Africa
Bombed-Out Jesus
It’s not until I look at the blank space where his face would be that I see how white he was.
Do You Feel Mutilated?
Sudden activity on an old front in the worldwide circumcision wars: Africa. While two legislators in California announced efforts to ban the San Francisco circumcision-ban ballot measure, The Atlantic reported on a…
Black African Rabbi Aims High
Matthew Fishbane of Tablet magazine has a great two-part long piece of narrative journalism about the Abayudaya of Uganda, who have been Jewish since a colonial-era chieftain decided to follow…
Notes from the Tangled Anglican Web
What the schism over sexuality has to do with the colonial legacy in Africa.
“Liquid Faith,” African Style
Duncan Scrymgeour just wrote to us from Los Angeles with a fascinating addendum to Monday’s article: I read “Liquid Faith” by Mark Bergen with profound interest. I noticed similar movement…
The Christian Right’s Heart for Africa
I’ll be joining African gay activists on Canada’s morning affairs show, “The Current,” tomorrow morning at 8:30 am eastern to discuss Uganda’s soon-to-be-law “Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009,” which will impose the…
Say You’re One of Them
Buddha-killer Scott Korb has written about everything from hunting to basketball in his search for faith. Now he takes a look at Nigerian-born Jesuit Uwem Akpan’s new book of stories,…
Jesus Plus Nothing, Minus Somalia
How Christian fundamentalism helped turn Somalia into the next staging ground for Islamic radicalism.