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...past month revealed that the organization is engaged in intense soul-searching. The group remains committed to its role as a support system for Harvard’s Muslim students, while also grappling with how to heighten its activism to defend what members believe is a much misunderstood faith...
...Yasin ’02 proposed “American Jihad” as the title of his Commencement speech. Students protested Yasin’s use of the word “jihad,” and Yasin later modified the title to “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad...
...readers who need it most—those who may not know Jesus in the “socialist” light in which Gomes presents him, for example. As he puts it, “For readers from all traditions, including those who are just discovering the Christian faith or are discouraged by their experience of it, I have written this book.”Gomes divides “The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus” into three main units: the first describes “The Trouble with Scripture,” the second discusses the gospel...
...charge critics level at members of the LDS Church is that the faith is too secretive. Romney pushed back against "some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines," arguing that "no candidate should become the spokesman for his faith." But that principled stance may simply stoke concerns that Romney is reticent because he is prohibited from disclosing details about his religious tradition. Romney did address one charge head-on, making clear that he would not be required to answer to church authorities in Salt Lake City. But that is not even the pervasive...
...speech was perfectly calibrated for a general election race - or for a Republican primary campaign that did not include a candidate by the name of Mike Huckabee. Romney has a strong case to make that the shared political and social concerns of religious conservatives across faith traditions require them to join forces in the public square. But that argument only holds so long as evangelical Republicans have no other candidates to choose from. The question isn't whether evangelical voters could support a Mormon, but whether they would back a Mormon over an equally appealing Catholic or Protestant. Like...