Religion Dispatches
Photographer Robin Hammond has launched a social media campaign with the hashtag #WhereLoveIsIllegal to document…
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What is it about rage that pervades so much thinking about Islam? Start by picking up the latest issues of Time and Newsweek—America’s airport reading—and talking to Google.
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Why don’t we hear about nonviolence from the pulpit? There is a complex theology behind the Gospel message of activist, transformative nonviolence that is easy for a homilist to set aside in favor of “God-loves-you!” Sunday messages that demand little from believers beyond robust self-esteem and a vague acceptance of God’s expectation that we generally do right by others. Thus, dusted off during Lent and the Easter season, the premodern language of sin, suffering, sacrifice, and salvation, as Marcus Borg has argued and Pew researchers have tracked, are poorly understood by Christians themselves.
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Just as hate responds to hate, those whose political fortunes depend on the manufacture of hatred seem to need each other.
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How did a B movie get rendered into Arabic, then used to justify an attack on American sites overseas?
Read MoreAn interview with Mormon Studies expert Patrick Mason.
Read MoreClaimed writer and director of anti-Islam film that sparked extremist violence in Egypt and Libya.
Read MoreViolence comes in many forms
Read MoreTo say Muslims are offended by portrayals of Muhammad is missing the point…
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In the Muslim world, pluralism collides with democracy and sovereignty, which is far more interesting and alarming than the battle lines we’ve imposed on the Middle East—of secularists versus Islamists, of free-thinking liberals versus religious autocrats.
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