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Note From Across The Pond: Church-State Separation Isn’t For Everyone

By Linda Woodhead

…ss. So if the new State Department initiative is serious about encouraging better engagement between state and religion, it makes no sense to take on an existing agenda for religious freedom which tries to impose an historically particular model of state-religion separation on countries with very different histories, institutions and constitutions (if they even have a written constitution, which the UK doesn’t). The U.S. model works in the U.S. be…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…time of my first years in college, I was studying traditions from the Far East. Eventually I lived as a Buddhist in an ashram and practiced meditation each morning and evening. I was already a vegetarian, part of my transforming consciousness about toxins and waste for the body and the spirit. Entering Islam was partially an accident. I was still reading about traditions other than the one of my birth. Likewise I began to read about Islam. I knew…

‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

By Eric C. Miller

…to defend Germany and all Europe against the Judeo-Bolshevik menace in the East, was widely popular, both in Germany and abroad—at least, as long as the Germans seemed to be winning the war. After World War II, as Communism spread across Eastern Europe, it carried the widespread fear that Jews were intent, not just on implementing Communism, but on taking revenge against their enemies. To what degree did this fear drive post-war anti-Semitism? I t…

Islam, Essential to America?

By Scott Korb

…rilynne Robinson’s Gilead so much. No one that I know of writes a sentence better than she does. One line in particular is a favorite, and having written that sentence alone would account for my wanting to have written the book that contains it: These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you’re making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant…

Aliens in America

By Amir Hussain

…uld identify on television, with the added bonus that he was also a fellow East Indian. However, I was puzzled as to how a child could have made the pilgrimage to Mecca and earned the title of “Hajji,” and as someone who spoke Urdu/Hindi and Punjabi, I had no idea what his magic words “sim sim salabim” meant. There was an Arab character (Cpl. Max Klinger), played by Jamie Farr on M*A*S*H, but he was a Lebanese Christian, not a Muslim. He also spen…

“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…y had no option but to hope that they could return to their villages and towns. “All we have left is hope,” one of the men said. __________________ My thanks to those who helped with arrangements and translation while I was in Kurdistan, Iraq, and Southeast Turkey in July, 2015, including Ibrahim Barlas of the Pacifica Institute; Ibrahim Anli of the Journalists and Writers Foundation in Istanbul; Ardalan Jalal of Erbil’s Dialogue Middle East; and…

How the Messianic Jews Story is Playing in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…Israelis Ask: Time to Accept Messianic Jews?” Well, a headline writer, at least. Facing the avalanche of criticism from the American Jewish community, it’s not surprising that Messianic Jews would try to find a thread of acceptance from an Israeli source. But it’s worth noting that the acceptance, or lack of acceptance, of Messianic Jews in Israel is steeped in very different issues and concerns than it is in the United States. Most Israelis are…

The Way of the Brother: How Critics Missed the Boat on Tree of Life

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ep way what forgiveness actually is. It is R.L. who embodied the synthesis between nature and grace, father and mother. The sibling relation is central to the film. Between Nature and Grace By suggesting we see Tree of Life not in terms of a dualistic choice, but as a “middle way,” I also mean to trigger a Buddhist sensibility to the film that runs alongside the more overtly Christian one. There is no space to develop a full account of this here,…

RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina

By Gordon D. Newby

…tten a “romance” novel, replete with descriptions of sexuality and passion between Aisha and Muhammad. As someone who is not an aficionado of the romance genre, I will leave it to others to judge how well Jones has done. Islam is not a puritanical religion. It does not reject sex between a man and a woman, and does not extol sexual abstinence as a virtue. Like Rabbinic Judaism, Islamic religious and legal texts are explicit in recognizing human se…

Who’s Smearing Obama?

By Svend White

…asting him as a lightning rod for conflict with America’s most feared and least understood enemies. While there is insufficient evidence to assume that this is an organized campaign, aspects of it give pause to the critical observer. Luttwak is about hawkish as they come (see his 1999 Foreign Affairs piece,“Give War a Chance”), scornfully dismissive of American involvement in Mideast dialogue or peace making, preferring instead that the various pa…