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Immigration Reveals the Many Faces of Jesus

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…“us” and “them.” Author Brian McLaren has, in the past, outlined the many ways we divide our world into “us” and “them,” but ultimately, he says the only way to tell the story of our world is “it’s some of us for all of us.” This is the not just the story we must tell about our own world, but it’s the only way to understand Jesus. He embodied a message of “it’s some of us for all of us” and calls us to practice that by loving our neighbor as ours…

How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power, and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…rce and starts to insulate the status quo. Gratitude operates in a similar way, with similar potentials. When we find ourselves in a position of owing—and people in a democratic society always owe something to other people—we may become vulnerable to control. Certain Roman figures, like Cicero and Seneca, recognized the power of gratitude to maintain social stability. Cicero argued that, when we accept a gift from someone else, we enter into a con…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…erform umrah. It was my ardent wish to make umrah at some time of the year way, way off of the sacred months. Sort of like a dry run, but most importantly without the crowds. I mean there are always people, locals and visitors, so there would also be people there. Some people have said that the ritual circumambulation of the ka’abah goes on endlessly throughout the day and night, stopping only for the performance of prayer itself. But with fewer t…

By the Way: Naming The Religious Right

By Randall Balmer

…istian Right. The last term, “New Christian Right,” is the one that I’ve always found the most puzzling. The modifier “new” suggests that there was something, sometime in the past, that might be described as the Old Christian Right—whether or not that phrase was used. As a historian, however, I’d be hard-pressed to identify anything that fit that description. Evangelical social and political activism in the nineteenth century could never be descri…

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

By Cathleen Falsani

…nse: If I could, through myself, set your spirit free I’d lead your heart away, see you break, break away Into the light and to the day. To let it go and so to find away. To let it go and so find away. I’m wide awake. I’m wide awake, wide awake. I’m not sleeping. U2’s encore that night was a tribute to Mr. Sheehan, a display of photos and video of their lost captain on the huge screens he helped imagine and create. The Forum morphed into a vast Ir…

Filling the Awkward Silence: A Response to Laura Levitt on the Passing of Jacob Neusner

By David R. Blumenthal

…d yet done). Fifth, sometimes I would drive with Jack to Brown and, on the way, I would ask, “What are you teaching today?” He would answer, and when I inquired how he prepared, he replied, “On my way to the office, I decide what are the three important points I want to make. That’s it.” I was dumbfounded but, here too, Jack proved correct. I still make a conscious effort to decide on the three main points of the lesson. The rest is communication….

Double Helix: Cancer Decoded, Buyer Beware

By Arri Eisen

…s ‘read’ and that these changes can be inherited. This entirely shifts the way we think about genomes and introduces a whole new way of thinking about how we care for our genomes. What we, our genes and cells that compose us, experience, can affect our children and our children’s children. The implications: 1.) This is one great adaptive strategy. We don’t have to wait for DNA mutations to occur to change, but can respond quickly to our environmen…

McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

By Kathryn Joyce

…whose men have forgotten how to lead their families and their land in the way our Founders envisioned and the way God intended. A wife and mother has already been elected by God to the highest office in the land. She has her own particular husband to help, his calling to make successful, and her children to nurture and train to the glory of God. How could the vice-presidency possibly compare with a task that God has personally designed her to fil…

Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…t coming after me, they’re coming after you and I’m just standing in their way. That’s all I’m doing. I’m standing in their way. And that’s why I’m here today. That’s why I’m standing before you, because we are going to finish what we started. We started something that was America. We’re going to complete the mission. We’re going to see this battle through to ultimate victory. We’re going to make America great again. With you at my side, we will d…

The Queen is Coming: Preparing for Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…e to Islam. What is more, I do not pretend to share them in some universal way, only in the way in which I am experiencing them, and only this year. This year is special for me because after almost 40 years of the practice of Islam, by choice, I will embark on the “journey of a lifetime”: the pilgrimage to Makkah for the first time. While I will make this pilgrimage in fulfillment of the ritual requirement of Islam, I have already been warned. My…