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Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ans, some trying to escape the Ottoman Empire’s new policy of mandatory conscription into the army for the sons. But public discourse since the Tea Party has sunk so low that many of those who objected to the Muslim community center actually known as Park 51 made no distinction between “Arab” and “Muslim”. Just this week, the Dearborn Arab International Festival, an 18-year-old tradition begun to support Arab-owned businesses on a previously negle…

Dear Lindsay Lohan, I’m Sorry

By Haroon Moghul

…story on Fox News: “Lindsay Lohan converts to Islam?” The best way I can describe Fox News is that it is the white Christian version of the propagandistic hate, from language to technique, I see coming from the worst corners of the Muslim world. They’re the Mean Girls of our global high school. They deserve one another. But they’re not the adults in the room. So what if you carried a Qur’an? (Actually, I’m happy, but that’s just the small proselyt…

How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

By Sunita Viswanath

…cycle. The predictable cycles of religious violence in South Asia can be described fairly simply. First, a member of a religious or ethnic minority is accused of offending the religious sentiments of another community. In India, Muslim or Dalit men may be accused of slaughtering a cow. In Pakistan, a Christian woman may be accused of disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad, or a Hindu boy may be accused of urinating in a madrasa library. In many instan…

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Problem of the Rape Exception

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…zap rays of fire into their eyes. Partly this had to do with a general proscription against Christians taking any human life. Too, there was the desire to portray the nascent Christian community as more moral than its pagan and Jewish surroundings; and, perhaps, they wanted to lay to rest the whisperings that this sect of Jesus-followers sacrificed and ate babies at their gatherings. But as Gordon D. Newby explained on RD, this is not the only…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…other started studying on her own and asking me questions and we started discussing scripture and religious thought. And before I knew it we were having really long talks, and my mother started coming to our conference, our Fellowship conference. What’s that? The Fellowship has two conferences a year. The Fellowship is about 110 clergy, 75 churches. throughout the U.S., mostly inner-city. Most are pastored by same-gender loving people, or people w…

Mormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…ook at the newspapers from that moment, and you’ll see pictures of a young Scott Holley protesting against the teachers who brought gay people into our high school. I moved to Massachuestts in 2004 with my wife, just in time for Massachusetts to become the first state to legalize gay marriage. We were told by ecclesiastical leaders to sign petitions and call legislators to get it overturned. I didn’t make any calls, but I agreed with them. But I…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…e. A vote on a package of judicial reforms sought by the European Union in scheduled on July 21; the proposals include the addition of constitutional protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation: On Thursday, Mesila Doda, an MP for the Party for Justice, Integration, and Unity, PDIU, which is in coalition with the Socialist Party of Prime Minister Edi Rama, asked her colleagues to not vote for the reform until this amendment is wi…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…ion,” it’s easy to forget the work of not-as-visible clergy, activists and scholars—many of them women or people of color or queer—who have been active in these communities for years to little fanfare. Keller’s supporters love to lionize him and his Redeemer Presbyterian Church, but one rarely sees discussion on how Keller’s rise to the spotlight in NYC might have come at the expense of less societally privileged pastors and theologians who wouldn…

Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize

By Frances Kissling

…ed a part, certainly, but Kennedy boys by and large did not go to Catholic schools. They went to the top prep schools and to Harvard. Ted spent only the eighth grade at a Jesuit prep school and went on to the Milton Academy. Had he gone to Catholic schools in the 1940s and ’50s, abortion would not have been mentioned; it simply was not an issue much before it started to become legal in the late ’60s in the United States. But there is something to…

Soldier Hot Line Draws Calls Over DADT Repeal

By Lauri Lebo

…t tell” cases, Ms. McNeil concluded that there was no legal basis for a conscientious objector claim. The legal standard, she said, is that the person must be conscientiously opposed to participating in war in any form, based on a sincerely held religious, moral or ethical belief. And the person must have had a change of heart since joining the military, when the person signed a form saying he or she was not a conscientious objector and did not in…