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For God or for Fame? The Making of a Teenage Bomber

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…eality, however, this is the option chosen by the overwhelming majority of American Muslims who are concerned about American Muslim civil rights and the plight of Muslims in such places as Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories. Given his five options, the teenager Mohamud chose, not surprisingly, to become “operational.” But all he knew about what it meant to become operational was based on what he had seen on the news, particularly t…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…etensions to respectability. Since publishing this article, I have been in contact with members of the GCC and APU communities whose responses to my work were generally positive, but who also raised important concerns that I will address here, and that underscore the need for more investigative journalism covering evangelical schools. Grove City College: “Unraveling the Layers” According to class of 2011 GCC alum Eve (formerly known as Hännah) Ett…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…churches in the paper around that time, about this new way of worship that Americans were flocking towards. But I had never seen one. I had seen these small businesses and knew about them, but had never seen these megachurches, since I live in an urban environment, and they’re mostly in exurban or suburban environments. That’s when I started going to them and photographing them. It was a companion project to the small businesses project since they…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…again and again to the same unending clash. Accordingly, Islam’s harshest American critics—such as Geller and Gingrich, or Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes—hold themselves out as the last few champions of Enlightenment values in the face of a Dark-Ages religion and its apologists. But they are scrubbing from our history the ways in which the Enlightenment itself, as it redefined the modern West, was also characterized by a remarkably admiring embr…

Former Navy Chaplain Worries Ending DADT will End “Gay Exorcisms”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…heir homosexuality due to religious and societal condemnation to come into contact with people like former Navy chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt. Americans United notes that “Klingenschmitt claims he was drummed out of the Navy because he wanted to pray in the name of Jesus. In fact, he got tossed out for being insubordinate” as he violated military regulations forbidding servicemembers from wearing their uniforms to partisan events. His discharge f…

The ‘Charlie Charlie Challenge’ and Teenage Yearning for Supernatural Encounters

By Joseph Laycock

…on scholar, it seems to me the appeal of the game is a desire for a direct contact with mysterious forces. Folklorist Bill Ellis has suggested that the Ouija board—an obvious forerunner to Charlie—is a kind of ritual in which adolescents test religious worldviews by provoking an encounter with the supernatural. This perspective allows us to understand how claims about the nature of the game affect its appeal. The decision to summon Charlie is not…

New Anti-Trans Strategies Floated at Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand Summit

By Heron Greenesmith and Asia Korkmaz

…dard set by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Psychological Association. Each of the three panelists added color to the picture they painted of predatory therapists offering surgical interventions to young trans or nonbinary children. Being trans is merely a trauma response, they asserted. Children are being permanently scarred, made per…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…e God. United Kingdom: Echoes of U.S. Freedom to Discriminate Debate While Americans debated “religious freedom” or “freedom to discriminate” laws, a British politician, Lewes councilor Donna Edmunds, got into hot water suggesting that business owners should be free to refuse to provide services to women and gays. After an outcry, she said she regretted her comments: “I in no way endorse any form of discrimination. I believe in cutting red tape fo…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…an Christianity” in which faith is a private matter and does not come into contact with politics in the public sphere. David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam, authors of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, wrote in a New York Times op-ed last summer that what makes the Tea Party movement so unpopular to a large segment of the population is the conservative impulse to mix religion and politics. Americans, they suggest, oppose the mi…

A New Muslim Statement Against Torture

By Hussein Rashid

…r co-religionists to live to a higher standard and we challenge our fellow Americans to live to a higher standard. The torture of human beings at the behest of the American government must be condemned. Extraordinary rendition must be stopped. Simply because another country allows torture does not mean we should encourage and utilize the moral weakness of others. When we ratified the Convention Against Torture President Ronald Reagan said, “[We] c…