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RD Response to Fox Crit of White Supremacy in Yoga Engages in Victim Blaming

By Rumya Putcha

…of the right-wing zealots who initially belittled Gandhi and Wolff in the comments section on Foxnews.com and elsewhere. To be sure, by referencing her own work Jain enacts a version of what Edward Said once famously critiqued as the “citationary” nature of Orientalism and its reliance on “antecedent authority” to maintain White supremacist hegemony. For the past thirty years, critical race scholars like Richard Delgado have described this sort o…

Necessary Sacrifice: Sundance, Mormon Movies, and the Race to Oscar Night

By Kathryn Lofton

…to its own self-justification. “The sacrifice serves to protect the entire community from its own violence,” wrote Rene Girard, “it prompts the entire community to choose victims outside itself.” The ritual attendance (the darkness, the screen, the muted gaping crowd) is the set of a communal inevitability. Tickets pay producers to slaughter others so we may, if possible, evade (for now) our innocent death. What LDS knows, and Sundance doesn’t, is…

Ex-Gay Leader Defends Program Used to Support Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…there was ever need for repentance, this would be the time, Mr. Cohen. One commenter on the Advocate.com’s Web site, Edward from Boston, makes a good point – Cohen had the opportunity, not just to disavow this legislation, but to do more to stop it: … the obvious question was: would he file a complaint with the Ugandan government for misusing his work to justify the potential killing of gays? Would he make a public statement decrying the proposed…

Oh My God…

By Gary Laderman

…tradition, let alone among the three, are vast, confounding, and indeed incommensurable. Reform Jews have more liberal views of God than Orthodox; Protestants and Catholics disagree about how to factor Jesus Christ into the God equation; and progressive Muslims understand Allah in a radically different light than fundamentalist Muslims. All this internal theological diversity for each religion makes agreement across traditions a lost cause. Accor…

How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?

By Christel Manning

…and parents go about this in many different ways. I describe the five most common strategies in the book. But what I found most striking was how deeply committed Nones were to the choice narrative. Some even went so far as to follow their children’s lead, providing religious education to a child who seems spiritually inclined while allowing a disinterested child to grow up secular! Is there anything you had to leave out? I heard many interesting,…

LDS Church Asserts Trademark of “Mormon”

By Holly Welker

…ce your parents named you Jon Stewart, and all you’ve ever want to be is a comedian. You especially like political humor. You find a comedy club that likes your material and they begin advertising “Daily Shows featuring Jon Stewart.” Even though the guy on Comedy Central was named Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz at birth, and even though you don’t claim to be on The Daily Show, Comedy Central and Stewart et al could take you to court and get you to stop…

‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?

By B. Howell Belser

…Rowling succeeded in creating an alternative world that is so real, and so compelling, that it makes you want to become a part of it. J.K. Rowling’s creations have taken on new life as they are embraced by fans that make them their own. Fans joined together to create Harry Potter social network sites such as The Leaky Cauldron, and Mugglenet, which also features extensive archives of fan fiction and fan art. In addition, Harry Potter has also insp…

#ReinstateDocHawk: Wheaton Does Not Speak for Its Students

By Ellie Roth

…necessary and insensitive escalation is feeding a fire many in the Wheaton community and larger Christian community resent, and one that is tragically hurting American Muslims. https://twitter.com/christinefolch/status/677262569002811392 Many of my peers have impressed me over the past few days. I have witnessed prayer, courageous words and thoughtful actions like the #ReinstateDocHawk petition that’s almost at its goal of 15,000 signatures. I par…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…al of Muslims and Muslim-Americans getting involved in public policy. They compile that into a guilt-by-association Powerpoint and then shop it to reporters.” These individuals include, said Khan, Frank Gaffney, who issues baseless warnings to members of Congress about “creeping shari’ah;” Paul Sperry, co-author of the book Muslim Mafia, which claimed that the Council on American Islamic Relations had infiltrated Capitol Hill by placing interns as…

What Does God Tweet?, AFA Cites Hitler on Gays…

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…istian Party poster proclaiming that “There definitely is a God” drew more complaints than any other advertisement all year, reports Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority. If there is a God, he may be on Twitter, at least according to the Web site almightytweets.com. The Revealer claims that the Web site, which allows anyone to post in God’s voice, raises practical questions about God: “How do we know what God wants? Or who He is? How do we kn…