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New Study: Islamophobia Common in Catholic Media

By Jordan Denari Duffner

…rominent Catholic institutions and public figures, including priests, have promoted materials on Islam that depict a Muslim-Christian clash. One of Steve Bannon’s favorite “experts” on Islam is Robert Spencer, whose anti-Muslim activism alongside Pamela Geller has been well documented. Despite this, Spencer has become a respected voice in some Catholic circles. A Catholic himself, Spencer has written two books for a Catholic audience, including In…

The Book of Diana: Wonder Woman as Theological Text

By Yazmine Nichols

…receding build-up, the audience has been led to believe that Ares is the cause of war and the cause of the darkness of men, implying that his death will bring peace. In theological terms we’d say that God’s intervention does not necessarily end human war or human-induced suffering. It is this central belief that is at the core of the Wonder Woman film. Throughout the movie, we the audience are rooting for Diana, whom we assume will defeat Ares, Ho…

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…f taking care of me and my present needs. I’ve accepted that it wasn’t because they didn’t love me; it was because they are just who they are. I am a speck of time in hundreds of years of church history—this church, the congregation, the denomination, the entire American evangelical church, wasn’t created for someone like me to live, serve, love, worship, and flourish in. My time there ended, and that’s a good thing. I will always love them. I wil…

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy

By David Frankfurter

…t in following up their broader observations with a book devoted to the such. What’s your next book? My next book will return to the subject of my principal expertise, the Christianization of Egypt and the various social worlds in which Egyptian and Christian traditions were combined. I use anthropology and comparative approaches in this book too….

The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…ilies that I interviewed during my fieldwork had chosen Judaism as their household religion, and they observed Passover from the night it began until they left Hebrew School on Sunday morning to drive to Grandma’s house for Easter dinner. The father, in this particular family, grew up on a hog farm in South Georgia where Easter dinner is a feast, including ham, biscuits, chicken and dumplings, and many kinds of pie. It’s the kind of country cookin…

Beck: Muslim Brotherhood Is Like ACORN

By Sarah Posner

…ght on the Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday, and now Media Matters has a clip of Glenn Beck’s radio show today, in which he throws together Nazis, communists, Islamists, and — naturally — the Muslim Brotherhood. “We have evidence of the uber-left . . . sowing the seeds and helping those in Egypt,” said Beck. “You need to know the connections,” Beck warned. “This is about our survival.” “They’re operating like ACORN,” Beck said of the Muslim Brother…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…ond problem: white evangelical “racial reconciliation” lacked rigor. It focused on building personal relationships between races, not addressing the systemic inequalities that devastate communities of color. This led minority evangelicals to question whether “racial reconciliation” was simply a convenient vehicle for white absolution and, given the long history of white oppression within the church (using the Bible to justify slavery, supporting J…

If Pelosi Is Guilty, So’s Jesus

By Jill Marshall

…is repose’; yet they would not hear.” Maybe Paul, since he wrote in Greek, used the Greek Septuagint rather than the Hebrew. But the Greek seems even further away: “Because of contempt of lips, through a different tongue, they will speak to this people, ‘This is the rest for those who hunger, and this is the destruction.’ Yet they would not listen.” Why do Paul and Jesus misquote the Bible? What “scripture” are they reciting? One possible answer i…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…o challenge my students to interrogate the definitions of religion that we use and how we understand the borders between religions like Christianity and Islam. Who built these borders, and when did they first appear? The terrorist charged with waging a calculated, hateful attack on Muslims in their place of worship fancies himself a historian, but it will come as little shock to learn that, given his writings, it’s clear that he’s never really rea…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…as if it’s all just one bloody thing? Erasing all substantive distinctions between ancient Egypt (before there were even Jews!) and modern-day Iraq? Historically, there’s something obscene about it, and yet this is viewed as a normative position: Even before there were Jews, people hated the Jews. Even Jon Lovitz’s Hanukkah Harry character, which had its Saturday Night Live debut in 1989, reflects this. When he mistakenly climbs down the chimney o…