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Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…ility of destruction has a strange way of inspiring reflection on personal property. On the phone, I told my mom, “I love your house. It is so perfect for you.” And I do. I love her house not because I grew up there (I did not) or because I’ve spent much time there (I’ve only visited once) or because of anything to do with the way it looks. I love her house because of what it stands for. It’s a symbol of her freedom. Freedom from every man who rai…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…ms’ lives will look like after his inauguration. Some hope that Trump will prove more sensible and less bombastic as a president than he was as a candidate. Others live with a sense of impending doom. The anti-Clinton activists welcome this outcome as a much-needed awakening that will finally mobilize Muslims to forcefully resist the bipartisan establishment. How Muslims and other US minorities will handle the coming damage remains to be seen. Wha…

Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nation. All of those removed are affiliated with Faith in America (FIA), a progressive nonprofit dedicated to “[moving] the needle forward on LGBTQ equality in the pews and in our legislation.” Brandan Robertson, a 24-year-old bisexual cisgender man, and former SBC youth leader, told RD that he and a colleague had noticed a plainclothes security officer following them around the conference center for roughly 10 minutes before that officer approach…

The Banality of Bernie

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nclosed in panoptic glass, sophisticated in their wiring, despite Madoff’s protests of computer illiteracy and lack of knowledge about the new technologies. Clearly he did; he had a computer at home, too. And he knew the dangers as well as the advantages of the computer. The 17th floor looked nothing like the two floors above it. They were technologically primitive, and they were not subject to Bernie’s oversight. In a word, there was no paper tra…

Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

…by a gunman demanding the rabbi, somehow, order the release of an al-Qaeda prisoner held in the nearby Fort Worth prison. The gunman’s logic is clear: since Jews control US prisons, law enforcement, and (particularly Middle Eastern) foreign policy, a local rabbi must have the power to make this happen. The assumption of a Jewish conspiracy is all that’s required to decode the attacker’s rationale. Violence stemming from this logic has a long histo…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…. Lawrence worked comparatively to show how such movements possessed and expressed some surprising similarities across the boundaries of traditional religious confession; fundamentalism was, in his view, a legitimate comparative category that helped name what he viewed as a religious “revolt against the modern age.” A decade of confusion I will return to the question of modernity and the various reactions it has spawned, but here I want to notic…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…al justice. There is a tremendous need for somebody besides white men to represent the progressive religious voice.” Haffner’s position is not without a groundswell of support in faith communities; more than 2200 ordained clergy, for example, endorsed the Religious Institute’s call for marriage equality, and more than 3000 religious leaders have endorsed the Religious Declaration on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing, which calls for comprehens…

Shukr: Gratitude

By Amina Wadud

…the morning, but that is actually my favorite time of day to be awake and productive. I used to say, if I see that sun come over the horizon, I know the day is going to be good. Simple things like the sun or the absence of it, remind me then to be grateful. Yesterday I was reading about the creation of man from an atom of tin dirt/dust; and the whole process of fetal development in surat-al Mu’minun. And then this: “He it is Who has evolved for y…

A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…d’s Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in 1893. Among James’ favored practitioners of these newly improvised regimens of meditation was Ralph Waldo Trine, a Boston-based reformer with a knack for inspirational writing. In his classic account The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) James used Trine’s blockbuster, In Tune with the Infinite (1897), as an epitome of the emergent practices of concentration, mental repose, and healthy-mindedn…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…against Western; swarthy Mediterraneans dragging down flaxen Nordics, even presently present with industrious Germany condescending to a Greece heading for the Grexit. Thanks for democracy but what have you done for us recently? Even the adjectives are ominous: Oriental. Balkan. Byzantine. Why explain what makes someone your enemy when you can just point to geography? Melissa McCarthy in Spy (20th Century Fox). Sure, Spy is about an everyday woman…