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What I Heard At The Mosque Reminded Me Of Donald Trump

By Haroon Moghul

…pation? What else could be more important? But first, let me assure you: I travel a lot for work, which means on those Fridays I can, I’m at a prayer service in a different mosque. Many times I’m at a mosque I’ll never go back to for months, even years, or ever. This mosque was, sadly, not an outlier. There’s a lot of mosques this year that have tried hard to get their communities involved. The number of Muslims registering to vote is rising. I pr…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…icion that I would be more like myself and not so overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. I had stuck with this plan—umrah any time of the year, the further from the three sacred months the better, and then hajj some other year—until my recent stay in Indonesia. I met an Indonesian fashion designer who had one of those life-altering experiences about 15 years ago, after flaunting around in Milan, Italy, where she studied fashion. From that moment on, sh…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…I want to share my immediate, unpolished dispatches from all the places my travels will take me, to offer a sense of how religion and identity are remembered at some of their greatest fracture points in recent memory. My journey will start in Istanbul, the booming alpha city of Turkey, the planet’s 16th largest economy, a secular democracy aiming for the European Union under a center-right, allegedly Islamist government, a Muslim nation that’s be…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Croes said after the vote. “But this amendment will eliminate the need to travel to the Netherlands to marry, as our laws will soon provide rights for same sex couples.” Aruba has been under pressure in recent years from LGBT rights advocates to allow same-sex marriage but religious groups have opposed the effort. The opposition also fought civil unions as the bill came to a vote. Mongolia: ‘From phobia to hope’ Otgonbaatar Tsedendemberel writes…

DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment

By Andrew L. Seidel

…uses spread. Viruses do not respect boundaries or holy ground, they simply travel from person to person. Second, these exemptions unconstitutionally favor churches. The Supreme Court has also held that the First Amendment “requires the state to be neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and non-believers” and that the “government may not favor religious belief over disbelief.” By unnecessarily favoring churches Desantis’s exemp…

Of Love and Lodging: Doctor Who Part VIII

By Gabriel Mckee

…stay but is hiding the reason. Sophie at one point talks about leaving to travel and do environmental work with animals, reciprocating Craig’s feelings but likewise keeping them secret, and looking for a reason to stay. And while the Doctor comments on the stupidity of the mindless automated program seeking a pilot for the ship, the human characters likewise run through routines, failing to exercise the freedom that could change their lives, and…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…tricky shot. First, a tour of the contested terrain. Have Peacemaker, Will Travel Richard Slotkin called 20th-century America the “gunfighter nation.” That was the title of the last volume of his trilogy, the classic study of the central role that frontier violence has played in America’s cultural self-perception. But the two earlier volumes suggest that the whole trilogy might well have borne that name. Guns have always symbolized “the frontier.”…

Sing the Glory of the Smoke: The Spiritual History of Jazz

By Andrew Aghapour

…of human space exploration, and signals not only the possibility of human travel beyond the body—something that a lot of improvisers are deeply interested in and which some believe is what occurs in moments of improvised peak experiences—but it also establishes a different kind of frontier, an almost fantastical utopian edge. So science here is moving both deeper within the human and beyond the human altogether. Let’s talk about improvisation. To…

The Queen is Coming: Preparing for Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…context of Islamic worship. I start with fasting this month of Ramadan and travel all the way to and through my first hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah. I write this blog in the context of Islam and modernity but also in the context of the human quest of “knowing” the truth of our existence, the purpose of our lives, and the destiny of our endeavors. I will reflect both as a matter of personal experience and also from the perspective of a retired reli…

Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet

By Joanna Brooks

…the LDS Church is, well, the Soviet regime.) But a Church that prizes the opacity of its inner workings is experiencing an unusual level of uninvited transparency. And there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle. Information wants to be free. Stories want to travel. And our Mormon faith teaches us that over time, at the intersection of multiple processes human and divine, new truth is revealed. As long as that new truth makes the Church a mo…