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King Hearings: Right to Attorney = Enabling Extremism?

By Hussein Rashid

…e hearings is Constitutional: you cannot single out a group of people as a class for the actions of a few from that class. That’s not equal protection under the law. But while Jasser is absolutely right about the debates that need to happen within religious communities it’s not the government’s job to interfere or dictate which conversations religions have in this country. You cannot protect the Constitution by being unconstitutional. Oddly enough…

A Moral Movement Where Everyone Is in For the Long Haul

By Maxine Phillips

…on the left, two challenges to his Third Reconstruction are also rooted in American myths. The first myth is that religion and politics don’t mix. The second is that when the going gets rough, we can always “light out for the territories,” that is, move on rather than dig in. Many liberal religionists worry about losing their tax exemption or are overwhelmed by the day-to-day work of ministering to society’s outcasts. And many secular leftists mis…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…ty by talking about the Christian roots of American freedom and connecting American destiny to the old belief, dating back to the 17th-century Puritans who settled New England, that America was God’s great “city upon a hill.” Reagan opposed abortion, promised to fight moral decay in American culture, and assured Falwell and the rising Religious Right that he would keep the federal government from intruding on the lives and schools of ordinary evan…

Israel at 60: Zionism’s Fatal Flaw

By Ira Chernus

…s’ human rights? Do you judge it by its world-class universities and world-class science and technology? Or by its growing gap between rich and poor, as the utopian socialism of the kibbutz experiment collapses before the juggernaut of neo-1liberal corporate capitalism? Do you judge it by its vibrant avant-garde cultural scene, or by the way it marginalizes its Arab citizens and its growing population of Asian “guest workers”? Perhaps the only fai…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…ormalized their complaints by becoming the first plaintiffs in the current class action lawsuit, charging the ministry and its past and present clergy for complicity in the abuse. The original lawsuit listed SGM, Mahaney, Tomczak, and six other pastors from CLC and Sovereign Grace Church as defendants. The amended filing added five new plaintiffs and CLC, as well as CLC’s day school, the Fairfax church, and two more pastors as defendants. One new…

Is a Secular System Right for Egypt?

By Austin Dacey

…central religious authority in Islam—no church, no priesthood, no clerical class to govern the religious (and certainly not political) lives of Muslims. . . . The problem is that Islamic doctrine, jurisprudence, and historical practice do, in fact, both assume and fundamentally rely on the existence of a single Muslim polity with authority over Muslims’ religious affairs and the religious scholar class. Ezzat diagnoses this circumstance as a vesti…

Are Michael Moore’s Films Inspired by His Catholicism?

By Rosemary R. Ruether

…list? Catholicism is well known as a determined foe of Communism, yet most Americans are unaware that Catholicism has also been highly critical of capitalism. Communism is faulted in Catholic social teachings for its atheism, forced collectivism and advocacy of class warfare. But capitalism is also criticized as a materialistic system that lacks ethical values. Although Catholicism defends the right to private property, this is not seen as absolut…

Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…so catches grown-ups speaking earnest nonsense. Virginia Lee Burton’s 1939 classic Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel may be about, as her teacher tells her, “digging the basement of the town hall,” but Ramona knows that her pressing question, namely, “how did Mike Mulligan go to the bathroom when he was digging the basement of the town hall?” stands: Ramona knew and the rest of the class knew that knowing how to go to the bathroom was important….

The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ustain the death-making institutionalism so intimately associated with the American vocation of policing, profoundly soaked in racism, classism, and abuse of power. If we cannot change the hearts of people, we can pass policies that bring forth accountability. Philosopher Cornel West often avers, “Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private.” Public safety is not enough. The centuries-deep pai…

Why I Fear The Post-Trayvon Martin Sermon

By Elizabeth Drescher

…culture rigidly segmented and stratified on the basis of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and other social categories. I expect that she won’t, for instance, offer tepid prayers for the comfort of the Martin family and a promise of compensatory goodies at some heavenly banquet in the hereafter where, in one of the stupidest prayers I came across on Facebook in the wee hours of the morning, we are promised, “there is no death, pain or sorrow; nor p…