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The Strategic Caution of the Muslim Brotherhood

By Zaid Hassan

…ive ditherers, and certainly not sufficiently dangerous to warrant being designated an international terrorist organisation, as was feared in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Two things are worth bearing in mind in reading about the group’s role in the coming weeks and months. First, the Brotherhood is well aware of the potential backlash, both locally and internationally, if it is seen to have captured the state, which is certainly a factor i…

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…

Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…. On the one hand, he was ardently opposed to the Oslo peace accords Rabin signed; on the other, he makes sure to tell the reader how the two met on several occasions and that the late Prime Minister appreciated the televangelist’s “support” for Israel. But, as the subtitle of the book makes clear, the most important thing about Rabin’s assassination at the hands of a Jewish extremist is, in Hagee’s view, its role in setting biblical prophecy “on…

LGBT “Welcome” Ad Rejected by Sojourners, Nation’s Premier Progressive Christian Org.

By Rev. Robert Chase

…other’s Day to launch its new campaign to invite one million believers to “sign up” for full LGBT equality in our churches and society-at-large. A centerpiece of this effort is a new video with particular relevance to Mother’s Day. The video features that fateful, frightful walk down the church’s center aisle by a visiting family. How many of us can remember such a walk? This family unit, however, happens to include a young boy with two moms. Afte…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…and as The Wordy Anglo-Protestant Tradition—a tradition that also inflects significant parts of American Judaism. When something moves us or provokes us, what do we do? We write a manifesto or a platform statement or a treatise. We issue declarations. We ask people to sign our statement; join our remonstrance. And, just as massive rocks along the shore repel the pounding waves and reduce them to mere mist, our adversaries—especially our religious…

The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

…Warfare conference, Mpofu seemed to believe that God was trying to send a sign through my presence there (and indeed by the fact that she, Bourland, and I all happened to wear black and white outfits on the same day). In reality, I had interviewed Mpofu by Skype when she was still in Harare, and she had invited me to the Kentucky conference. Even though she knew I am not a Christian, Mpofu asked me to come forward so she could lay hands on me. I…

Robert George’s Bogus Comparison of Herman Cain to Martha Coakley

By Sarah Posner

…nunciated in the Manhattan Declaration) would take on Cain is significant. Significant not so much because the Islamophobic elements in the conservative movement would suddenly sit up and say, “gee, all this anti-Muslim stuff is un-American, isn’t it?” but because it demonstrates, once again, that the conservative movement is at war with itself over Islamophobia. (Note that the 2012 presidential aspirants, not just Cain, are pandering to the Islam…

Beyond the Miniskirt-Wearing Nun: What Catholic Reform Looks Like

By Colleen McDannell

…portant take-home message for readers? In spite of efforts to downplay the significance of the Second Vatican Council, for many American Catholics it provided the theological justifications to demand sophisticated religious education, to engage ritually in the sacraments, to be accepting of non-Catholics, and to uphold cultural pluralism. It gave Catholics permission to publicly and constructively express disagreement and dissent, and most importa…

A Better Form of Atheism: Rescuing the Christian Tradition from Religion

By Emily Manuel

…, that we must owe him obedience. When we aren’t obedient to him, that’s a sign of disrespect; and God must somehow show that he is to be taken seriously, and so we need to make restitution for the fact that we’ve dishonored him. Not a particularly attractive theory, and it’s one I’ve been very critical of, so I’ve tried to come up with an alternative. In contrast, you seek to make atonement a social-relational bond. What do you mean by that? For…

“We (some of) the People” Florida Governor Rick Scott and the Tea Party

By Julie Ingersoll

…m The Villages Charter School. The governor’s staffers handed the students signs that read, “No to Earmarks” and “Thank You Governor Scott” that were designed to appear handmade. When the mayor of The Villages opened the ceremony and welcomed everyone saying, “the signing of the budget is an exercise in representative democracy and we’re happy to have it right here in The Villages,” he apparently didn’t know that about twenty members of the Villag…