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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…Day,” indicated that he was directly inspired by “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” an event that was chiefly backed by atheists. And even when the corollaries aren’t so obvious, anti-Muslim attitudes seep into the culture, no matter where they originate. …With Liberty and Justice For All (Not Just Atheists) When incidents like these occur, I think of the ways in which principled religious criticism can easily devolve into unthinking prejudice. I can…

An Independence Day Sermonette

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ght have been talking about “God Bless America” theology when he said, some 700 years ago: “Some want to see God with their own eyes, just as they see a cow; and they want to love God just as they love a cow. You love a cow because of the milk and cheese and because of your own advantage. This is how all these people act who love God because of external riches or because of internal consolation. They do not love God rightly; rather they love their…

Netanyahu’s (Republican) Esther Moment

By Sarah Posner

…. Here’s an example from a piece I wrote in 2006: On Purim, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the day Queen Esther saved the Jews from annihilation, Trinity Broadcasting Network’s flagship talk show, Praise the Lord, featured an appearance by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. A politically conservative Orthodox rabbi, Lapin is best known for crusading with the Christian right against anti-religion bigotry and, more recently, for his close association with the…

Want Straight Talk on the Romney-Rosen Mommy Wars?

By Joanna Brooks

…well that’s heartless. And I said no, no, I’m willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It will cost the state more, providing that day care. But I want the individuals to have the dignity of work. Why should the defense of stay-at-home motherhood not extend to working-class and impoverished women? Is parental caregiving not just as valuable for children living below the poverty line? As Mormon feminist hous…

Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence

By Holly Welker

…lay the fact that the magazine is addressing a topic important to people today? Church employees are supposedly able to seek spiritual guidance in doing their job as the Lord would see fit; would it really be weird for the staff of a church magazine to be inspired to create content for its teenage members? Why is the church so anxious to look like it’s somehow the one entity on earth that isn’t responsive to its environment? Even rocks can crack u…

Mormons’ Puzzling Indifference to Easter

By Holly Welker

…y know, like everyone else, that the holiday had arrived. We hadn’t had 40 days of reflecting on the holiday to help us prepare for it. Our mission president didn’t mention it; apparently no one had received Easter wishes in letters from family; and nothing in our meetings that day directly acknowledged the atonement, the crucifixion, or the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Mormon indifference to Easter can puzzle pretty much everyone who stops to th…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…when calling God’s army to fight “the uncircumcised Philistines” of modern-day America. At times during the rally, the threats of violence got frighteningly specific. After writing a straightforward news account of the rally’s first day, a local Lancaster reporter was publicly called out by Seth Keshel, a nationally known personality in the election-fraud circuit. The six-foot-six former Army captain who worked in military intelligence, after issu…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ly muscling human rights defenders.” Germany: Muslim parents object to gay day-care teacher Der Tagesspiegel reports on Muslim parents protesting the employment of a gay man as a beloved teacher at a Beriln day-care center. The story describes a clash of two worlds. “The parents come from the Arab region, from Russia, Turkey, from Romania,” the story says, quoting the teacher saying “For some of them, a homosexual is automatically a child molester…

Trump Pulls a Huckabee on Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ligious freedom of Adventists by attempting to force them to worship on Sundays rather than Saturdays. Trump is trying to provoke such an examination, with a hope that it will trigger an erosion of Carson’s evangelical support. While finger-pointing, Trump appears oblivious to the many evangelicals who consider the prosperity gospel of the Trump-loving televangelists to be a heresy. Things get complicated when you accuse someone—even obliquely—of…

No, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is Not Calling for Peace — In Fact, He’s Putin’s Accomplice

By Katherine Kelaidis

…xt Sunday Orthodox Christians around the world will observe Forgiveness Sunday, the final day before Lent. On this day, the liturgical practice remembers the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden and calls on individual believers to repent of their sins against others. The period of repentance and fasting ahead would be the ideal occasion for Patriarch Kirill to exercise the authority of Orthodox hierarchs to concretely condemn and punish the aggres…