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A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…ing work. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock provided travel support for those unable to get there themselves. Months of preparation went into making the experience a meaningful and effective one. Local folks participated tirelessly in coalition work, figuring out what roles they could play in conjunction with others. Arrangements were made for housing, food, legal defense, meeting space, airport rides and coordinated T-shirts…

When Is Hosni Mubarak?

By Haroon Moghul

…mined themes is time. How it’s not always what we think it is. How we can travel forward, backwards, or across it. In some stories, people exist at different times from the people around them, rendering them invisible to everyone else. There are a few seconds behind, or a few minutes ahead, and as such it is as if they inhabit different universes despite being not inches from us but instead minutes away. Today, Mubarak issued a defiant speech, a…

Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?

By Joseph Laycock

Did a group of Christian Vikings from Sweden and Norway travel by river to Douglas County, Minnesota, in the fourteenth century only to be massacred by Native American “skraelings?” This is not the question that most interests David M. Krueger in his new book Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America. Instead, Krueger asks why a variety of people—Scandinavian immigrants, American Catholics, and now dubious researchers…

This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.

By Haroon Moghul

…of. Or drop in on Muslim Fun Day, get every single kid from your mosque to travel the sidewalks with you (hint: promise candy), and act as if they’re all yours. Remember: large numbers of Muslims walking through bucolic scenery is especially reassuring to Hungarians. Incidentally, if you try to order a TSA uniform and your name is, say, Muhammad, the least of your problems will not be flying again. Actually, many of these ideas could end badly. Fo…

Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

By Mark LeVine

…erstanding of Islam and Muslim cultures after more than a decade studying, traveling and working around the Muslim world, it would be an even bigger shock to people who knew far less about them than I did. The second reason I wanted to write this book was, quite frankly, that I was tired of spending all my time researching, writing and lecturing about war and violence. Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan—it gets pretty depressing after a while. And I kne…

This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…era as the “nadir of black history.” Whether it was popularizing railroad travel as emblematic of black freedom and mobility, the embrace of fraternal orders, or the rise of consumer culture and its relationship to class respectability and gendered domesticity, Giggie illumines the sort of creative religious production in the South that has been most associated with migration and urbanization during the interwar era. 7. J. Kameron Carter, Race: A…

Crucifying the Prairie: An Eco-Theology of Resistance for Good Friday

By Jacob J. Erickson

…hat sacrifices human lives for the ongoing profitability of oil. So when I travel internationally, and say I’m from North Dakota, I now hear: “Oh, that’s where Standing Rock is. It’s terrible what the energy corporations and the government are doing to people there.” (I’d urge you to read Marion Grau’s take, here in RD.) The systems, powers, and complicit personalities and politicians (including, now, North Dakota’s congressional delegation) suppo…

Religion Goes to the Movies

By Becky Garrison

…for thought for those contemplating whether this is a journey they wish to travel. The Art of the Steal chronicles the complex battle to determine who will control the vast post-Impressionist and early Modern art collection collected by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who established The Barnes Foundation as an educational institution. Upon his death, debates began surrounding who should control this art currently valued at $25 billion dollars. More than fi…

Are God and Aliens Compatible?

By Gabriel Mckee

…s offered the group “good wishes… as regards everything but interplanetary travel.” (The full correspondence between Lewis and Clarke is collected in the recent volume From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis, edited by Ryder W. Miller.) Years later, James Blish tackled a similar concept in his 1958 novel A Case of Conscience (recently reviewed by the Guardian). Like in Out of the Silent Planet, this…

Summer Brings Competing Marriage Tours

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he iconoclasts continue to pilliage (sic) the values of our Nation as they travel from state to state in pursuit of the homosexual agenda.” This is where NOM and Freedom to Marry part ways, according to Crawford: “Unlike NOM we believe that all committed and loving couples should be able to marry.” To drive that point home, FTM will shadow NOM’s planned summer tour route, starting July 14 in Augusta, Maine, and ending on August 15 in Washington DC…