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New Clashes in Portland Confirm that Christian Nationalism Remains a Clear and Present Danger

By Chrissy Stroop

…ic.] abuses of [sic.] religious liberty.” He held one of these concerts in Portland on August 8, 2020, exactly a year prior to this past weekend’s event, where violence broke out between Feucht-supporting right-wing extremists and anti-fascist protesters. The date of these concerts alone, 8/8, should give us pause, since the number 88 is, as documented by the Anti-Defamation League, “a white supremacist numerical code for ‘Heil Hitler.’” And this…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

For God or for Fame? The Making of a Teenage Bomber

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…never even met Mohamud. “He ruined it for everybody,” a 24-year-old Somali Portlander told The Oregonian. Another Somali-American employed at the city of Portland’s Office of Human Relations said, “As a Somali, it’s, ‘Oh, my God, one more thing we’ll be remembered for.’” Five Choices, if You’re a Muslim Media images of Muslims do not only shape the experiences of Muslims in this country; they also shape non-Muslims’ experiences of Muslims. This i…

#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni

By Megan Goodwin

…destruction of Black bodies. Many have compared the FBI’s response to the Oregon standoff unfavorably with the Philadelphia police force’s response to the Black liberation group, MOVE. In 1985, Philadelphia police officers dropped a bomb on their own city to end a standoff with the movement. By comparison, the Bundys’ movement is arguing that a 93 percent discount on grazing fees is insufficient while insisting that they’re facing a worse backlas…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…ere not companionship-based. They were economic arrangements. Okay, that’s number 1. Number 2, let’s say that your wife didn’t provide you with a male offspring. A man could take another wife and another wife and another wife until one of them did. This is the “sanctity of marriage” that is being protected. Are you kidding me? Wow. Okay, so that’s Old Testament. Then along comes Jesus. Well for those of us who follow Jesus, I always like to point…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Rev. Smith Goes to Washington

By Frederick Clarkson

…d the country for years to come. An advocate for the poor in the Portland, Oregon area since high school, Currie has run homeless shelters, served on governmental and non-governmental committees and on the board of the National Coalition for the Homeless. Several years ago he was called to ministry, went to seminary, and returned to Portland where he served for three years as minister of a member congregation in the United Church of Christ (UCC)….

Christian Schools Invoke Religious Liberty to Reopen Despite Warnings of Health Experts

By Chrissy Stroop

…First Amendment grounds. Public schools in more densely populated parts of Oregon, particularly Portland and the surrounding areas, won’t be opening for in-person instruction until at least November, a fact tacitly acknowledged by the K-8 and K-12 Christian schools, two of which are located near Portland. In a bizarre sleight of hand, the suit compares these schools to universities rather than elementary and secondary public schools, since Oregon’…

Mark O. Hatfield: A Personal Remembrance

By Randall Balmer

…senior in college in the fall of 1975 at an extension program in southern Oregon. Our small group of students had spent a couple of days on the Oregon Coast, and on our way back to Ashland we stopped for dinner. Hatfield was conducting a meeting with constituents in an adjacent room, and the director of our program, called the Oregon Extension, stopped in to introduce himself. Seventeen years later, I interviewed Hatfield in his Washington office…