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Getting Past the Pirates

June 20, 2012

Joe McKnight: The neo-colonial overtones of the Heritage Foundation’s report, “Saving Somalia: The Next Steps for the Obama...

In Jesus' Name - Right Hook!

June 20, 2012

By Ashley Baxstrom The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club. The second...

Sacrilege: an excerpt from Austin Dacey's The Future of Blasphemy

June 15, 2012

We do not know what the first blasphemer said. We do know that he was a stranger who came...

Mauritania: Islamic Response to the Sahel Drought

June 15, 2012

By Alex Thurston 9/11 changed the trajectory of Islamic humanitarian agencies in Africa and around the world...The US government...

Feature

34 Years to Find a Mormon Voice

June 14, 2012

By Amy Levin We hear about the black vote, we hear about the Mormon vote, but we seldom-to-never...

Review

Cooking the Books: A Review of "The Revisionaries"

June 14, 2012

By Nathan Schradle The Revisionaries, a documentary about the Texas State Board of Education, debuted at this year’s Tribeca...

Calvin's Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy

June 12, 2012

By Austin Dacey The Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards was meeting to address “gaps” in...

Mass Wedding in Kano

June 11, 2012

by Alex Thurston A recent story from Nigeria, one that touches on both marriage and shari’a, offers the possibility...

Al Shabaab: Where Do They Go From Here?

June 7, 2012

Joe McKnight Ever since Somali President Siad Barre’s government was removed from power in 1991, Somalia has lacked an...

Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Policies and Conclusions

June 6, 2012

by Alex Thurston Government-run Islamic schools, then, are to be a source of “counter-radicalization” as well as a means...

Atheism vs Religion: The Final Countdown?

June 6, 2012

What’s missing here, and in so many similar arguments, is that religion works.

Feature

Race and Radical Welcome

June 6, 2012

By Becky Garrison According to ABC News/Washington Post polls, for the first time, strong public support for same-sex marriage...

Feature

Hallelujah, We're Born Again!

June 5, 2012

Back in 2003, when dinosaurs roamed the Internet, The Revealer was pretty novel.

He Winketh with His Eyes, He Speaketh with His Feet

June 4, 2012

Joe McKnight: Walter Wink was, among other things, an outspoken critic of the “biblically-based” homophobia that has long plagued...

Nigerian Universities: Islamic Studies in Secular Universities

June 4, 2012

By Alex Thurston Nigeria has around 100 universities, most of them public, and many public and private colleges. Various tertiary...

At the Heart of Societies

June 1, 2012

From Michel Foucault's The Subject and Power (1982)

Rumors of Liberation Theology's "Huge Influence" Are Greatly Exaggerated

May 31, 2012

Joe McKnight: Mark Oppenheimer’s explanation of liberation theology underscores the theology’s fundamental principles which are often wholly overlooked...

The Dalai Lama is Home

May 31, 2012

By Becky Rynor I was looking for the chink in that unfailingly optimistic armor, a moment of emotion from the...

Review

Inventing My Religion

May 29, 2012

By Fred Folmer Shortly after finishing Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010), a recent book by...

Little Girls, Future Powerful Women

May 25, 2012

Mary Valle: Someone at UCSSB HQ has finally clicked on the links to anti-Girl Scout material on the web...

Legislating Holy Scripture in Ohio

May 24, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: Ohio just keeps embarrassing the buckeye out of me (and that’s only...

Put on your Sunday (Law)suit

May 22, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: In squint-at-the-screen-to-be-sure news, The Raw Story reports that a church in Oregon is suing a woman...

Feature, Review

Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy

May 21, 2012

Reverse Mission: Transnational Religious Communities and the Making of US Foreign Policy By Timothy Byrnes. Georgetown University Press, 2001. 216 pp. by Frances...

Feature

Nigeria's Islamiyya Schools: Global Project, Local Target

May 18, 2012

By Alex Thurston This is the fourth post in a series on Islamic education in Northern Nigeria. The first post...

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Getting Past the Pirates

In Jesus' Name - Right Hook!

Sacrilege: an excerpt from Austin Dacey's The Future of Blasphemy

Mauritania: Islamic Response to the Sahel Drought

34 Years to Find a Mormon Voice

Cooking the Books: A Review of "The Revisionaries"

Calvin's Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy

Mass Wedding in Kano

Al Shabaab: Where Do They Go From Here?

Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Policies and Conclusions

Atheism vs Religion: The Final Countdown?

Race and Radical Welcome

Hallelujah, We're Born Again!

He Winketh with His Eyes, He Speaketh with His Feet

Nigerian Universities: Islamic Studies in Secular Universities

At the Heart of Societies

Rumors of Liberation Theology's "Huge Influence" Are Greatly Exaggerated

The Dalai Lama is Home

Inventing My Religion

Little Girls, Future Powerful Women

Legislating Holy Scripture in Ohio

Put on your Sunday (Law)suit

Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy

Nigeria's Islamiyya Schools: Global Project, Local Target

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