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New Report: Muslim Terrorism a ‘Minuscule Threat’

By Hussein Rashid

…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 300,000,000, that’s about 0.0005% of the population are murderers. The report ends with this sage advice: “This study’s findings challenge Americans to be vigilant against the threat of homegrown terr…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…themselves. More problematically, scholars—even those whose views were sympathetic towards Hinduism—were reluctant to engage with practicing Hindus, a departure from the study of other faiths. The religious study of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and more recently, Buddhism, in the academy has been buttressed by strong theological perspectives. Hinduism, at least in the West, still lacks that presence, and until it does, there will always be quest…

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

By Daniel Schultz

…ders are taking as well. Any of these options involves some risk, but door number three is a particularly dicey maneuver. It’s basically telling Trump and his supporters to kiss off. Since those supporters make up a fair portion of the conservative movement, anybody hoping to lead it in the future has to hope they will have enough of their own people remaining to do so. That’s the gamble Ryan and Cruz are making—Ryan just can’t afford to be as exp…

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

By Joshua L. Lazard

…filiation. Only among historically black Protestant denominations did that number trend downward significantly between 2007 and 2014; the 18-29 age group decreased from 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 pe…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ach of my Catholic family members and friends. All throughout this time my parents never spoke ill of the Catholic Church; though the pastors and congregants of our non-denominational, charismatic church-that-met-in-a-warehouse, often did. Despite my firsthand experience with the Church, between the legend of my parents’ conversion (anything that happens in a child’s life before he is born is the stuff of legends) and the portrait of the Catholic…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ld Congress of Families summit in Moscow this year, and accuses Yakunin of participating in massive Olympic-related corruption. Kincaid notes that the Russian Orthodox Church was criticized earlier this year for publishing a Stalin-glorifying 2014 calendar. El Salvador: Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment Fails in Legislature Last Friday, an effort to push an anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment through the parliament failed, with only 19 of i…

Hajj Journal: Using the Toilet at the Grand Mosque

By Amina Wadud

…ble 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, because this is what Hajar did.* That way, when I return…

Lesbian Rabbi to Lead SoCal Board, Includes Orthodox

By Benjamin Weiner

…modern Orthodox (as opposed to ultra-Orthodox) Jews who have plenty of sympathy for gays and lesbians, and probably number many of them among their friends, but can’t yet see a way to harmonize this personal sentiment with their larger religious commitments. It’s important to bear this denominational scorecard in mind when considering Eger’s appointment, because a “board of rabbis” is, in its essence, a trans-denominational body. Existing in most…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…g it was “an assault on Bulgarian values”. Ataka even wants to criminalise participants of the Sofia Pride Parade. So far, not one government official has condemned those scandalous statements. Malaysia: Government drops ‘preventing homosexuality’ from video contest After public criticism, the government dropped from a sex education video competition a category on “preventing” homosexuality. Europe: Governments begin accepting refugees from anti-g…

The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…uctive freedom without apology or hesitation; and this season also saw the passage of a number of same-sex marriage ballot initiatives, as well as the election of the nation’s first openly lesbian senator. Some on the right could scarcely believe that this is what America really wants. “Millions of Americans looked evil in the eye and adopted it,” wrote Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver in his post-election commentary. He has a point—except that, for t…