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Religious Leaders On Anti-Muslim Frenzy: “Silence Is Not An Option”

By Sarah Posner

…the ugliest displays of religious hatred as the 9/11 anniversary approaches, and, as ISNA president Ingrid Mattson pointed out, as school starts this week, many Muslim children are anxious and fearful that their classmates “will look at them like aliens.” A number of religious leaders, including Mattson, spoke at the press briefing, which was one of the most highly attended press events relating to religion that I’ve seen — except for events hoste…

Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science

By Sammy Feldblum

…like Texas, which doesn’t have as much baked-in care for the environment as, say, a Massachusetts. That’s right. With Harvey, did you observe any difference in how religious and non-religious communities interpreted or dealt with the storm and its aftermath? We have not done formal research on this, but we started to do some research where we have sent students into communities to observe. And religion does seem to play a part in how people respon…

Exclusion is Causing Great Harm: A Conversation With Suspended UMC Pastor Rev. Cynthia Meyer

By Joel Pitney

…hey just struggled with the church being in the news. But that was a small number, and most folks have been very receptive. Many immediately began telling me about their family members, and all of their personal stories. My vulnerability in sharing let them open up, and we had great conversations. They’ve really hung in there. The church is not yet a reconciling congregation, but they had done some study about that before I had arrived, and they’r…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…met LGBT people in real life, and the first time they met with LGBT parents, too,” Dinh said in a Skype call from Ho Chi Minh City. “We told our stories because we wanted the government to understand the difficulties our children face in their daily lives… I think that the officials understood and felt empathy for the PFLAG members and for the LGBT community.” India: Recriminalization of homosexuality leaves gays vulnerable to violence, blackmail…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…). Yeah, I know you know the bylines about Islamic philosophers who revived, preserved, and further developed Aristotelian and Hellenistic philosophical traditions; or about Arab and Muslim medical treatises that led the world until modern medicine; or about Muslim contributions to building the foundations of math, astronomy, agriculture, and a host of other disciplines. It is clear that there is an important value in thoughts, in the world of ide…

How Religion Shapes (or Doesn’t) Our Views on Public Issues

By Daniel Schultz

…lf said their religious leaders had spoken out on the environment. As usual, though, the toplines obscure some important nuances. For example, while not everyone thinks faith is the most important factor on the subject of same-sex marriage, nearly everyone who does is against and Adam and Steve pledging their troth. An astounding 94% of those who rate religion highest oppose marriage equality. You might think that reflects a dismal failure on the…

For Conservatives, the Future Looks Dim… and Gay

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, made a trek to the Washington, D.C., offices of the Human Rights Campaign to hold a press conference denouncing homosexuality as “a destructive sin [and] something to be ashamed of. Out-and-proud homosexualism – far from being a human right – is actually a human wrong.” Others, like David Lane who, writes for World Net Daily and is funded by the certified hate group the American Family Association, are…

The Messiah is Not Coming

By Peter Laarman

…he vicious circle we could see coming, but now it is clearly here. We could, if we like, choose to celebrate a progressive victory this month, as parts of the new health care law go into effect. But if we are sober, we will also take careful note of the non serviam issued by the big insurers that are simply not going to write new policies for kids who might be sick, etc. And this is but a minor skirmish within a well-financed global war to undermi…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…ys been the story of how religion has been used in resistance to oppression, and to me, that’s incredible. Another object that I deeply love is that in the 1968 exhibit, there’s a series of first edition books. You have The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, you have James Cone‘s work and Albert Cleage‘s story. You see how people saw 1968 as this real shift in black religion. It’s a reminder that even in the Black Power movement, religious faith was…

“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…t Trump’s primary victories in evangelical-heavy states like South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama, pushed that opposition into overdrive. And it’s also prompted evangelical leaders to mount a defense of their faith by tearing apart what they have called the “myth” of the evangelical Trump voter. It’s understandable why they have done so. Portrayed as hypocrites who’ve abandoned their “values voters” reputation for the luster of the Trum…