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Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

…stian principles. This was not a marginal effort; at the 1934 Oberammergau passion play, watching Jesus being hoisted on the cross, the audience saw a parable of the Third Reich, calling out: “There he is. That is our Führer, our Hitler!” Hitler became Christ, the redeemer of Germany, thanks to a reinterpretation of the Gospels: Jesus was not a Jew, but an Aryan who came to redeem them from the Jews who sought their destruction. Karl Adam, the pro…

RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic

By Mitchell Plitnick

…epublic.” Language is a key component of a national existence, and that is particularly true in Israel. Part of his emphasis on Hebrew is based on Avishai’s wish to make it clear that he is not trying to erase or reverse Zionism with this proposal, but to instead establish a basis for a future Israeli society that is both uniquely Jewish and fully multicultural. What would hold such a state together, according to Avishai, is a shared language, spe…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…o repentance is for us. Of course, it would feel better if he skipped that part and went straight to grace and salvation, as Beck tries to do but, again, that would not be biblical. Both John the Baptist and Jesus made the call to repentance from both personal and social sin, a central part of their preaching. Without this repentance, there is no grace and no salvation. Beck then goes on to equate Cone’s black theology with Marxism. Here he is wil…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…rrested at May Day event Police arrested dozens of LGBT activists who were participating in a May Day celebration. A video shows the advocates carrying a rainbow flag and chanting as they marched through a square. Several police officers and journalists then surrounded them. Yuvakaeva told the Blade that authorities detained around 15 of them. “Authorities prefer meetings of neo-Nazis to opposition and peaceful LGBT manifestations,” Yuvakaeva told…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rs this week reported on LGBT pride events around the world, including the participation of U.S. diplomats in some pride celebrations: U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus John Koenig on June 7 marched in the second annual Pride parade in Nicosia, the capital of the island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, alongside his counterparts from Australia, Austria and the U.K. The U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, and othe…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ature contestants from 20 countries. Sayyed would have been the only Asian participant. “We created this event to combat homophobia, but for a delegate and his family to go through such harassment is unacceptable and we have to be sympathetic with him,” Eric Butter, president of Mr. Gay World, told Indian newspaper DNA. Other administrators of the pageant also lamented Sayyed’s withdrawal, deeming it a shame for India rather than for him and his f…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…, Earnest seems in intimate agreement with the deepest concerns of today’s Republican Party over the pernicious effect of “cultural Marxism and communism,” for which he blames the Jews, who “deserve nothing but hell.” Indeed, it’s no surprise Earnest singles out “cultural Marxism and communism” with such vitriol given how obsessed today’s conservatives are with socialism. For many millennials and grassroots activists who are eager to address entre…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…hing, a toy, a pint of strawberries, or even our morning cup of coffee, we participate in a global economy that values profit over people. Disposable goods are made by disposable people, faceless individuals whose backbreaking and unjustly paid labor produce the goods we consume. What we buy and where we buy it is a political act. It is also, I argue, a religious act. Consumer Theology Religion and shopping may seem like an unlikely pairing, and y…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…e success either. The opening weekend saw sales of more than $6 million in tickets. That’s the kind of number that will inspire others to try and figure out the formula for the faith-and-family blockbuster. Yet, with the cost of the film reportedly exceeding $30 million, it’s an open question whether or not the Left Behind reboot will get a second installment. The marketing problem of evangelical movies is still, stubbornly, a problem. The general…

Ross Douthat: Trump Is Women’s Fault for Not Having More Babies

By Patricia Miller

…no small part by free-trade and winner-take-all policies supported by the Republican Party. Take, for instance, Monessen, Pennsylvania, the once-vibrant steel city about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh visited by Trump with great fanfare in June to announce his “plan” to rebuild the manufacturing base. In 1940, the city had a population of about 20,000 people; in 1990, it was about 13,000. Today, the population stands about 7,000 and shrinking. The…