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Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…book is part of a series for tweens profiling individuals “working for the betterment of the world in which we live and who are motivated primarily by their Christian faith.” Other titles in the series include Heisman Trophy Quarterback Tim Tebow and U2 front man Bono. If you prefer poetry to biography, you can write a haiku to Glenn Beck here. Muslims still face opposition to mosque building in the United States. A mosque in Temecula, California…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…ey knew? The group didn’t form in isolation; it emerged out of the earlier East European Survivor’s Brigade (Hativa), which was founded on a few absolutes, including immigration to Israel, “self-defense as a nation,” “dissolution of the Diaspora,” and the unified establishment of a Jewish state. Their oath read: “I, a child of the Jewish people, do hereby swear, in full awareness, by the earth that is soaked with the blood of my dear ones, and by…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…in the Tibetan ethnic areas of Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu provinces on Tibet’s eastern frontier. Protests have even occured in Beijing. Taken together, these demonstrations—more than two dozen confirmed thus far—represent the strongest Tibetan response to Chinese rule since the March 1959 uprising that led to the Dalai Lama’s exile from his homeland. The Chinese government’s response to the demonstrations has been swift and severe. Initially con…

Until the World Laughs with God

By Nathan Schneider

…, led to mass demonstrations and boycotts of Danish products in the Middle East, while The Life of Brian was, for a time, banned by jurisdictions in the United States and Britain for poking fun at the Gospels. The 1999 Kevin Smith movie, Dogma, only partly dulled the anger of Catholics by pointing out that “even God has a sense of humor” in an opening disclaimer. The claim of the outraged, which has often become cause for rare interreligious agree…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…atrocities committed during the 1971 war for independence of what was then East Pakistan, many of whom went on to become leaders in religious parties such as Jamaat, bent on sabotaging the country’s strides towards secular democracy. In February 2013, after the long-sought International Crimes Tribunal convicted Abdul Quader Mollah and others of war crimes, mass protests denounced the sentences as overly lenient and demanded death sentences and th…

White Christian Nationalism May Not Be Religious, But It Is Christian

By Murali Balaji

…ents—Jewish nationalism in Israel; Islamism in parts of Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia; Hindu nationalism in parts of India; Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand—that have grown in recent years are grounded in theology. They’re all connected by a shared sense of grievance and an imagined community based on assumed shared ideals. The New Zealand terrorist might not have been religious per se, but he was 100 per…

Consumerism’s New Frontier: The Preschool Set

By Peter Laarman

…nce it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature’s Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Wordsworth has much more to say about those clouds of glory we are born with in his psychologically astute Prelude. But here in “Intimations” we are given the essence in a perfect verse stanza: as infa…

State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…r Peace and Security,” which, among other things, cultivates collaboration between US Christian women and Muslim women in the Middle East, supporting Muslims who interpret their faith in ways that “they are not oppressed by it through misinterpretation.” The project is based on the rather unimpeachable idea that women should be involved in thinking and planning initiatives around peace and security; the presumption, however, is that “women of fait…

McCain’s Prosperity Preacher

By Sarah Posner

…he Word of Faith doctrine, and millions of believers have incorporated at least some aspect of it into their spiritual lives. A 2006 study of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that nearly half of all American Christians agreed with the statement that “God will grant material prosperity to all believers who have enough faith,” with even higher numbers of Pentecostals and charismatic Christians…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…ant to blow up the world. It’s also related to issues regarding the Middle East, between Israelis and Palestinians. Most of the water’s under Palestinian territory in Israel. Israelis want to keep that territory because they want to keep access to the water. And look at immigration in the United States, the tension between the United States and Mexico. One reason people are coming here is that with industrial farming in Mexico, the water sources a…