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Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev a “Devout” Muslim?

By Sarah Posner

On my latest bloggingheads program, I spoke with Wajahat Ali about the media’s, pundits’, and politicians’ treatment of Islam in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. The whole episode is here (and there will be a short addendum posted later* discussing the AP’s story this afternoon reporting that Tsarnaev was influenced by a recent convert to Islam named Misha), but in the following clip, we discuss whether Tsarnaev was a “devout” Muslim: *…

‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…widest interest; it is passed on from one to another like the news of the latest victory.” Is “reasons my son is crying” a religious meme, or is a cigar sometimes just a cigar, and a blog just a blog? While this was not its goal, “reasons my son is crying” trades in religious tropes of seeing, suffering, and empathetic community. Pain is still pain. Believe me, I understand that toddlers can turn their moods on a dime. At one moment, all is trage…

Does God know if I cheat on a test in São Paulo?

By Michael Schulson

There are at least two ways to summarize the latest study out of the Canadian Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, and Culture. The nice way is rather technical. To quote the author, Benjamin Purzycki: “The present work is the first study to systematically compare the minds of gods by examining some of the intuitive processes that guide how people reason about them.” Another way to summarize it is this: our gods are more moral than your gods. O…

Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?

By Peter Anthony Mena

…anti-Christ. To some conservative Christians, Google’s iconography is the latest in an ongoing attack on their faith. In a post on Townhall.com titled “Ponder Christian Soldiers Google’s Smirking War On You,” Colorado State Senator Shawn Mitchell decries the choice of a Chávez “doodle”: “Sure, no Christian was mocked, defamed, arrested, or persecuted. And heaven forbid any believer needs internet graphics to help bolster their faith. But hundreds…

Are the Culture Wars Over? Look at the States

By Sarah Posner

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, in the latest Democracy: In 1943, Allied forces achieved a hard-fought victory in the North African campaign, captured Sicily, and began to fight their way up the Italian peninsula. Victories in places such as El-Alamein, Salerno, and Anzio gave America some confidence that the Allies would ultimately prevail in Europe. That confidence allowed the American public to shift more of its attention to the Pacific Th…

Marriage Equality: No More (Word) Games

By William Myatt

…ampaign on Facebook. This small gesture in support of gay marriage was the latest in an ongoing evolution of my thought. Like a handful of others, I’ve only recently “come out of the closet” as a straight, married, (quasi-)evangelical Christian who supports the right of every person to marry the person they love. Not surprisingly, my small gesture sparked a bit of online controversy. Because my Facebook friends mirror the various chapters of my l…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…rise in GDP in the last ten years, repaired relations with Israel, and the latest news suggests he’s even worked out a peace deal with the Kurds. If Erdogan can make Turkey a truly multicultural democracy, he’ll have resurrected the best characteristics of the Ottoman Empire, which last held the Caliphate, conveniently enough in modern Turkey. The Bad: Erdogan may actually already be the Caliph, which kind of ruins our brackets. Also, his peace wi…

Evangelical Star Rob Bell Comes Out For Marriage Equality

By Nicole Greenfield

…affirm people wherever they are,” Bell continued. This declaration is the latest step in Bell’s “search for a more forgiving faith,” a process Kelefa Sanneh detailed in The New Yorker last November. Bell first truly rocked the conservative Christian world in 2011 by questioning the existence of hell in his book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. Six months after its publication, he resigned from Mar…

Will The Bible Miniseries Correct Biblical Illiteracy?

By Sarah Posner

Last week, after watching the latest episode of The Bible miniseries on the History Channel, bible scholar Wil Gafney wrote on her blog: The bible is a wonderfully rich, complicated, challenging, illuminating, revelatory text. It is also horrifically violent and does not say what we want the way we want it to. We must take it in its entirety seriously as a cultural and historical artifact and as scripture – if that is our confession. But this ser…

If Muslims Stop Drinking Will They Become Violent?

By Haroon Moghul

…rticular piece is by no means the most egregious offender, it’s merely the latest and appears in one of the most well-respected newspapers. The truth is, these same assumptions can be found in numerous papers, periodicals, and of course on TV. Nonetheless, for an article to note an increase in the observance of Islam and to link that to the danger of extremism is to fly in the face of the only real, rigorous evidence we have, without presenting an…