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Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…. So it’s more about representation and identity than it is about specific codes or laws.” Even though some political activists in Middle Eastern and North African countries promote “Islamic law” in reaction to the imposition of European-style government and legal systems on them, there is no single school of thought on what shari’ah, or divine law, is or means—and there is no single, accepted legal code. “If Islamic law were some book where you c…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ialists such as in medicine or law, we might say there are apostolic specialists. These specialists include the following: nuclear church apostles, who minister in local congregations or apostolic centers; territorial apostles who are understood as having a God-given authority over geographical areas such as nations, states or cities. vertical apostles who oversee networks of churches or ministries. horizontal apostles who connect or convene vario…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…ed not conventionally appear like religion to most people; that writing itself can be a form of sanctification. Hopper writes that she imagines “prayerful writing to be a vigilant flame sustained and made into the words we need.” An apt definition of the New Religion Journalism. While the above list masterfully collects some of the best writing from a relatively new genre, it’s important to remind readers that any such list is subjective. We men…

MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

Well, you can add the Hare Krishnas to the list of senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s religious experiments. Turns out she couldn’t handle the vegetarianism of ISKCON because she’s “Italian and I love meatballs.” And in case you weren’t sure, she’s still not a witch. Sit. Stay. Pray. Jango the dog says grace before every meal. Good boy. More and more people see the divine in the canine as pet blessings grow in popularity. Reverend Al Mohler,…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sed its efforts on the country’s churches, noting many of them continue to promote the idea that marriage is “only between a man and a woman.” She said they have instead focused on increased education around LGBT-specific issues. “What we have tried to do is create more education,” said Chacón. “The approach that we are going to look at here is there is no danger . . . to the traditional family, but what we can do is to expand the idea that a grea…

Cyclops Baby of the Apocalypse? Another Day in ISIS Fundamentalism

By Joseph Laycock

…propaganda campaign it also demonstrate the inventive nature of fundamentalist religious movements. In her study of Jerry Falwell, cultural anthropologist Susan Harding pointed out that the seemingly rigid position of Biblical inerrancy paradoxically entails a great deal of creativity and imagination as the inerrantist is constantly “rediscovering” the meaning of the Bible and “creating new truth.” Similarly, in attempting to eradicate a thousand…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…duced a video commemorating the first year of its Free & Equal campaign to promote the rights of LGBTI people. According to the video, “In the past year, more than a billion people around the world have read, seen, or heard the campaign’s message of respect and acceptance.” It says UN country teams around the world are preparing or have launched their own campaigns. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is among the human rights advocates who have recorded mess…

Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

By Mary E. Hunt

…uld be assigned to a Latin American country, though he had the same job in Bolivia before repairing to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and environs for another posting. All this leads me to wonder what could be done so readily in such disparate places. Conclusion: probably not much, and/or maybe more of the same. But let’s not go there. It’s reported that in Santo Domingo Wesolowski was “a ceremonial dean of the international diplomatic corps here, conven…

Despite Excommunication, Door to Women’s Ordination Not Closed

By Roy Bourgeois

…3:28). I guess I should have known better. Long ago, as a young priest in Bolivia, I learned that power is an addiction, and that our all-male, clerical culture sees women as a threat to male power. In living with the poor of Latin America, I was taught that change would not come from those who abuse their power and oppress others, but from the oppressed themselves. Change will come—not from the top down, but from the bottom up. At the core of th…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…s Forbes’ conservative Christian publisher Rich Karlgaard who quipped that listening to a pastor preach on business is like listening to a eunuch lecture on sex: neither has hands-on experience. The failure of the logic is obvious but the next section is revealing for an author who once worked at the world’s foremost anti-evolution “think tank,” devoted to the replacement of universally-accepted science with Christian beliefs: No serious Christian…