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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…made pistol owned by one of several students. • May 15, 1954, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Putnam Davis Jr. was shot and killed during a fraternity house carnival at the Phi Delta Theta house at the University of North Carolina. William Joyner and Allen Long were shot and wounded during the exchange of gunfire in their fraternity bedroom. The incident took place after an all-night beer party. Mr. Long reported to the police that, while the three w…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…s that after the Arabs beat Hitler, they broke Germany in two and gave the northern half to the Jews, something which the Lutherans and Catholics are still fuming about. North America is a patchwork of dictatorships and Christian theocracies. On November 9, 2001, Christian fundamentalists from the Rocky Mountain Independent Territories hijack four jet planes and fly them into buildings in Baghdad and Riyadh. In retaliation, the Arabs capture Denve…

The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011

By Jason Bruner

…to await a cataclysmic event. They had journeyed to a hilltop in the rural north-western highlands of Dien Bien, Vietnam. Translated short wave radio broadcasts sponsored by Camping’s Family Radio told them that the land of the sinful would be destroyed. The righteous, those who had accepted God’s forgiveness offered in Jesus Christ, would be saved in this radical reordering. That would give the Hmong what they have been waiting for—a land of thei…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…e term then spread to Protestant Churches, in the civil rights movement in North America and to the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa. It is also used in Buddhist communities when religious belief is coupled with desire for radical social change through nonviolent means and/or forceful civic protest. There are scholars who use the term liberation theology to describe progressive approaches to Islamic belief and practice. Amina Wadud and…

A History of Prophetic Black Preaching That Doesn’t Start or End With Dr. King

By Kenyatta R. Gilbert

…n and pronounced divine blessing on Trump. And at the other pole, you have North Carolinian Pastor Rev. William Barber of the NAACP and the Moral Monday’s movement offering a prophetic call to the nation to address its “heart problem,” i.e., its failure to come to terms with racial injustice and socioeconomic disparity. I also wanted to write a book that would honor the legacy of my freedom-fighting deceased father, Robert L. Gilbert, who was Bayl…

Women and Children First: Syria’s Day of Dignity

By Mohja Kahf

…king since February 18 against inhuman prison conditions. Kurds in Syria’s northern city of Qamishli cried, “honor our fallen!” on March 12, anniversary of Kurdish deaths at state hands in 2004 and 2008. Wielding the microphone over the throng of fifteen hundred was a woman, Harvene Awsi, a representative in one of Syria’s Kurdish parties. In ringing tones, she called for repeal of emergency laws, release of prisoners, and freedom. The crowd chant…

Why Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?

By Salman Hameed

…l alignment with the northern magnetic field, the position of the magnetic north changes every year. It is currently in northern Canada and moving towards Russia at 40 miles per year. (The magnetic south pole is also moving in Antarctica.) So unless one wants to move Mecca at a similar speed, it may have a hard time keeping whatever alignment Youssef al-Qaradawy is talking about. The urge on the part of some to show Mecca’s specialness in a scient…

French “Burqa Ban”: It’s Not About Religion

By Amina Wadud

…and ignores the power imbalance against Muslims; especially in Europe and North America. It is not fear that motivates some of the hatred of Islam and Muslims, and to overlook that in the discourse over niqab is naïve. It is also not just about whether a Muslim woman’s dress represents Islam unless Islam itself is under attack. So from the perspective of the individual women who wear it, I also cannot speak for them. I refuse to speak about them….

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…mway products, Scheibeler, who had developed a business that extended from North America to Europe, South America, and the Philippines, met a number of politically powerful Republican politicians and conservative religious leaders, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Iran/Contra figure Oliver North, and then-Senator Rick Santorum. Religious leaders like Charles Stanley (a former distributor), Dr. Robert Schuller and the late Dr. D…

Gutless Americans: Religion-Baiting Heading into Election Day

By Evan Derkacz

…sunday school teacher, Hagan, is a Godless heathen the Good Christians of North Carolina must fear) is so preposterous it prompted Lou Dobbs, and a gaggle of pundits, to spend a few minutes laughing at Dole’s chutzpah: So Dole ran a second “Godless Americans“ ad, which promptly got her excoriated by nearly a dozen North Carolina papers, handily rounded up in a response ad from Hagan, which ends by telling Dole to not “bear false witness against f…