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They’re Not Coming Back: The Religiously Unaffiliated and the Post-Religious Era

By Kaya Oakes

…white evangelicals are also beginning to experience a loss. As increasing numbers of people turn to yoga classes and mindfulness meditation instead of a church, mosque or schul, the links between understanding spirituality as the work of the spirit, or of the soul, become less and less meaningful. So what’s behind this newest set of numbers? Reasons people list for leaving religion remain about the same as they were in the Pew survey, but with so…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…essential to neoliberal democratic citizenship. In addition, it creates a class of sexual and racial outsiders whose alleged regressiveness enables the (typically white, typically economically advantaged) citizen’s own homophobia to be discursively projected onto an uncivilized other. Many gay people who enjoy ethnic and class privilege have themselves espoused homonationalism, endorsing neoliberal privatization, anti-immigrant laws, institutiona…

If Hillary Wins Big It Won’t Be a Moral Victory—And That’s a Crying Shame

By Peter Laarman

…nator as a credible candidate. We shouldn’t forget that what many read as “class warfare” and raw resentment of the overclass always arises from a deeply moral center. It’s not just that the 1% sucks up more than 90% of all new the new wealth generated in this country; it’s that their arrogance and presumption regarding their entitlement to power and wealth is widely seen to be undemocratic and simply wrong. But it appears that Clinton and her tea…

Country Trumpkins

By Daniel Schultz

…hey work hard and don’t always get a lot in return. Like the urban working-class people I ministered to in Pennsylvania, there are many residents of small towns and rural areas who feel left behind, alienated from and screwed over by the financialized economy that sees them only as assets and liabilities. They are afraid of what will come next for themselves and their communities, constrained by memories of what used to be, and frustrated by their…

The World’s Most Influential Yoga Teacher is a Homophobic Right-Wing Activist

By Andrea Jain and Michael Schulson

…and-wellness sector that’s linked to India’s growing, global-facing middle class. The politician to whom he has tied his fortunes, Narendra Modi, is a neoliberal who is trying to accelerate India’s entry into the 21st century capitalist global economy. For all the traditionalism of their rhetoric, these guys are also playing a modern game. This is a very modern, very urban flavor of conservatism. It is not traditional. It thrives on nostalgia abou…

The Anxiety of White Christian America: A Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…in ten white Catholics (60%) and white mainline Protestants (59%) say the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. from Muslim countries is either too high or should be stopped. Fewer than four in ten black Protestants (39%), Hispanic Catholics (37%), and religiously unaffiliated Americans (34%), and fewer than one-quarter (23%) of non-Christians echo this sentiment. Same when talking about banning Syrian refugees or temporarily barring Muslim imm…

Sympathy for the Devils: I Was a Pastor to Trump Supporters

By Daniel Schultz

…moogly, yes, more often than I would have liked. They were classic working-class whites, “Reagan Democrats,” though some were still Dems when I knew them. Many of them worked industrial, highly-unionized jobs, the kind the economy has been bleeding away for decades. The thing to know about them—the thing I learned too late, unfortunately—was that every time something changed in their lives, it changed for the worse. And I mean just about every sti…

Just Give ‘Em a Little Jesus: Black Marriage Meets White Paternalism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…urches are often the most prominent providers of social welfare in working-class and middle-class African-American communities. Given these disparities, some churches may in fact provide a path out of recidivism because they are literally the only accessible avenue for cultural and communal connection in neighborhoods devastated by economic depression. But to suggest that recidivism is the most salient measure of black male “flourishing” ignores t…

Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

By Stephanie Gaskill

…less worthy of mourning when they don’t live up to the standards of middle-class respectability—reveals that even when a video clearly shows a black man being shot in the back by a white police officer, the footage is never objective. Images are interpreted through our filters, which often include race and class prejudice. Who Holds the Camera? One of the earliest and most controversial activities of the Black Panther Party was the police patrol….

A Moral Movement Where Everyone Is in For the Long Haul

By Maxine Phillips

…ts the conundrum of the left in the United States—Is the key issue race or class?—and says that both have equal weight. He acknowledges Martin Luther King’s debt to socialist and communist advisers without naming King’s own democratic socialism. He treats sexism tangentially. Above all, he stays on message: We’re here for the long haul. This is a moral movement. We are warp and woof of the same fabric. For us on the left, two challenges to his Thi…