American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets
A handful of conservative groups are frothing at the mouth over the current season of American…
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An Israeli and a Palestinian-American Imam Exchange Letters on Disturbing Viral Video
On the 12th of October, amid growing violence in Israel/Palestine, stories and video began to…
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Why it (Still) Makes Little Sense to Call ISIS Islamic
Last week, The New York Times’ Rukmini Callimachi published “A Theology of Rape,” a report as important…
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter Activists Disrupt Presidential Candidates at Activist Conference
You may have heard that there was a spot of bother at Netroots Nation this…
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White Supremacy, Mental Illness, or Society: What’s to Blame for Religious Violence?
This article is part of It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary…
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Not All Christians are Terrorists
“I know that not all Christians are right-wing extremist terrorists, but why are all right-wing…
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Is Religion to Blame for Violence? Karen Armstrong’s Flawed Case
Just as I finished Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood, which is a very extended attack on…
Read MoreIn OK, a “Christian” And a “Muslim” Decapitation Challenge “Religious” Violence Narrative
Murder often functions as a cultural Rorschach test: the narratives we tell about why people…
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Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll
The pastors who promote MMA describe it as a sport through which to recapture man’s “God given attributes” of “aggressiveness” and “competitiveness.” I couldn’t help but think of Mark Driscoll.
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Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?
How a meeting with Muslim youth leaders led me to realize I had cynically underestimated a slogan’s power.
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