Religion Dispatches
…i Americans over 50 do that was so special? They seem to just go about the business of worshiping Allah in loving fellowship— and triviality is set aside, on the back burner or completely out of the picture. For example, we prayed two different salah times together: once led by a woman and once led by a man. Nobody had to make a big deal about either. We just stand, make prayer, sit, make dhikr, and discuss in large and small communion. It was thi…
Read More…ridgewater tended to emphasize his integrity and capability as a self-made businessman. In the end, the race seemed to come down to who could be tarred as the more “establishment” candidate as well as who could play more effectively to the deeply Mormon Utah GOP. Lee supporters tried to paint Bridgewater as a professional lobbyist who made his fortune by procuring government contracts to fund private business ventures. They also made use of Bridge…
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…the long history of us-versus-them thinking that affects how the ADL does business. The ADL has, in its bones, centuries of Jewish woundedness; it’s part of its board, its mission, its way of being in the world. For years now, it has acted like the wounded boy with the atom bomb, arm-twisting the powerful to say ‘uncle,’ and gaining money, clout, and moral high-ground with the sonorous pieties of “Never Again.” And now it has jumped the shark: it…
Read More…ector of issue analysis — is not about to be outdone in the fear-mongering business: Permits should not be granted to build even one more mosque in the United States of America, let alone the monstrosity planned for Ground Zero. This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government. […] Because of this subversive ideology, Muslims cannot claim religious freedom protections under the First Amend…
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…ed and the Boycott Arizona campaign began, the UUA Board of Trustees put a business resolution on the GA agenda to relocate its 2012 Phoenix meeting. Through consultation with the organizations Puente and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), the UUA decided to keep the event in Phoenix, but focus it intentionally on immigration justice. Soon thereafter, immigrant rights leaders in Phoenix invited the UUA to join them for the July 2…
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…sed heretics may be opposition to truth. He insists that government has no business trying to act for and as God in the world, determining which faith is correct or not, or privileging voice over against individual conscience. In the “Beck debates” it is important to suggest that while everyone has a right to assert his/her conscience in the public square, no one religious voice, i.e. “Judeo-Christian” or other, should be privileged. If you want a…
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…Christianity will reduce me to trolling daily to see what her next religious status on Facebook will be. Which religion is going to slot up next? I’m guessing nothing, but like many of Rice’s fans, I hope that she’ll get back to the business of showing us real vampires, instead of those insipid ones on True Blood and Twilight. Since she’s decided to focus in on the ultimate bloodletting figure, Jesus, rather than his followers, I’m betting Lestat…
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…its planes were being used to support Robertson’s personal diamond mining business instead of relief work in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). Robertson had befriended Zairian strongman Mobutu Sese Seku and pled on the 700 Club for the United States to lift sanctions on his murderous regime. Zimbabwe as “Christian Nation” Together with the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the African Centre for Law and Justice is working to garner…
Read More…minutes of Googling, or actually not sticking your nose in other people’s business, would have led him to these basic points of information. There are lot of valid critiques of Park51, a project about which I am deeply ambivalent and partially opposed to. However, Rashid makes none of them. His basic point is that Muslims should surrender their rights, the rights that many of them came here for, to please a majority. There are times to pick a fig…
Read More…es. As one observer put it, “For many, church has become too much (like a) business while they just want to live like the Bible.” Is religious studies a zoo? The Spanish Parliament has rejected a ban on burqas in public. Some in Boulder, Colorado argue that new city council rules accidentally ban burqas and hijabs at meetings. And in case you’re unsure of the difference between a burqa and a hijab, take a look at this explanation. A piece of artwo…
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