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When Push-Polling comes to Religion

Faithful readers of this blog know that I have a bugaboo about survey research that calls people who say they have no religion “unaffiliated” — as if they were just waiting to be signed up. It’s so much less ominously secular than calling them “Nones. That’s hardly an isolated example of sociological religion-coddling.

Michael J. O'Loughlin – Faith Fix

Jonathan Merritt – On Faith & Culture

Mark Silk – Spiritual Politics

The LGBT Gap, by religion

We all know that when it comes to the acceptance of LGBT folks, religions differ. But what the religions communicate, and how the people in the pews actually feel, are not the same.

Omid Safi – What Would Muhammad Do?

Sounds of Protest: Les Miserables, Gezi Park, and the Power of Music

Ultimately that’s what so amazing about music at Gezi park. It’s not about the notes. It’s not about the words, or the melodies. It’s ultimately about us, all of us. It’s about the power of music to unite all of us. It’s about this new global generation of humanity who care about the well-being of one another beyond the narrow confines of nationality, race, creed, or class, that give us hope. They give us hope that they will be able to sing together, make music together, make love together, and make of this old world, a new world.

Mark Silk – Spiritual Politics

Erdogan’s neo-liberal Islamism

A year ago, my wife and I were staying at the small hotel whose entrance you can see in this video of an armored police van pursuing protesters heading down a street near Taksim Square yesterday.

Public Religion Research Institute

Martin E. Marty – Sightings

Omid Safi – What Would Muhammad Do?

A prayer for Syria

As I listen to the American plans to arm the Syrian rebels, and ponder the 93,000 (and counting) confirmed dead…
As I reflect on the crimes of the mass murderer Bashar al-Assad, a prayer rises up in my heart.
The answer is not in further arming, but in disarming the whole of humanity.