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Jesus, Please Take Away These Feelings

By Nick Street

…protesters who posted to the site and flooded the archbishop’s office with phone calls. “If there is any doubt about Archbishop Niederauer’s ability to uphold the basic teachings of morality,” wrote another, “his inactivity in clearing out the homosexualists and sodomists from his archdiocese speaks for itself.” Be Still and Know is the brainchild of John Loschmann, the director of Drama at Sacred Heart Preparatory School in Atherton, a Bay Area s…

Forgiveness

By Amina Wadud

…of missed fast, for what ever reason, will apply; and to these I humbly submit. But I cannot submit to them before I ask for forgiveness. Yesterday my favorite imam read a story from the hadith literature. The Prophet, (saw) said the best thing is dhikr, remembrance to Allah, and after the dhikr of the names of Allah, the best dhikr is astaghfir-Allah I seek forgiveness from Allah. This is the best dhikr, the story goes, because it is a mediator b…

The Sacred and the Dead: Ten Writers on the End of an American Adventure

By The Editors

…w… #7 : I Love You More Than Words Can Tell by David Vanderveen It takes humility to admit that we don’t have the answers, that our models aren’t truth itself and that the palaces we build to the religions we’re born into are failed, broken and must be burned. #8 : Deadheads Are Not a Deviant Subculture by Deborah J. Baiano Berman A Dead show offers authenticity in moments of collective enthusiasm, shared pleasure. And sharing the music is not mer…

Seeing What They Wanna See: Religion Surveys Reflect Surveyors

By Nathan Schneider

…ed on March 9 with a front-page story in USA Today. For the last week, his phone ringing off the hook, Kosmin has become a lightning-rod for anxiety about the decline of American religiosity. “Whoever doesn’t win the election is going to complain about voting fraud,” he says with a chuckle. In its first two days online, the ARIS’ 26-page summary report [pdf], authored by Kosmin and his Trinity College colleague Ariela Keysar, scored 40,000 downloa…

Obama’s Pastor “Dream Team”

By Peter Laarman

…e team who quite fits my own definition of “progressive” in the lot. Never mind the claim Wallis makes to Goodstein that back in the late ‘90s he and Obama both styled themselves “progressive Christians” in relation to the dominant Religious Right. As others have said far more eloquently than I could ever say, it’s time for Wallis to stop defining “progressive” in terms that suit his own convenience—and time as well for progressive Democrats to th…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…peting views. Throughout our conversation—as she does throughout her ministry—Minerva Carcaño spoke as the daughter of immigrants. She told me about a couple she had met recently who came across the border with their two-year-old child. They endured four hot days and four cold nights before being detained and sent back home. They will try again. To her, they are people of faith with a child. Our job, she proclaimed, is to “do all we can to c…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…multiple heart [implants], a grandmother has an artificial hip. We are becoming cyborg-like and, when they start coming out with things like robotic hearts and kidneys, there’s no question that we’re going to start remaking our bodies to be much healthier. What would the human being need to survive? These are the kinds of ways we want to attack the green problem. It is very unique and a bit radical, but unfortunately we blew it as a species and th…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…tic appeal to Congress at an emergency hearing of a commission chaired by Smith. Smith has been trying to cut funding to the UNFPA for decades. Romney also favors defunding the UNFPA. The anti-abortion movement isn’t alone in its admiration for Chen. In a post on Feministing, one of the most influential feminist blogs on the web, Lori Adelman argued for a more precise label: “More apt than the whitewashed ‘human rights activist’ label he’s been g…

Scott Roeder’s Religion

By Sarah Posner

…raphed a piece of paper on the dashboard of Roeder’s car: It contained the phone number of Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue’s senior policy advisor, who served two years in prison for conspiring to bomb abortion clinics in 1988. Roeder also told me that Sullenger was present at the lunch with Newman where they discussed “justifiable” homicide, and that Newman had given Roeder the autographed copy of his book just three months before Roeder kille…

War on Christmas Affirmed by Southern Baptist Convention

By Mark Gstohl

…from a Lutheran friend that began, “What’s with you Southern Baptists and Mickey Mouse?” I was unaware that the messengers voted on a resolution to boycott Disney because of its policies toward homosexuals. One resolution approved by the messengers this year that may not be so widely publicized is a resolution “On Affirming the Use of the Term ‘Christmas’ in Public Life.” The resolution denounces secularism as a “pervasive and aggressive movement…