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Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

….” An exhibit of the same name has been running this month, created by the Arab American National Museum of Dearborn, Michigan, in a space rented from Three Legged Dog, a multi-arts space carved out of the ground floor of the Brooklyn Battery Parking Garage. This very block was the first destination for the waves of immigrants from the Ottoman Empire-occupied lands known as “Greater Syria,” which now encompass Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…a spectrum of religious traditions from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim to Baha’i and Hare Krishna (nearby Alachua is home to home of the largest Hare Krishna communities in the United States). In addition to participating in this event, the Gainesville Muslim Community is promoting a series of events that began on September 8. On September 11, the Gainesville Muslim Initiative will sponsor a free meal and a blood drive in the center of town and th…

Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…eligion relates to the verdict, how religion has been operative under the radar, so to speak, inside of the verdict, and how religion is the larger horizon of the shooting and subsequent trial, Dr. Butler has done us all a profound service. But as a theologian or a Christian intellectual, I want to up the ante on her provocative and important analysis and propose that the only moral, ethical, and religious response worth its salt to the Zimmerman…

Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

Season Four of The Walking Dead premieres this week, and fans anxiously await the fate of the ragtag group of survivors holed up in a Georgia prison. What new threats will they face? Who will be the next to die in this post-apocalyptic drama? The Walking Dead premiered in 2010 with a record breaking 5.3 million viewers, the highest ratings for a cable premiere. The third season’s premiere smashed the previous record, garnering an impressive 10.9…

Mel Gibson’s ‘To-Do’ List

By Becky Garrison

…onder what some of today’s Christian leaders do on a day-to-day basis? We managed to get a hold of some of their to-do lists which should give you an idea of what they’re up to these days. Jim Wallis 1. Keep digging until hit common ground 2. Give Glenn Beck a noogie 3. Clean up donkey dung in Senate chambers 4. Register God to vote 5. Email Bono that just joined R(ED) Glenn Beck 1. Give Jim Wallis a wedgie 2. Order assclown costume 3. Bring cotto…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…te what’s happening. For one thing, Islamophobes embrace ex-Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and racists wouldn’t (indeed couldn’t) do the same. But consider the similarities: the Islamophobe must assume Muslims suffer some sort of pre-Islamic inferiority, sufficient to explain how some (largely non-white) people—actually, a lot of people—not only fell for Islam in the first place, but then stayed down. How long do enforced ideologies last? Nazism: t…

Giving Up God—Not Just a Spiritual Stunt

By Becky Garrison

…himself an unexpected media darling. Becky Garrison caught up with Bell via phone to talk about his motivations, the reactions of his friends and family, and what he hopes to discover. BG: What’s your reaction to this surge of media coverage? RB: When I started this, I thought my blog would only be read by a few people. It’s been surreal. I have no clue how to make anything go viral, so this is totally unexpected. But eventually, I think this att…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…o of the most extreme anti-gay American activists, Scott Lively and Peter LaBarbera, have announced that they will launch a new organization “whose purpose is to unify and coordinate pro-family groups around the United States and the world to more effectively oppose the now global LGBT agenda.” Uganda: Museveni at ‘war’ with ‘homosexual lobby’ President Yoweri Museveni has reportedly decided to sign the infamous anti-gay bill passed by parliament…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ovement known as “Christian Identity.” I scanned my Wikipedia-like mental database and realized that, yes, I did know that particular sect. “It’s a white supremacist group, if I remember correctly,” I said cautiously. “Well,” he said with a slight smile, “we like to call it a nationalist socialist group.” I was alarmed, a feeling that only grew when I later asked the class for examples of rituals and his immediate response was, “lighting a cross!”…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…ing that had happened in America. We have to listen to that. We have to be aware of the fact,” Welby said. If the Church of England celebrated gay marriages, he added, “the impact of that on Christians far from here, in South Sudan, Pakistan, Nigeria and other places would be absolutely catastrophic. Everything we say here goes round the world.” As the Guardian report noted, Anglican churches in Uganda and Nigeria have backed the brutal new crimin…