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Election Update: Oklahoma Bans Shari’ah Law

By Haroon Moghul

…tract Islam, far beyond the ability of extremists and radicals to harm us? Travel to other places in the world, like the Persian Gulf, Turkey, China, India, Brazil, and so on and so forth, and people are hungry with ambition, eager to embrace the economic opportunities that our country’s desire for globalization enabled and sustained in the first place. Now, we are turning away; we are scared of monsters whose shadows stretch across the planet. Bu…

Is Pope Francis’ Abuse Commission A Fail?

By Patricia Miller

…other Vatican activities, that seems more in keeping with a world in which travel took weeks or months and monks had to painstakingly transcribe meeting notes on parchment and deliver them by raven rather than a world of jet airliners, email and Skype. How many more abuse victims are likely to accumulate (Cruz has called Latin America a continued “playground for pedophiles”) as the commission works on “long-term” solutions? John Allen just reporte…

Ross Douthat on the Brink

By Haroon Moghul

…no prior experience of religious diversity, all but forced to accept huge numbers of refugees by governments already seen as aloof and unconcerned. No person of color can sit by and watch the circulation of memes like #WhiteGenocide, or the rise of groups like PEGIDA, and remain entirely unmoved. Would the arrival of great numbers of refugees, mostly but not wholly Muslim, without any authority having any reliable indicator of who they are, or ho…

Yearning For A God We Can Live With

By Benjamin Weiner

…kes pains to delineate the complex schema—nearly as mind-bending as a time-travel film—through which the world of divisions is folded into the continuity of the absolute. “The third stage,” of nondualistic perception, he writes, is “to return to the experience of duality while maintaining the consciousness of unity… what David Loy calls the ‘nonduality of duality and nonduality.’” He uses the abovementioned terminology of ratzo v’shov to describe…

The Racial Politics of Atheism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…bsessed with church/state separation and battling creationists. Again, the number of atheists of color has grown, but the atheist movement as a whole has not embraced the issues that people of color struggle with on a daily basis. For example, the wealth gap between blacks and whites is more pronounced now than during the Brown vs. Board era. When I drive around in my community I see scores of abandoned businesses, boarded up buildings, vacant lo…

Cycling’s Annual Funeral on Wheels

By Barton E. Price

…We did not speak to one another unless communicating instructions for safe travel and directions. We tied black arm bands on our left biceps in memory of cyclists who had died in collisions with motorists. We were also told that this was a funeral procession. This fact was quite poignant to me. This winter, I job-shadowed at a local funeral home on the weekends. I did this because my professional prospects seemed bleak, and I wanted to explore car…

David Barton’s New Get Out The Vote Effort

By Sarah Posner

…y extension, the Republican Party is. Back in 2004, the GOP paid Barton to travel to churches to tell pastors that that they could legally give guidance to their congregations on how to vote without crossing the Internal Revenue Service line that prohibits houses of worship from endorsing particular candidates. At the time, the political reporter Walter Shapiro wrote of Barton’s efforts at the Potter’s House Church of God in Columbus, Ohio, “the R…

Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’

By Kevin Healey

…spiritual salvation. Yet it is a route that becomes ever-more-perilous to travel as those blind spots multiply over time. Call it Google-phonics. It’s a term presciently coined years ago by another famous Jolly Good Fellow—none other than comedian-turned-banjo-virtuoso Steve Martin. On a track by that name off his 1979 album Comedy is Not Pretty, Martin mockingly plays the role of a gadget-happy free-spender in search of the perfect sound system….

The End of Roe Comes Courtesy of the Catholic Church — But From ‘The Dorothy Day Abortion Fund’ to ‘St. Vincent de Paul Vasectomy Clinic,’ Here Are Some Ideas for Catholics Looking to Make a Difference

By Mary E. Hunt

…choose to terminate their pregnancies need both a ride and a room as they travel for health care. Catholics who support abortion rights can donate to show our deep regard for Dorothy Day in the many dimensions of her life. Catholics need to augment research and writing about abortion, including theological and pastoral resources. The Frances Kissling Activist Scholar Program is my suggestion. Longtime Catholics for a Free Choice president Frances…

Violence of the Lambs: The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin

By Kathryn Joyce

…DC bio, and does not seem to have eulogized Weslin.) Twenty years later, a number of Weslin’s Atlanta cohort—like Shannon, Dinwiddie and Bray—would become chief supporters of Scott Roeder, the Operation Rescue follower who shot Dr. Tiller at his church in 2009. The 1988 arrestees were housed separately for 40 days, resulting in the creation of an ad-hoc movement school that the prisoners compared to the civil rights schools of Birmingham jails in…