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As Court Prepares to Rule on Sacred Apache Site, Religious Freedom Faces an American Right Prized Above All Others

By Dana Lloyd

…been protected by Congress as wilderness.) There are two main differences between the cases. The Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa relied on the free exercise clause of the First Amendment and on the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, a law that requires only consultation with Indigenous peoples before destroying their sacred sites, not consent. But in 1993 the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was enacted to bypass the Lyng precedent and offer better…

The Double Blessing: Obama, the Bible, and Outreach to Muslims

By Charlotte Gordon

…m that both sides cite to support their claims of precedency in the Middle East. But the antagonists have forgotten what God said to the women; in this case, the pivotal woman in the story. “Your son will be free,” God told her, “He will build a great nation. His name will be God-hears, or Ishmael.” This oversight has cost both sides bitterly. By focusing on the covenantal agreement between God and Abraham, both Muslims and Jews have lost sight of…

Religion and HIV/AIDS: When Interfaith is Not Enough

By Susan Henking

…th HIV/AIDS, right? And moves like that of the United Church of Christ are better than their opposite—overt hostility toward persons with HIV/AIDS. But do they distract us from the illogic of religion? The hostility? The longterm negative consequences? Such questions are not relevant only for New York City. Why? New York’s interfaith work on HIV/AIDS is not the only setting in which (relatively progressive) religion serves as a conduit for positiv…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, and Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, who he says “have sprearheaded the U.S. bishops’ campaign against marriage equality and LGBT rights, neglecting issues valued far more by this pope.” At Believe Out Loud, Shine rounds up Catholic reactions to recent comments by Pope Francis on gender. Israel: Single Female Legislator Announces She’s Pregnant, Gay Friend is F…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…says Galef at SSA. “It comes down to which values we’re promoting. We are promoting values of critical thinking and acceptance.” Conflicting values on campus have led to unsavory events. Last year at Salisbury University in Maryland, the Atheist Society took offense when Cru students chalked a verse from the Bible: “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is not one who does good.” This led…

“Troublemaker” Women Honored, Receive Ivy

By Nadia Berenstein

…ss and peace that she sees at her faith’s center. As a member of the Lower East Side Girls’ Club and the Power of Peace Coalition, she has been instrumental in organizing young people of all backgrounds to work together for peace, bringing them to City Hall to bear witness to gang violence and violence against women in their communities. “Religion at its best inspires us to see beyond differences,” said Angela Buchdahl as she received her award. T…

Unnatural Disaster: When Conservative Theology & The Free Market Meet Wildfires

By Paul Harvey

…provides a powerful impetus to the sprawl that has expanded locally, both eastward towards the great plains and westward into the foothills and fire zones. And that same ethic will spur prayers for, and the insistence on, rebuilding “bigger and better than ever,” to recreate suburban housing developments in the wildland-urban interface. In short, a combination of western libertarianism, historically weak governmental structures, and religiously-b…

Weeks After Turkey’s Failed Coup, Thousands Have Been Arrested Over a Book

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lled, for example, the Journalists and Writers Foundation, Dialogue Middle East, and the Entrepreneurs’ and Businesspeople’s Association. From what I could tell, these were independent service and professional networking organizations that were loosely affiliated with Hizmet but not directed by it. At least this was my impression—I do not profess to be an expert on the organization of the movement. I also visited one of the social service centers…

Rick Warren Urges Ugandan Pastors to Speak Out Against Proposed Anti-Gay Law

By Sarah Posner

…m that even if he didn’t directly play a role in supporting the law or its promoters, he had a clear role to play in denouncing it, and much more quickly than he did. There’s no doubt he has a strong relationship with government, business, and religious leaders in Uganda, according to his own statements. So it would seem logical for people at least to think he would have some sway to denounce the proposed law as a brutal violation of human rights…

As Gaza Burns, Jews Disagree, Protest & Pray

By Sam Kestenbaum

…courge of terrorism,” he says to the crowd of one hundred gathered at Park East Synagogue. “We pray to God for an end to this tyranny, for a time when hatred is not taught to children. These boys were cut down as they studied law, studied the Torah.” New York Councilman David Greenfield is invited to the bimah where he says, “The war for Israel’s survival is happening on Twitter and Facebook, in the papers and on the evening news.” People in the c…