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Maybe Instead of Solidarity, The Religious Left Should Try Being Indivisible

By Daniel Schultz

…a “deeper” politics rooted in a “fuller” understanding of the gospel. The number of scripture verses you can quote doesn’t matter a bit. Nor does how many more of those verses speak of social justice than sexual ethics. It does not matter how “prophetic” people are. Nor does it matter how spirituality informs one’s politics. We live in a secular and hyper-partisan age. These things motivate almost no one. In fact, even the very idea of a religiou…

Jennifer Knapp and Me: Coming Out While Evangelical

By Suzanna Krivulskaya

…instructed me to write and rehearse what they called a “testimony”—a three-minute story of my conversion; the more dramatic, the better. Knapp provided the soundtrack to my life as a young, zealous believer. I wanted to be broken in ways she described, so that God’s salvific work would manifest more vividly in my story. I didn’t have to try hard to be broken, of course. By the time I was in college, studying theology to become a missionary, I had…

Jesus Said Punch Up, Not Down: Why William Barber’s Attack on the Religious Right May Not Be What It Seems

By Daniel Schultz

…tity over and against partisan identities, the more you reinforce the partisan divisions. The disturbing truth is that partisan identity seems to be prior to religious identity in our culture, which is to say, we form our religious commitments through the lens of our politics, not the other way around. Advocates who don’t understand this dynamic can’t be effective, whether left or right. Sure, there will be people agreeing with them up and down, b…

White Supremacy and Orthodox Christianity: A Dangerous Connection Rears Its Head in Charlottesville

By Katherine Kelaidis

…that he came of age in the “anti-racist skinhead movement” and spent a few minutes regaling me with his tales of street fights against various infamous Denver-area Neo-Nazis. It was from this background, which undoubtedly leads to a sensitivity for finding fascists everywhere, that Tim started to notice that something was going on amidst in the world of the Orthodox internet. While Orthodoxy tends to draw a pretty conservative crowd (especially am…

A Whole New Ball Game: New Book Rethinks the History of Religion in Sport

By Daniel Grano

…students.” What alternative title would you give the book? I thought for a minute or two about calling it Sport and Negative Theology, which would have been search-friendly but also would have been pretty boring and overly technical. How do you feel about the cover? I’m thrilled with it! It features a series of photographs of a runner taken by Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge was famous for his innovations in high-speed photography, and is often cred…

When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For

By Nelle Smith

…’s country, voted Republican and pro-life, and expected the rapture at any minute. We were also six-day creationists, with science textbooks that warned us to beware of any statement that contradicted the Bible. That’s why, back at home after my Geology epiphany, I could do nothing but stare blankly out the front door and feel the roll and pitch of the world as it fell from beneath my feet. It seemed, quite literally, as if there were nothing soli…

Trump, “Big Fan of Hindu,” To Force Thousands of Nepalis Back to Disaster Zone

By Murali Balaji

…he Hindu American community, and few Hindu organizations—often more tuned into the concerns of the generally more affluent and educated Indian American Hindu community—have been able to effectively advocate on their behalf. As a result, they have been marginalized. For thousands of Nepalis, that’s likely to mean being sent back to devastation. Barring a last-minute change of heart by the DHS, the future for the TPS recipients looks bleak. It’s ano…

Trump, “Big Fan of Hindu,” To Force Thousands of Nepalis Back to Disaster Zone

By Murali Balaji

…he Hindu American community, and few Hindu organizations—often more tuned into the concerns of the generally more affluent and educated Indian American Hindu community—have been able to effectively advocate on their behalf. As a result, they have been marginalized. For thousands of Nepalis, that’s likely to mean being sent back to devastation. Barring a last-minute change of heart by the DHS, the future for the TPS recipients looks bleak. It’s ano…

Is it ‘biblical to enforce the law,’ as Trump Admin Claims in Defense of Separating Families?

By Daniel Schultz

…s should have taken the president’s DACA deal (that he blew up at the last minute). I can’t interpret the law to accept victims of domestic violence or gang violence. The US shouldn’t have to address the poverty and violence it helped create in Central America. If migrants choose to die in the desert, that’s on them. Again and again, Sessions deflects responsibility, interpreting conscious decisions made by him among many others over the years, to…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…t, Mjolnir, and Yggdrasil. The overlap of Norse neopagan symbols with neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups suggests the symbols on this particular man’s body express such commitments. The Anti-Defamation League lists the valknot as a possible hate symbol because of its use by white supremacist Odinists, though the cultural permeation of these symbols beyond Odinist groups like Ásatru means that their presence isn’t necessarily an indication of id…