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Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek

By Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

…Christmas morning) and secular (the UN headquarters in central Abuja last August and the police headquarters in Kano in late January). But it is too hasty a judgment to see in the mayhem created by this fringe group a movement of more general Islamic radicalism in Nigeria. Two of the country’s most high-profile Muslims have denounced Boko Haram directly: the Muslim governor of the largest state, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, said that Boko Haram doesn’…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…nia, interviewed Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain on Saturday, August 16. Before and after the event, Warren’s Civic Forum received a lot of media attention. Many in the media have anointed Warren as representing the new face of Christian evangelicals; creating a new movement that not only distances itself from the old timers of the Religious Right, but one that is setting a new agenda for evangelicals. How do you view Warren’s work an…

Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…ribed as grim: Nevada resident Margaret Frye-Jackman, 71, was diagnosed in August with ovarian cancer. She had two rounds of chemotherapy at University Medical Center, the only public hospital in the Las Vegas area. Soon after, she and her daughter heard the news on TV: The hospital’s outpatient oncology services were closing because of state Medicaid cuts. Treatment for Frye-Jackman and hundreds of other cancer patients was eliminated. Luckily, F…

This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…in Christ: Making a Sanctified World, University of North Carolina Press, August 1, 2007 With this groundbreaking book historian Anthea Butler establishes herself among premier scholars of Pentecostalism. This account of the largest Pentecostal denomination and the many ways women carved out a path of social power within the COGIC community via the COGIC’s women’s department has both a critical depth and a lucid flow. This book should surely comp…

Numbers, Schnumbers, Why Evangelicals Should Worry About Trump’s Popularity

By Jonathan Orbell

…vangelical.” On the latter point, Smith writes: The myth likely started in August, when a Fox News poll said Trump was the top choice of “white evangelical” voters. But polls like this use methodology that allows respondents to self-identify their religious affiliation without any examination of their actual beliefs… Chris Anderson, president of Anderson Robbins Research, which helped conduct the Fox News poll, told me the survey question asked, “…

Quaker Loses Job Over “Loyalty Oath”

By Peter Montgomery

…lution ran into a brick wall. She was informed by Cal State Fullerton last August that “there are no exceptions allowed to the statement within the CSU, or additions as you propose.” And they told her in no uncertain terms that if she could not “sign the statement as it is,” she could not have a job. When she showed up to teach on the first day of school, she couldn’t get keys to her classroom. People For the American Way Foundation attorneys have…

‘Let It Be Unto Me’: Akin, Rape, and the Early Church

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…that she consented to the act” (City of God 1:19). And in this she is, in Augustine’s eyes, condemned. Augustine was defending himself in the face of critics who asked how it was that Christian women could suffer rape if God was looking after them. We should question his mode of defense! In so doing, we should also question Akin’s assumption that the victim is to be blamed—a stance that has arguably been taken even without the extenuating wartime…

Fear Not, The IRS Isn’t Colluding With Angry Atheists

By Sarah Posner

…, 99 churches merit a high priority examination. Of these 99 churches, the number of churches alleged to have violated the prohibition during 2010 is 15, during 2011 is 18, during 2012 is 65, and during 2013 is one. As a result, FFRF wrote in its motion: Based on available information, FFRF and its counsel are satisfied that the I.R.S. no longer has an explicit policy or practice of not enforcing the the electioneering restrictions of § 501(c)(3)…

Invoking God’s Name Like a Bludgeon

By Lauri Lebo

…a fundamentalist can go to hell. From the initial complaint [.pdf]: At the August 2009 Chancellor’s Opening Session, Wagner, acting as the District’s officer, agent, and official representative, invited the assembled faculty and staff to stand for an invocation “[i]n recognition of this country’s rich religious heritage.” Trustee Williams then declared: Before the invocation, I thought I’d tell a little Biblical story. Today’s story is about Jonah…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…classroom discussion of civil disobedience, as well as efforts to draw comparisons between choosing “God’s law” over “man’s law” to the American revolution and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. According to one student, in the Foundations course both Staver and Lindevaldsen “espoused the opinion that in situations where God’s law is in direct contradiction to man’s law, we have an obligation to disobey it.” Deborah Cantrell,…