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‘Atheizing’ the Dead, Religious Doughnuts, & Tax-Free Witching

By Michael J. Altman

…will open with an “interfaith moment of silence.” Donald Trump offered to buy out one of the major investors in the Park51 project. The investors said thanks but no thanks. A North Carolina teenager whose family is part of the Church of Body Modification has run into trouble with her school’s dress code. The 14-year-old is looking at a ten day suspension if she returns to school wearing her prohibited nose ring. In Roswell, New Mexico, a group of…

Is ‘Western Self-Hatred’ the Problem in the Gaza War Protest Movement?

By Shaul Magid

…he underlying conditions have been gestating for many years. Still, if you buy the “eternal antisemitism” argument, nothing Israel does really matters. Antisemitism has unfortunately become a foreign policy tool that makes Israel exceptional and undermines the whole argument for Zionism/Israel, which was to normalize the Jews and enable them to become “like all the other nations” (arguably its raison d’etre). If criticism of that state constitutes…

Response: Is Proselytizing Offensive? Sure. But I Won’t Give Them the Satisfaction of Martyrdom

By Peter Laarman

…hat while I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Jesus, I don’t buy the whole Nicene package. I also say that my faith, such as it is, is really important to me. Am I proselytizing when I say this? I suppose I am, in a way, though I’m fairly certain this isn’t what Chrissy had in mind. Is it offensive? I hope not. What I absolutely never do is peddle false faith-centered comfort to bereaved or traumatized people. To me there’s a bright…

Nuns on the Bus: 2700 Miles, Nine States, and a Rock Star DC Welcome

By Mary E. Hunt

…bleachers, and eight speakers lined up to address the crowd. The audience numbered about 30. Even Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, on the kickoff day of the Fortnight, only gathered 250 people. The nuns got that many in small towns across the country at stop after stop. The bus trip also proved that there is a deep hunger across generations for this kind of faith-based organizing. The crowd in DC was surprisingly younger…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…some of these welcome the patronage of politicians. Others still refuse to buy into the dualism of sacred versus secular, preferring instead to see God as fully invested in humanity’s full experience—these consider democracy an arena in which they can be the salt of the earth and light to the world and the leaders have worked, among other things, to reconcile bitter enemies or to oppose dictatorial tendencies. Generally, evangelical and mainline C…

Ask the Dust: Unbelievers, Bunker-Dwellers, Anti-Natalists

By The Editors

…ou” before you commit to anything. It is also helpful when trying to avoid buying a timeshare. Write a note now reminding yourself about what a cult looks like. The Dust recommends a top ten list of “I’m probably in a cult because… I feel compelled to buy all new clothes, books, décor, access to life-altering knowledge with money I don’t have or shouldn’t be spending The things I used to enjoy and find fulfilling are all off limits and used by the…

Church Synod Recap: Micromanaging the Morals of Others

By Mary E. Hunt

…Easter dinner like a good boy priest, quite another to invite the guests, buy the food, cook the meal, entertain, and do the dishes as an adult member of a family. I am not suggesting that everyone has to live the same way, but I am underscoring that the voters in this case had little standing on the topic they chose to consider. I would hesitate to vote in a parallel synod of priestly celibacy about which I have no experience. Until this unworka…

Bachmann Tries to Smooth CPAC Rifts

By Sarah Posner

…ly 11,000 strong, according to organizers, all of whom Bachmann offered to buy drinks for at her reception later this afternoon). Without ever once invoking God (although there was much invocation of country — “we are the indispensable nation of the world”), Bachmann did make reference to the split between the religious right and CPAC organizers over the latter allowing a gay Republican group to participate in the conference. “A carpenter knows,”…

Why Are Muslims So Concerned with Muhammad?

By Haroon Moghul

…me to ask two desperate questions: How is it that a $5 million budget can buy you so little? And, who produces a 14-minute trailer? That’s just offensive. In Islam, the Qur’an is the literal word of God, and Muhammad represents the embodiment of those words of God. If you want to know what Islam is in text, go to the Qur’an; if you want to know what Islam is in action, study Muhammad’s life. That’s what Muslims do. They study it, debate it, and i…

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…s a line pretending it’s a circle. The Occupy movement, of course, doesn’t buy it. If anything, it accuses Wall Street too much of being a line, as if it’s a huge conspiracy in charge of everything, which it isn’t. But in opposition to all things hierarchical, masculine, and mean, #occupy has gone all the way to the other extreme. First, it has protested against any linear, hierarchical apportionment of power. At the extreme end, this leads to soc…