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Hajj Journal:
This Cultural Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…is that we ended up on what I called the barakat bus: the bus of blessing. No one ever spoke about our being left behind the first two buses. Ours was the bus where the disabled and mothers with small children boarded first. Our spirit was one of renewal and grace. The other barakat for me was finally getting the company I needed to get through the remainder of the hajj, including, coincidently my own roommate. But first, I had to get through my…

On NSA Spying, What’s With the Silence of the Lambs?

By Peter Laarman

…hat most sickens: the absence of a community of active and intelligent and spirit-filled resistance, the sense that everyone is making sure their bed corners are properly turned down, the faint sound of heels clicking. Given gruesome past instances of prying, spying, and coercion of the conscience by state actors over centuries, one might imagine that American religious leadership would be up in arms at this moment. Our bloody history makes clear…

There’s Something Rotten in Ireland

By Haroon Moghul

…ring who it is being directed to and where it is apparently originating. A number of Palestinians are Christians, and that Christianity is of course traced back to the time of Jesus himself. The Palestinian weekend is Friday and Sunday. In addition to being the world’s most annoying and dissatisfying weekend schedule (there should be an award for that, or maybe financial compensation), the days reflect the primary religious affiliations of Palesti…

Supreme Court Rules Religion is Special… This Time

By Katherine Stewart

…he one thing that they got right in this case. The U.S. has on the books a number of valuable laws against discrimination in the workplace, and all organizations (businesses, nonprofits, schools, governments) are expected to abide by these laws. Except religions, or so it now seems. According to the Tabor ruling, religious groups get a pass on the law when it comes to employees who are considered “ministerial.” The right to the free exercise of re…

Crossing Denominational Lines to Reprimand “Freaky Fraus”

By Kathryn Joyce

…by a sincere desire to honor the call of God and the anointing of the Holy Spirit on the ministry of committed Christian women.” Rev. Runnion-Bradford further criticized the women for refusing to take a vow of chastity and for promoting a self-centered gospel, citing the “Body, Sex and Gender” section of the group’s web page. “We know that ‘Womenpriests’ openly include candidates who are engaged in the practice of sexual license. It is significant…

Why I’m Not Quite Sold on ‘Black Santa’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…” (aka “The Night Before Christmas”) was published in the Troy Sentinel. By 1863, Thomas Nast’s illustrations of Saint Nicholas, or “Santa Claus,” as a white, bearded, heavy-set figure appeared in Harper’s Weekly essentially cementing our imaginary depictions of Santa Claus. It was also during the latter half of the 19th century that much of the Santa Claus mythology took root, including his North Pole residence. During the 20th century, ad campai…

Christian Epistle on Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…from what they were told it is. All the passionate music, jubilation, and spiritual energy [at the Dearborn Awakening] cannot hide the meanness of spirit that would perpetrate this kind of fraud. We as Christians can be very intolerant, and the conservative politics that has shaped many of us makes what we say very irrelevant to today’s issues. I think a good part of the church is in denial as to how this country has really changed. I never heard…

Obama Shaking Hands with Warren While Winking at Gays?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…en as he is politically calculating. I understand that he wants to model a spirit of unity and common purpose by embracing those with whom he disagrees. And I get that he wants to bring together persons from all sides of the ideological spectrum in order to raise America from the nadir of Bush/Cheney political discourse. Yet all the evidence of the president-elect’s selection of Rick Warren to offer the invocation at the presidential inauguration…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…. These presuppositions were deepened and strengthened by the events of the 1770s and 1780s, in which the notion of an American Israel throwing off oppression in order to take up its national mission settled ever more deeply into American public rhetoric. This link was only strengthened by the Revolutionary experience, the great evangelical revivals of the early nineteenth century, and the nation’s first movements westward. Nor did the jeremiad go…

How Prince Set Fire to My Catholic Girlhood

By Anthea Butler

…, pointed to a union of desire and the divine. No other artist tapped into spiritual truth and multiple orgasms at the same time the way Prince did. He didn’t even have to say the words—his moans said everything. Listening to Prince made you all hot, bothered, and anxious. Especially anxious. That anxiety wasn’t only about lust, but about the intensity and romance of many of Prince’s lyrics. Prince seemed to be looking for that perfect sexual part…