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Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…n Khan, Pakistani Politician and Former Cricket Star The Good: The dashing Pakistani upstart politician rose to fame as captain of the Pakistani cricket team leading the nation to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. After years of suffering from imperialistic humiliations, economic setbacks, and dictatorships, Muslims would benefit from having an acclaimed sports hero as their authority. Also, he still has great hair in his 50s which is a near-…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Jihadis?

By Haroon Moghul

…lief in the Christian Trinity.” This really was too much. I reached out to Pakistan’s Honorable (Ret’d) Justice Majida Rizvi, the first female Supreme Court Justice in Pakistan (that’s a big deal), and she dismissed this allegation out of hand. ‘There is no truth,’ she said, ‘in the statement.’ Pakistan has “millions of Christians living and practicing the religion,” she wrote, and “hundreds of Churches in existence and active.” This is not to den…

The Santa Killer: Death Imitating Art

By Jonathan Fast

…r. Later that night he killed himself with a bullet to the head. He had an airline ticket for Iowa, where he planned to visit a friend, and $17,000 in cash strapped to his body. So a crime that at first seems a rara avis reveals itself as the common gray sparrow of a disgruntled husband venting his rage on his wife and in-laws. What distinguishes it as “newsworthy,” beyond the scope of the tragedy and horror of the killings of innocent children an…

Listening and Supporting: The Spirituality of Nurses

By Wendy Cadge

…is ill, both to try make sense of illness and to hope for recovery. Large numbers of Americans pray, and a recent survey published in the Archives of Surgery reported that close to 60% of the public and 20% of medical professionals think someone in a persistent vegetative state can be saved by a miracle. In the neonatal ICU, it was not uncommon to see signs of families’ prayers and hopes in the New Testaments, Qur’ans, and Catholic medals actuall…

We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…ualism is bad. Also, he notes but offers no explanation for the decreasing number of marriages in many countries. I am glad to see that in Section 34 he understands this basic fact of contemporary western culture: The ideal of marriage, marked by a commitment to exclusivity and stability, is swept aside whenever it proves inconvenient or tiresome. The fear of loneliness and the desire for stability and fidelity exist side by side with a growing fe…

Does Prayer Work? Do Prayer Studies Work?

By Wendy Cadge

…or more: Cadge, Wendy. 2009. “Saying Your Prayers, Constructing Your Religions: Medical Studies of Intercessory Prayer.” Journal of Religion 89: 299-327. Email us at info@religiondispatches.org for a copy….

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…age. His 2012 book, The Buddha Walks into a Bar, has sold widely. Over the phone, I asked Rinzler why he and Burrows had chosen to establish the studio as a for-profit company. “We really wanted to make sure we had all the resources we need for supporting people who are trying meditation for the first time,” Rinzler explained. Because they’re a business, there’s more professionalism. The teachers they’ve hired show up on time, and, as Rinzler put…

Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…eek’s Torah portion, implying a similarity between that and homosexuality. Pakistan: Marriage, sex, and being LGBT AFP briefly explores “Marriage, sex, and being LGBT in Pakistan,” a situation that is “complicated by the deeply conservative, traditional Muslim country’s views of sex, sexuality and LGBT rights.” Tanzania: Government shuts down HIV / AIDS programs, threatens to arrest gay men Deputy Health Minister Hamisi Kigwangalla warned on socia…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…h buildings, starting right around the same time. Talk about luxury on the cheap; it’s hard to deny a feeling of similarity. (The tower is to the Burj as a certain toupee is to hair: might the Trump Tower inadvertently mimic an Islamic motif?) The regal twin palm trees in the foreground are the world’s tallest, at some 3,500 feet each. Recently a falling coconut crushed an entire apartment complex, punching a massive hole that has filled up with…

How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

By Sunita Viswanath

…sque, by a Hindu mob in India in 1992 triggered violence against Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as many religiously-motivated pogroms afterwards. A few weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with a leader of New York City’s Bangladeshi Hindu community, who was extremely resistant to making the connection between the persecution of his fellow Hindus in Bangladesh and the persecution of Muslims in India. He insisted, “Please don’t tell me about…