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Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

By Michael De Dora

…e, this kind of thing, never [wins]. Maybe they do atrocities, maybe they will kill us. But they won’t be winning in the long run. So we’ll have to keep on doing what we do—keep informing people about science, about reason, about humanism.” There’s also the case of Ahemedur Rashid Tutul. Tutul is co-founder of the publishing house Shuddhashar. Shuddhashar, which began as a magazine, primarily produced books by young freethinkers; by late 2015, the…

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

…years than I probably have. So that’s another thought that goes through my mind. I’m very much trying to do what I think I can, and to at least say things that I can, for the most part, back up. I’m sure the 16 strivings is not the last [version] we’re going to see. I will suggest that while they can be improved on, they’re a heck of a lot better than what other lists have come up with. So you try to take a step forward, and you try to do what you…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…a series of events that began on September 8. On September 11, the Gainesville Muslim Initiative will sponsor a free meal and a blood drive in the center of town and then an evening program featuring a variety of religious and community leaders. Muslim leaders are asking their followers to ignore what they are calling the “Dove Outreach not-a-church” and its “not-a-pastor,” whether he goes forward with his plan to burn Qur’ans or not. The communi…

What Liberals Want: A Response to Susan Thistlethwaite

By Frances Kissling

…erences we might understand each other better. I am sure that each “side” will point to the other as the obstacle. It is not clear that either side is really interested in listening to the other or willing to change at all. Progressives have achieved a certain public standing and by their participation in electoral and partisan politics have the attention of political leaders. Talking to those who are batting at them from the left is a waste of ti…

Lessons Learned this Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…ng I had started last year and decided that now I’m at the point where it will take two years to read through. To be merciful with our aging is like Allah’s mercy with those parents: it’s a part of the Divine nature and I am grateful. Finally, and of course unique for this year, I learned that it is possible to blog your way through Ramadan, sharing many ideas along the way, and yet still keep some things between you and Allah alone. The idea to d…

Sometimes Salvation Looks Like Rage: An Open Letter to “Non-denominational” Churches

By Yazmine Nichols

…lways be re-negotiated. What recourse do our society’s pariahs have? When will their acts be declared righteous, and when will their accusers and attackers be called to account? When will the church become a place of protection rather than a place of rejection? A third potential point of reformation is in the area of color-blindness. This area is perhaps the most important to me personally: I am black, and God made me that way. As a result of slav…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…ristian community here we will all be made to become homosexual and so we will kill all the Christians.” “I have stood by gravesides in Africa of a group of Christians who had been attacked because of something that had happened in America. We have to listen to that. We have to be aware of the fact,” Welby said. If the Church of England celebrated gay marriages, he added, “the impact of that on Christians far from here, in South Sudan, Pakistan, N…

Cross-Burning Hearing Ends, Trial Set to Begin

By Lauri Lebo

…tions of “being set up.” By the time the hearing is over, it is likely it will have cost the tiny school district almost $1 million. Also, his supporters have accused the Dennis family of making up evidence by altering a photo of Zachary’s burned arm. Coach Dave Daubenmire, the creator of the Mt. Vernon’s Minute Men United, a militant organization that endorses Christian theocracy, and one of Freshwater’s most active supporters, told me in a Janua…

Dispatches From the Beltway: Horton Hears Progressive Religion

By Robert P. Jones

…has virtually imploded. By 2006, its $26 million budget had shrunk to $1 million, and it was $2 million in debt; and its state chapters have been steadily folding or disassociating because the group has become so associated with a narrow, divisive agenda—an agenda of which Americans, including evangelical Americans, have grown weary. Second, progressive religious voices have moved from being reactive to proactive. In 2004, progressives were on th…

“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)

By Chad Bauman

…religious freedom in India will require consistent, intentional work. It will require a certain humble willingness to acknowledge and address our own problems with anti-minority harassment and violence. It will require more frequent expressions of concern not only for Muslims, but also for Hindus, Buddhists, and other non-Christians suffering persecution around the world. And it will require symbolically potent action, like President Obama’s rece…