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An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

…questions about identity and praxis. The borderlands are characterized by more self-doubt and more humility. But oh, so much less comfort … ! How ironic, we immigrants sigh to ourselves, that we can turn on the tap to clean water at whatever temperature we like, but we can’t put up a poster of the Holy Mosque in our cubicle. We can protect ourselves from heat and cold, day and night, but we can’t take a book of supplications in Arabic to recite o…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…cations technologies. RD serves a population that will continue to receive more and more of its news and information online (this trend will continue apace, as newspapers continue to shrink and/or disappear). If the religious reactions of 1979 were aimed against student-led activism of the 1960s, then it will be very interesting to see what forms religious reaction will take to the student protests in places like Tehran, or Athens, or Beijing, tha…

‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…ons. Indigenous Pentecostalism, with its apocalyptic theology, also gained momentum among indigenous Guatemalans. Haiti had barely recovered from the four devastating storms of 2008 prior to this earthquake. The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Port-au-Prince has collapsed, and Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot’s lifeless body was pulled from the ruins of the diocesan offices. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has described…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…isis in the 1980s. “Back then we helped build a popular economic political movement among family farmers across the country seeking debt relief along with fair and sustainable government agricultural polices,” explains Ostendorf. “Around 1984, we saw right-wing and racist organizers try to move in and take advantage of our movement. They were trying to capture the emerging populist sentiments and steer them into the anti-Semitic and racist right….

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…isagreement escalated. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a 45-minute phone call to Netanyahu. Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, after being summoned to the State Department for a dressing down, reportedly called the dispute a 35-year nadir of the US-Israel relationship. Subsequently, in an attempt to tamp down concerns, Oren took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to deny that he had engaged in such a characterization, and to minimize t…

Departure of the Queen

By Amina Wadud

…d to my solitary suhur, then walked beneath the canopy of trees toward the mosque for morning prayer and muraqabah, or meditation. The stars were still shining like brilliant diamonds in the deep dark sky. I did search for a glimpse of the moon, so I could check our progress toward the final day, but alas, he was not visible between the tall trees. Or perhaps he (using the gender ascription of the Arabic, since pronouns are arbitrary functionaries…

The Wounded People of God

By Anthea Butler

…red abuse, and I don’t take lightly what has happened to them. I’ve been admonished to be more reasoned, measured, perhaps more “analytical,” in my writings, so that I can be an agent of change. Frankly, that is very difficult to do. After spending a lifetime in a church that wants to regulate everyone’s sexuality, while allowing a good deal of their own clergy and orders to defile children sexually, well, I just can’t be nice. As a matter of fact…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…arried more than a bit of mystique, serving as a sort of secret handshake among the most discerning and dedicated geeks. When BBC Wales resurrected the show after a 16-year hiatus in 2005, word began to spread that the new Who was something incredible. Under the guidance of producer Russell T. Davies (creator of Queer as Folk), Doctor Who quickly transformed from “acquired taste” into “essential viewing.” The new show is sophisticated, witty, and…

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…

DeMint Uses Christian Reconstructionist Mailing List To Raise Money For Angle

By Julie Ingersoll

…ny of these groups, DeMar also has a companion organization that can raise money and promote candidates for elected office: Vision to America. Yesterday, Vision to America sent a fundraising appeal in support of Nevada’s Republican nominee to the U.S. Senate, Sharron Angle, from South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint’s political action committee, the Senate Conservatives Fund. Like Rand Paul in Kentucky, DeMint is bucking the Republican establishment b…