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Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…Eastern European immigrants brought a Catholicism that ties the city with New York City and Boston as per capita the most Catholic in the country; how the Great Migration of African Americans brought new faith traditions; how it became home to one of the largest urban Jewish communities; and how Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists have added to the region’s spiritual diversity. Something else cuts across denominational lines, however, because faith ta…

What We Still Don’t Know About Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…evolution. Donald Rumsfeld has his infamous photo with Saddam Hussein. Now New York Gov. Paterson is using the same simple constructions, comparing sufis and Shi’ah Muslims, as thought they are mutually exclusive categories. One can be sufi and Shi’ah or sufi and Sunni. For example, Khomeini, leader of the Iranian Revolution, had sufi leanings. Paterson’s ignorance conflates current concerns about Iran with the Park51 issue, and shows no understan…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…e second event, a bit more elaborate, was the publication of a new book by New York Times op-ed writer Bari Weiss, called How to Fight Anti-Semitism, followed by a widely read op-ed. I don’t want to dwell on the book itself, which I read with a fair amount of frustration, not because I didn’t like it—which I didn’t—but because this is such an important issue that requires careful and cautious thinking that I think was absent in the book. More inte…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…ake care of the whole person. Since launching the first Sunday Assembly in New York City () on June 30, 2013, this group experienced some growing pains with some the board of directors choosing to form their own group called The Godless Revival. Your thoughts? Jones: It’s my understanding that the chief split is between those who are more on the atheist side of the fence, and then those who want to have a more inclusive message. This division has…

Deception, Doubt and Divinity (School)

By Meghan Florian

…Div. program at any time. Ms. MacBain has subsequently acknowledged to the New York Times reporter that she misrepresented her credentials; she has done so in numerous other public venues. It is completely proper to pause and express frustration that someone seems to have used fraudulent credentials to get ahead professionally. MacBain did, afterall, secure a position at Harvard (though she has since been dismissed). Not too shabby, compared to th…

Party of Religious Liberty Botches Debate on Religion and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…ernor George Pataki’s case, he botched the facts, too: he claimed that the New York Police Department had a “very active group, aggressively monitoring” Muslim communities, which “stopped and prevented dozens, and dozens of attacks in New York.” But the NYPD itself has admitted the program, since disbanded, produced no terrorism leads. “I’m a great believer in the First Amendment,” Pataki insisted, while advocating for spying on people based on th…

How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…et too depressed. Award-winning filmmaker Musa Syeed, a recent graduate of New York University’s Tisch School, has made two absolutely brilliant documentary films, equal parts touching, hilarious, and surprising. The short film A Son’s Sacrifice tells the charming process by which the American child of immigrants decides to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a halal butcher. Syeed’s more recent film is Bronx Princess, centered around a vi…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cers were engaged, generating both support and religious denunciations. In New York, one of the grand marshals for the pride march was Subhi Nahas, a “gay Syrian refugee who’s faced threats from both ISIS and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime,” reports the New York Post. In America, a magazine published by Jesuits in the US, James Martin, SJ, offers a “meditation for LGBT Catholics” in which he encouraged those “who feel excluded from the church”…

‘Soul of Yoga’ at Stake in Texas Regulation Push

By Andrea R. Jain

…gis aren’t the only ones fighting this battle. In Virginia, Wisconsin, and New York, state governments have required vocational licensing for programs training yoga teachers. Some opposition to such attempts has been successful. After the New York State Education Department tried to assess fines on and to require permits from yoga teacher training programs, a group of yogis responded with legislation that successfully exempted yoga teacher trainin…

First Gay Bishop? Give Me a Break

By Peter Montgomery

…up in that culture.” Alston is the director of Auburn Media, a project of New York’s Auburn Seminary, which will be promoting the documentary this year along with a “Friends and Family Plan” campaign. Alston said he hopes to organize 500 community screenings between now and the film’s official release in the fall. Robinson says he has found that nothing works better to change hearts and minds than LGBT people telling their own stories—or allies t…