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Hajj Journal:
This Cultural Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…s night at Mina worrying about Arafat, was preceded by the last night in Makkah worrying about the bus to Mina. I could use a decent night’s sleep after the most important day of hajj was completed with no greater incident than needing to find my way back from the Mountain of Mercy. As with everything else; the bus did not appear as described. Although a few people did make it off the plain of Arafat before sunrise, most of us stayed. It is wondro…

Sex, Violence, Art, and Religion

By Kent L. Brintnall

…onal, self-sufficient beings, in reminding ourselves in uncomfortable, shocking ways that we are always already fractured, lacerated and coming undone. The vision of justice and political progress that reigns in American culture and progressive religious circles is one of restoring the individual’s dignity, which imagines the individual (even as a member of a community) as somehow whole. This vision of wholeness, however, often has to function dif…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…st where he first argued that “we should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.” In my response, I challenged his claims that talk of Islamophobia is “deluded” and that “there is no such thing as Islamophobia.” He responded, but largely neglected my concerns about Islamophobia. It was surely nothing more than poor timing on his part to publish his latest defense of profili…

Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…es.” Everyone laughed. It put us in the right place to start, I think — took away the more serious edge. Before the introductions got around to me one woman (despite being on diabetes medications) said, “I am not a diabetic. I am not going to own up to being a diabetic unless the Lord tells me that is the case.” She keeps taking her medication and she eats 5 to 6 small meals a day, so has pretty good control over the matter. So when I had to intro…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…lways more ambivalent about him) and therefore he can’t be seen getting in knock-down, drag-out fights with his sons. Good people don’t do that. And of course, Jesus can’t be tempted by sins of the flesh—even though the Bible itself suggests that he might’ve been. I don’t think it’s because Aronofsky’s Noah has a mixture of admirable and flawed elements that he raises fundamentalist suspicions. It’s because he has a mixture of any kind at all. Pro…

The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven

By Lisa Webster

…we create artificial intelligence and it ends up taking over. One of the takeaways from transhumanism, though, if I understand it, is that (if we drop the mythology) the very idea of “natural” is not all that meaningful. Would it be fair to say, though, that it is part of the nature of the human being, that urge toward transcendence? Jay: I think there is something like a human urge toward transcendence. Humans evolved from animals and at some poi…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ns and Christian Democrat Parties. Lindström’s party colleague, MP Mika Niikko spoke with feeling at the meeting and verbally chided all those present who were in favour of the same-sex marriage law, whether Finns Party or otherwise. “I know you know that God has raised you up to this station for these trying times. Where is your fear of God?” Niikko said to the room, to which Greens MP Ozan Yanar responded by saying Niikko sounded like an Islamis…

Innocent Until Proven Muslim — A Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

By Habiba Farh

…that the threshold for torture was organ failure and death, and why it’s okay to kill hundreds of thousands in Muslim-majority countries with no accountability whatsoever. So, the dehumanization is pervasive, and I think a lot of why it persists is the way the government talks about it. Even the construction of “Muslim rage”—what is the purpose of that construction? We know: it’s to construct Muslims as inherently angry and rageful with no explan…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…avery question was already embedded within our Constitution.” His dream, like King’s, was deeply rooted in the American dream. Obama (and King, and Roosevelt, and Douglass, and Lincoln) offered a jeremiad that we might call “progressive”; one that asserted a deep faith in the nation’s promise, articulated at the founding but always painfully incomplete. It is a jeremiad because the prophetic vocation here is being exercised: speaking truth to powe…

American Civil Religion is Dead, Long Live American Civil Religion

By Peter Laarman

…y open to this criminal history? Is it even conceivable?? Let’s have a quick look at the main elements of the old religion: 1. The United States enjoys a unique (some would say, “a unique and God-given“) place in world history in that it was birthed from a bourgeois but still far-reaching revolutionary culture; 2. Our constitutional system, despite its creakiness and rigidity, still makes room for self-correcting reforms when existing social arran…