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Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…] contraception mandate with threats to destroy Christianity in the Middle East. They drew parallels to “governments who try to squash and destroy religious liberty,” and even to the specter of ISIS beheading those it considers apostates to the faith. As I have noted, there was a notable uptick in white Catholic concern about the “religious liberty” issue after the bishops’ attacks on the Obama administration and the mandate. According to the Pew…

Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives

By Jonathan Malesic

…k men occurs right after a weeknight bible study among football players at East Mississippi Community College. EMCC is where players go to get their academic, athletic, and personal lives back on track after getting kicked out of powerhouse programs like Florida State and Auburn. Some are there because they used drugs. One was charged with burglary. Another punched a woman in a bar. Football players spout self-serving platitudes all the time. “No…

Shameful GOP Tax Plan Taxes Reality

By Peter Laarman

…ong view. The long view here is that if this tax plan—with its unprecedented permanent cuts—were to go through, we won’t have to wait even ten years to see acute new suffering among people with disabilities, the elderly, vulnerable children, etc. Because as sure as the sun rises in the east, GOP leaders will use the new deficits their own plan creates to demand huge cuts in the social safety net: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and everything…

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lobal network was nourished in part to gain recruits to come to the Middle East battlefields where they provided a stockpile of suicide bombers willing to destroy themselves in savage attacks against ISIS’ imagined enemies. Some 30,000 young fighters came from all over the world to Syria and Iraq during the movement’s heyday in 2015 and 2016. But a much larger group were also involved, though primarily on line, in the animated chats of the online…

What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

…knowledge,” especially when compared to situation in nations of the Middle East where news media have more or less open access. Without that core understanding of what is going on in the region, what the issues are, and what people’s actions are there, there is no way to make any association with what the two brothers in Boston did or why. He says, “The Chechens do not understand why people such as the Georgians, the Azeris and the Armenians were…

Pox Americana: Franzen’s Tragic Vision

By Peter Laarman

…in a way that Dickens would appreciate). With the help of his nubile young Indian-American assistant, Walter becomes complicit in Haven’s scheme to save a big chunk of West Virginia habitat for the endangered cerulean warbler. He continues even after learning that the price of creating the haven is that Haven will turn over a fifth of the acreage to coal operators who will use ruinous mountaintop removal techniques. Here coal sludge does superb me…

Naked Jihad

By Kate Blanchard

…ir support for Amina. An international movement called Femen staged bare-breasted protests in European cities, in which the writings on their chests echoed Amina’s, along with “Freedom for women” and “Fuck your morals.” (Be warned: photos contain nudity and strong language.) But Femen did not have the last word. Almost immediately, there was a backlash from some Muslim women who did not appreciate the “support.” A Facebook group, Muslim Women Aga…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…ll make extensive use of in-home servants (in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East), it is that no one, not even the nicest ones, considers their servants as equal. It just doesn’t happen. Now, from the get-go, there are a few basic things to get straight. Islam is not one of those religions that extols the merits of celibacy: not for everyday ordinary folks, not for its Prophets, not for the priestly class, not for those seeking spiritual enlightenm…

The Age of Dhikr

By Amina Wadud

…ove for Allah: as the greatest principle of Islam. My own shaykh is on the east coast and a visit to him and some time in retreat is already on my calendar after I visit with my family. What was particularly striking for me last night, is that this particular company among Sufis was also made up of mostly well-educated, American professionals, over 50. Let me be direct here about what it means to say that one is American in the context of identity…

I’tikaf: Sacred Solitude

By Amina Wadud

…mosque as the location of the retreat, I used to invite women to spend at least one weekend night, during the last ten days, in my house when I lived in Virginia. I thought if we could give women a reprieve from their regular schedule—a time for greater worship, more dhikr, muraqabah, Qur’an reading, shared suhur, and additional prayers during the night—that way maybe we too could taste this especially devout formula. I did this for several years….