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Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…ival, it is not really that at all. Burners are the culture, and among its most privileged members, with money and time to spend. Many of them hold down regular jobs in small businesses or corporate America: they are teachers and college students, massage therapists and social workers, lawyers and emergency room physicians. They staff what Burners have dubbed “the default world” and keep it running, even though they come to the desert to escape it…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…14, 2016, when, after years of the “War on Terror,” one of North America’s most important international airports seized up as panicked reports of “multiple active shooters”—later discredited as false—swept through the terminals, sending passengers, law-enforcement, and airline workers scrambling for cover and eventually onto the tarmac. The responding authorities found neither shooters nor evidence of any shots fired. The most likely explanation o…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…for now I will not rest, I will not sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight, until I hear the end of this violation. And neither should you, for it is the abomination that brings desolation. The final reckoning will not register which airline company boasted the most freshly painted fleet or ranked last in customer satisfaction. But there are some sacred goods of such high ideal as we instead are called to satisfy, goods that are not to be consumed…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…k a cup of tea with leaves still settled at the bottom. Once the liquid is mostly all drunk, the reader takes the leaves, swishes them around in the bottom of the cup, turns the cup upside down and “reads” the tracks and pattern stains left by the leaves. I remember only one thing she said, that I would make hajj in the next year or two. This year I made my intentions during the previous hajj season. As I have said, I committed to use my little bi…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…n about Islam ran high here. State Senator Alan Hays received probably the most boisterous standing ovation of the day when he was introduced as the sponsor of a bill that would ban the use of “foreign” (i.e., sharia) law. Florida religious right leaders seem to see this moment, even if Gingrich or Santorum can’t catch Romney, to build a Christian get-out-the-vote drive for the general election and beyond. Don Wildmon, the American Family Associat…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ferent as the decorated wedding groups seemed from the hundred or so other mostly young adults—OccupySTL—holding forth in Morton May Amphitheater across the way, it seems fair to say that their dreams were perhaps not so far apart from what historian James Truslow Adams was bold to name as a uniquely American aspiration even in the depth of the Great Depression: …the American dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in th…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…you know, it’s been banned.” Finland: 800+ same-sex couples married in first month; Lutheran priests barred from officiating More than 800 same-sex couples were married in March after marriage equality went into effect on the first of the month; 770 had already been in civil partnerships. The Lutheran Evangelical Church has decreed that priests are not permitted to marry same-sex couples and some bishops warned that those who do would face “conse…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…st”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader alongside one of the most hate-filled religious figures in contemporary memory. But here it is, a connect-the-dots portrait of a powerfully complicated American religious landscape, circa 2014. Vincent Gordon Harding Historian and theologian Vincent Gordon Harding died at 82. Harding founded Atlanta’s Mennonite House with his wife Rosemarie in 1961, a headquarters for consciences objectors and…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…Nation of Islam led then-leader Elijah Muhammad to officially silence his most famous minister. Malcolm X left the Nation a short time later. Likewise, in 1984, Farrakhan vocalized his support for the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign. But remarks that Farrakhan made that same year drew fire for being anti-Semitic. Farrakhan described the founding of Israel as ‘’an outlaw act’’ and Judaism as a ‘’gutter religion’’—though the minister fer…

Vatican Pitbulls Make Cardinal

By Mary E. Hunt

…or the mob than being named to a high-ranking religious post, but it’s the most apt analogy I can find for how the Roman Catholic system seems to work. Cardinal-Designate Donald Wuerl For all the good Wuerl may have done in his lifetime, it is hard to forget at this time when his power in the Roman Catholic Church has just increased geometrically (he will be one of the 120 or so electors of the next Pope) how he earned his spurs. Ordained in 1966…