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Why Are Muslims So Concerned with Muhammad?

By Haroon Moghul

…me to ask two desperate questions: How is it that a $5 million budget can buy you so little? And, who produces a 14-minute trailer? That’s just offensive. In Islam, the Qur’an is the literal word of God, and Muhammad represents the embodiment of those words of God. If you want to know what Islam is in text, go to the Qur’an; if you want to know what Islam is in action, study Muhammad’s life. That’s what Muslims do. They study it, debate it, and i…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…. As the police commissioner for Salt Lake City, he donated a pay raise to buy sports equipment for the Central City Community Center, and when the Republicans tried to block the police from forming a union, my dad not only defended their right to it, but also helped them to set it up. My mom was surprised one morning by a Native American gentleman at the doorstep who handed her an envelope full of cash. It turns out that, years before, my dad, a…

When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…he Untouchables), which came out almost a year ago and sold twenty million tickets in France (and nearly as many abroad). Intouchables is a funny and moving comedy, but as politically correct a story as you’ll find: a black young man bordering on delinquency is hired by a tetraplegic wealthy man to be his assistant-nurse-chauffeur. They have a ball together doing crazy—and sometimes nasty—things, and save each other from an apparently inexorable f…

Can Mormonism Save Mitt Romney’s Campaign?

By Joanna Brooks

…nn writes, Romney sees himself as a “rescuer,” “not a guy who used debt to buy and resell businesses.” Hard facts stand on the side of the latter. The insularity, privacy, and opacity of Romney’s worlds and his guardedness are rooted, I believe, in the historic experience of LDS people as a historically persecuted American religious minority that continues to value its separateness from the “world.” To be a Mormon in the late 20th century was to w…

Honey Boo Boo and the Sweet By and By

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…South through a variegated interpretive lens; and besides, would consumers buy into this multifaceted vision anyway? Don’t they pay to be fed Othering narratives that package a simplistic version of Dixie for convenient consumption? If ever there were a bullseye target for this kind of elitist and unhelpful framing, it would surely be Southern Gospel music. Emerging from the postbellum South, the music swelled from its roots in amateur shapenote s…

A Report from America’s “Sacrifice Zones”

By Chris Hedges

…in mind when writing? No. Joe and I never once asked ourselves who would buy it or if it would sell. We focused only on producing the very best work we could, a work we were proud of, a work that spoke to us and hopefully would speak to others. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I am hoping they will wake up to the corporate forces arrayed against them, forces that if left unchecked will doom the future o…

American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…h Occupy Faith and the Rolling Jubilee campaign, which is raising money to buy and abolish defaulted medical debts. After the talk I lingered for a while, talking with old professors and classmates until hardly anyone was left. I finally approached Ven. Bodhi to introduce myself—we’d been exchanging emails—and to thank him for his social justice work. He was leaving the next day but agreed to an interview. Below is our conversation about Buddhist…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…l find useful or insightful. Could you say more about that? I don’t really buy into what they call “engrams”—that is, the idea that bad images are recorded in your unconscious memory from birth. But the quiet birth just makes sense. If someone is in pain, they don’t need to hear anything except “I love you.” Now, the Scientology birthing ritual that Tom Cruise makes his wives follow is very by the book. We didn’t do that. We just said, “Please be…

Secure Borders? Not a Chance, Senator

By Ira Chernus

…s, electrified fences, and armed guards that a strapped federal budget can buy won’t stop the flow of illegal immigration. With nearly 6,000 miles of land border plus innumerable seaports and airports awaiting them, people who are hungry or ambitious enough will always find a way to get into the country. Besides, in our university classrooms we’ve been teaching for years that borders are not walls or barricades. They are not lines drawn on the gro…

Christians Should Give Up “Christianity”: An Interview with Peter Rollins

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…thing okay. Everywhere we turn, advertisements tell us “consume this,” or “buy this product,” or “look this way and you’ll be happy.” The world is like a huge vending machine and it’s filled with these idols. My argument is that when we reduce God to that object that will make us complete and whole and happy, we just put our own product in the vending machine. The church becomes the shop front, the clergy become the salespeople and the worship bec…