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US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…udgmental space, it’s Jerusalem. Both sides of Israel’s capital—the Muslim eastern half and the Jewish western half—have in common large numbers of socially conservative residents who look down on homosexuality. “In the west, you have Orthodox Jews, and in the east you have Arabs—and the Arabs are so homophobic,” says Khaled Alqam, a gay Arab, while sitting under a heater on the patio of the Video Pub in Jerusalem. “They think if you’re gay, you’r…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…says Galef at SSA. “It comes down to which values we’re promoting. We are promoting values of critical thinking and acceptance.” Conflicting values on campus have led to unsavory events. Last year at Salisbury University in Maryland, the Atheist Society took offense when Cru students chalked a verse from the Bible: “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is not one who does good.” This led…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, and Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, who he says “have sprearheaded the U.S. bishops’ campaign against marriage equality and LGBT rights, neglecting issues valued far more by this pope.” At Believe Out Loud, Shine rounds up Catholic reactions to recent comments by Pope Francis on gender. Israel: Single Female Legislator Announces She’s Pregnant, Gay Friend is F…

Religion and HIV/AIDS: When Interfaith is Not Enough

By Susan Henking

…ations have worked for civil rights in America, toward peace in the Middle East, and in seeking justice and compassion for persons with HIV/AIDS, right? And moves like that of the United Church of Christ are better than their opposite—overt hostility toward persons with HIV/AIDS. But do they distract us from the illogic of religion? The hostility? The longterm negative consequences? Such questions are not relevant only for New York City. Why? New…

As Court Prepares to Rule on Sacred Apache Site, Religious Freedom Faces an American Right Prized Above All Others

By Dana Lloyd

…currently managed by the U.S. federal government as Tonto National Forest, east of Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2014, a proposed copper mine has threatened to permanently alter the area through an underground mining technique that would cause the earth to sink—up to 1,115 feet deep and almost 2 miles across. Apache Stronghold, a grassroots organization devoted to defending sacred sites, has challenged the proposed mining plan in court, arguing that des…

The Double Blessing: Obama, the Bible, and Outreach to Muslims

By Charlotte Gordon

…m that both sides cite to support their claims of precedency in the Middle East. But the antagonists have forgotten what God said to the women; in this case, the pivotal woman in the story. “Your son will be free,” God told her, “He will build a great nation. His name will be God-hears, or Ishmael.” This oversight has cost both sides bitterly. By focusing on the covenantal agreement between God and Abraham, both Muslims and Jews have lost sight of…

“God Created You”: Bishop Supports Gay Ugandans, Defies Death Threats

By Jocelyn Edwards

…y fear a cover-up by a government trying to downplay the homophobia in the East African nation. The proposal of last year’s anti-gay bill in the country’s parliament provoked a firestorm of criticism in the international community, with donors—who account for about a third of the nation’s annual budget—threatening to withhold aid if it was passed. As a result, Bishop Senyonjo is skeptical of the suspect’s all-too-convenient confession. “What was s…

Islam, Essential to America?

By Scott Korb

…ut Christianity with a group of Muslim women who wanted me to take them to Easter Mass. I hope the book makes for pleasurable reading—good sentences married to good ideas. And pissing people off isn’t hard when you’re writing about Islam—from any and all sides—so even where I’ve tried to be thoughtful, there’s lots in the book that’s sure to piss off lots of people. Maybe it’ll annoy Varadarajan as much as “Going Muslim” annoyed me. What alternati…

But Are They “The Good Muslims”?

By Haroon Moghul

…n we talk about Egypt’s Salafis isn’t because we’re debating theology, at least not primarily—I don’t think we’re actually concerned with the specifics of Islamic thought. We’re more worried about what Salafism and Islamism generally means for our interests, values, and the Muslim world. At bottom, our concerns over Salafis are concerns over what they’ll do when they’re in power. So we try to figure out where they fall in the continuum of what Co…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…time of my first years in college, I was studying traditions from the Far East. Eventually I lived as a Buddhist in an ashram and practiced meditation each morning and evening. I was already a vegetarian, part of my transforming consciousness about toxins and waste for the body and the spirit. Entering Islam was partially an accident. I was still reading about traditions other than the one of my birth. Likewise I began to read about Islam. I knew…