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As Gaza Burns, Jews Disagree, Protest & Pray

By Sam Kestenbaum

…ssiles Hamas has fired (2,270)—some reaching as far north as Jerusalem—the number of Hamas’ smuggling tunnels uncovered (31), the number of Israeli soldiers killed in action (29). These numbers will likely change every hour. In the weeks leading up to the Israeli invasion of Gaza and now as increasingly grisly accounts and bloody images emerge of Palestinian homes and hospitals blown apart, American Jews are conflicted—alternately protesting again…

New Report: Muslim Terrorism a ‘Minuscule Threat’

By Hussein Rashid

…orism overseas in places like Somalia and Yemen. Even if we take the conservative number of 2 million Muslims in the U.S., that means 0.01% of Muslims are involved in terrorism-related activity over the span of a decade. Per annum, it is 0.001%. If we take a more realistic number of 4 million American Muslims, the numbers become 0.005% over a decade, or 0.0005% per year. Last year there were 14,000 homicides in the U.S., and with a population of 3…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…tique of HAF’s stance to assert that the study of religion should not be influenced by religious groups, conflating HAF with Dinanath Batra, the retired schoolteacher who sued Penguin India to “ban” the book in the Indian markets. “Similar to Mr. Batra,” Jerryson asserts, “Ms. Shukla considers religious organizations the controllers and arbitrators of academic discussion.” He then goes on to offer a dubious claim that he had been censored from off…

Don’t Misread Russell Moore’s Disavowal of “Christian Nation” and Anti-Trump Stance

By Daniel Schultz

…Southern Baptist leaders to disentangle the denomination from ideological evangelicalism—the idea that being an evangelical is primarily a matter of a conservative social identity. (Yes, the SBC was heavily involved in building ideological evangelicalism in the first place. They’ve had second thoughts, apparently.) Moore’s no idiot. He no doubt has demographic data in front of him that shows the SBC is going to be in real trouble if it doesn’t dif…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…om 24 to 20 percent among historically black Protestant denominations. The number of 18-29 year olds among Catholics and evangelical Protestants ticked up 1 percent respectively, and among mainline Protestants it saw a 9 percent increase. In the interest of equity, blacks make up 9 percent of those who are unaffiliated with any religious tradition (“nones”), and of that, the numbers trended upwards among 18-29 year olds. Many news outlets covered…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…lic Church and even mainline Protestant denominations. But for many young evangelicals and former evangelicals like Dunn, this move to be free of liturgical strictures came at the expense of religious practices that have been a part of Christianity for two millennia, and to these believers, the loss is too great. This is precisely why many evangelical churches have, as Dunn witnessed, made an effort to reintroduce those once forsaken elements into…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…sident Vladimir Putin had made a similar statement earlier. The comments reflect the devastating ongoing impact of a global campaign by American anti-gay evangelicals like Scott Lively, who have spent years telling public officials in Russia, eastern Europe, and Africa that gays are a threat to children. Britain’s Channel 4 produced a disturbing documentary about Russians who use social media to hunt, kidnap, assault, and publicly humiliate gay pe…

Hajj Journal: Using the Toilet at the Grand Mosque

By Amina Wadud

…court up to the second floor. From there, the double escalators from each floor rose up to the third floor. There is also a partial 4th floor; more of a balcony over the deepest part of the mosque. Not a full circumabulation, so you cannot do tawaf from there, but you can do saiy. Fortunately for me, this toilet visit was from a place just next to the green line. The green line marks a distance in saiy where the pilgrim is supposed to run, becaus…

Lesbian Rabbi to Lead SoCal Board, Includes Orthodox

By Benjamin Weiner

…up to the various institutions within the movement to determine which tshuva they will follow. The two Conservative rabbinical schools in the US have gone with the accepting tshuva, whereas the Israeli seminary has proved the reactionary element. (This is a story for another day.) The issue is pretty much a non-starter in the Orthodox world, except for a notable handful of fringe-rabbis pushing for more inclusiveness, and what I assume to be a si…

Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r, Aleksandra Eriksson writes that gay rights are at the heart of Poland’s values conflicts, saying that anti-LGBTI discrimination can be seen as “central to the ideology that brought the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) to power.” “PiS knows better than any other party to create a cultural narrative that captures the electorate,” says Hubert Sobecki. He is the chair of Milosc nie wyklucza (MNW; “Love doesn’t exclude”), a non-governmental…