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Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

One event in Gainesville will go off as planned this weekend: the Gainesville Interfaith Forum’s Gathering for Peace, Understanding, and Hope at Trinity United Methodist Church. Pastor of Trinity UMC, Dan Johnson, told RD that they had expected as many as 3,000 people, though given ongoing developments he suspects that might change. Planned as something of a counter-demonstration to the planned-and-now-canceled Qur’an burning “antics” over at Dov…

Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

By Anita Little

…s role in trap culture and encouraged the crowd of attendees, mostly black Atlanta professionals, to become involved in local organizations such as Street Groomers, Black Lives Matter Atlanta and Housing Justice League. Though the Pink Trap House is no more, in its ephemerality, the space drew attention to social issues and questions of divine justice that one wouldn’t expect from a low-pitched, bungalow-style house in the industrial West Midtown…

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

By Anthea Butler

…d the WMOF come to town. Of course, Archbishop Chaput has said he welcomes gay families to attend the WMOF, as long as they aren’t “lobbying.” However, a workshop planned by the Catholic gay rights group New Ways Ministries, titled “Transforming Love: Exploring Gender identity from Catholic Perspectives,” was cancelled from the WMOF schedule after Archbishop Chaput intervened. Meanwhile, conversion therapy proponents have been invited to speak at…

RDBook: A City Too Busy To Hate

By Michael A. Elliott

…ere he also teaches classes on cartography and geospatial information systems for the Department of Environmental Studies. Photo: Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia by flickr user jasonrowland. Used under a Creative Commons license….

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

By Eboo Patel

…lace this tension plays out is in mainline Protestant denominations with regards to same sex marriage and the ordination of gay clergy. Many Africans in the Anglican Communion and the Methodist Church are opposed to both. They claim that this position is an expression of their identity as Africans. This is a way that the personal becomes political for them. This of course stands in sharp contrast to the desires of the LGBT community in the west—an…

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

By Peter Schwartz

…regarded studies of the Federalist Society and of Christian conservative legal organizations. But particularly in her book on the Federalist Society, Hollis-Brusky misses out on a major part of the story. While “originalism” receives significant attention there isn’t a single mention of “natural law.” As one would expect, the term “originalism” (and its cognate, “textualism”) peppers the Federalist Society website, with nearly 1,000 references ass…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

…before and during the Third Reich. Jesus, theologians argued, was born in Galilee, an area populated, they claimed, by racial non-Jews, including Aryans from Iran; his message was welcomed by Galileans, in contrast to the Judean Jews who put him to death. Grundmann, together with theologians, pastors, bishops, students—both Protestant and Catholic—established the “Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life,”…

Virtual Book Burning and Its Consequences

By Laurie Patton

…omes a world power as a result. “I see the scrolls burning but the letters fly up…” Indeed, the Gainesville event might be the final culmination of the age of hijackers, where a small group’s manipulation of a powerful vehicle has far-reaching disastrous effects. Only in this case, the vehicle is the Qur’an, not an airplane. And the manipulation need only be virtual. Never has book burning been so effective without even occurring. Symbolic actions…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…the intention or even the desire to build power in the classic community organizing or labor organizing sense. Which is not to say that this won’t change over time. Purification movements can move outward and can become all about taking power, or they can do their thing by way of withdrawal from the larger society. Sort of like the contrast between the 17th-century Puritans who pursued statecraft in a major way as against some of their contemporar…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…ce. In a nation marked by centuries of slavery, lynching, Jim Crow laws, legal segregation, and systemic racism, that is not easy to do. We are bound to feel defensive sometimes. If we listen, we are going to hear things we would rather not hear. Some of us are going to be tempted to buy into the vision of Glenn Beck and others who make it easy to turn away from the hard work of repentance, who tickle our ears with promises of cheap grace, and off…