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The Paranormal to Pop Culture Pipeline

By Joseph Laycock

…skilled in black magic. This doll—currently on exhibit in Key West’s Fort East Martello Museum and Gardens—allegedly moved by itself and exhibited other disturbing behavior. Why did two stories of demonic dolls emerge in 1970? It may have something to do with the Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll,” which aired in 1963. In that episode, a mother (named Annabelle), gives her daughter a “Talky Tina” doll that proceeds to terrorize the girl’s stepfa…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…Colo., and have access to their large Robison ministry ranch and lodge in East Texas built with donor money. As I wrote last year, despite Trinity’s extensive investigation, the results of which it provided to the Senate Finance Committee, which launched a probe of Copeland and five other ministries, Copeland was able to evade accountability: In 2007, Sen. Charles Grassley, then the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, began investigat…

Vincent Harding, 1931-2014 – An Appreciation

By Peter Laarman

…dinary scholar-activist died with his boots on: of an aneurysm while on an East Coast lecture tour. Harding retained the energy of a person half his age right to the end of his days. What was that energy made of? I felt it as a moral energy, an ethical energy, joined to a quicksilver mind and a big heart. At a large gathering in Cincinnati a couple of years back—a gathering convened by Marian Wright Edelman, another civil rights hero—I had the pri…

Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?

By Brie Loskota

…to participate in a convening of youth leaders from Africa and the Middle East under the auspices of the United States Institute of Peace, which had invited me participate in the meeting and to lead a training session on conflict communication. As we sat around a table in a hotel conference room, I was astounded by the stories of young community leaders doing work to change their neighborhoods and their countries against a backdrop of poverty, vi…

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…

In Gaza Siege, Atheist Author Sam Harris Finds Yet Another Opportunity to Disparage Islam

By Usaid Siddiqui

…the roots of anti-Semitism are much more recent: “imported into the Middle East in the nineteenth century on the heels of European colonialism.” Even Bernard Lewis, whose work on Islam has been met with severe criticisms (and rightly so), maintains his position that any inherent hatred within Islam for Judaism or Jews is simply a falsehood. In his book Jews of Islam, Lewis reveals that Muslim Jewish relations were far more amicable under the umbre…

The Collapse of the American Jewish Center

By Sarah Posner

…agid, a rabbi, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University, and a regular contributor to RD, served on the J Street rabbinical council before resigning over the organization’s refusal to support the 2011 Palestinian bid to upgrade its status at the United Nations. He told me that someone once joked to him, “Everyone in J Street is to the left of J Street.” The activist added that “a growing conversation on campus…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…ty of Arabs who wished to overthrow the Ottomans who once ruled the Middle East. The British promised these Arabs their own state, while working behind the scenes to split the region up between British and French zones of influence; at the same time, the British promised Zionists the right to colonize Palestine, against the national aspirations of the indigenous, mostly Muslim population. New countries were constructed, including Jordan, Lebanon a…

Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

By Bradley Onishi

…al who has said in the past that world conflicts, especially in the Middle East, will continue until the Rapture. The Rapture is, according to many evangelicals, an apocalyptic event when Christians will suddenly disappear from earth as God ushers in the end of all things. Barr’s war on secularism and Pompeo’s end-times infused diplomacy are windows into why Trump’s evangelical supporters will not turn on him because of his foreign policy in Turke…

Debunking the Myth That Democracy Is “Incompatible” With Islam

By Asma Afsaruddin

…hem. Disenchantment with US policy in the Middle East and the campaign to “promote” democracy under Western military occupation in Iraq, for example, did not dampen the desire of these populations to elect their own representative governments through fair and transparent elections. At the same time, substantial Muslim majorities, male and female, want the Sharia to be at least a source of legislation in their countries, seeing no disjunction betwe…