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Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

By Jeffrey Scholes

…scholar and apologist, William Lane Craig, and Christian pastor and journalist, John S. Dickerson (on Fox News). Craig classifies Aslan’s book as unoriginal and flat-out incorrect in its labeling of Jesus as a Zealot. It’s “nothing new under the sun” that will add little to the story of Jesus—a fate met by all previous attempts to get at the historical Jesus. Dickerson accuses Aslan of purposely misleading his audience by hiding his Muslim identi…

California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

By Sarah Sentilles

…or the prisoners.” You can see the photographs here, but here is a partial list of what the men requested: My family together My picture with blue sky Downtown Chicago or Lake Florida Beach Marriage Proposal Scene Boy and Girl Playing Piano Solitary confinement is by its very definition a practice meant to be hidden. People locked away, out of sight, in isolation. Hunger strikes, religion, and art have the power to bring such hidden practices to l…

Atheist Monument: Proof of Unintelligent Design

By Gordon Haber

…o sense founded on the Christian religion.” On the back of the pillar is a list of “Punishments for Breaking the Ten Commandments,” such as Deuteronomy 13:10: “Other gods: Thou shalt stone him with stones that he die, because he hath thought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy god.” The intention, obviously, is to demonstrate that atheists, as opposed to Bible-thumpers, are ethical souls, and that America is not a Christian nation. Atheists have…

Affordable Care Act Needs “Fix,” Clergy Say

By Daniel Schultz

…other hand, it might not. I notice two influential groups missing from the list of supporters for the fix: non-denominational evangelicals, whose churches might be self-insured or find other ways to insure their pastors, and the Catholic Church, whose diocesan plans might be large enough not to be affected by the problem. Both groups, it’s worth noting, are heavily set against the ACA. We may yet see the GOP pinned dramatically between religious c…

Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

By Rosetta E. Ross

…transferred Biko’s courage and tenacity to make Donald Wood (a white journalist I’d never heard of) the story’s hero. This is how I experienced the book The Help. The second false message is this: The really important point of all cultural production and activity is for white agency and dignity to be actualized. The overarching plot of this book presents the narrative of a young white woman finding herself and her voice amidst cliches, circumscrip…

Suicide Bombers and the Prozac God: A Review of Dying for Heaven

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…nger of religion. God as Prozac creates a paradigm shift for defense specialists requiring them to find the suspect Sufi mystics before their entranced followers go ‘self-annihilative’ and take down the world with them, as they blow themselves into a state of divinely mediated pleasure. The first suspects who spring to mind are: Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, Hamza Yusuf, and Pir Zia Khan. All three are notable Sufi practioners in the diverse fie…

Forward Christian Europe!

By Ludger Viefhues-Bailey

…t his only tweet 5 days before the assault to become visible for the journalistic research he anticipated. He produced a video summary of his “Declaration” and encouraged his contacts to translate and further distribute both the images and text. Whereas this obsessively curated selection of his motives, background, and planning was clearly addressed to the media, Breivik, who was deeply concerned about keeping control of his public persona after t…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…to community service, ministry, and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity, and spiritual enlightenment. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and we use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit. [emphasis in original] Dancing (dare I say flirting) along the bleeding edge of outrageousness, the 70 or…

American Supports Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill

By Michael Wilkerson

…e Call, homosexuality was mentioned frequently, but in passing, often in a list of sins (including witchcraft, child sacrifice, corruption, and terrorism) that worshipers should pray for or confess to. Shortly after 4 p.m., however, prayers began for Bahati’s bill to be passed. “We call on parliament not to debate heaven. We call on them to pass the bill and say no to homosexuality,” preached Julius Oyet, a pastor with Life Line Ministries in Ugan…

The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…w on the full palette of possibilities in their vision of end times religious war, since the indictment also said that the Hutaree’s enemies list includes “anyone who does not share their beliefs.”…