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Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…hat outrageous letter to the FFA and decided to pull their ads! Truly an un-American move and this is coming from a CANADIAN!!! As director, what was your vision? It’s very memorable. What were your inspirations? How is it being received? PC: Gregory loves the song “Dancing in the Moonlight” by Randy Newman. GB: It began with the what-if image of two traditionally-dressed Muslim men walking into Lowe’s. Then we thought it might appear, in light of…

We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…ther and a mother, without which a child is just a “plaything.” In Sections 179 and 180, Francis praises the generosity of couples who adopt children, but he refuses to include same-sex couples in that praise. For those waiting to hear what he has to say about the headline issue of divorced and remarried Catholics being barred from receiving Communion, he begins to “go there” when he condemns those who are judgmental and divisive, saying in Sectio…

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

By Eboo Patel

…d a black-only meeting to discuss racism (in collaboration with the African-American principal of the school), particular identities were marked as not-invited—namely, white, Asian, Latino, and other non-black students at the high school. Many cultural progressives supported the meeting, claiming that power issues in the broader culture and the long history of oppression of African Americans justified creating this protected space. There is a para…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…ail to bolster political or economic demands (the sort of utilitarian “rent-a-collar” approach that is common in movement circles today), but rather political and economic demands that are made on the basis of a moral foundation. It will take wrenching change to transform today’s labor movement. It requires us to think about the labor movement as a moral force in society, not just an economic actor. One of the key lessons from Sea-Tac is that the…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…Jones College, Graham worked the summer of 1936 as a highly successful door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush Company. He spent only the fall semester at the famously fundamentalist school, then located in Cleveland, Tennessee, before transferring to Florida Bible Institute. Jones, the school’s founder and president, had tried to bully Graham into staying at Bob Jones College, warning that “if you leave and throw your life away at a little cou…

To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…fostered. The band literally climbs into their past via a gargantuan state-of-the-art multimedia screen they call “the divide” that runs the length of the stadium along the narrow center stage that allows fans to get physically close to the musicians. They play inside the screen as images from their past—including drawings of Bono’s childhood home on Cedarwood Road in Dublin and home movies of his mother—are projected on the surface. It’s difficu…

No Buddhists in Washington?

By Danny Fisher

…at a City & Arts Lectures event in San Francisco that perhaps the Commander-in-Chief was including Buddhists, who don’t always fit into traditionally theistic models of religion, among the “non-believers.” This might be true, but I’d like to advance a case for including Buddhists more explicitly in the Oval Office’s work with religious organizations and services. Admittedly, we Buddhists in America are few when compared with our sisters and brothe…

“Integrated into a Burning House?”: A Pre-Inauguration Conversation with Rev. Cecil Murray

By Anita Little

…inauguration, we find ourselves at another tipping point, with many African-Americans asking themselves the same question James Baldwin did in 1962: Do we really “want to be integrated into a burning house?” I met with Rev. Cecil Murray, now a senior fellow at USC’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture, to discuss how the black church’s past might inform its future in this new era. First AME Church, Los Angeles, 1872 ______ Anita Little: How is t…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…can’t get along; and here they are at it again. It is as if Jerusalem was Los Angeles with its rival gangs, and the problem is how to ‘stem the violence.’ (Note the phrase “inter-ethnic” relations in the Encyclopedia Judaica article.) If that is the case perhaps a “Museum of Tolerance” would ameliorate the situation. As British historian Bernard Wasserstein wrote nearly a decade ago, “the eternally unified capital” of the State of Israel is the m…

Mormons, LGBT People Respond to Packer’s Talk

By Joanna Brooks

…careful? My grandmother was a daughter of the Utah pioneers. She moved to Los Angeles during the Great Depression and lived her adult life as a Mormon in the diaspora. When they found out she was a Mormon from Utah, people in Los Angeles, she recalled, would sometimes reach out to feel her head for horns. Late in her life, she and I talked about homosexuality—we talked about everything—and she recalled back in the 1950s a boy who grew up on her b…