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On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…ly. Sometimes there are no distinctions made for gender. Most importantly, despite the patriarchal context more than 14 centuries ago, under no circumstances are women to be disinherited. Juridical intervention has taken away the female shares and passed them over to more distant male relatives, still today. This is a clear violation. Still it is vexing to make sense of any uneven distribution based on gender. The simplest and most popular interpr…

Another Book Burner Lusts for Attention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ear in agreement with what we are doing. I may ask for your church’s name, phone number, and Web site to verify your stand. What I see as the sin at the heart of Grizzard and Jones’ actions—as well as at the heart of anyone who seeks to violently control the free will or belief of others—is lust. These men lust for control; and in their lust they objectify others, people they call “heretics” or “sinners.” Lust, in and of itself, is not a bad thing…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…er loving and transgender people: How do you solemnize, respect, and appreciate the marriages of people who don’t fit snugly into the status quo? You have to supersede your law, because your law is designed for people who have the privilege and the ability to keep it. Yes, I’ve heard you say that being able to be heard is actually a question of privilege. Exactly, and I have this real ongoing struggle trying to explain this. In certain situations,…

Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A Progressive Christian Response

By Eric Reitan

…fight. If someone had pressed into his fingers at that pivotal moment the phone number for The Trevor Project, he might reach out and hear a voice of reassurance, a voice that gave him hope for life by, in part, repudiating the so-called biblical teaching that who he is amounts to an offense against God. If he’d had a sense of belonging to a community that embraced him for who he is, maybe his hope wouldn’t be so fully shattered. But while other…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…plethora of other stories, the show’s excellent accompanying Web site provides a wealth of material for further reading and discussion. The independent essay “The Black Church,” for example, is an outstanding model of compressed but sophisticated historical narrative, one that assuaged my uneasiness with the lack of a black presence up until the section on slavery and the Civil War. Religious Freedom Fostered Religious Repression The theme of the…

Aliens Are Fattening Us Up For the Rapture

By Mark Hulsether

…Nations, a case for the U.S or Israel attacking Iran, and a pitch for the phone ministry 1-888-RAPTURE. Apparently the UFO issue got onto Lindsey’s radar screen because of reports that United Nations is paying attention to it, as discussed here. Lindsey offers a mass of evidence (quite disturbing if true) claiming sightings by military personnel who witnessed UFOs disarming nuclear weapons. In Lindsey’s interpretation, such disarmament fits a sim…

The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…d at gay people.” That violence is both promoted by the government—one parliamentarian has said if he had a lesbian daughter, he would hang her—and carried out by private citizens with government complicity. If a lesbian victim of the common “corrective rape” were to go to the police station to report it, Kaggwa said, she would risk being raped again—by the police. Kaggwa, who this week received the 2010 Human Rights First Award, has played a lead…

Tea Party 2.0, Ready For Post-Election Launch

By Julie Ingersoll

…religious right on the tea party movement (arguing that it’s about a lot more than taxes), the press release promoting the conference and its polling data indicated that the poll’s questions were designed to “ascertain voter attitudes on major issues and the political parties, President Obama, the Tea Party movement, and (…wait for it…) the pro-family movement.”…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…ing to write a blog on my iPad. Let the record show, I was not successful, despite my best intentions. I managed to drop that daughter off just in time to head to Oakland as I had told my middle daughter I would. She needed assistance with the baby because her Canadian in-laws gave her a car, which had to be cleared at customs before local registration. Then we went to the farmers’ market, the flea markets, and the swap meet. She insists on using…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…dared to hope. Not in some supposed new Chosen One—that Obama was some messianic figure was an idea rooted only in the firm soil of authoritarian minds opposed to his election—but we hoped that what had been stored up in the rejection of all that came before that fall might be used to seed a new time in our history. I hoped that my nation might be headed in a new direction. I hoped that my people might be more generous and open. I hoped that the w…