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7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…t is a professor of sociology at Wellesley College and research fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, where she co-directs The Transnational Studies Initiative. Laurie Maffly-Kipp is the Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work examines religious contact zones of the 19th century, a time w…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s was asked about comments made a few days earlier by German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who said the Church had treated gay people in a “scandalous and terrible” way. Reuters reports: In the hour-long freewheeling conversation that has become a trademark of his international travels, Francis was asked if he agreed with recent comments by a German Roman Catholic cardinal that the Church should apologize to gays. Francis looked sad when the reporter as…

Why it (Still) Makes Little Sense to Call ISIS Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…cinating indication of the interconnectedness of the world—because “slaves are a part of our families, they have rights, they can own property.” Progressives countered that the Qur’an supports abolition, and they supported efforts to end slavery by providing theological justification, adapting to the reality of new forms of governance. “Interestingly,” Mattson underscores, “once slavery was abolished, that was it. The conversation was closed.” Ind…

Too Little, Too Late?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…an Council with which John Paul II and Benedict XVI seemingly agreed. They are not so well disposed to the larger idea of “a new openness to the modern world” announced at that Council. They remain hostile to, or at best ambivalent about, all of modernism’s assumptions—feminist, secular, and more. These four bishops were consecrated by Bishop LeFebvre, one of the leading voices of opposition at that Council in the mid-1960s. The Vatican has, since…

20 Years for Giving Water to Migrants? A Religious Freedom Case of Little Interest to ‘Religious Freedom’ Industry

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…ehydration, the Border Patrol, which has a moral obligation to prevent the arbitrary deaths of the undocumented, instead willfully contributes to their excruciating demise by dumping water left on the trails by humanitarian organizations or vandalizing the water jugs. Water is life! Of the 31,500 gallons of water No More Deaths left at about 140 station on the trails between 2012 to 2015, we know about 86 percent were used, and we recovered about…

“1913: Seeds of Conflict”: New Doc Explores Little-Known History of Palestine

By Shaul Magid

…story is only after-the-fact; history only enters when the damage is already done. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik once wrote, “The past is indeterminate, a closed book. It is only the present and future that can pry it open and read its meaning.” History is a crowbar. Marcus asks early on in the film, “was there a turning point, a moment in time…when things could have been different?” The answer, of course, is yes; it is always yes. But why does that m…

A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…andeliers seem to bring to mind a reverent sleepiness, and its mismatched carpets are unable to cover all its vulnerable floor. Sarajevo was never a mighty city, but a prosperously unpretentious Ottoman capital from an age whose culture is often forgotten. Just a little corner of the world, its closeness to us—a few hours to London, and fewer to Istanbul—seems, on reflection, unbelievable, absent as it is from the world’s considerations and calcul…

Little ‘Value’ in New Harris Book

By Michael Ruse

…nks, although of course a lot more is required to get well-being in every particular case. But essentially well-being is everything, and science can tell us whether we have it or not. Well, hang on a minute. Before we go off and celebrate in the bar that two-and-a-half thousand years of moral philosophizing can now be brought to an end, let’s ask a few questions—the sorts of questions that one might ask of a first-year undergraduate who comes up w…

Finding Love—and Dogma—in Unexpected Places: Jeff Chu’s Gay Christian Odyssey

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntry talking to Christians about the issue. His interviews and reflections are part of his new book, Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America. Chu, a gay Christian and editor and writer at Fast Company magazine, gathers an impressive array of names for interviews, including one-time evangelical leader Ted Haggard (whose downfall included drugs and a gay prostitute) and blue-eyed hatemonger Fred Phelps, le…

The Biggest Lesson Learned From the US War in Afghanistan is How Little We’ve Learned

By Sara Kamali

…also lost their lives in service of their country in Afghanistan. Afghans and Americans alike bear the physical and mental wounds of war. Perhaps the only lesson that has been learned has had too steep a price. To prevent ongoing devastation in the current landscape of perpetual warfare, and so that whatever formulation the presence of the US military eventually takes in Afghanistan is more thoughtful in its approach, the United States must learn…