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The War on Terror is Over; Tahrir Buried It

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…on September 11, 2001, and likely terminated at Tahrir Square in Egypt on January 25, 2011. Even this past weekend when I was there, tens of thousands crowded the huge traffic circle waving flags and patriotic banners. Now, however, they aren’t calling for the fall of a dictator, but for government to be true to its promise of free and fair elections. The excitement over the democratic changes in the country is palpable. The main reason for this…

Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars

By Paul Wallace

…ce teachers to teach science. According to a study published by Science in January, only 28% of all biology teachers consistently teach evolution, 13% consistently teach creationism (intelligent design), and 60% waffle around in the middle somewhere, consistently failing to present evolution as the established scientific theory it is. Among the 60% are those who “teach the controversy,” fooling kids into thinking that what is not science, is scien…

Emad Effat, Shaykh of Egyptian Revolution, Shot Dead During Protest

By H. al-Zoubeir

…ream center of Islamic thought, which meant that among the mourners were a number of students to whom he exemplified a deeply religious scholar whose teachings were not limited to the mosque. But there were also liberals, secularists, socialists, Christians, priests, men, women, young, old, poor, rich—just like Tahrir Square in January, where Shaykh Emad said he saw Egypt for the first time. After knowing Shaykh Emad’s death brought so many differ…

A Writer’s Murder Raises Fears of Death-by-Decree

By Shalom Goldman

On Saturday January 21, Salman Rushdie announced that because of new threats against his life he would not be attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, India’s premier showcase of Asian literature. Rushdie hid for 11 years after Khomeini’s 1989 public call for his death, only emerging in 2000. Now in 2012 he is threatened again. Unremarked upon in the recent hullabaloo concerning Rushdie was that only a few months ago a religious edict, or fatwa,…

Liberals Enabled Bishops in Contraception Battle

By Sarah Posner

…ensitive to religion. The rule as the Obama administration announced it on January 20 was constitutionally sound. Not only was it legally supportable, it was politically supported by a majority of Americans. Nonetheless, the objectors to the contraception coverage requirement claimed that even though it exempted houses of worship, the regulation should also exempt religious institutions whose hierarchies believe contraception is a sin. Friday’s ac…

Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…pproach, even as others remain reluctant. At the Christian Unity Summit in January 2012, 27 leaders from various Christian bodies, including the NCC, Christian Churches Together (CCT), the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), the Catholic and Orthodox churches, historic black denominations, and Pentecostals, all met to discuss the future of ecumenical relations as well as cooperation in addressing global crises and injustices. NCC Gives Wom…

Glenn Beck’s Fox Show Gets Canned

By Lauri Lebo

…March. “True, he fell from the great heights of the health care debate in January 2010, but there has been worrisome erosion — more than one million viewers — especially in the younger demographic.” I’ve written a good bit about Beck, most recently on Monday, pointing out his shameful rewriting of history to fit his right-wing extremist worldview. During his time as a Fox News host, RD has covered the many varieties of Beck’s extremist views on r…

Mark Driscoll Hate-Tweets as Pope Benedict Flip-Flops: This Week in Religion and Social Media

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ell every six months. But the string of replies to the tweet, as well as a number of pained blog posts, make clear that Driscoll’s rhetoric is at least as alienating to thoughtful Christians across the ideological spectrum as it is titillating to his followers. For those Christians often straining to sustain their identification and affiliation with one or another branch of the Christian family, Driscoll comes off like the ranting, half-drunk cous…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…ill go to Mina, etc. There is still no address for the hotels, but a local phone number. There is also information about processing customs at Jeddah, meeting the tour guide, and information that says “the group” will proceed to Makkah—which means the first will have to wait for the last person, which is the beginning of feeling like you are a group. They even include suggestions to “get to know” your fellow travelers. I still had no idea what wer…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…internet as a result of the inexorable working out of Moore’s Law. As the number of transistors on a chip grew exponentially, computers became smaller, and then they became “personal,” and then they fit in our pockets as a phone. “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing,” at the Computer History Museum In this telling, the internet was not a unique “Columbus” event, but an evolution dependent on the shrinking size and growing capacity of co…