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Does It Matter If Islam Is A Religion? An American Ahmadi Explains The Effects Of Religious Discrimination

By Daniel Schultz

…rka as an “anti-Muslim extremist.” Other foreign policy specialists have described him as an Islamophobe. Gorka was a member of the Order of Vitéz, a Nazi-linked Hungarian group, and proudly displayed medals from the group at Trump’s inauguration. Most relevant, though, despite disavowals of animus toward Islam, Gorka has described it more in terms of a totalitarian ideology than a complex, diverse, global religion. That assessment echoes a common…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…nts of the missing. And in those circumstances, he wanted chaplains on the scene “who were sensitive to the diverse dynamic of Oakland and not people wanting to force Jesus on them.” The day after the fire, local members of the arts community began Facebook organizing a vigil at Lake Merritt that took place on Monday, December 5. Pastor Ruben Rios of the Grand Advent Church got involved by offering parking for the vigil at his church, because he r…

Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation

By Isaiah Murtaugh

…is attention has turned to Azusa Street. The New Year’s Eve Let Us Worship schedule includes the normal worship service—this one in a Valencia, California parking lot—but it also features an evening Skid Row outreach on Dec. 30, and an Echo Park outreach and “redigging the well” stops at the Azusa Street site and at the former home of Aimee Semple McPherson, a mid-century evangelist who founded the Foursquare church. Feucht—who has not responded t…

Is Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?

By Anthea Butler

…blic recitations of faith testimonies, then everything is on the table for scrutiny. The GOP has set morality as one of the rules for engagement since the late 1970’s. From the Republican perspective, there are some things, like divorce, that the party can stomach. Look at Newt Gingrich. He has managed to have three wives, a big Tiffany account, and has finally made it to the top of the polls, topping squeaky-clean Mormon Mitt Romney. But not with…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…night dancing with, someone who I had spoken to just a week before on the phone, her laughter weakened but still familiar. When I thought about her ashes being scattered around Boston I felt a momentary panic. Where could I ever go to find her again? Last week, just in time for the Feast of All Soul’s Day, celebrated each year on November 2, the Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a new Instruction regarding the…

High Ark: A Geologist on the True Meaning of Noah’s Flood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…religion. That story of perpetual conflict was more something I learned at school. So it was refreshing to discover that there was more complexity, back-and-forth, cross-pollination in the history. I like surprises. You have this great phrase, you say that creationists are “one of the most recently evolved species” of Christian. What do you mean by this? Well the creationists have chosen to go back to a literal interpretation of the flood story, u…

When Mormons Mobilize: Anti-Gay Marriage Prop. 8 Effort ‘Outed’?

By Joanna Brooks

…in public schools and the elimination of religious freedoms. Mormon legal scholar Morris Thurston described this as “untrue” and “misleading” and urged the LDS Church to discontinue its further dissemination. Even as some Mormons urged the LDS Church to dissociate itself from questionable tactics of the Yes on 8 campaign, the profound connection between the Church and the campaign was obvious to insiders. As Laura Compton of mormonsformarriage.co…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…on terror; that John Kerry was made out to be a traitor; that Republicans scoffed at the notion of the rich paying taxes, and encouraged the nation to go shopping to restore the economy. How could she? Why would she? These were all far-off matters, not the sort of thing that would affect the streets on which she lived. In 2006, the nation seemed to be turning a corner. Responsible governance came back to at least some corners. The Bush presidency…

Much-Married Newt Gingrich Converts to Catholicism

By Bill Berkowitz

…latter is his now-anachronistic first resort to anger; again and again, he cheapens public discourse through exaggeration and wild claims. One imagines that if John McCain were President and Paul Krugman had said, out of the box, that he wanted McCain to fail, Gingrich would be leading the charge, calling Krugman ‘unpatriotic’ and even, perhaps, traitorous.” Gingrich’s “fresh start” as symbolized by his conversion to Catholicism – the faith of his…

Conservative Christian Teenagers Prepare for Politics

By Robert Kunzman

…cs assessment in 2006 bears this out as well, with only 27 percent of high school seniors scoring at or above “proficient.”) Ideological Amplification But as a training ground for future citizens and leaders, GenJ seems to be missing something vital. Rather than framing democratic citizenship as a shared endeavor among a diverse people, where compromise and accommodation are not only necessary but often desirable, GenJ promotes a vision of adversa…