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Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…r officers, the president signed an executive order that, according to the New York Times “suspended entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocked entry into the United States for 90 days for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.” The response to the proposal has been swift; spontaneous protests in support of immigrants and M…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…hardly think that condemning violence is inciting violence,” she told the New York Times when asked to comment on the video. “I think the ad is very clear — there are excerpts from actual riots that are included in the ad, and that’s exactly what I’m addressing.” https://twitter.com/martynlenoble/status/880285143105118208 https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/880287503265280000 Most Americans root their moral precepts in faith, or at least they sa…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…m because he’s pro-life. The standard rhetorical strategy is to seize upon news stories that describe Chen as a dissident without specifying the substance of his dissent. This omission is then taken as evidence of the liberal media conspiracy. Jim Hoft of the right-wing blog Gateway Pundit accused the “liberal media” of downplaying Chen’s anti-forced abortion activism and speculated that the U.S. abandoned Chen after they found out he was pro-life…

If Modesto’s Public Schools Can Teach World Religions, It Can Happen Anywhere

By Jonathan Homrighausen

…n in public schools. (It is.) And then they guess Berkeley, San Francisco, New York. They are always astonished when I name Modesto, California. I spent much of my childhood and early adult life in Modesto, a city in the Central Valley, aka the “Bible Belt” of California. So Joseph Laycock’s recent article in Religion Dispatches profiling that course and interviewing Sherry McIntyre, one of its teachers, hit me on a more personal level. I took She…

A Pair of Exhibitions Demonstrate How Biases Color the History of Jerusalem

By Gordon Haber

…of our faith; instead we see whatever we want. Two current exhibitions at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art demonstrate how our biases color the history of Jerusalem. The more modest of the two is Faith and Photography: Auguste Salzmann in the Holy Land. Jérusalem, Porte de Jaffa, Intérieur, by Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824–1872). Salzmann was a French painter-turned-photographer and biblical archaeologist. In 1853, seeking to settle ce…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…tephen Prothero has pointed out that the traditional African religion of Yoruba is one of the world’s largest faiths and in his brilliant new book One Nation under Gods Peter Manseau has shown how the crucial role African religion played in the development of American religious syncretism. How will increased interaction with these religions enrich our global sense of faith? And what of Asia? Will our future historian chart the ways that Hindu nati…

Discrimination on the Taxpayer’s Dime? The Fight To Curtail the Overreach of RFRA

By Sarah Posner

…ginia and a proponent of a robust reading of RFRA, said via email that the new sex discrimination rules under the Executive Order are “about regulating the religious charity’s employment practices as a condition of eligibility for government contracts,” and could present a RFRA claim. But Daniel Mach, director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, said RFRA “should not be invoked to discriminate or…

Masculine Christianity, Praying Ballplayers, & Satanist Discrimination

By Michael J. Altman

…in Lily Dale details the lives of Spiritualists in the town of Lily Dale, New York. Spiritualism arose in the nineteenth century among women mediums who channeled messages from the dead. Then, as now, the tradition has been dominated by women and was a chance for women to have a public voice in the midst of the Victorian cult of domesticity. Have no fear, though, for good ole fashioned masculine muscular Christianity survives—literally. Bear Gryl…

How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…et too depressed. Award-winning filmmaker Musa Syeed, a recent graduate of New York University’s Tisch School, has made two absolutely brilliant documentary films, equal parts touching, hilarious, and surprising. The short film A Son’s Sacrifice tells the charming process by which the American child of immigrants decides to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a halal butcher. Syeed’s more recent film is Bronx Princess, centered around a vi…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…ad never graduated from college. Then, meeting Graham at the Taft Hotel in New York City, Templeton challenged his friend to attend seminary with him in order to deepen his theological understanding. Graham pondered the possibility at length, troubled by Templeton’s intimations that elements of the Christian faith were not intellectually defensible. For Graham, a turning point in his life—and in the entire revival enterprise of the twentieth centu…