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Kosher Nukes: Israeli PM Consults with Radical Rabbi on Iran Strike

By Shalom Goldman

…this view, has no intention of attacking Iran and starting another Middle East war, but it is willing to go to the brink to get the U.S. to act—and to act before the November elections. The Rabbinic consultation story broke over the weekend when a reporter for an Orthodox Jewish website Kikar HaShabbat wrote that Netanyahu’s emissary, National Security Chief Yaakov Amidor, met with the 91-year-old Rabbi on Friday afternoon. The choice of Rabbi Y…

Serra’s Actions Aren’t the Only Reason to Lament His Canonization

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…nation (indeed, he does remind us that U.S. history does not neatly start East and march West). Yet Latinxs are more divided over this than Santos would have you believe. Many native Californians who have criticized this canonization are also Latinx, and many non-native Latinxs question the selection of Serra as well. Many Latinxs, including Catholic-committed ones, still wonder about racism within our own communities, and it’s not only the fraug…

Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield

By Kaya Oakes

…When I was young and thought I knew everything, I started off working with East African refugees with the goal of converting them. But as I got sucked into their lives and spent more and more time with them (it’s been over a decade now) I transitioned into being a friend and activist and eventually a neighbor. Being in long-term relationships with people who are very different from me changed my life. It opened my eyes to how bad things are in the…

Rope of God: The Aceh Tsunami—Four Years On

By Mark Woodward

…e-prone groups in Indonesia and elsewhere. Like other local Islams in Southeast Asia, Islam in Aceh has been shaped by local culture and by Sufi mystical traditions. Sufism and other mysticisms are not inherently peaceful: They can be as violent as any other form of religion. But it does clearly distinguish Acehenese Islam from the austere Puritanism of contemporary Wahhabi-influenced militants who seek, more than anything else, to impose their re…

Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera

By Katy E. Shrout

…an outright poisonous influence at worst. During the Second World War, at least one psychiatrist worried that radio soaps were undermining the war morale, distracting women with addictive stories that promoted destructive values. To label something a “soap opera” today still implies that what you are describing involves immature behavior, improbable plot twists, and/or unseemly sexual liaisons. Soap opera fans themselves have consistently been cha…

Obama’s Muslim Strategy 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…e Tea Party somehow matched nativism with unchecked capitalism, the Middle East peace process froze, and the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for turning a middle-class American into a stupid car bomber. Had the new beginning ended before it could begin? On April 28, I attended the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy’s 11th Annual Conference, “US Relations with the Muslim World: One Year After Cairo,” to answer this very question….

When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner

By Peter Laarman

…xologist who’s always been close to Belinda; and—last but by no means not least—Jennie, a feisty part-Japanese granddaughter of a wealthy church couple who basically purchased Jennie’s participation in the search by making a large special gift just as the congregation’s president was starting to float names for the committee. You can easily guess at least part of what ensues when the search committee gets going. Despite a year of careful preparati…

Americans Lose Faith, Sinning with Transfats, the Elusive God Particle

By Michael J. Altman

This week’s earthquake along the East Coast damaged the National Cathedral in Washington DC. Church attendance is dropping faster among those who don’t have college degrees. Meanwhile, Duke sociologist Mark Chaves finds that Americans are losing faith in their religious leaders. When it comes to baptisms, some are dunkers and some are drunkers. A Sacramento priest showed up to an infant baptism too inebriated to sprinkle the kids. The priest has…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…sm.” As events unfold like a collapsing dam in North Africa and the Middle East, the questions flow. What is the nature of the revolution in Egypt? By extension, what do changes taking place in the Muslim world mean? What do they mean for the US? What does this mean for the West? Are we witnessing an Islamic Revolution? Is this Iran in 1979 all over again? Is Obama the new Carter? Should we be afraid? The underlying reasons behind US hesitation in…

Muhammad and the Blind Man: A Lesson in Sensitivity

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…his eyes set on a 5-acre parcel of land that lay in dairy country 30 miles east of Los Angeles. His mission — to obtain city and county approval for a new mosque in Chino. Week after week, public hearing after public hearing — my father would round up the family in the station wagon and rehearse his “talking points” for the public during the long drives up north. I remember sitting by his side in the school auditoriums as he prepared to take the p…