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New York Times Columnist Peter Steinfels’ Letter To RD; With Author Response

By Mark D. Jordan

…and reporting it accurately than he did in this case. Mark Jordan Replies: Peter Steinfels thinks that I distorted his last column to stage a “weird attack” on him—a “drive-by shooting at [his] reputation.” I think that he mistook both the scope and the tone of my brief piece, then replied at double its length with unwarranted vehemence. Mr. Steinfels and I will have to sort out the ethical implications of our misunderstanding privately. Still the…

4 (or 5) American Muslims For Ben Carson to Interrogate

By Haroon Moghul

…Kassig I’m sending Carson to Peter Kassig’s parents, because he can’t ask Peter. And even if he could have, it would’ve been speculative. Peter was born in 1988, so of course he would have been too young to qualify for President for the upcoming term. But maybe after Carson loses in 2016, and well after he’s forgotten by 2020, Peter Kassig could’ve run in 2024. And why not? He certainly had the credentials. After high school, Peter became a U.S….

Peter King, Visit My Class

By Hussein Rashid

It’s hard to believe that as far back as 2007, Peter King was saying that there were too many mosques in this country. Ostensibly, it is because he believes Muslims go to mosques to be radicalized. He believes that 80% of the mosques in this country are radical hotbeds. His evidence is a statement made by Hisham Kabbani back in 1999. The problem is that this zombie lie, to use the words of Media Matters, has been thoroughly debunked. I am from an…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…cracy-wire/article-v-the-danger-to-democracy-you-may-not-know-about/. [84] Peter Montgomery, “Will Corporations, The Christian Right and the Tea Party Get to Rewrite the Constitution?” The Public Eye, October 16, 2017, https://politicalresearch.org/2017/10/16/will-corporations-the-christian-right-and-the-tea-party-get-to-rewrite-the-constitution. [85] Peter Montgomery, “Convention of States Leaders Says Goal Is ‘To Reverse 115 Years of Progressivi…

On The Silence Of ‘The Lamb’s Agenda’: An Open Letter to Rev. Samuel Rodriguez

By Peter Laarman

…ined/projected “agenda of the Lamb.” It will be good for your career and good for your country. Yours in service, Rev. Peter Laarman …

Welcome to the “Career College” Scam

By Peter Laarman

The following is a guest post by Peter Laarman So it’s the worst economy and worst job market in decades, especially for relatively poor students of color with limited academic skills. So guess who benefits most from this catastrophe? Answer: the sharks who run so-called proprietary colleges or trade schools. Like the sleazy one that runs incessant and obnoxious infomercials on cable television: American Career College. These schools do especiall…

Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered

By Peter Laarman

…vanize a stronger and religiously-infused bottom-up justice movement. RD’s Peter Laarman, who has been working with the D.L. Dykes, Jr. Foundation to shape this week’s event, asked Rieger, the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at the Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, to unpack structural poverty and to address religion’s stake in the dramatic growth of economic inequality in American society. RD: You are a major particip…

“Fusion Politics” Is the Only Cure to America’s Plutocracy

By Emilie M. Townes

…ng as I try to live it out in a divinity school context, as I learn how to maintain a transformational movement that is pointed for the long haul. See here for Peter Laarman’s interview with Rev. William Barber, and here for the full range of responses….

Elizabeth Warren, American Evangelist

By Peter Laarman

…th what we might well call “evangelical” zeal. Hence this reflection, from Peter Laarman, on the many uses of the term. –The Eds. In our ongoing conversations these days about an increasingly fractured American Evangelicalism, I beg us all to remember that evangelism and evangelical zeal aren’t always a bad thing. American Evangelical Christians call themselves that because they are committed to spreading the Good News—the Gospel—euangelion in New…

NPR Gives a Free Pass to Biblical Literalists

By Peter Laarman

…f us who read the Bible for its core message are really not reading it at all. Eagerly awaiting the next pledge drive, (Rev.) Peter Laarman Los Angeles…