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Doll Says “Islam Is The Light”: People Freak Out

By Hussein Rashid

…dibly misleading. It’s like saying since felines eat people we should fear domestic house cats. I am actually glad that they are documenting the violence done to women in the name of Islam, but rather than lump it under a category that they have little understanding of, I would rather they work in common with groups who actually understand the situation of Muslim women, like WISE. What they have done instead is to fall prey to a bogeyman, an imagi…

Don’t Ignore the Role of “Christian Values” in Conservative Conspiracy

By Carmen Celestini

…d nativism. A brief stock market crash, depression, a widespread fear of a domestic revolt due to unionism, and a rise in the feminist movement, combined with the dramatic increase of immigrants prior to WWI, served to create hostility against minority groups, and a call to stop the moral disintegration of American culture. In response, the era also saw and a surge in radical literature calling for a return to American values, traditional families…

Ahmadinejad’s Call For “Compassion” is a Cynical Display, Critics Say

By Ebrahim Moosa

…ad’s turn to compassion allows him a grip on power as Iran is plunged into domestic instability and made vulnerable internationally. Nearly two decades ago, Ayatollah Montazeri tried to draw attention to the gradual moral decline of the Islamic Republic but was rebuked and marginalized for doing so. In fact, Montazeri’s courageous stance evokes greater admiration in hindsight if one kept in mind both the political context at the time and his own p…

Lesbian Nuns: Still Immodest After All These Years

By Susan Henking

…shocking to see those terms juxtaposed. Shortly after publication I got a number of irate letters from devout believers who thought I was besmirching the Catholic Church. Needless to say, I did not think I was a slanderer but rather that I was simply providing an evidence-based interpretation of events that had occurred in the past. In the intervening years, public perceptions have changed for a variety of reasons. Most important is the greater a…

Which is the ‘Real’ Reality?: Doctor Who Part IV

By Henry Jenkins

…is centered on her life of adventure with the Doctor. The other is a quiet domestic existence with Rory. The Doctor calls the latter a “nightmare.” But if Amy were not simply trying to figure out which is real, but which one she wants to be real, then the choice Amy has to make in the episode can be regarded as illustrative of the real-life choice many find themselves confronted with, between a life of adventure and insecurity on the one hand, and…

Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness

By Rachel C. Schneider

…ity behind a confederate flag is anarchy, unAmerican, criminal treason and domestic terrorism. President Trump must clearly tell his supporters ‘We lost. Go home now.’” https://twitter.com/RickWarren/status/1346917979200475142 As a scholar of religion, social justice advocate, and white Christian myself, these statements have felt like salt on a wound. Confirmation, yet again, that Black lives don’t really matter, women’s lives don’t really matter…

US Bishops Defund Immigrant Rights Group Over LGBT Equality

By Patricia Miller

…D forced the question of Marriage Equality into the grant process.” As the domestic anti-poverty campaign of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops the CCHD will award some $14 million to anti-poverty programs in 2014-15. However, in recent years it has come under increasing pressure from conservative Catholic interest groups to refuse to fund groups with ties to any groups that support same-sex marriage or abortion rights. The far-right American…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…for a meeting in Providence’s new Freemason-themed hotel, I got a surprise phonecall from Father Isaac, the cassocked gentle giant who serves as Eastern Orthodox chaplain there. We hadn’t known each other well while I was a student, but I’d always liked him. Upon hearing I was in town, he thought he’d ring me up, and what followed was certainly the longest conversation we’d ever had together. He wished me well, but much more, he thanked God in a d…

The Sacred and the Dead: I Love You More than Words Can Tell

By David Vanderveen

…ater as a senior contractor for the State Department, training and leading domestic Iraqi and Afghani special forces units, and me with various businesses that I built all over the world. The best part about traveling was always coming home…until one of us didn’t. In April 2008, Mark was killed in Iraq. The river brought him back to us, and we laid his bones by the waterside. My favorite verse from the Bible is Genesis 1:2, “…and the spirit of God…

Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook

By Daniel Schultz

…States a Christian nation. It also specifically calls for making both our domestic and our foreign policy reflect what some refer to as “traditional family values.” But here the interpretation of those family values is kind of a fringe religious position. In law, it not only reflects what some people call “originalism,” but it reflects more and more another theocratic interpretation of law. A lot of the laws now being challenged in court focus no…