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The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…a Economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, and has lived throughout the Middle East. He brings a casual language that makes his arguments easy to process and a pleasure to read, communicating sensitivities about and intimacies with both regions that cannot be faked. Vali Nasr is among other things Professor of International Politics at Tufts’ Fletcher School and part of Richard Holbrooke’s Afghanistan-Pakistan team, whose recent works have received si…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…older daughter who will want to make a contribution to peace in the Middle East? A few girls a little older than they are, from two or three oil-rich families, or maybe just from one rich family, can finance the project. The second cousin of the Jewish girl, who lives in New York, has come to Israel for his bar mitzvah. Everyone knows that when his grandfather dies he is going to inherit a lot of money. Both girls have been up late whispering with…

“Not a Christian Book”: The Perils of the Amazon Book Review

By Charlotte Gordon

…ionship with these two women is a foundational myth not only in the Middle East, but also in the west. Whether or not we are believers, we are still awash in its wake as it helps explain many of the battles between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. I set the first scene in Nasireya, the Iraqi city that was the location of early battles in the recent war, but which is also known as Ur, the traditional birth place of Abraham and Sarah, the founding…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…erested in serving Jesus they would be called to places like Peoria or the East Village once in a while. But they’re really only interested in being close to power; without having to do the hard work to actually run for electoral office or get boring bureaucratic jobs inside the government. The radical religious right are the ultimate camp followers. They’re latching onto government for a free ride while decrying it. They want to overthrow the pre…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…in a common humanity, to say that Jesus triumphed over “the wisdom of the East,” but it would be quite another thing for an “Eastern” recipient of that story to celebrate the Christ’s victory in the same way. The Aquarian Gospel is still a Christian gospel, and Jesus is still its exclusive hero. The Age of Aquarius is potentially as self-righteous and unreflective, and thus nearly as lost, as every age that preceded it. Revelations are corrupted,…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…, many of these hardworking rural and small-town folks felt menaced by big East-coast banks and creeping national corporations. They weren’t opposed to money, business or success per se; rather, they wanted to ensure that some of it came their way. Accordingly, they supported federal legislation that protected the region and its farmers, setting a precedent for using government funds to aid a “favored segment” of the nation. By the twentieth centu…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…sm.” As events unfold like a collapsing dam in North Africa and the Middle East, the questions flow. What is the nature of the revolution in Egypt? By extension, what do changes taking place in the Muslim world mean? What do they mean for the US? What does this mean for the West? Are we witnessing an Islamic Revolution? Is this Iran in 1979 all over again? Is Obama the new Carter? Should we be afraid? The underlying reasons behind US hesitation in…

“God Created You”: Bishop Supports Gay Ugandans, Defies Death Threats

By Jocelyn Edwards

…y fear a cover-up by a government trying to downplay the homophobia in the East African nation. The proposal of last year’s anti-gay bill in the country’s parliament provoked a firestorm of criticism in the international community, with donors—who account for about a third of the nation’s annual budget—threatening to withhold aid if it was passed. As a result, Bishop Senyonjo is skeptical of the suspect’s all-too-convenient confession. “What was s…

Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…ic women among them of contraceptives, of the use of condoms that could protect them from HIV-AIDS, and of the ministry of women priests who would marry, absolve, and anoint them, is no service to them. Even as President Ronald Reagan challenged Michael Gorbachev to tear down the wall between East and West, the much-loved Pope John Paul II put every effort into freeing the Catholics of Eastern Europe from religious and political oppression. The ne…

I Know Why a Rain Dance Won’t End The Drought

By Johnny P. Flynn

…By 2:30 we were soaked to the skin by a “sudden” thunderstorm headed northeast to the Hopi reservation. I remembered it was the day of the Hopi Snake dance which is most often cited as a “rain dance.” Snakes and rain are almost universal partners occurring in cultures from Eastern Europe to Chumash of Southern California. I’ve seen a lot of Chumash rock art and at almost every spring there is a painted figure with the familiar crosshatched markin…