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If Not for AIPAC: What Ilhan Omar Should Have Said

By Haroon Moghul

…he most diverse Congress in U.S. history are ideally placed to bring fresh air to stale conversations. I would love for them to do what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes did in promoting a Green New Deal, and outline a New Deal for Palestine and Israel. To ask the hard questions, to continue the conversation we are beginning to have, to think outside the box. What should a progressive foreign policy look like? When we say we should ally with countries that…

Toni Morrison, Prophet of America’s Demons (1931-2019)

By Ed Simon

…orthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.” Something to keep in mind when we repress what’s been done in our names in favor of the saccharine sweet myths of American greatness and American goodness and American sinlessness. Sometimes Morrison is simply categorized as an “African-American writer”—and she was tha…

The Student Debt Crisis Is So Bad Even Clergy Are Packing Their Bags

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…course of a month, I confronted the emotional turbulence drudged up by unfair conditions mandating that a full-time, multi-degreed professional decide whether to start a family or meet student loan payments; whether to invest his creativity into a congregation or pursue multiple careers in unrelated fields. Per research conducted by Pastoral Care Inc., 57% of pastors believe they do not receive a livable wage, rendering them unable to pay their b…

In a Time of Chaos and Misrule, Mardi Gras’ Subversive Message is Virtually Meaningless

By Ed Simon

…h-century who, believing that the plague was spread by fetid miasma in the air, would stuff the bird-like beak of the mask with dried herbs and flowers in a desperate attempt to stave off the swollen black buboes of the disease. Medico della peste (Plague Doctor) – Venice, Italy. Image: Thomas Leplus/Flickr Appropriated by carnival party-goers, the plague doctor mask is a reminder of Mardi Gras’ anxieties—the dusk before Ash Wednesday, the party p…

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

By John Stoehr

…tton, that’s China. For Falwell, that’s North Korea. (While Falwell was on air, the president announced a state of national emergency related to the outbreak, undermining his and Cotton’s search for a scapegoat for his sake.) Falwell’s demagoguery isn’t what we should be thankful for. What we should be thankful for is his confessing, without appearing to know it, that a pillar of “principled conservatism” in the United States is no pillar at all….

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet

By Christopher James Blythe

…t into the air or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s winged character from Tooth Fairy. https://twitter.com/TheCourtMann/status/1241898192477642752 A more serious response came from Latter-day Saint prophecy enthusiasts who looked for prophetic and even apocalyptic meanings in the fallen trumpet. A popular meme included an image of Moroni without his trumpet and a passage taken from the Hebrew prophet Amos interspersed with commentary: “That in the day t…

Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine

By Chrissy Stroop

…ns themed around fear. In the first four weeks, 173,000 people visited the websites and more than 10,000 clicked a button indicating they made decisions for Christ, said Mark Appleton, BGEA’s director of internet evangelism. The article goes on to relate how a teenager named Donmere who happened upon one of the sites began chatting with a volunteer, saying “I’m not really a religious person, but I don’t know who else to turn to but God.” According…

How a Stars and Stripes Hijab on ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity and ‘That’ Religion

By Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

…except that historically, that’s exactly what Drag Race has done. Shepard Fairey’s “We the People Are Greater than Fear.” RuPaul loves a reference, but no one on that judges panel seemed to get that Cox’s caftan and hijab were inspired by Shepard Fairey’s “WE THE PEOPLE are greater than fear,” part of a poster series created in response to the 2016 election [image left]. Many people carried this image during nation-wide Women’s Marches in January…

State Director of Christian Right Legislative Group, ‘Project Blitz,’ Calls for Lynching of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Updated)

By Frederick Clarkson

…who can join that parade.” [See image left.] The political blog Bluestem Prairie which broke the story, posted a screenshot of the inflammatory comments. The comments were scrubbed the next day, soon after they were tweeted by religion scholar André Gagné of Concordia University in Montreal. A few hours later, the entire post was taken down along with all of the 47 other comments. We had no idea we were racing Witherington’s apparent growing aware…

Sadism is Still the Point for Most White Evangelicals

By John Stoehr

…hristian concept is removed from the discussion, “paradoxes” melt into the air. What’s left is a natural alignment of political interests. How do I know WEPs don’t truly believe in the Golden Rule? From life experience. I know what I’m talking about. All you have to do is listen carefully, however, and know what to listen for. Elizabeth Dias wrote a big piece in the Times last week trying to clear up the “contradiction” of WEPs standing by Trump “…