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Competitive Religious Philanthropy in the Wake of the Nepali Earthquake

By Nalika Gajaweera

…ed. Faith-based giving is widely accepted today as important aspect of the international community’s response to emergencies. Less understood, however, is the role that intra- and inter-religious dynamics play in our desires to help. While the impulse to give may be moved by a purity of intention, it is important to understand the ways that religion itself becomes entangled in these places of intervention. In many parts of South Asia, controversy…

Godless America? Say Hello to the ‘Apatheists’

By Konstantin Petrenko

…s politically and socially. In addition to supporting several national and international organizations (e.g., American Atheists, Freedom from Religion Foundation, Atheist Alliance International), they have established a national lobby, think tanks, social and dating networks, college groups, radio programs, summer camps, and even their own “out” campaign, inspiring people to come out of the closet as atheists. Perhaps the next step is devising an…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…ronically, we lock down on one, and open the floodgates to the other.” The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom also tweeted that they are “concerned with reports of forced cremation of Muslims who died from coronavirus.” As of December 10, 2020, there have been 146 Covid deaths in Sri Lanka with a disproportionate number coming from the Muslim community; despite making up less than 10% of the population, Muslims account for…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…remain remarkably successful in taking their pelvic politics overseas via international “mission” activities. Rev. Albert Ogle enjoys a bird’s-eye view of this from his perch at a small foundation that tries to defend and empower gay people internationally. Big-time Christian agencies like World Vision and big-name evangelicals like Rick Warren have been moderating their homophobia on these shores, but they wear a very different face in the Globa…

Glenn Beck Attracts 300,000; Pakistan Floods Impact
17 million

By Joanna Brooks

…ings. So I was thrilled to receive news that the Church has partnered with International Medical Corps, International Relief and Development, and Saba Aslam Welfare and Trust to purchase supplies within Pakistan for redistribution to flood-impacted areas, with additional shipments from the Humanitarian Relief Center in Salt Lake City forthcoming. And I was especially heartened to see the Church teaming with Islamic charities to provide relief, as…

God in the Inauguration: JFK, Bush, and Obama

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace. There is much going on in this paragraph, which is directed both to the American audience and to the world. Fi…

Are Women “Secondary” in Catholic Church?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…action, and evangelism. Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and United Church of Christ (UCC/Disciples) denominations have all affirmed inclusive language and provided official resources for liturgies that reflect this commitment. But use of such liturgies has largely been optional, and in churches governed hierarchically (through a bishop) rather than congregationally, change has been particularly slow. Many churches understand the the…

Talking With the “Religious Terrorist” that Turkey Wants Trump to Extradite

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ulen’s quarters don’t give the appearance of the control center for a vast international organization. What we did see was a former youth camp on twenty-six wooded acres on a quiet road near the town of Saylorsburg in eastern Pennsylvania. A large farmhouse had been renovated into guest quarters, while another building used for conferences held the room where we met, adjacent to Gulen’s bedroom, his only place of privacy in the compound. The bedro…

A Brief History of Olympic Flames

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…is revival. But after the war that followed so tragically and so soon, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) needed to detach the flame from its historical origins if they wanted to maintain it as a potent symbol of peace. And it remains such a symbol today, which is precisely why it became a focus of social protest. But a symbol of what? Tellingly, Coubertin could never say with clarity, whereas he was wonderfully eloquent about most other as…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…nd these of apartheid-era South Africa is an incendiary charge in both the United States and Israel. In Europe it is more commonly heard. The claim will make you a lot of enemies on the political Right, and earn you points on the international Left. Israel allied with South Africa The Unspoken Alliance is not directly concerned with the Israel-South Africa comparison, but it cannot, of course, avoid it. Rather, writer Sasha Polakow-Suransky, a sen…