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Israel Votes to Limit Sheldon Adelson

By Sarah Posner

…o to close this loophole.” The anti-Adelson bill is like Israel’s Citizens United—in reverse. Although launched a few years before the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision, Israel Hayom is like a Citizens United effort, where a political advocacy group attempted (and ultimately succeeded) in circumventing campaign finance limits by portraying an anti-Hillary Clinton film as media subject to First Amendment protection, rather than independent political ex…

Sotomayor is Sworn in: Latina Wisdom Personified

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ere is no church in Miami big enough to house her devotees. Hers is the story of a statue discovered by two indigenous men and an African slave, and later accompanying a slave community in Cuba. Her statue still remains in a shrine in Cuba, and a duplicate accompanied Cubans into exile here in the United States. She is the most powerful symbol of Cuban religious and cultural identity both on the island and in the Cuban Diaspora. Her face is brown….

Terminal 5 is a Product of the New Post-9/11 Realities

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…world most Israelis so grimly inhabit. Setting aside flights bound for the United States or Israel made perfect sense. To set such flights aside at one end of a terminal made clear that this was a temporary measure suited to the current climate and easily reversible once the violence subsided. As those of us who study religion know all too well, symbolic realities can create realities to match. That symbolic segregation at Fiumicino is now real, a…

What do the January 6 Commission, Covid Deaths and Gun Massacres All Have in Common? God’s Chosen

By John Stoehr

…neutral commission to investigate the January 6 sacking and looting of the United States Capitol. The United States Congress created such commissions after the Oklahoma City bombing in the 1990s and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Along with being good for democracy and patriotism, a commission of this kind is the right thing to do. If the Republicans do not explicitly see themselves as God’s chosen, they act like it implicitly—in tha…

Religious Right to Newsweek: ‘Woe to [You] for Even Printing This’

By Bill Berkowitz

…or, Christine Gregoire. However, as the holiday season proceeds, Americans United suggests that Americans might “keep in mind the following”: “It is not the job of government to promote religion: Christmas has both secular and religious aspects. Governments at all levels are constitutionally barred from promoting religion. People who want a religious experience at Christmas time would do better to go to a house of worship, not city hall.” “Private…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…n to become an activist and start the social justice organization Hands Up United was further complicated by the fact her father is a Missouri police officer. “A defining moment for me was during a protest action we organized, I spotted him on the other side with the police officers,” she said. “That’s when I realized what I did meant nothing to him.” Even though he occasionally donates to her organization, Rika says her relationship with her fath…

Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan

By Kaya Oakes

…That’s how Islam became a global religion: people left the confines of the Arabian Peninsula and took Islam with them. And that’s what’s happening now. What we discovered was that a great many undocumented immigrants who make the long, perilous journey from Latin America and Mexico to the United States, before they do so, they make a vow to Santa Muerte, make peace with Saint Death. They say to themselves, “I may not make this, there’s a good chan…

Methodists Move Toward LGBT Inclusion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…conference last month by Rev. Bruce Robbins, pastor of the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis. The statement gives a nod to the other denominations who are ahead of them: We are convinced by the witness of others and are compelled by Spirit and conscience to act. We thank the many United Methodists who have already called for full equality and inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the life of the Church…

Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?

By Adam Shapiro

…gious meaning. The bill’s secular opponents—such as the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State—and its religious opponents, including Haslam, are united in the view that such a separation is impossible. This is in a deep sense a semiotic failure on both ends of the political spectrum. But it may also be a recognition of the Bible’s unique role as a political and legal powder keg in American history, going back to the Bible ri…

Air Force Speaking Invitation to Member of “Lord’s Army” Sparks Outrage

By Lauri Lebo

…achieving its own mission of preparing Academy cadets to be the very best United States Air Force ocers possible, these very same Air Force Academy cadets and staff will still be consigned to hell unless they accept former Lt. McClary’s own version of Christianity. Such statements are not only antithetical to the clear mission of the United States Air Force Academy, they are totally anathema to the purportedly globally inclusive purpose of this…