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Ahmadi Muslim Community Doesn’t Speak For All Muslims

By Hussein Rashid

…Good Muslim/Bad Muslim dichotomy that actually ends up hurting the Muslim-American community. The Muslim-American community is represented by a wide variety of organizations that speak to various interests. Large umbrella organizations, like the Islamic Society of North America, have not had much luck in covering the community because the diversity is nearly uncontainable. Each of these groups speaks with a voice that represents its own constitue…

The Eddie Long Scandal: It is About Anti-Homosexuality

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…om being lachrymose to dissident.” Could it be that the African American community in larger numbers than ever before finally wants to talk? Are the members of our community and the American public willing to hear from African American LGBTQI persons or must we sit back and listen as other folk attempt to speak for us?…

Retribution v. Reform in American Justice

By Jennifer Graber

…new understanding of how Protestantism came to North America. It’s beautiful. It’s a revolution. I love both of these books—even as my own book is so different from them—because of their trained focus on the details within individual lives. What’s your next book? My new project is on religion, violence, and the frontier. It’s called “Spiritual Battlefields: A Religious History of the Indian Wars, 1860-1890.” I have only two chapters written. It’s…

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…ict and hostility based on passionate dislike for the other—are staples in news media. Additionally and beyond the news, so much of popular culture is fueled by depictions of hate and difference overcome by cruel violence. Whether it’s the cowboys killing the savage Indians, the space hero destroying the ruthless aliens, or the soldier slicing the enemy’s throat, hate is elemental in the entertainment industry. Do we even need to bring up shooter…

Good Hair, Good God! The Divine Politics of African-American Hair

By Anthea Butler

…ive. But the very pathos that has been induced by slavery, racism, and our American obsession with what constitutes beauty is painful to watch. The unresolved pain, and the lack of attention to the history of why hair has become such an obsession for African American women in particular, is the only drawback to this otherwise insightful and entertaining movie. And FYI: all of the hair on my head is mine. It is not a weave. But please, ask me befor…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…enating some moderate civil rights supporters. Author of numerous works on American-American religious history, including There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America and Martin Luther King: An Inconvenient Hero, Harding taught at Illiff School of Theology in Denver, Colo. for more than 20 years. Nelson Bunker Hunt A Texas billionaire remembered mostly for his business exploits, Nelson Bunker Hunt bankrolled the religious right. He…

Youth Violence Among American Muslims: A Perspective

By Muneer Fareed

…the human body: if one part suffers injury, the rest moans in sympathy. As Americans, they see themselves as good cops in the dangerous neighborhood that the world is today. And they see American foreign power not as colonialism in disguise, but as a humanitarian mission to take law and order, democracy, and human rights to those without it. These teachings act in tandem to inspire them—to hold both communities to a higher standard. As Muslim Amer…

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

By Spencer Dew

…lism is, counter to Noble Drew Ali’s original teachings, incompatible with American citizenship—as having the “primary objective” of “connect[ing] African Americans with a proud heritage, thereby circumventing the stereotypical picture of Africa, its inhabitants, and their black American descendants as savage and uncivilized.” This makes the religion, with its embrace of Orientalist imagery and esoteric texts, sound more like the African-centered…

Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…omeland was overwhelming. As would sometimes be forgotten, it was not just American Jews who where stirred by the prospect of a new nation for the Jewish people, it was most of America.’’ In 1948 President Truman, in keeping with American public opinion, granted Israel diplomatic recognition despite the protestations of many senior officials in the U.S. State Department, Secretary of State George Marshall among them. Though historians are divided…

Updated: New Riverside Pastor Steps Down; Where Does That Leave Progressive Christianity?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…rgy, and commissions as we enter a period of reflection, transition, and renewal. Blessings, Jean L. Schmidt Chair, Church Council _____ Dear Riversiders: After considerable prayer and reflection, I believe that resigning my position as Senior Minister of the Riverside Church is the right thing to do for the congregation, my family, and me at this time. My hope is that the congregation will be able to address its internal tensions so that the chur…