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An American Muslim Responds to Muslim Orgs Questioning Armenian Genocide

By Haroon Moghul

…ns believed the only hope was a purely Turkish, or at least purely Muslim, republic, a heartland secure from minorities who could be leveraged by foreign powers which, in the name of a common faith (Christianity), would further harm a vulnerable people. All of this is true, and yet has nothing to do with Armenians themselves. We have a principle in Islam, rooted in the Qur’an: ‘No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another.’ The innocent can…

The ‘Charlie Charlie Challenge’ and Teenage Yearning for Supernatural Encounters

By Joseph Laycock

…ayed in Spain for generations. In April 2015 a TV station in the Dominican Republic aired a story portraying the Charlie game as a Satanic threat taking over schools. The footage went viral, spreading the game’s popularity to other countries. Although Charlie is most often described as a “Mexican ghost,” it appears that Christian critics reframed the game as Satanic almost immediately. It is in the interest of religious institutions to claim a mon…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…self-described “Southern Nationalist organization whose ultimate goal is a free and independent Southern republic,” when it became an embarrassment to the Maryland Republican Party as Peroutka vied for the council seat last year. Moore is a hero to Peroutka and his Constitution Party/IOTC followers, and is greeted there like a celebrity. When I saw Moore speak in Maryland at an IOTC gathering in 2011, it happened to be the birthday of Jefferson Da…

“My Name is Will and I’m Putting You on Notice”

By Lauri Lebo

…counter-rally to the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage’s wrap up of its “Summer for Marriage” tour. (Hat tip to Republic of Gilead.)…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…mself half-Christian by birth. But it is just this kind of complexity that Republican promoters of anti-Arab bias seek to simplify. As shocked as many Americans were to learn of Khalidi’s scapegoating, the Republicans’ choice could not have been more perfect. Not because the professor heads up a research center at Columbia that has been the target of criticism by conservative education activists, anxious about how Middle Eastern studies is taught…

The Heresy of Compromise

By Peter Manseau

…the first modern pope” had to say amounted to nodding approval (“That your Republic is progressing and developing by giant strides is patent to all…”), which at times seemed to take credit for the success it praised. In a rhetorical flourish, the pope even laid claim to the nation’s neonatal survival: “When America was, as yet, but a newborn babe, uttering in its cradle its first feeble cries, the Church took it to her bosom and motherly embrace.”…

Will the Pope’s Woman Problem Alienate Young Catholics?

By Patricia Miller

…t subjugation a holy thing. Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig fired back in the New Republic that “liberal malcontents” are so busy attacking Francis for failing to be “a good center-left feminist” that they’re missing his “subtle” feminism, such as his insistence in the climate change encyclical Laudato si that “population control” policies ought to conform to women’s reproductive timelines, not to the needs of the market: Pope Francis’s interest is in ma…

A Church With a Hole In Its Heart: An Excerpt from Peter Manseau’s “One Nation Under Gods”

By Peter Manseau

…t in this valley has been regarded as sacred since before the birth of the republic of which it is now a part; it has been revered as the physical nature of the spirit world since before the Spanish missionaries arrived with their own notions of embodied divinity; it was holy even before the first Europeans looked on the people of an unmapped continent and declared that they must know nothing of God. Though it has a long and eclectic spiritual his…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…and Paul stumbled, and dear God, how many more of them are there? The New Republic‘s Brian Beutler summed things up pretty well: What you saw tonight—and the vastness of the field made this tension more vivid—are several candidates who want to hew to a new line of some kind, only to be pulled back, like the Godfather, into a morass they were trying to escape. Like Beutler says, Republicans haven’t quite figured out what lessons to draw from Mitt…