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“My Name is Will and I’m Putting You on Notice”

By Lauri Lebo

…who last year took a stand and refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance in class. Will believes that until gays and lesbians receive the same rights and recognition as heterosexuals in this country, the phrase “liberty and justice for all” is just a farce and he refuses to be a part of it. Phillips was speaking at the Big Commit Sunday in Washington DC, a counter-rally to the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage’s wrap up of its “Summer for…

As Gays More Accepted, Religious Opponents More Vocal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…at, twenty years ago, when he introduced the topic of homosexuality in his class people would become nervous and uncomfortable. Now, he says “it’s been five years since I’ve had any student that opposes same-sex marriage, so this notion of a generation shift is very, very big.” Wilcox adds one caveat: while youth are more liberal on the question of gay and lesbian rights, it doesn’t mean they’re more liberal across the board. “The young cohort is…

Is This Light?

By Amina Wadud

…er I think of surat-al-Nur, I want to say I think about the passages about divine light nur an ‘ala nur. But alas, it’s the gender and society stuff that always gets stuck in my head, so let’s bare it naked, so to speak and see what we shall see. When I was in Indonesia I got asked more than once, why the verse that talks about zinah, adultery and fornication, starts with the female al-zaani’a, when male starters is the norm for both Arabic langua…

I Am Better than Him

By Amina Wadud

…n; I am this nationality; I am this religion; I am in this social economic class; I am any category of a number of things: including food consumption. Because I am this or that, then I am better than you. Sure oppression, or zulm, as it’s referred to in the Qur’an, also requires power: the power to exploit the differences as such, but even that is interesting in the way it is discussed in the Qur’an. For one thing, in the Qur’anic stories of Satan…

Ted Haggard on ‘Loveless’ Evangelical Church

By Lauri Lebo

…essors and the oppressed; reparations, not repentance; collectivism, not individual salvation. I don’t know what that is, other than it’s not Muslim, it’s not Christian. It’s a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it.” At least if Haggard is harboring such ideas, he’s not talking about them. Instead, he just talks about love, which he says is woefully lacking in today’s evangelical churches. He says he can’t find a semi…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…d his personal life. We were instruments to be used. Any concern for our individuality was absent.” Nate explains that the Phelps children (and now grandchildren) were brought up believing the world was evil, everyone and everything outside their family compound was sinful, self-motivated. The children were routinely humiliated by their father, sent to school with shaved heads for not selling enough candy door-to-door to support the family, or mad…

Al-Qur’an and Me

By Amina Wadud

…ster rolled around and I could at long last register in an Arabic language class. Still, it was the miracle of the text that drove me. Every word I learned, every grammatical construct, I had already come upon in the Qur’an—although by using the phonetics alone. About the only thing that slowed down this rabid pace was becoming a mother. So I had two children (including one born in Libya, where the knots in my ear and my tongue were loosened) befo…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…l source. It is too white, too Western and, tends to include only economic class, not race, in its power analysis. Cone’s theological sources are the bible and black experience. If one is going to argue against his theology, one must argue against these sources not Marx. So far, Beck has said nothing about black experience and nearly everything he has claimed about the bible has been untrue. His objection to the idea of collective salvation is no…

Virtual Book Burning and Its Consequences

By Laurie Patton

…ossible (pun intended) to destroy books as a way of entirely eradicating a class of information, as Diocletian and many other emperors wanted to do. This is impossible to do because books are no longer physical objects but also electronic ones. It is also impossible to do because even electronic destruction may not be effective. At best, no matter how widespread a computer virus (a contemporary version of book burning), there is no guarantee that…

The “F” Word: Feminism in Islam

By Amina Wadud

…law, any interpretation that tries to take that away from me takes away my divine right and must be challenged. The basis of that challenge is in the divine sources themselves removed from the patriarchal context of their origins, developments and even current cultural background. Islamic feminism takes responsibility for the formulation of Islam as a living reality. We are a part of that formation and we make the present and the future as we live…