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Worried About Inequality After the Pandemic? Start By Listening to the Women Ringing the Alarm for Decades

By Liz Theoharis

…this context that the renewed debate around a Universal Basic Income is a welcome development. But, the welfare rights movement teaches us that the devil’s in the details and that welfare policies have to be examined critically for their moral foundations. The NWRO found itself in fierce opposition to a basic income plan put forward by the Nixon administration in 1969 because its restrictive nature, low benefit levels, work requirements, and the…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…onally to train clergy and community leaders in racial justice work and to promote her book The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right. She sees firsthand how nearly “everyone is reconsidering whether or not they want to remain under the moniker ‘evangelical,’” including minorities, white people, the young and the old, “because the word ‘evangelical’ has been truly hijacked by a movement to maintain the political, economic and so…

The Deafening Silence of “Religious Freedom” Defenders on Trump’s Muslim Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…wyers and average citizens were rallying at airports around the country to welcome home detained travelers, as attorneys filed suits in five states, where judges saw fit to issue emergency injunctions blocking certain parts of the travel ban. It remains unclear what ADF’s “3100 allied attorneys” were doing last weekend, but it doesn’t appear to be standing up for “the religious freedom of those you disagree with theologically.” Similarly, the Beck…

Miss Conception: Donald Trump the (Self-Styled) Devil?

By Miss Conception

Welcome to the first in a sporadic series of posts on popularly misunderstood, misused, or misleading terms, stories, and ideas from the world of religion. In this first installment, “Miss Conception,” a recently retired religion scholar, takes a closer look at the “strong man” or “strongman” label casually applied to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. – eds It has not escaped the attention of Miss Conception that Donald Trump consis…

A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die

By Joanna Brooks

…iction between the policy and Jesus Christ’s unequivocal and unconditional welcome to children in the New Testament has left even conservative and moderate Church members doubtful, defensive, or confused. According to some reports, a good number of rank and file Mormons are simply choosing to disregard and outlast the policy. Saving Alex celebrates the spiritual capacity to outlast the darkest and most abusive elements of a religion. What helps? C…

New Report: More Sex in the Pulpit

By Jeanne Carstensen

…ionships, rather than particular acts.” It also urges faith communities to promote sex education, reproductive rights, and full inclusion of women and LGBT people in religious life and society at large. “We need to move religion away from saying homosexuality is wrong, or masturbation or abortion, or oral sex, or sex outside marriage,” Haffner explained in an interview with RD. “The point is, what is the quality of the relationship?” While recent…

Obama Unites Right and Left—In Fear

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o silence those that would dare oppose them. Well, if you ask me, that’s a welcome change from people in government willing to use the force of law to push the radical right wing agenda to outlaw abortions and put a federal marriage “protection” amendment into the United States Constitution. The right wing has been using tactics of intimidation against gays and lesbians for years. Witness the state constitutional bans against marriage equality for…

#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church

By Scott Schomburg

…“a fleeting education in how to love.” A wonderfully boring home page will welcome you there, and, among other things, you’ll find an archive of sermons over the years from the dozens of people who have participated in one of the more beautiful literary traditions I know—a preaching tradition based more on communal conversation than personality. So when the powerful moment of #WeStandWithIsaac fades, the experiment of CHMF will remain a place for…

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

…Africa. The common denominator of these institutions is that they did not rely upon political boundaries to relieve suffering. The religious traditions of hospitality, refuge, and sanctuary created the vibrant multiform culture of diversity, welcome, and innovation that many of us claim as American. However, religious traditions of exclusion and purity rear their heads at regular intervals to demand higher walls and harder hearts. We are now at a…

Painting Elephants

By Bruce Prescott

…lothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick and marginalized, welcome the strangers among us, and promote religious liberty and respect for religious diversity.” They also determined to plan a meeting that would bring all Baptists in North America together; 16 million Southern Baptists were invited, but their leaders declined to participate. Leading representatives of the other 20 million Baptists in America agreed to get involved. On…