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ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

By Joanna Brooks

…mer athletes of color who had a positive experience with BYU and the Honor Code: “If Darron Smith wasn’t so hell bent on exposing BYU, the Church and the honor code office as racists, he’d find out that for every Thomas Stancil, Tico Pringle and Ray Hudson, there’s a Brandon Davies, Reno Mahe and Brian McDonald, the latter of which recovered from an alcohol-related probation, joined the Church and served a mission to Washington, DC.” Sikahema’s fu…

Was Prof Wrong to Ask Students to Not Thank God?

By Hollis Phelps

…, and in what manner to express or not express these rights. It’s when the code that translates these rights for us somehow ceases to function properly in the background that problems result. I want to suggest that often when problems crop up around religious or religiously-motivated speech in the United States, they often have less to do with rights per se than with the unwritten code that determines how these rights are to be taken. At least tha…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…donesia’s conservative Aceh province has enacted a strict Islamic criminal code, local government officials said late on Friday, criminalizing adultery, homosexuality, and public displays of affection outside of a legally recognized relationship. Aceh is the only province in the Muslim-dominated country to adhere to sharia, Islamic law, which puts it at odds with other provinces where the vast majority of the population practices a moderate form o…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…squet argues that only a fuller embrace of chaoplexity can face the fog of today’s wars. Nevertheless, the scientific way of warfare is much more than a set of tactics; it is a pattern of speech and a cipher of meaning. John Boyd, an ace Air Force pilot who became one of the Pentagon’s leading strategists, helped set the groundwork for a chaoplexic approach to military challenges. A glance through one of his few writings, the 1976 essay “Destructi…

Faith or Trauma: Questioning the Motivation of the Fort Hood Shooter

By Louise A. Cainkar

…overed that he was personally unable to serve in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan and tried to leave the military, but faced deterrents. His options would have been medical discharge, going AWOL (resulting in dishonorable discharge and losing benefits), or being expelled for misconduct. We also know that he reported facing harassment. On the eve of deploying to Afghanistan, he exploded, killing 13 persons and injuring more than two dozen othe…

C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…Graham rushed to its defense. Rep. Randy Forbes, leader of the congressional prayer caucus, is proud of his association. Rep. Frank Wolf and former Rep. Tony Hall took to the pages of Christianity Today to publish such a disingenuous defense that even USA Today scoffed. But that didn’t shake them. It’s taken a hit from its own members, but it’s not down and out….

In ‘The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims’ a Journalist Tells a Global Story About Evangelical Missionaries and the Spread of Right-Wing Ideology

By Daniel Schultz

…Scottish pastor, and a private pizza-delivery business he opened in Kabul, Afghanistan to help finance the mission. You have multiple sources in different countries supporting missionaries today. So the mission is funded in different ways, but the money behind it is really [given for] the training and equipping of pastors. All these huge conferences started to gather these global bodies together and gave them a sense of [being] one church. But wha…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…et how important this war, coming after the Soviet Union’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent implosion, was for radical Islam’s vile narrative. When bin Laden issued his first statement after we went to war with the Taliban in 2001, he drew a line connecting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Serbian war on Bosnia, and then connected the latter with the United Nations in a vast conspiracy against Muslims—that was why, he said, UN…

Why Obama for the Nobel? A Nudge? A Reminder?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tions they desired. And that is a cautionary tale for progressive politics today. So much depends on what the intended symbolics of this Nobel award actually were. The irony of awarding a Peace Prize to a man currently conducting two wars, and considering the significant up-tick and expansion of one of them, was lost on no one. So if the political aim of the Prize was to weigh in on Iraq or Afghanistan, as Limbaugh suggests, then it will likely ha…