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Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a tsunami upon their islands.” WCF’s Don Feder criticized politicians who promote kinds of marriage “from which society derives no benefit.” Feder, according to the Antigua Observer, “posited that homosexuals cannot fulfil the most basic purpose of marriage which is procreation and child rearing.” At Pride in London on Saturday, which mayor Sadiq Khan said was the biggest pride parade ever, some Christians apologized for how the church had treate…

Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…f a many-limbed tragedy. The oil boom, driving a massive transformation of western North Dakota, makes the news for many reasons. But almost none of them are, in any obvious way, religious. Most recently there’s been talk of how regulation policies for shipping North Dakota crude may have contributed to the derailment and explosion of a train in West Virginia. What’s happening on the oil patch is, in essence, an environmental crisis. So it would m…

Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma

By Peter Laarman

…l of Jews to a vast tract of land that had been donated for the purpose in Western New York State.) Apart from some fastidious Yankees, most supporters of African colonization had few misgivings about the rightness of chattel slavery. Their ranks numbered legendary compromiser Henry Clay of Kentucky and planter-statesmen John Randolph and Richard Bland Lee of Virginia. Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, was so named in 1824 to honor another slavery-supp…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ongest war in human history, the war against the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Most famously, the military has long encouraged paratrooper trainees to call out his name when they jump out of airplanes instead of counting to three before pulling the ripcord. The reaction of the US military to criticism was to say that Geronimo was “randomly chosen,” but it isn’t difficult to imagine the top brass associating the pursuit of bin Laden…

Mat Staver vs. the Anti-Immigrant Right

By Sarah Posner

…at the Values Voters Summit this morning: veering from a cosmic battle for Western Civilization, to his legal battle against “Obamacare,” to why America should “support” Israel and fight “radical Islam,” the “same radicalism that hates Israel is the same radicalism that hates America.” From there, he went on to an excoriation of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (“this issue of destroying the family, destroying the idea of God, was paramount in Kinsey’…

The Humanities Make Life Bearable

By Peter Laarman

…ven apply). And they may be found in all religious traditions, not just in Western Christianity. It is certainly true that the founders of the great American colleges believed that liberal education would also yield practical advantages, both commercial and civic. Yet, as children of the Enlightenment, they also cherished the old ideal of classical humanism—an ideal they could trace all the way back to Protagorus’ notion that the human being is th…

The Quiet Part is Very Much Out Loud: Conservative Publication Calls For Embrace of Totalitarianism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…are either with him or against him—on board with fascism or to blame that “Western civilization” withers and dies, wilted and ultimately killed by the corrupting forces of social justice, civil rights, secularism and democracy. His vision for America is a mirror of the dystopia he accuses the left of trying to establish: a fascist nightmare, in which White Christian men have the right to power, and everybody else either knows their place or is for…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…ch celebrated the power of sentiments and affects, rather than the French (promoted by figures like Descartes and Voltaire), which advanced the work of reason and rationality. My critical question for Brooks might boil down to something like this: why turn to psychology and cognitive science in attempts to “prove” that increasingly hollow humanist terms such as “character” (or meritocratic values such as “achievement”) can be substantiated, or pro…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…h Lankford sees as an attempt to mask the “shame and disgrace” of suicide. Western experts, looking for a comprehensible narrative, mistake consistency for fact. The misconceptions are further compounded by how difficult it is to identify a potential suicide—even mental health professionals can get it wrong—and how easy it is to conflate suicide terrorists with regular terrorists, the vast majority of whom don’t strap on bombs, preferring to stay…

All You Had to Do Was Express Regret: Pope Benedict XVI’s Rocky Visit to Yad Vashem

By Adam Gregerman

…nkage remains unchanged. Even John Paul II’s famous note inserted into the Western Wall in 2000, during his undeniably more successful trip, enigmatically asks forgiveness for “the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer.” At most, individuals were at fault, not an organization. Benedict’s own separation between Catholic Church and Catholic Christians is apparent in a similar enigmatic statement…