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With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…with alleged extraterrestrials are best characterized as beneficial and spiritual, if frightening. Current UAP military narratives counter the testimonies found in books like Mack’s. They’re replaced with the specter of the reality of extraterrestrials and their danger to humans. The UFO/UAP narrative is a belief system that suddenly, with the release of the Pentagon Report, is supported by military witness testimonies. A new development in the ve…

The Wounded People of God

By Anthea Butler

…ly because it is a topical story and I write about religious history, but primarily because I have dealt with this issue off and on for nine years, in one way or another. My first public writing about this was with a colleague at the time, Rosemary Carbine. We jointly wrote a piece that was published in The Marty Center’s Sightings, a publication dealing with religion and public life. It was the beginnings of the American child abuse scandal, and…

Forgiveness

By Amina Wadud

…not to bring their microwave, not to bring their toaster oven and not to bring their cell phone. It was almost funny. Following that announcement from the now infamous loud “speaker,” he said that fajr prayer would be at 5:40. I should have thought more clearly about this, but as it stands, I have three different prayer time schedules: my iphone has one from the Ipray app; and I printed one off line from Islamicity; then collected one from my fav…

“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…y. Is It About Religion? Or About Power? I talked with another fellow, a Syrian Christian pharmacist who had in fact stayed in his Syrian village after it had been taken over by ISIS forces. When he became a refugee he was able to stay in a slightly more comfortable Christian camp than the one for Arab Muslims; it was set up in what had formerly been a playground next to a Catholic church in the Erbil suburb of Ankawa. The camp consisted of one-ro…

Even Tougher Questions to Ask Mormon Presidential Candidates

By Joanna Brooks

…ry, despite the fact that Church founder Joseph Smith initially ordained African-American men. How were you raised to understand the Church’s priesthood ban, and how do you now view it? Was the LDS Church wrong to withhold priesthood from men of African descent? As members of a minority religion, Mormons like Romney and Huntsman have learned to be very pragmatic in the way they manage the relationship between personal faith and public decision-m…

Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

By Lauri Lebo

…sweetly, are forever being drawn back to it on some level. After an appropriate period of trembling, which seemed like forever but was probably about five minutes, I emerged cautiously from the cloakroom. Mrs Roach let me stand there while the rest of the Bible Schoolers finished up the next tune, the standard off-key rendition of ‘Yes, Jesus Loves Me.’ She turned in my direction. ‘Out already?’ she said. ‘I could hold a bear in a bathtub that lo…

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Problem of the Rape Exception

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nant by the one violating her sexually. The Theological. Ish. Many early Christian writers opposed abortion to an extreme degree—perhaps none more colorfully than in the Apocalypse of Peter, an early 2nd century text which offers the following eternal punishment for women who had procured abortions: they would have to sit neck-deep in a lake of “discharge and stench,” while their crying aborted fetuses would zap rays of fire into their eyes. Partl…

ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…igan to protest outside the Islamic Center for America. But following a hearing Friday in Wayne County, Jones was arrested and put in jail for refusing to post a $1 “peace bond.” The judge issued the bond requirement to keep Jones from inciting a riot, I guess, by outraged Muslims. What’s most disturbing about the case was that Jones was locked up, not because he was suspected of committing a crime, but because he refused to promise that he wouldn…

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…d month of the Muslim year, was in the winter. Muslims abstain from food, drink, and sex during daylight hours. Ramadan in the New England winter is a bit like cheating: Fasting for incredibly short days is nice and easy. (The cold weather also means there’s less to look at, if you follow my meaning.) This year, Ramadan comes in August. A lot of my fellow New York Muslims dreaded the approach of Ramadan in the summer, to say nothing of this year’s…

Gay Marriage Bill Totalitarian Says Head Bishop

By Peter Montgomery

…vernment deciding “who lives and who dies?” If so, Dolan is forfeiting his right to have his arguments taken seriously by legislators and anyone else. Dolan’s reference to “natural law” mirrors NOM’s use of “natural marriage” and the Manhattan Declaration’s invocation of “natural human reason” to buttress their religious objections to marriage equality with a seemingly universal claim to nature and nature’s God. But as shifts in public opinion, an…