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Point and Counterpoint: Viral Video Questions Faithfulness of the Religious
A round of applause to the YouTube poet Jefferson Bethke who has said what many want to say but never do.
Archive for category: Religion
Does America Really Need Fatima? Fordham Event Dialogue Faces Discrimination
Not Everything in the Bible Should be Taken Literally in Our Modern Society By JOSEPHINE TROTT Contributing Writer Published: Sept. 21, 2011 My first impression upon hearing about the “Learning to Listen: Voices of Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church” dialogue held on Sept. 16 at Fordham University was that the dialogue needed to happen. The America Needs Fatima group [...]
Acceptance of Self: Learning to Be Muslim in a Post-9/11 World
I do not know any victims, survivors, servicemen or families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11. However, I do know what it is like to be Muslim and Middle Eastern in post-9/11 America...
The Gospel According to Gaga
Gaga be with you. And also with you. April 15 was National LGBT Day of Silence, when members and allies of the LGBT community were asked to stay silent to show solidarity with our community. One person I know ...
Go, God, Go! Defending Religion Without Defending Dumb Doctrines
By HARRY HUGGINS Opinion Editor Published: April 20, 2011 Maybe it’s different in the rest of America, but it seems like wherever I go, religion-bashing follows. From the most liberal of Chicago’s suburbs to the Jesuit University of New York, all I ever hear from 95 percent of my friends is, “I respect people’s belief in God, but I just [...]
Getting Behind the Workers: A Catholic Take on the Protests in Wisconsin
HELEN LEE Staff Writer Published: March 30, 2011 American politics have an almost religious intensity. In the church of American politics, there is tremendous pressure to choose one of the creeds in the mainstream left/right binary. But every so often there is an issue that should force Catholic Americans to choose between their political affiliation and their faith. Unfortunately many [...]
Answering Archbishop’s Anti-Abortion Calls
A Statistical Look at the Numbers Behind Timothy Dolan’s Claims and How He Might Be Wrong By DAVID HAGMANN Staff Writer Published: February 2, 2011 In December, New York City’s health department published the 2009 data on pregnancy outcomes, which included some figures for abortions that caused outrage among conservatives. Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, lamented in a speech [...]
We Wish You a Pagan Christmas: Not So Ho-Ho-Holy
By FATIMA SHABBIR Staff Writer Published: December 09, 2010 The holiday season is coming along and little by little the mood is sinking in and resonating within me deeper and deeper. On Christmas morning, I’ll be opening those presents, drinking eggnog and spending much needed quality time with my family, much like everyone else will be. I love Christmas, but [...]
A Little More Conversation, A Little Less Bias
Fighting the Spread of Thilo Sarrazin’s “Fact-Based” Islamophobia, a Muslim Student’s Thoughts SADIA NOOR Staff Writer Published: December 09, 2010 Algebra. University education. Coffee. Hospitals. Cataract surgery. Hydropower. Public libraries. Mechanical clocks. Perfume. These are all recorded inventions and contributions to modern civilization by what some Germans would call “genetically less intelligent” Muslims. In his new book, Deutschland Schafft Sich [...]
Dear Pope “Big B” Benedict,
HARRY HUGGINS Opinions Editor Published: December 09, 2010 You need to calm down. Take a deep breath of frankincense. Splash your face with some holy water. If you were indeed trying to “kick-start a discussion,” you did a terrible job of it. Your flock is bickering about what exactly your prophylactic pronouncement means. Before you excommunicate me, know that I’m not [...]
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