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Welcome to the “Spin-od”: Conservatives Look to Halt Reforms on Divorce and Other “Family Matters”

By Patricia Miller

…the Church rise to the pastoral challenges facing marriage and the family today, but the dramatic two-week meeting was marred by allegations of manipulation, lies, and dirty tricks. Pentin’s book is long on accusations and short on findings that any actual manipulation took place outside of the expected machinations of Vatican politics, which were unusually public due to a hotbed of a media environment. There was a contentious relationship betwee…

The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

By Daniel Schultz

…s in the Northeast. You can bet that Jones—one of the best pollsters of American religion at work today—has the data to back his argument up. White Christians, as he notes, are much more likely than the average citizen to buy the “heritage not hate” shtick about Confederate monuments, and much less likely to agree that the repercussions of slavery and institutionalized racism make it difficult for Blacks to find economic success in the U.S. Import…

Rallies Honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s Support of Organized Labor

By Lauri Lebo

…workers. It was part of his Poor People’s Campaign, a project to unite America’s underclass—black, white and brown. He marched in solidarity with more than a thousand men. Two weeks after his death, the city agreed to recognize the union and a 10-cents-an-hour raise. Across from the Lorraine Motel, from where James Earl Ray fired the shot that killed King, are the words to his final speech at Mason Temple, made the night before his death on behal…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…ely an extreme version of normal American supremacism, one that explicitly promotes and heightens the U.S.’s routine practices of empire. But it matters greatly whether the American empire tries to work cooperatively and respectfully with other nations instead of conspiring mainly to dominate them. In Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Middle East as a whole, the legacy of George W. Bush is not very good, and Obama has an overabundance of leftover c…

The “Obamosque” Smears and the Money Fueling Them

By Sarah Posner

…terms like “Obamosque?” Or this photograph on the Special Guests website? Today Special Guests is also promoting the special guest of Scott Wheeler, a long-time operative of right-wing smear campaigns against Democratic candidates and office-holders. Wheeler is the executive director of the National Republican Trust PAC, which during the 2008 presidential campaign ran incendiary ads attempting to link Obama to terrorism. He’s a veteran of other e…

The Reagan Era, Still Going

By Gary Dorrien

…government. According to this story, government is always the problem, Americans are over-taxed, and America has a debt crisis because Democrats overgrew the government. Every Republican contender for president tells this story;notwithstanding that Americans are not over-taxed and it was chiefly the Republican Party that exploded the debt. From the early 1970s through the 1990s, Americans averaged 27 percent of their income on federal, state, and…

In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

…his being Jewish. The ambassador responds that he is Jewish, and he is American, and America is a nation of refugees. At that moment, you have to take a breath. The United States is a nation of refugees, not immigrants. If we wish to hold on to a founding myth, that the people who came to Plymouth Rock were seeking religious freedom, then we have to say they were refugees. They fled persecution for their religious beliefs. And that history of per…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ntury people) implies for the way we think about, and talk about, religion today… as a not-so-new century readies the celebrations for its ten-year-old birthday. Religion is back…again The tempting place to begin is with what has almost become a twenty-first century truism: that in this new century, religion was decidedly “back.” Just one year into this new century, religion of a certain sort literally exploded across the brainscape of a wonderin…

In Repudiation of its Devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican Masks the History and Responsibility of Catholic Church

By Elisha Chi

…, or even religious, they argue, but secular and political. Yet, this rhetorical separation of the political/historical and the theological/religious is puzzling. First, while we’re familiar today with the notion of the separation of church and state, this was a concept that had not yet become fully realized in the European empire at this time. Pope Nicholas V wrote the first two bulls, Dum Diversas (1452) and Romanus Pontifex (1455). At the time,…

Finding Love—and Dogma—in Unexpected Places: Jeff Chu’s Gay Christian Odyssey

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…out that their views are not significantly different than those of many Americans. There is a danger in regarding them as so extreme they don’t relate to anything else in American Christianity. The fact is, their views are the logical extension of what many conservative Christians believe. If they actually followed through with their convictions, many more people would be in churches like Westboro. What kind of things did you find on the other sid…