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A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…mportantly for the life lessons. His beloved wife Nellie had passed away in 1985 after 53 years of marriage, and my wife had died suddenly in 1992. Coach gave me a powerful model for dealing with that loss, a reminder that those we loved were always in our lives. On the 21st of each month (Nellie had passed on March 21), Coach would write a letter to Nellie, adding it to the neat pile on her side of the bed. During my development as a teacher, I c…

Israel Claims Holy Sites, Reignites Religious Flashpoint

By Orly Halpern

…s prayed in the room with the mihrab.” After limiting access to non-Jews in 1967, by 1998, the Israeli military had enclosed the two-room stone structure in a dark fortress-like building and surrounded it by a 26-foot cement wall with military towers manned by Israeli soldiers with M-16 machine guns. Cut off from Bethlehem, the holy site can now be accessed solely from the Israeli-controlled side of the imposing cement wall after passing through a…

LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…followers of that Jesus guy, I checked ‘Yes.’ However, after perusing our site, the guy at the LGBT church site questioned our true dedication to the faith. Since we didn’t seem to meet the requirements of the Nicene Creed, we don’t appear to be a “Trinitarian” church. So I was asked to prove that we were a “real” Christian church. I replied: “We’re not creedal in the sense that we recite creeds or require others to recite them or affirm what are…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…were cross streets running like spokes from 2:00 at one end of the city to 10:00 at the other. 12:00 was at the apex of the open playa where sculptures appeared out of nowhere and art cars roamed, a late-night cinema screened films, and the mobile Dust City Diner served breakfast in the wee hours of the morning. Burning Man’s Ironic Religion In her recent book, Theatre in a Crowded Fire: Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man, religious studies s…

“Marriage Savers” Lobbies for Repeal of No-Fault Divorce

By Kathryn Joyce

…gregants in local churches and synagogues. But with its new Reform Divorce site, it intends to lobby for two new radically conservative divorce provisions: 1.) a “Mutual Consent” divorce law that would do away with the relatively painless divorces couples can attain without charging the other spouse with wrongdoing, and 2.) a “-Shared Parenting” clause, which would shift custody arrangements for children of divorced parents to require parents to s…

‘Exporting Garbage to the Nations’: Conservative Christian Rifts Spreading Like Cracked Glass

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ad! Are we not supposed to work together? I’d also like to leave with this… 1Chronicles 16:22 Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” To which Chris Hume replied: “Mr. Fosdick, would you be willing to come into the studio and defend the assertion that Julie Green and Bo Polny should not be judged by the standard of Scripture?” The Fosdicks appealed to Matthew 18:15, which instructs Christians to deal privately with a brother or siste…

The Belly of the Beast: NYC’s Shiny New Transit Hub Is All Wrong for the 9/11 Site

By Carolyn Bratnober

…ying day all the unsuspecting people in those towers were attacked—and the number of New York’s finest who lost their lives helping people to safety. This is a city that values sticking up for one another. We don’t look back on 9/11 with fond nostalgia for our financial monoliths; we remember the pain, the courage in the face of it, and how everyone came together. If a retired cop or fireman who was injured on 9/11 has to use a back-alley freight…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…though this, the men would hover around the tent entries, send notes, make phone calls, actually get their phone cords recharged, and send food and drink through every possible opening in the tent. As far as I could tell, it was always the men hanging around our tent and not the women hanging around the men’s tent. Pretty funny if you think about it. They were like lost puppies without their women. Yet patriarchy would have us think they are the m…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…mplate setting moment. They prayed and God shook the place. Again the Holy Spirit comes and fills the disciples and they speak, but this speaking is already a joined speaking, a chorus of faith. They speak the word of God with boldness. This shaking of the Spirit is not simply a sign of power, but of pleasure. God’s excitement is evident here. Here and now God’s people are one—calling on the faith and boldness of Jesus to do the divine will. Here…

How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…r pledge cards and enlist volunteers to canvass potential voters and staff phone banks. He said that the positive responses to his phone pitch for Prop 47 were an unexpected surprise. “It’s been amazing to see how many people were supporting this,” Hakim said. “There are more people that think about justice than I realized!” The momentum for collaborative Muslim faith-based activism around Prop 47 began to build earlier this year, when Jawaid and…