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“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…pidly building more to house them. But new refugees continue to pour in. Many of the approved camps consisted of rows of modular houses, or tent roofs over one-room buildings with cinder block walls. Many had water, electricity and toilets in each unit, with solar-powered satellite dishes for TV. In other cases, each family had only a tent and shared rows of common toilets with hundreds of other families. The canvas roofs bore the insignia of the…

Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

By Lauri Lebo

…y moralistic take on life, I can’t say it didn’t work at least somewhat in my case. But I’m still a sucker for the cross of gaud. Given that Mrs Roach has long ago departed with the angel band, I can confess to having stood around in any number of European cathedrals gawking at some particularly ostentatious representation of the ‘nailin’ boards’. In addition to his two books, Bageant has written numerous poignant essays, which can be read here. O…

Why I Won’t Leave the Mormon Church Alone

By Holly Welker

…ed to work out my feelings about Mormonism on my own, and to avoid saying anything about it that would upset my family. But it was difficult, particularly since the church wouldn’t leave me alone. (I got repeated phone calls, letters, and visits to my home from missionaries and people in the congregation, despite formal requests that they stop.) Eventually I sought a community of people also striving to come to terms with what it meant to have bee…

AAA: Like a Good Neighbor

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…perks. My partner has a gold card with her name on it as well. The account number on both cards is the same. Years ago, when we signed up for the cards with the venerable roadside assistance company AAA, the woman at the counter smiled sweetly and never blinked an eye when we asked for the “family” plan. We were granted a generous discount under the family plan over buying two individual plans. The American Family Association is just hearing about…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…descended from instant messaging of old (“lol,” etc.), distinct from cell phone text messaging only by the inclusion of tinyurl hyperlinks. The main feature of my experience of following the “service” was multitasking. Over the course of the three hours, I watched a lecture by Jared Diamond about the social functions of religion, cleaned up my kitchen, and did some transcribing for work. It allowed me, as Paul of Tarsus almost said, to check my e…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…inherit one sixth, but if there are more than two… after the deduction of any bequests he may have made, or debt neither of which having been intended to harm the heirs… (Ch.4 v.11-12). I have not removed any text that helps to show there are subtleties in the divisions across gender, and across extended family. Sometimes there are no distinctions made for gender. Most importantly, despite the patriarchal context more than 14 centuries ago, under…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…lp him? He’s a really good guy.” People need to remember that there are many “really good guys” out there waiting for immigration reform. People coming to the US for work get villainized. “Illegal alien” is one of the most unbelievably pejorative terms you can apply to anyone. Your experience seems to reflect something I’ve found in Mormon politics: there is a contradiction between incredible concern Mormons show for the individual and yet a re…

Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice

By Peter Laarman

…my body. First, he wanted to know about my life. I dare say there aren’t many Michael Halberstams practicing medicine any longer, except possibly here and there for rich patients who are willing to pay for that kind of caring individual attention. The last really good primary care doctor I had (a member of a small group practice serving mainly gay men in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood) ended up quitting the profession in disgust over how little t…

The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…st year and whose principal goal is to prevent the passage of the bill or any of its provisions in other pieces of legislation. While serving as a leader in the coalition, Kaggwa said, men claiming to be criminal investigators detained him at the police station where they forced him to strip naked and interrogated him. His wife received harassing phone calls. Kaggwa appears to be the target of intimidation. Kaggwa is also the executive director of…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ion of a unified Reich. The German word for “empire,” Reich can refer to a number of entities, the most common association today being Nazi Germany, which referred to itself as the “Third Reich”—following the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and Imperial Germany. The video’s reference to the Reich, as the Associated Press has reported, seems to have been taken verbatim from a Wikipedia entry on World War I: German industrial strength and pro…