenix doing manual labor. From it I came to realize that the hardest working people I’d ever known were undocumented. And I would do this work just for a summer, but they were at it six days a week, all ye…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…vergence between the U.S., where LGBT equality continues to advance and religious conservatives have faced a series of setbacks, and many parts of the world, where increasingly harsh and violent anti-gay repression is spreading, some of it encouraged, supported, and cheered on by American religious right figures who are looking overseas for opportunities to stop “the gay agenda.” “There is a deplorable common thread that ties together these exampl…