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Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

By Bill Berkowitz

…rkey, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Qatar, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, the Russian province of north Ossetia, Indonesia, South Africa, Morocco, Japan, Israel, Jordan, Italy, and Spain. They took us into their virtual communities, houses, and mosques, invited us to fatwas, took us on a virtual Hajj to Mecca, and discussed their perceptions of extremism, integration, creative collaboration, and cultural values. Is the pool of participant…

High School Senior Leads Effort to Repeal Louisiana Anti-Evolution Law

By Lauri Lebo

…ite repealcreationism.com provides more information about the campaign. So far, Louisiana is the only state to take the bait, but similar anti-evolution bills have been submitted in Tennessee, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kentucky. So Kopplin’s latest efforts are important not only to students in Louisiana, but to those across the country. Go get ‘em, Zack….

Gulf Oil Spill May be “Act of God”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…owed them offshore in California and the Gulf. My brother cannot count the number of back operations he has endured, and one of my most vivid memories of working offshore in California is seeing a good friend nearly cut in half when we were forced to “hurry up” and offload equipment from the platform (Platform A, by the way, the same one that blew out in the Santa Barbara Channel in 1969). We know that oil exploration and production is more danger…

Who is God? Can You Trust Him?

By Daniel Schultz

…ion. Not to mention Jesus? Hey, I’m just one of those heathens who thinks God is still speaking. But from where I sit, trust in God makes a lot more sense based on how he (or she) continues to free people in the here and now. Take, for example, the current mess in the Gulf of Mexico. Praying for God’s miraculous intervention is one thing. Understanding God as freeing people from pollution by the non-supernatural means of engineering is another. Ev…

Can Poetry Heal the Planet?

By Gary Gach

…eturn to poetry… and global, as in global warming. In the mountains of New Mexico where he lives, there’s been little rain for eight years. 40% of forests have been lost. It also evokes poetry’s shamanic lineage, extending back to humankind’s earliest rain-bringers and tribal healers. In the Edo period of Japan, for instance, Kikaku, a close disciple of Zen haiku master Basho, reputedly ended drought by reciting poetry. The flipside of drought is…

Two Wars and No Peace in Sight: The Role of Faith-Based Pacifism

By Richard Ricketts

…st, and director of the religious studies program at the University of New Mexico. Her most recent book, Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement, tells the story of the Plowshares Movement, an international activist effort begun in 1980 when a small group of Catholic pacifists broke into a weapons plant, poured their own blood on documents, and attacked nuclear missile parts with hammers: swords into plowshares. Almost thirty years…

Fresh From Horrors of Draconian Anti-Abortion Laws, Christian Right Hoosiers Consider Draconian Anti-Abortion Law

By Chrissy Stroop

…omment, Braunlin told RD that IRCRC has been in communication with its New Mexico and Ohio affiliates “about ways to support people who need services.” Hoosier reproductive justice advocates are also working with their counterparts in Illinois, who are “preparing to receive patients from here.” She also provided RD with a broader assessment of the state of affairs in Indiana, noting that, while the Republican faction that includes Rokita wants a t…

National Day of Prayer for Gulf Communities

By Lauri Lebo

…ganization’s suggested prayer is “Give us the wisdom to end this tragedy.” I support that sentiment, especially when it’s accompanied by action. While BP may have stopped the implosion of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the overwhelming amount of destruction has not gone away. An extraordinary amount of cleanup work remains. For more information on the event or to find a participating church, go here….

But What Did We Learn? Hate-Watching the First Clinton/Trump Debate

By Candace E. West

…te, or ads should be familiar with. Trump started with a dog whistle about Mexico and fleeing jobs, then continued with the moment that set the tone for the rest of the debate: To some it may not seem so bad at first glance, but any woman who has ever had to smile politely while being condescended to at work knows this for the smug, dismissive bullsh*t it is. And that was the debate in a nutshell. It was followed by 90 minutes of Trump trying to b…

Do Psychedelics Offer a Path To The “God Within”?

By Hollis Phelps

…ces, even—or perhaps especially—when they’re piqued by psychedelics or any number of other strange materials. Nevertheless, his understanding of religion has significant limitations, not only in what it assumes about “religion” but also in what it ignores, or can’t account for. Throughout Sacred Knowledge, for instance, Richards tends to downplay negative experiences with psychedelics. To put it in terms of his own framework, he tends to cover ove…