In the News: Apocalypse, Saints & Breadsticks
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Review: Foreigners and Their Food
Daniel Picus reviews Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law by David Freidenreich Continue Reading →
In the News: Mad Men, Mormons, Monks, and more!
A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
In the News: Paris, Witches, the CNN Apocalypse, and more!
A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news. Continue Reading →
From Antelias to Bzoummar
Irina Papkova takes us on a tour of the religious centers that lie at the heart of Lebanon’s Armenian Christian communities. Continue Reading →
Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws: Christians Come Under Attack in Lahore
By Saba Imtiaz A violent mob ransacked and burned the homes of more than a hundred Christian families in Lahore on Saturday in the wake of an alleged incident of blasphemy. Continue Reading →
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws: Christians Come Under Attack in Lahore
By Saba Imtiaz A violent mob ransacked and burned the homes of more than a hundred Christian families in Lahore on Saturday in the wake of an alleged incident of blasphemy. Continue Reading →
Lebanon: War, Peace and Pluralism
“The relationship between Lebanon and Syria is intricate and complicated, and the chaos in Syria presents serious challenges for its tiny neighbor to the west,” writes Irina Papkova in the first of two posts from Beirut in the aftermath of the October 19 bomb blast. Continue Reading →
Apostasy in Any Other Country
Abby Ohlheiser: Something we’re keeping an eye on: Christian Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who faces death for the crime of apostasy, could face execution any time after Wednesday should he refuse to renounce his faith a fourth time.
It’s an interesting case with a bit more to say than the familiar narrative of persecuted Christianity, partially because pastor Nadarkhani’s apostasy might not even be that, according to Iranian law. Continue Reading →
Evangelicals, Not Invited to the 9/11 Party
The best and most prominent reminder of the diversity of American Christian thought arrived on the New York City mayor’s desk this week, in the form of a petition with 62,000 signatures. It was written by that epicenter of hate speech, The Family Research Council (and City Councilman Fernando Cabrera, a Bronx pastor). FRC’s beef? That the ceremony at the World Trade Center tomorrow will not include pastors or priests. Each year, in a ceremony format now a decade old, moments of silence break up the hours-long reading of names of those who died. Representatives from across the religious spectrum attend. But the petitioners want explicit prayers and they want them from their own leaders. Continue Reading →