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Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom

By Patricia Miller

…oy to learn which plans aren’t offering contraceptive coverage and whom to contact to let them know their insurer will cover contraception anyway. It seems to envision some form of the “compromise” it suggested in its equally bizarre request for additional briefs after the initial hearing. Under this compromise, the plaintiffs would contract for a plan that didn’t provide contraceptive coverage in the first place, which suggests that the Little Si…

Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…r and gave the opening speech. He’s tall, a bit lanky, steady with his eye-contact, and erring on the side of clean-cut. Around here, he’s someone who can get things done and get money out of the administration. Even professors talk about him with a shade of awe. As a freshman he was class president, but then he quit student government for greater things. He also has a visionary streak, and a knack for stringing winged words together into crescend…

Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome: Christian Women and Domestic Violence

By Kathryn Joyce

…teaching is profoundly and dangerously wrong,” says Roberts, who tried to contact Saddleback twice after the teachings were publicized in early January, offering them her book’s findings that 1 Corinthians 7:15—a verse commonly interpreted as applying solely to an unbeliever deserting a believing spouse—provides the biblical grounds for abused wives to consider their union nullified. “The key question is not ‘who walked out’ but ‘who caused the s…

Muslim Voices Festival: A Teahouse, and a Shakespeare Play

By Hussein Rashid

…finds “religion” later in life. Buckingham is the colonial power, English/American/French, who is interested in putting in a pliant stooge in order to get access to oil. Rather blaming neo-colonialism, religion, or some other external factor for the problems in this fictional Arab country, Al-Bassam spreads the blame. It is the fault of royals who are only interested in themselves; it is the fault of “reformers,” secular and religious, who are on…

Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…perception of Islam? Now, if you talk to an average or semi-well informed American, you don’t have to explain yourself when you talk about mass nonviolent movements in the Middle East, because they will immediately associate that with Egypt and Tunisia. So the American image of the Middle East is changing, but I don’t think it’s changed enough. Still I think there is a lot of fear of Islam and negativity towards Islam. What are most overlooked e…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…f us know, all too well, that it is “terrorism” when the victims are white Americans—otherwise it’s simply a “hate crime.” But, then again, it can only be a hate crime if the perpetrators are white Americans, otherwise it’s “terrorism.”) Somehow the story is more easily told when we don’t have to talk about race—because no one knows how to talk about when people of color attack other people of color. But when reports refer to an attack on a “gay n…

Fired GTS Professors Go Back to Work, For Now

By Steve A. Wiggins

…quirements and communal meals, keep seminarians of all ranks in very close contact. I’m tempted to call it crowd-sourcing theology. Only, in this setting one person in this crowd may speak for all. Tensions naturally build, but Episcopalians respect hierarchy. If something goes wrong in paradise, few options for collegial dialogue exist in such a setting. An unevenly balanced, tenuous power structure makes the Dean a fulcrum between the Board (his…

Theologians Claim Death Row Inmate as One of Their Own

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e personally,” in this case, means “knowing someone who has regular social contact with people possessing masters and doctoral degrees and/or large Twitter followings and/or several published books to their credit”? Too, it’s not as though everyone involved knew Gissendaner and counted her as a friend: some, like me, were friends with people who knew her, and their pain—maybe unavoidably?—lent urgency to Gissendaner’s case. At the same time, I don…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…that they plan to visit their campuses, Higgins explains, and that initial contact often opens the door for a conversation between Soulforce and campus thought-leaders once the Equality bus arrives. But not always. “Through e-mail,” Higgins says, “we’ve had students [at other schools] say that they’ve watched us from the library window but they didn’t have the strength to come outside. That’s why sometimes we need to walk on campus even it means b…

Of Mosques and Men

By Amina Wadud

…myself with the cloaking garments of prayer worship. When I must make eye contact and even hold conversation with others, next week. After all, Allah resides every where, even in the gender-apartheid mosques, so why not share it with Her followers? Before the blogging is over I will discuss how the Qur’an can both come down in one month, Ramadan and at the same time take 23 years… Editor’s Note: To follow all of Amina Wadud’s daily posts, as she…