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Leave Your Stereotypes at the Door: 10Q on “Keeping it Halal”

…observing, listening, documenting, and then analyzing, he is able to show that what is really going on with these ostensibly “violent” youth is in fact about the constant need to protect oneself in a context of pervasive danger. These are the kind of powerful, stereotype-defying truths—still very necessary, unfortunately—that well-done ethnography can reveal. What’s your next book? My next project will be sort of the reverse of this book, in which…

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Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…angelical fundamentalists, they wrote, is the xenophobia and Islamophobia that promotes “walls and purifying deportations.” “Triumphalist, arrogant and vindictive ethnicism is actually the opposite of Christianity,” they said. AP’s Rachel Zoll called La Civilta Cattolica Antonio Spadaro “a close confidant” of Pope Francis. Conservative Archbishop Charles Chaput responded in a commentary, calling the article “an exercise in dumbing down and inadequ…

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Texas Textbook Massacre

…ent critics, say the impact on the actual writing of textbooks may not be that dire. Still, that doesn’t spell good news for public education. For no matter what the outcome of the standards on textbooks—either in Texas or across the country—the board is clearly rewriting history to fit a conservative agenda and a Christian-dominated worldview. Jay Diskey, executive director of the school division of the Association of American Publishers, called…

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For Many Christian Zionists, Israeli Protesters are a Threat to God’s Plan

…eir far-right agenda. And it’s certainly not new for Christian Zionists to promote conspiracy theories that invoke deep-state and globalist references to elite liberal, and even Jewish, power ruining the State of Israel and God’s plans. Insisting on Jewish unity and relocation to Israel interferes with the sustainability of Jewish communities in the Diaspora, and becomes particularly manipulative when driven primarily by Christian prophetic goals,…

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Canadian Courts Consider Decriminalization of Polygamy

In a case that may have wide-reaching influence, the Supreme Court of British Columbia today opened deliberations in a constitutional reference case to determine whether a small group of fundamentalist Mormons living in a remote B.C. community called Bountiful may practice religiously-motivated plural marriage without fear of prosecution or conviction. Before a courtroom packed with legal experts, scholars, civil libertarians, and child rights ad…

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Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

…as put into the service of the judgments claiming sharia as their source, that is to say that the legal system that led to the application of hudud punishments was not based on traditional Islamic jurisprudence. Yet in a nation where rule of law has been repeatedly compromised by corruption, military dictatorships, and unequal access, the concept of religiously based law has a great deal of appeal to many people as a theoretically incorruptible an…

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What the Lost Finale is Really About

…also know that the show is full of religious references and implications. What’s the hype? What’s it all about? Is it worth watching? Plenty of writers have chimed in, proclaiming it the best show ever on regular television, that standard television will never be the same, that the ending leaves much to be explained. Jumping the gun, or perhaps the shark, writers from the LA Times, USA Today, NY Times, and many other major outlets have already wei…

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Devil’s Bookmark: Doubting God’s Existence, but Angry Nevertheless

…s actually want to be read biographically. Until recently, the idea of God-hatred was so explosive that to mention it publicly would have risked ruining an author’s career. But carefully packaged as the view of a character, an author could still give vent to his forbidden rage, perhaps in the hope of being found out by the more “discriminating readers.” Alternatively, authors may simply be conflicted or unsure about certain points of their own bel…

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‘Atheizing’ the Dead, Religious Doughnuts, & Tax-Free Witching

…pent every night of Ramadan in a different mosque in a different state on what they called a “Ramadan Roadtrip.”  A group of vengeful Oklahoma City atheists, reminding Oklahomans that they live in town too, erected a “Don’t Believe in God? Join the club” billboard provoking the ire of local Christians. One local pastor referred to the billboard as poking “a finger in your eye.” Federal prosecutors are suing the city of Walnut, California for refus…

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Satan, Contributor to Teen Vogue‘s New “Sodomy” Section?

…be penile-vaginal intercourse, male on top, for the sake of procreation. Whatever Thomas meant, churches that cited him used “sodomy” to make accusations that were both vague and damaging—and often more damaging because so vague. Would the acts described by Teen Vogue count as “sodomy”? For some Christian theologians yes, for others no. Of course, the whole point of using the term is to avoid specifying sexual acts. Whether now or in the Middle A…

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