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How the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

…had invoked canon law to defend his position. Considering the recent (and welcome) coverage of the New York City Police Department’s entirely inappropriate behavior, which as far as we know up till now includes the sustained use of blatantly anti-Muslim propaganda films and frequent spying on everyday college students outside of New York City, Rascoff’s op-ed is timely. But it is tackling complicated questions, for which it isn’t easy to find ans…

Does God Want Jeremy Lin to Win?

By Jay Michaelson

…tories. In a nasty campaign season and a still-sluggish economy, they’re a welcome reprieve. And it’s okay to draw religious lessons from them, if that’s what you’re inclined to do. But those lessons should not be about a vindictive and arbitrary God who favors some athletes over others, but should be about the capacity of religion and spirituality to cause us to be better people, however we understand what that means. What’s miraculous is not how…

In SOTU Speech, Obama’s Inner Pugilist Emerges

By Peter Laarman

…nd irresponsible this is. There wasn’t much fake religion, which is always welcome. This president doesn’t like to pander in that way, I gather. But there was the odiferous religion of nationalism. There was a distinct pong of American exceptionalism (“ours is a moral power,” “indispensable nation”), there was the blooded scent of saber-rattling (Iran), and there was the crisp masculine tang of “America will always win” on a level (trade) playing…

The New York Times Sunday Review has a Mormon Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…al Mormonism is an entirely different story—and that’s a change LDS people welcome. In his ignorance, Siegel follows Harold Bloom, who weighed in with an astoundingly incoherent and “dread”-ful jeremiad against Romney’s Mormonism last November. And Maureen Dowd, who continues to outsource her columns on Romney’s Mormonism to purveyors of smack and sensationalism, like Bill Maher and the authors of the latest Romney tell-all biography. Polygamy r…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…een takes. The Christmas lights in the commercial were all LED, so: you’re welcome, Environment. Can I use plastic bags again now? RM: I was forced to take part in this OBJECTIONABLE ad by TWO AMERICAN HOMOSEXUAL ATHEISTS whose sole goal was to further their agenda of HATE against MONOTHEISM! An erudite scholar of Islam and sexuality commented on the website of academic excellence, Facebook, that you two guys are just a “little gay” at the end of…

Matisyahu Shaves His Beard

By Jay Michaelson

…e reading this, Matisyahu, or Matt, or by whatever new name this newly strong self is to be known, let me be the first to welcome you home….

Occupy’s Sacred Mob and the Politics of Vagrancy

By Vincent Gonzalez

…y, as the principle values of the society they want to see established. Whether or not that is what is happening here, there is a welcome warmth in the suggestion….

Has Sojourners Really Changed its Policy on
Gay Ads?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…it is unclear whether it signals a real shift in Sojourners’ stated desire to avoid the issue via paid advertising. It is increasingly important that progressive Christians take a firm unambiguous stand and decide they want fellow Christians to welcome the LGBT community in the church.” It is that “firm and unambiguous stand” that Sojourners continues to resist taking — simply because they can’t understand that the spiritual homelessness LGBT peo…

The Ghost Is More Important Than The Machine: Norman Corwin (1910-2011)

By Peter Manseau

…words, it had been just nine years since a majority of Americans began to welcome voices from beyond into their homes, less than twenty since the earliest regional “radio-phonic” transmissions, and already it seemed perfectly natural for families to sit for hours in their living rooms, ears titled toward the hearth of a talking wooden box. Corwin was more responsible than anyone for filling those talking boxes with words that mattered. When the N…

Jeff Sharlet’s Weird Religion, in 13 Chapters

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ioners of weird religion aren’t all ones that we (liberals anyway) want to welcome into our homes, but in these essays Sharlet is careful to notice the humanity of the people he is writing about. In good liberal fashion, there would seem to be no one beyond redemption (though some might need a bit more atonement than others). The placement of the first essay, “Sweet Fuck All, Colorado” (you’ll have to read it to get the title), is significant. H…