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The Real Context Of The “Taliban Dan” Ad

By Julie Ingersoll

…mitting to their husbands. It is true that Webster’s emphasis in his 2009 talk to a male audience (I have watched a clip which is nearly eleven minutes long) was on the actions the men should take. He was telling them to focus on their own obligations rather than those of their wives. As Kathryn Joyce told Sarah this week, in this view, wives’ obligation to submit to their husbands is actually a mandated obedience to God. When Webster says the “sh…

Studying Religion is Suddenly Popular

By Mark Hulsether

…not rule out using this article to defend and promote the academic study of religion in some contexts, let me register my concerns loud and clear: Religious Studies and its institutional allies should not march under this banner, with these talking points, without thinking carefully about the pitfalls embedded in its logic….

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…actions; or more precisely, right ideas, and right actions, iman wa al-‘a’mal al-salihah. The relationship between orthodoxy and orthopraxis has come under attack recently, and by these three scholars in particular. If you challenge some of the presumptions about orthodoxy, you effect change in orthopraxis and all of these men were vanguards in this respect. Islam is built upon ideas. If we contribute to the world of ideas in any way, but in parti…

Everyone Should Know the Story of Cary Crall

By Joanna Brooks

…Mormon communities. And the story of Cary Crall shows that Mormon traditional values of truth-seeking, kindness, pragmatism, and “daring to be different” can empower Mormons to take brave if unpopular stances in the service of conscience. Finally, the story of Cary Crall is important because his publication-then-censorship by the Brigham Young University student newspaper shows how very conflicted, sensitive, and ambivalent Mormons at the institut…

Lessons Learned this Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…g many ideas along the way, and yet still keep some things between you and Allah alone. The idea to do this one hundred-day blog came to me on my recent return from Indonesia. While there, my friends said hajj would be a challenge because of gender restrictions. Then a friend described people doing tawaf, or circumambulation around the kaaba, while sending text messages on a mobile phone. I just cannot see totally giving up my one-on-one moments w…

Social Cost of Christianity?

By Lauri Lebo

…cution and she envisions a day when she goes to church and the government will have locked all the doors. Not too long ago, two Jehovah Witnesses knocked on my door and told me that End Times are coming and they sincerely wanted to know what I believe. I said I couldn’t believe any God worth worshiping would be so concerned with what goes on in the bedrooms of consensual adults and until their God rethought his position on gay marriage, he and I r…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…because viewers complained the commercial was too Christmas-y. In France, halal food is going upscale. Christian morality meets communist population control: evangelical group Focus on the Family has partnered with Chinese officials to bring its abstinence program to Chinese teens. Muslim couples can find “shariah-approved” products for “sexual health” at El Asira—an online shop attracting 30,000 visits a week. Teetotaling Mormons in Idaho grow ba…

Pastor Has Novel Response: Read the Qur’an Day

By Lauri Lebo

…ng a Qur’an-burning event on the anniversary of 9/11. (Apparently they are also planning to burn the Talmud, which was news to me—will they be protesting the end of Rosh ha-Shanah?!). Stephen Prothero has called for moderate Christians to speak out on the issue of burning the Qur’an, and I agree that we should. Rev. Larry Reimer, minister at the United Church of Gainesville, Florida, recently proposed an alternative: the best way to protest what t…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…he conflict was about is, how do red and blue Christians live together? I do think that the gospel has got to contain the ideological stress points among church people, because the real alternative is not red Christians to my blue Christianness, the real alternative is this narrative of death that is so powerful among us….

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…se cases. They may also enlist the services of a consultant, such as a mental health professional or an attorney. Says Rabbi Weinreb. “It’s very difficult to assess an accusation of sexual abuse. It’s a basic rule in the whole field, especially when children are involved, that it’s hard to know how much credence to give to what they say.” “However, there are experts in the field who know how to conduct these kinds of investigations and any beth…