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What’s Wrong with Taming the Tongue? ‘Gossip’ and the Limits of Evangelical Abuse Prevention Efforts

By Chrissy Stroop

…doring fans despite not being around for the last 2000 years clearly needs help protecting his reputation. For a kid like me—introverted, gifted with a critical mind, and inclined to pessimism—the frequent exhortations from my mother to “be positive” and “work on not complaining so much” were a source of stress, and I had far from the worst of it. Even so, I’ll never forget the intensely hostile reaction I got from her and my sister when once, ca….

Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…build an entire model of subjectivity on top of it. How can affect theory help us to understand responses to terrorism that verge on Islamophobia? We really need to understand how scary it is for someone to think about their child being taken away from them in an act of terrorism. We need to be really respectful of that, and really responsive to just how urgent that would be for someone, that their child might be at risk. On the other hand, we al…

Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…y intruder, in this case the Soviets. Though the US policy might intend to help fight terrorism in the region, the very presence of US forces helps to create the climate of hostility in which anti-American terrorism can thrive. 2. Demilitarize. As President Obama has said, there is no military solution in the region. But this could be taken to mean that the military approach, though necessary, is not sufficient. Our point is that the military pres…

Favorite Places, Favorite Prayers

By Amina Wadud

…dure And pardon us; And forgive us; And have mercy on us; You are our Lord Help us against those (people) who cover the truth (with disbelief). In its original Arabic, it reads so poetically. At the places where there is a cry to the divine, the language has the quality of a call: rendering twice the affect of supplication than the English translation. I like how first it sizes up the nafs (soul, person, or ego); by asserting no soul ever has more…

It’s Still Your Fault: The Cubit’s Guide to Blaming

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…uickly, and sometimes sloppily. Getting to know our psychological tics can help us to blame better. 2. Beware of prejudices The past conditions the way we blame in the present. Numerous articles in the series grapple with racial prejudice, police brutality, and violent protests—topics that have been central to national conversations over the past year. Building on his interview with Richard Rothstein, Andrew Aghapour argues that we must learn to b…

Population Growth Divides Climate Change Advocates

By Brentin Mock

…agree that a reduction in unwanted pregnancies in destitute nations would help them better adapt to climate change problems. As RD contributing editor Michelle Goldberg wrote in a recent Daily Beast column, “Climate change isn’t a reason to force unwanted interventions on women. It’s a reason to mobilize an often-indifferent world to give women what they need.” In a conversation with Dan Misleh, executive director of the Catholic Coalition on Cli…

The Irony in the “Religious Liberty” Argument

By Eric C. Miller

…r this. Back in 1984, around the time that Reagan was maligning government help, two Christian colleges were fighting the federal government over Title IX regulations and reporting. When the Supreme Court sided with the government in Grove City College v. Bell, Michigan’s Hillsdale College immediately began declining all forms of federal aid. Grove City College, in western Pennsylvania, soon followed suit, and both schools continue to reject feder…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…e grievous error of collective egotism. Friends and my own conscience have helped to keep me straight whenever danger threatened. After these qualifying remarks Buber gets to his main point quickly: Jews are being persecuted, robbed, maltreated, tortured, murdered. And you, Mahatma Gandhi, say that their position in the country where they suffer all this is an exact parallel to the position of Indians in South Africa at the time you inaugurated yo…

Compelled by Faith: When Prayer is Not Good For You

By Mandy Van Deven

…e probably all three. By the time Abby meets her savior—an atheist man who helped her see her conduct as the result of self-loathing and delusion—I was glad to let go of my knee-jerk feminist disapproval of the knight in shining armor fable. I was glad to see Sher finally getting the professional help she so desperately needed to end the myriad self-mutilating behaviors that had been allowed to spiral out of control. Amen, Amen, Amen is a painful…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…. When people are in an experience where they’re closer to others, it just helps us remember that we’re here on this planet with other humans, not just ourselves, with headphones, watching Netflix all day. “A change in attitude seems to be occurring around the country. I don’t have a lot of time or energy to convince people that they should stop being selfish with their buildings. People come to me, and they get that already. They realize this bui…