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Cardinal Warns Women Against Marrying Muslims: Would Bring “A Pile of Trouble”

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…edominately Muslim countries. While the fact that women heads of state and business magnates don’t cancel out violence that women and girls face in the same countries, it degrades the dignity of Muslim women to be a warning to non-Muslim women: “Don’t marry a Muslim man, you’ll end up like them.” (cue scary music) It’s also a blow to interreligious and interracial marriages between Muslims and non-Muslims that have worked. I’m not saying bad thing…

New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

…within the GOP in the early ’80s. In this context, what was a starchy, Episcopalian heir to a blue-blooded Yankee political pedigree to do? And what of his reckless, apparently non-religious, playboy son? These were the intertwined questions faced by Vice President Bush and George W. in the 1980s as they planned Poppy Bush’s run for president in 1988—and W.’s political future. Baker’s chapter titled “The Conversion” features startling revelations…

The Untold Story of The Greatest Yiddish Poet in America

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…c, well, one might say that all hell breaks loose. But it’s deadly serious business, and it’s to Manseau’s credit that he doesn’t flinch from it, but allows himself to stare deeply into the site of Jewish Christophobia. If Clara’s reactions appear comical and histrionic, they serve as counterpoint to the all-too-real fears of Malpesh, whose life is pockmarked by the traumas of anti-Jewish violence. (Even the brave Sasha Bimko, who spends her last…

So Deep a Wound: Home, and the novels of Marilynne Robinson

By Garret Keizer

…I an atheist friend who asked, “Can you tell me please what this religion business is all about, not as some metaphysical hypothesis or historical phenomenon, but what it really means to be religious?” I might hand him or her a copy of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead. “Read this,” I’d say, “and it will give you a pretty good idea.” And had I a religious friend, a co-religionist friend, who asked, “Can you tell me please what’s wrong with us, no…

Michael Jackson, Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…get us. [/sarcasm] —- OK, now that I’ve got the Islamophobe’s rant out of the way, here’s my real take on Jackson’s conversion: Who cares? He’s a dated, washed-up recluse who is no longer musically important and is culturally relevant only amongst comics. What he chooses as his faith is his business. Global Voices does a good round-up, as always, of what the world is saying on the topic, and to be honest, all the good stuff was taken. Read them….

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…children with homosexual couples or lose their licenses.” Companies doing business on the local, state or national level “now have to provide documentation of equal benefits for same-sex couples”; “The Bible can no longer be freely preached over radio or television stations when the subject matter includes such ‘offensive’ doctrines as homosexual conduct or the claim that people will go to hell if they do not believe in Jesus Christ.” Doctors “wh…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…a press release posted on Christian Newswire, “Over 1,700 leading pastors, business and Christian institutional leaders from 39 countries and all 50 states gathered” at Lake Forest’s Saddleback Church for a three day Purpose Driven Network Summit organized, “to create The PEACE Coalition, a new international alliance of churches, businesses, ministries, universities, and other institutions.” P.E.A.C.E. is an acronym for: Promote reconciliation; Eq…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…time. Linking one’s political fortunes to a preacher is bound to be risky business. Pulpits are supposed to be places where controversial words are uttered. Who would want to attend a church, mosque, temple, or synagogue where the sermons never risked offending anyone? They would be as bland and superficial as they would be boring. So a pastoral endorsement or connection is an utterly unpredictable animal that can jump out and bite you at any mom…

The Sordid Past of Ralph Reed

By Sarah Posner

…evangelical myself, I resent Christianity being used simply to help Reed’s business.” Irvin’s dart went straight to the heart of the matter. While grassroots organizing has been the key to lifting evangelicals to power in the GOP, the movement’s political model has mostly mirrored the traditional hierarchy of churches, with trusted leaders setting the tone and issuing marching orders to their foot soldiers. What if the generals—the Reeds and James…

Defending the Helpless: New Bible Highlights Poverty and Justice

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ous outfits using Jesus as everything from a wealth building partner, to a business CEO to a partner in denying equality in all areas of life to other human beings, is it really any surprise that most people don’t know that the in the Bible God has a definite preference for the poor and outcast? Jesus’ message of helping the least of these has been so co-opted by the religious right and conservative politicians that the American Jesus is all about…