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Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…e been nurtured within a hyper-polarized nation, but they also witness its paralysis and the futility of us/them dynamics: politicians who can’t speak to one another across the aisle, dueling news channels that propagandize rather than inform, cycles of revenge for historical injuries that keep global neighbors in perpetual war. To young ecumenists, any shutting down of dialogue seems like more of the same. Repairing the Fractured Human State What…

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…the movers of change in other societies—have nothing to do with the political realities of the Middle East. Islam, like the Arabs, is a special case of a religion that has fundamental problems; the most common accusations being that it is inherently violent and/or anti-democratic. Fear of the Arab Street These narratives, much older than the current reporting on the Middle East, derive from colonial politics. They have become much more pronounced…

‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists

By Austin Dacey

…the world’s most populous Muslim country, represents a much different global reality. Here the value at stake is not just freedom of speech, but freedom of conscience. The real contest is not between atheists and believers, but between those who affirm the equality of all persons of conscience and those who deny it. Aan was arrested in a small town in West Sumatra on January 18 after a number of local residents assaulted him at work in an act of…

How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish, and Unhappy

By David Webster

…e more often than not logically incompatible. There seemed to be an illogical almost anti-rational and extreme open-mindedness. No claim, no matter how preposterous or unfeasible, seemed to be unacceptable—and to question the claims was seen as either spiritually naïve or as being locked into some kind of pro-conflict, old-religion mindset of harsh exclusivism. For me, when looking at particular new-age material this ‘everyone is right, all paths…

Inventing Jesus: An Interview with Bart Ehrman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ther dying and rising gods. He was just a Jewish version, invented to be a parallel to these pagan gods. I show in the book why this simply can’t be true. In part, because we have very little evidence, if it exists at all, that there were any dying and rising gods in the pagan world. I also argue that Jesus could not have been invented as a dying and rising god because the earliest Christians didn’t think he was God. What can we say, then, from…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…y in groups, palming thick books of LDS scripture, wearing tupenu—traditional calf-length linen wraparound skirts–with their white shirts and ties. Gauntlets of young locals in dark suits line walkways on the north side of Temple Square, cheerfully singing hymns from the screens of their iPhones or from green-backed hymnals, while a clutch of protestors—evangelical Christians, mostly, the same familiar, ragged gang materializing every conference—t…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…uck me as a plausible enough choice that also allowed for some interesting parallels to what happened in the real world. And once you eliminate the land dispute with the Palestinians and get rid of the Middle Eastern dictators for whom Israel is such a convenient propaganda target, I don’t see any reason why Jews and Muslims couldn’t be close allies—especially if they face a common enemy. Alternate histories are usually insightful for any number o…

Komen & Islamophobia, A New Conservative MO?

By Hussein Rashid

…ing). 2. When you cannot make something that is Constitutionally protected illegal, you smear the organizations with the taint of criminality. This allows the opponents of individual rights and liberties to vilify law-abiding citizens, and try people in the court of public opinion. For example, a CNN article states: ”The move is clearly connected to attempts by Republicans in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood,” the organization said in a state…

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

By Shalom Goldman

…Verses, the difference being that the Western author (Salman Rushdie) is still alive under the protection of the British police while the Azerbaijani author in Baku was stabbed and died five days ago in hospital. You are undoubtedly aware that these two individuals are not the only ones who have insulted the Prophet (Peace be upon him), Quran and Islam. There are some who on a daily basis and in different languages, in the print and Internet, insu…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…o is also the leader of anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Muslim The Call revival rallies across the country. In 2002, the Kansas City IHOP was having a “forerunner conference,” Dalton said, “so I went halfway across the United States to find out what God was speaking to me. And it clarified a lot of things.” She came back to Pickens County and founded the Forerunner House of Prayer. Mike Bickle, who played a central preaching role at The Response in…