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Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…an: As an activist in the LGBT Muslim community, I’m witnessing an unparalleled level of cooperation among activist and advocacy groups. Rather than remaining siloed as a special interest group, we’re taking steps to support and collaborate with organizations that share our values, such as those working for racial justice, economic justice, and immigrant rights. Ultimately, we cannot shift politics or popular opinion alone. We can only change the…

Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It

By John Stoehr

…na, refused to secede from the Union. Winston County, Alabama, declared itself the Free State of Winston. Unionist farmers and woodsmen in Jones County, Mississippi, declared the Free State of Jones.” By February 1864, Davis despaired: “Public meetings of treasonable character, in the name of state sovereignty, are being held.” Thus states’ rights as an ideology was contradictory and could not mobilize the white South for the long haul. What mobil…

Why Notre Dame’s Contraception Flip-Flop Undercuts Bishops’ Religious Freedom Claims

By Patricia Miller

…es and next summer for students. It wasn’t a surprising move. Despite its relatively liberal reputation, Notre Dame was one of several Catholic universities that sued HHS over the mandate but lost its case and was required to continue the coverage. As Judge Richard Posner noted at the time: [W]e have trouble understanding how signing the form that declares Notre Dame’s authorized refusal to pay for contraceptives for its students or staff, and mai…

Archbishop Drops the Girl Scouts Amid Alarmist Rhetoric and Fake Accusations

By Patricia Miller

…roductive rights at various UN events, to suggest the organization is actively promoting a pro-abortion ideology. And, in the type of take-no-prisoners, fact-free rhetoric that has become all-to-familiar in the age of Trump, anti-Girl Scout activists have spread the rumor that the proceeds of sales of Girl Scout cookies go to fund Planned Parenthood. The national Girl Scouts organization says it takes no position and provides no materials on issue…

Taking On The Religious Right…In Kansas? Yes.

By Daniel Schultz

…ng Topeka for decades. Hanging Westboro around Brownback’s neck isn’t entirely fair, but see the point about bigoted people above. Engle and the rest of the Religious Right deserve to be challenged. Not simply because they have horrible politics, though that’s also the case, but because their values are not universally held. In fact, there are man many folks who are not all about banning abortion, hating gays and lesbians, and generally establishi…

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

…rception assumes that magically, if an ultra-large megachurch opens as a shelter, then all will be made well. Magically. Henry Emerson Fosdick, former pastor of Riverside Church in New York famously preached that “God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.” Yet, it appears as though much of American Christianity has, in essence, shaped God as one who answers to buttons that are pressed. Osteen’s feel-good messages ha…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…al. To say nothing of random hangnails and mosquitoes in the night! So I feel a little better that I get to go there make umrah, go out of ihram, and then make ihram again for hajj. Maybe I will be out of the excitement and exuberance. Sorta like skydiving tandem before following up my lessons for free-fall skydiving. That way I can focus on the details I am trying to learn now and be better prepared. As far as umrah, the lesser pilgrimage, goes;…

‘Landmark’ Speech From LDS Leader on LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom Was More Like a Sunnier Groundhog Day

By Aly Marino

…aimed, ostensibly, at balancing what religious conservatives refer to as “religious freedom” and the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals to live free of discrimination. There were whispers in advance that this would be a significant moment with regard to the Church’s relationship to LGBTQ people, and indeed the Salt Lake Tribune’s religion reporter called it “important,” while the paper clearly deems the speech’s balancing act a success. First, I will ac…

How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power, and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…to social transformation, and this literature speaks to an impulse toward self-betterment that so many of us feel. After diagnosing the various problems with gratitude, you turn eastward to offer solutions. What is the “yoga of Gratitude,” and how can it help to address the abuses of neoliberalism? Yoga means connection or union, from the Sanskrit root “yug.” Yoga is the process by which we overcome our mistaken sense of being isolated and alone a…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…” or to grasp that authoritarian Christians cannot be reached at scale by selectively quoting the Bible at them, I don’t know what will. I do, however, have a modest proposal that might help push our discourse about Christianity and power in a more honest direction were enough of us to get on board. I once cheered the introduction of the term “Christian nationalism” into the mainstream American political lexicon because it at last brought some scr…