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Hajj Journal: Visiting the Kingdom is Not the Same as Visiting the King

By Amina Wadud

…picked for us, because nobody on the bus had any input on this point. This stop lasted maybe 40 minutes and fortunately, some of us also used it as a restroom stop. They passed us another boxed meal this time, with our first zam- zam water. One woman introduced herself and said she too was traveling alone, so maybe we could hang out. In fact she said, I think we’ll be in the room together, since we are both unaccompanied. She made wudu’ there, but…

Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…ons! But others travel to Jeddah too on this flight, including Muslims and non-Muslims. Jeddah is a port city; and as the major airport hub for Saudi Arabia, this flight has all types. Now, I’ve been on many planes, but this is the first time I’ve been on a plane where 50% of the seats are business- and first-class. Sorta gives you an idea who comes to the Kingdom, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike: big business. Okay, so the flight is not exclu…

Transforming America’s Israel Lobby

By Dan Fleshler

…rael should start saying that it is wrong. They must somehow find a way to stop suppressing their moral instincts, to stop ignoring what is best within themselves, and to start finding a vocabulary to acknowledge the moral horrors attendant on the occupation; and to do so without denouncing Israel as a whole or minimizing its need to defend itself. Yes, those who focus only on Israeli behavior without putting it into context, without appreciating…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…scandal that have characterized the document’s reception—or in many cases, non-reception. Canon lawyer James A. Coriden’s explanation of “The Canonical Doctrine of Reception” comes to mind. This document is a perfect example of teachings that “the believing community” doesn’t accept. I give this one a polite ‘no thanks’ and suggest others reject it as well. Some people are comforted by the simple principle that people have “infinite dignity” in ev…

Feminist Critics of Wearing Hijab in Solidarity Fall Into Same Old Traps

By Mariam Durrani

…online Muslim community has been stuck over the last few days. Can we just stop for a minute? While I can agree with Nomani and Arafa’s critique of Wahhabi, Saudi-funded Islamist groups that support more conservative and often sexist ideologies and policies across the Muslim world, I’m hesitant to rope the hijab into this socio-political and economic constellation of issues. The arc of their argument goes something like this: non-Muslim Americans…

How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?

By Christel Manning

…ericans, especially young people, are leaving organized religion in record numbers. There are now more Nones than there are Catholics in the U.S. population, and one third of those under 30 say they have no religion. When I began this project ten years ago, most people writing about the Nones seemed to assume the story was temporary: that today’s Nones would be like the baby boomers a generation ago, many of whom dropped out of church in their you…

How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…states that European Christians have the right to dominate and subdue any non-Christian and non-white peoples they “encounter.” It declares that they are free to conquer by any means necessary and with the full blessing of God, church, and king. And of course the idea here was that the benefits of bringing “civilization” to the New World, and Christianizing it, could outweigh any of the atrocities committed along the way. So that’s colonial Chris…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…I don’t think we can ultimately agree to disagree because this issue, and non-affirming beliefs, are very damaging to the lives of LGBT people. It’s also a double standard, because most people who hold non-affirming beliefs are straight and they don’t have to live with the consequences of their beliefs. They’re asking LGBT people to do something that is vastly harder than they themselves are doing. That separates LGBT people from God and it’s dam…

Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?

By SJ Crasnow

…ll as homosexuals.” Race and religion were coded into this exclusion, with non-white and non-Christian persons likewise considered undesirable. In a 2017 opinion piece for The Hill, historian Rebecca Erbelding explains that the “laws of 1921 and 1924, written by eugenicists and cheered by white supremacists, came a decade before the Nazi Party took power in Germany” and they stayed on the books through the 1930s and 40s. According to Erbelding, as…

The Most Important Religious Category of the Primaries, the Non-Religious, Doesn’t Break Down as Cleanly as You Think

By Daniel Schultz

…t of circumstances, but they’re also the most likely to be bummed out into non-participation by a Sanders loss. Biden is flatly opposed to many of the initiatives, like free public college and canceling student-loan debt and Medicare For All, that attract young people to Sanders. We might say very much the same thing about non-religious voters. Biden seems to be in little hurry to protect reproductive rights, or to police a firm line between churc…