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This Veterans Day, the Centennial of the Unknown Soldier, Skip the Platitudes and Talk to a Veteran

By Sara Jaye Hart

…’ve never laid flowers at a veterans cemetery or followed troop deployment numbers. Doing so would not occur to most. Since the end of the draft and the initiation of the All-Volunteer Force in 1973, veterans have not been distributed widely through civilian communities, and Americans have allowed themselves to support the troops in a distant, spectatorial fashion that may signal gratitude or at least political correctness, but also underwrites a…

Facing White Christianity’s Role in the January 6th Insurrection

By Robert P. Jones

…lary, “a rise in political extremism,” he called out white supremacy as a “domestic terrorism that we must confront, and we will defeat.” The backdrop of the U.S. Capitol Building on that sunny, crisp winter day was as poignant as it has been since Abraham Lincoln gave his first inaugural address in front of its unfinished dome in 1861. Devoid of the usual inaugural crowds due to the pandemic, the Capitol’s windows and doors had also been hastily…

Russia and the US Have More in Common Than You Might Think

By Chrissy Stroop

…Kremlin began to scapegoate the LGBTQ community as Putin openly embraced a number of illiberal policies promoted by the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, to which he increasingly looked for legitimacy. By contrast, LGBTQ rights seemed to be advancing in the US, which is one reason I was happy when, in 2015, I was offered a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of South Florida. I headed back to the US—only for my home country to elect…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…lent extremism programming, or CVE, is on the rise at home and abroad. The domestic side of the story is receiving solid coverage by outlets like AlterNet and substantial pushback from an active coalition of civil society and civil libertarian groups, including the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). “…the CVE agenda adopts a particular approach to religion in which the latter is underst…

The Rise and Fall of an American Gang: Religion as Camouflage?

By Spencer Dew

…anything at all from Farrakhan. The authors, however, want to argue that domestic rhetoric and foreign acts of violence aren’t far from conflated—especially in the eyes of the law. One purpose of this book is to make clear how “The El Rukn story may serve as a cautionary tale for other street organizations,” that, in the words of the authors, the “predilection for Islam—and greed, although the two are unrelated—put the organization at risk of fa…

Pope Francis’ Love Letter is an Opportunity Lost

By Mary E. Hunt

…tasks are mentioned, but men are still seen as helping while women do the domestic heavy lifting. Imagine if two men raised children. Some do, and very well despite the tired stereotypes here. Alas, transgender people will not find their realities reflected in this text. I found the text troubling at many points. For example, “We need a healthy dose of self-criticism…” especially in light of “an almost exclusive insistence on the duty of procreat…

Lesbian Nuns: Still Immodest After All These Years

By Susan Henking

…shocking to see those terms juxtaposed. Shortly after publication I got a number of irate letters from devout believers who thought I was besmirching the Catholic Church. Needless to say, I did not think I was a slanderer but rather that I was simply providing an evidence-based interpretation of events that had occurred in the past. In the intervening years, public perceptions have changed for a variety of reasons. Most important is the greater a…

Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish

By David True

…s to Western nations “evidence a desire to order their affairs, especially domestic affairs, by Shari’ah law rather than by the supposedly neutral law of a godless liberalism.” Fish is well-known for exposing the tensions between our political ideals and the practical demands of life in a pluralistic society. He does so in a way that is almost always entertaining and usually helpful, especially as a reminder that achieving justice is seldom as nea…

Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…e and disembark last. Let the other passengers, many whom will transfer to domestic flights, get off first. Well, if the rest of us are hajjis, we don’t all look like hajjis. Only one other woman has on white: an African sister, whose partner does not wear the two cloths. In fact, several Africans were in their native dress. Okay, so maybe they will change on the plane. Well, about four and a half hours into the flight, they announce over the spea…

Ron Paul’s New Place in the GOP

By Julie Ingersoll

…ated for years. He plans to push such a plan as the new chair of the House Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee that oversees the Fed and its monetary policy. Reportedly Republican leaders had planned to put someone else in that position but appointed Paul under pressure from Tea Party organizations. I’ve written about the background of Paul’s economic views, particularly on the Fed, here. Paul told Bloomberg News he wouldn’t move to end the Fed…