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My Lent: Ashes, Addiction, and the Reality of Hell (Pace Rob Bell)

By Debra Dean Murphy

…d save those we love. The ashes are not mere symbol; they are not a public sign of our piety (exactly what Jesus warns against in Ash Wednesday’s gospel reading). Instead, the ashes are as real as it gets—a sticky, gritty, grimy smear plastered to our foreheads, precisely on the same spot that the oil of baptism was applied. For Christians, the juxtaposition is as liberating as it is instructive: we are dying, yet we live. Death may be at our door…

The “Shrinking Influence” of Social Conservatives at the United Nations

By Sarah Posner

…mission finally prevailed in its three-year effort to obtain the status, a sign “of the shrinking influence of American social conservatives at the United Nations.” Congressional conservatives Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Christopher Smith (R-NJ) — heroes of the religious right — had joined with Muslim countries in an effort to block the IGLHRC’s application. Lynch observed: In previous years, American conservatives like Smith, backed by the White Hous…

Hajj Journal:
This Cultural Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…the airport, for my own travel or to pick up family and friends. The road signs had a little airplane logo to designate the way to the airport. I never got lost going, but always got lost trying to get back home. I used to say, there needs to be a sign with a little picture of my house to direct me. I knew how to get to the mountain but I forgot to make markers for getting back! Anyway, while wandering around until I found the road with that gate…

Civil Rights and Soul: Memphis 2010

By Lauri Lebo

…. He marched along with a thousand men, including Nickelberry, all holding signs that said, “I Am A Man.” The night of his famous last speech, he had not been scheduled, but had arrived at the urging of his friend and confidant the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. “Like anybody, I would like to live a long life,” King said. “Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mounta…

RDEpistle: Open Letter to Sean Hannity

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e Huffington Post readers. To receive a free Daily or Weekly RD newsletter sign up here. To read Laurie Patton’s reflection on the tragedy and her childhood in the Unitarian church, go here—ed] ++++ “If the Left succeeds in gaining and retaining more power, the well-being of future generations will be at greater peril. I fear (our children) will inherit a nation that is less free and less secure than the nation we inherited from the last gener…

Death of a Self-Proclaimed God-Man: Sai Baba’s Controversial Career

By Andrea R. Jain

…argued that his ability to materialize objects was not miraculous but the sign of a skilled conjuring magician. Perhaps the most notable controversy surrounding the guru arose in 1993 when the police killed six young male devotees in Sai Baba’s bedroom and claimed that they did so in self-defense. The case remains controversial because many details of the incident are unknown. Some speculate that the men were not killed in self-defense but were m…

Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy: Choosing Religion Over Sex

By Lynne Gerber

…plaints coming. * homo-intimacy in the ex-gay world is far more suspect among lesbians, for whom excessive emotional closeness is considered a sign of lesbianism even in the absence of a sexual relationship….

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…our protections under federal civil rights laws. That’s why they need our signature.” While Veit claims to be merely cleaning up “misinformation” about the case, she fails to mention that the administration has already told the Little Sisters and other plaintiffs that they don’t have to sign the so-called permission slip—they can simply send a letter to HHS stating their intent to opt out. Even constitutional scholars with a conservative take on…

WWJD Or The First Amendment?

By Sarah Posner

…’s obviously an argument to be made that Christianity shouldn’t be used to promote war, and shouldn’t be used to seemingly promote religious war between Christians and Muslims. But constitutionally speaking, the issue isn’t “abusing” faith but having it play a role at all. That’s a problem in the military that runs much deeper than Trijicon’s inscriptions. UPDATE (1/22/10): Trijicon has agreed to voluntarily remove the scripture engravings from th…

Are Christians Theologically Prepared to Accept Torture?

By Sarah Sentilles

…25. 2. Paul A. Taylor, “The Pornographic Barbarism of the Self-Reflecting Sign,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 4, no. 1 (January 2007) 3. Steven C. Caton, “Coetzee, Agamben, and the Passion of Abu Ghraib,” American Anthropologist 108, no. 1 (2006): 120. 4. Joanne Wypijewski, “Judgment Days: Lessons From the Abu Ghraib Courts-Martial,” Harpers, February 2006. 5. Mark Danner, “The Depositions: The Prisoners Speak,” in Torture and Tru…