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“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…

A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…of their respective civilizations, whose essences, based on the flags at least, are found elsewhere. Bosnia isn’t a place, then, it’s an intersection, and at dark times, an unfortunate collision. Thus Bosniaks remark that they’re holding the line. If they fall, “Muslim territory” will continue its retreat south and east of the Mediterranean. This has happened before—and they point to Iberia’s Muslim past, beautiful, brilliant, expired; although t…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…didn’t extend to the human rights arena. But India voted in favour of at least two amendments that restricted the scope of the watchdog, betraying what the country’s intention was. Devirupa Mitra at the Wire has more on India backing the amendments moved by the “Islamic Bloc.” Canada: Prime Minister marches in pride parade Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marched in Toronto’s pride parade alongside a Syrian refugee who had arrived in Toronto in May….

The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…that, by examining and coming to terms with hubris, we’ll build something better. You see that in the enviromental movement. You see that applied, with scattershot results, to GMOs today. HL: That’s a great point. Scattershot results, as you say, I think in part because those who are predisposed to such self-reflection are often not predisposed to the kind of ambition one normally sees with grand, holistic (and of course at times disastrous) inno…

Ugandan Landslide a Message from God?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…one school after heavy rains in this Central African country, killing at least 70 people with some 250 still missing, officials and a survivor said Tuesday. Uganda is home to a growing evangelical Christian population. That influence has played a role in the bill before the country’s lawmakers that would require imprisonment or even execution for anyone who is gay or lesbian, or who fails to report gay or lesbian people to the police. Uganda is a…

Jesus’ Language More Complicated Than Experts Claim

By Seth Sanders

…bbouni “is, in fact, excellent Mishnaic Hebrew” because “It is attested in Codex Kaufmann of Mishna Ta`anit 3.8.” This sounds impressive until one actually reads Codex Kaufmann, a priceless source for early Rabbinic Hebrew. What Buth neglects to mention is that this form appears only once, as opposed to over 50 instances of the normal Hebrew forms “rab” or “rabbi.” He also doesn’t mention that, by contrast, this Aramaic term for “lord” is overwhel…

Bishop John Shelby Spong Declares Victory: Is it Premature?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…as more and more interracial couples married and the sun still rose in the East and set in the West. Life went on as normal. Even those who had adamantly opposed interracial relationships, like the religiously conservative Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, repealed their prohibitions against interracial dating. In 1989, the Southern Baptist convention passed a resolution on race in which they vowed to “repent of any past bigotry…

Kindred Hatemongers: Why American Islamophobes and Muslim Protesters Need Each Other

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…e more successful. Morris Sadek, another US-based Coptic Christian, helped promote the film on his website, and may have been the one who arranged for a translation into Arabic and the promotion of the video in Cairo. In Egypt and throughout the Muslim world, the filmmakers finally received the negative publicity and public protests that they’d sought all along. But although many Muslims were offended by the tawdry mocking of their Prophet in the…

It’s Up to You, New York… To Oppose Islamophobia

By Randall Balmer

…we call Manhattan, Henry Hudson, an Englishman under contract to the Dutch East India Company, nosed the Half Moon through the same Narrows and struggled north on the river that now bears his name. The first group of settlers to disembark in Manhattan were Walloons, French-speaking Belgians, followed shortly by a modest influx of Netherlanders, Germans and French. English Puritans bracketed Dutch settlement on Long Island, while Swedes and Finns b…

Religion is Not about Belief: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God

By Brian McGrath Davis

…commands a bewildering following. Armstrong suggests that we would all be better off if we would return to Pseudo-D’s model, which, at its core, promotes both humility and unknowing. Throughout The Case for God, Armstrong highlights this one strand of the monotheistic traditions, the apophatic: the tradition of unknowing and negation. In doing so, she shows her reader a thread of history that refused to allow doctrine and dogma to take center sta…