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How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…r day in Rome. The pulse—a continuous “beeping” out of a sequence of prime numbers (1,3,5,7,11,13….)—was first detected back in November at the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (or FAST), and then independently by other observatories worldwide And now we find ourselves marking the opening of the so-called “Vatican IV” —an unprecedented ecumenical gathering of religious leaders invited to Rome by Pope Francis III. The rumor is…

Is ‘Western Self-Hatred’ the Problem in the Gaza War Protest Movement?

By Shaul Magid

…nti-West) that’s given us modern antisemitism. In any case, Foucault is a fair example, but let’s not forget that, while he did defend the Iranian Revolution, he also decried as shameful the 1976 UN resolution that “Zionism is racism.” Using him to make a point as an “anti-Western” voice against Israel may be complicated. As Persico notes, Foucault recognized his error when Khomeini failed to implement his revolutionary program as Foucault intende…

Purchasing Morality: What Happens When “Buying Local” Itself is Marketed?

By Laurie Patton

…o…” And here I anticipate a word: enjoy, appreciate, understand, know… any number of verbs will do, but none is the word given. The word is: purchase. As in: “To revive the beauty of Palestinian tradition so it could be available for all to purchase.” Even here, I quickly overcome my own negative response to the phrasing. Of course, I said to myself after a moment, the word should be “purchase,” and not “enjoy” or “appreciate” or even “know.” Beca…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…omen who admire me?” I told him, “I always give them five or six names and numbers, and the press says, ‘we’ve gone to them, and they won’t talk.’” I said to reporters, “I can only tell you my experience, and my experience is that he’s not accepting of people who are different, particularly women who are single who he has to deal with one-on-one.” Lots of women told me, “Don’t give the press my name anymore,” some because they had negative things…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…increasingly important safe haven in recent years as other cities — like Cairo and Beirut — have become ever more dangerous for LGBT people. Back in June, Nader, a bushy-bearded 26-year-old Syrian, helped organize about 100 Arab refugees to turn out for the city’s 13th annual pride march, exhilarated at the chance to celebrate with tens of thousands of people. They carried signs like “Stop the persecution of gays in the Arab world” and “Your life…

The Bible as Security Blanket, Blindfold, or Weapon

By Amy Benson Brown

…r possibility? Ostriker urges us to entertain—and I mean get out your best china and kill the fatted calf—the possibility that experiencing such love is itself participating in union with God. And what, then, would that require of the faithful on an average Friday night across the land? This blending of erotic and divine love may surprise some readers in what is still called the puritanical culture of America. But such possibilities actually rever…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…n with Muslims, among other peoples). Caldwell is also right to point to a number of challenges within the European Muslim population; for one thing, too many Muslims are happy to exclude and be excluded, comfortable in self-selected isolation, and indifferent to the worth of the wider, non-Muslim society around them. Such attitudes contribute to alienation and extremism. There are also deep currents of misogyny, illiberalism, intolerance, and ant…

Buddha-Mind, American Style

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…lympics, held in Athens, Greece; he has lived to see them held in Beijing, China. Mr. Breuning was also born the same year that the US Supreme Court (in Plessy v. Ferguson) established the principle that “separate but equal” facilities were compatible with our Constitutional commitments, thereby legitimating racial segregation in this country for more than fifty years; he has lived to see the election of the first African American to the highest o…

Violence and Persecution of Christians Worldwide is Theme for Holy Week: A Report from Rome

By Anthea Butler

…thea Butler. Rome. Holy Week liturgies, Protestant or Catholic, are big affairs. No exception at the seat of Peter, as cardinals glided by, and hundreds of priests gathered in a small side chapel prior to the mass—although mass is too broad a term. The Good Friday service in Catholicism is not a mass, because there is no eucharistic celebration, rather, it is a commemoration of the Passion and crucifixion of Jesus. It is also the day on the liturg…

YouTube Terrorism

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…tion); and on the other, who initiated the attack on American outposts in Cairo, Benghazi, and perhaps also Sanaa? Whoever “Sam Bacile” turns out to be (most likely Coptic ex-patriot Nakoula Basseley Nakoula), he said one thing correctly: “This film was not about religion but about politics.” Whoever made, then distributed the “trailer” for Innocence of Muslims was trying to score points against Muslims, though perhaps they didn’t intend to provok…