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Hajj Journal: Makkah as the Most Romantic City

By Amina Wadud

…l experience with Allah, what you cannot duplicate anywhere else is this ardent devotion coming together with other devotees, the “macro-communication factor,” as Nasr Abu Zayd referred to it. Okay, so there is love of the Ka’abah, love of the mosque, love between family and friends, well, think then about the salah! Personally, I should add, I already love the salah. But sometimes, I am a very bad lover, unfaithful as it were, giving my attention…

What’s the Problem With a Good Placebo?

By William Grassie

…ncluding many indicators of physical health, can travel indirectly through communities and social networks, though we don’t actually understand how this happens. These effects only work because of complex social and cultural interactions over the course of a lifetime. Popping pills, white coats, stethoscopes, and the examination room are all symbols in the liturgy of sickness and healing. They’re reinforced from childhood with the rituals of visit…

Catholics Talk About Sex

By Kate Ott

…nal. A series of Letters to the Editor appeared in The Heights, the independent student newspaper. The student at the table, Lindsey Hennawi, wrote a Letter to the Editor about the incident. Rev. Chris Collins, the priest, responded by defending his position that condom use is damaging to a person, his or her sexuality, and the sexuality of their partner. Alicia Johnson, Chair of BCSSH, reported, “Not all Jesuit Catholic Universities require stud…

Why I Won’t Leave the Mormon Church Alone

By Holly Welker

…ngregation, despite formal requests that they stop.) Eventually I sought a community of people also striving to come to terms with what it meant to have been but no longer be a devout Mormon. Luckily a diverse community of ex-, post-, or lapsed Mormons (we differ on what to call ourselves) thrives on the internet. Another thing that makes leaving Mormonism difficult is how little it is understood by the world at large. It’s frustrating to have to…

Surprise! Michele Bachmann is a Religious Rightist

By Sarah Posner

…ristian prayer in the military, she’s fulfilling of Beverly’s dream that “Christian values should dominate our government” because “politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.” That’s Bachmann, guided by “her deep Christian values.”…

Do Space Aliens Need Baptism? The View From Gliese 581g

By Paul Wallace

…or Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in 1959. Today, SETI is funded by private money and NASA funds an extensive Astrobiology research program. In its 2008 Roadmap, this program states the following as its first goal. Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the universe. Determine the potential for habitable planets beyond the Solar System, and characterize those that are observable. The news about Gliese 5…

Dan Webster’s Gothard-Speak

By Sarah Posner

…heck.org and PolitiFact, have succeeded in focusing attention on what is characterized as Grayson’s ad’s falsehoods, instead of of where we should be focusing: how Webster’s religious fundamentalism would guide his service if he were elected to the House of Representatives. Is there a One-Accord Power Team Caucus in the making?…

Beware of Yoga, Taking the Jesus Out of AA, Atheist Billboard Wars—The Sequel

By Michael J. Altman

…wasn’t Moses who parted the Red Sea. It was just windy. A school superintendent in Wellesley, Massachusetts has apologized for allowing students on a field trip to a local Islamic center to participate in midday prayers. The city of King, North Carolina has decided to remove a Christian flag from a public Veterans Memorial. The ACLU of New Jersey is suing the city of Point Pleasant Beach over the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer at city council mee…

Tea Party’s Cosmic Conflict in Wisconsin

By Gary Laderman

…of right and wrong that are of ultimate significance, and they reinforce a common identity that binds members of the community together. A case in point, and a frequent sight in this new era of Tea Party members of government, is the sacred value of identifying an enemy. For anyone familiar with religious history this is a no-brainer, as the history of religions is shot through with hatred and demonization—not only among the Abrahamic traditions,…

Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal

By Ira Chernus

…a child of the Enlightenment he was devoted to science, and thus to independence of mind. Seeing clearly the dangerous excesses of nationalism he struggled to develop a social and educational theory that could harmonize maximum individual freedom with maximum social solidarity. Durkheim was also in the intellectual elite, dedicated like all his colleagues to cultivating the most refined bourgeois values. Yet as an advocate of individual freedom an…