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Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…could such a phrase mean? As my colleague Professor Willie James Jennings outlines beautifully in a recent follow up piece, this book, written in 1973 in the wake of the social transformations of the 1960s, forces a question back upon the intellectuals of the black theology project—particularly back upon Dr. James Hal Cone and Dr. Deotis Roberts. Dr. Jones raised what in the history of philosophy and theology has come to be called the “theodicy” q…

“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…roups. The men were killed and the women were taken into slavery. Is It About Religion? Or About Power? I talked with another fellow, a Syrian Christian pharmacist who had in fact stayed in his Syrian village after it had been taken over by ISIS forces. When he became a refugee he was able to stay in a slightly more comfortable Christian camp than the one for Arab Muslims; it was set up in what had formerly been a playground next to a Catholic chu…

Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

By Lauri Lebo

…opriate period of trembling, which seemed like forever but was probably about five minutes, I emerged cautiously from the cloakroom. Mrs Roach let me stand there while the rest of the Bible Schoolers finished up the next tune, the standard off-key rendition of ‘Yes, Jesus Loves Me.’ She turned in my direction. ‘Out already?’ she said. ‘I could hold a bear in a bathtub that long. What have you learned?’ ‘That Jesus don’t like whittling?’ I speculat…

Qaddafi Dies; Should it Matter How?

By Haroon Moghul

…he was tortured, mistreated, left to die—the details may or may not come out. But considering how much harm and evil he caused, it is little surprise the nation celebrates his expiration. So why should it matter how he died? As vile as bin Laden and Qaddafi were, they should have been tried. Perhaps that was impossible. Perhaps we will never really know. And perhaps this is a moral conceit that is ultimately irrelevant—would postwar Europe have b…

Why I Won’t Leave the Mormon Church Alone

By Holly Welker

…why legislators would be impressed by letters from high school students, but ever dutiful, I wrote them anyway.) The LDS church was most recently a major player in the 2008 campaign to amend the California State Constitution to ban gay marriage via Proposition 8. That, of course, is one primary reason I cannot and will not leave the church alone: it continues to exert its influence in areas that affect my life and the lives of people I love. Most…

AAA: Like a Good Neighbor

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…g two individual plans. The American Family Association is just hearing about this kind of outrage – a corporation selling memberships at a discount to people they consider “faux families.” The homosexual couples need only state that they are married to receive the family benefit. In the eyes of AAA two homosexuals living together constitute “marriage” and make a “family.” All they have to do to get the “family membership” benefits is to say “we a…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…quest to appear “more Muslim than the Islamists.” Macedonia: Marriage Ban Put in Constitution This week Macedonia’s parliament voted to define marriage in the Constitution as a union between a man and a woman and reportedly “created a constitutional hurdle to possible future legislation on same-sex unions.” An earlier version of the draft Amendment, which explicitly banned same-sex civil unions or registered cohabitation was strongly criticized by…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…t it went a bit over. By 1:27, a few such posts prompted “@jgderuvo” to shout out, for all watching twspassionplay’s Twitter page to see, “Guys, stay within the 140 character limit… it’s truncating, ruining the effect!” It’s basically the equivalent of someone standing up in the theater and shouting that the script wasn’t in perfect iambic pentameter. Every few minutes until a bit after 3 p.m., a new tweet arrived. At the start, just under 1,000 p…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…I had already made my intentions to make hajj, the cost would have just about wiped out my little savings, which I ended up using to pay for most of her funeral expenses. Then I learned she had made me the beneficiary on two life insurance policies. Sometimes when you have limited financial means you may dream of inheriting some money—but let me tell you, it is an awful, awful thing to inherit money from the death of some one you love. There is no…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…nt to help. This is a time when we have an opportunity to see positive change and fix a broken immigration system. More than anything, I hope people will take the time to think about immigration reform outside the highly politicized rhetoric it’s been put into. There is so much more common ground than people assume….