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

By Anita Little

…. Louis skyline from where our group stood on the mounds, was a “symbol of American terrorism” to the black communities that its construction displaced. Through eminent domain, 37 blocks of homes and businesses in the thriving black St. Louis community were razed to make room for a monument to the United States’ western expansion. To add insult to injury, discriminatory hiring policies made many of the promised construction jobs unavailable to non…

Immortal Illusions: Should We Stop Trying to Live Forever?

By Beatrice Marovich

…poch—truly, not that long ago—common knowledge held that the earth was the center of the universe and that fiery furnace we call the sun revolved around us. The earth was the greatest mover and shaker in the cosmos. But, of course, the center would not hold. Of more recent vintage is the hypothesis that the earth is actually just a great big creature: a mortal organism. The earth might be strong (padded with rock, loaded with magma), but it’s not…

Want to Love Your Neighbor? Pay Fair Wages

By Kim Bobo

…esults are astounding, and confirm what Interfaith Worker Justice’s worker centers around the country have been saying for the last few years. Among the workers surveyed: • Fully 26 percent of workers were paid less than the legally-required minimum wage, and 60 percent of those underpaid were underpaid by more than $1 per hour. • Of those who worked overtime, 75 percent were not paid the legally-required overtime. • Nearly a quarter of the worker…

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

By Kaya Oakes

…takes to actually succeed is that it’s individualized—there seems to be no center for Santa Muerte. It’s whatever people want it to be. Whereas a global religion like Catholicism which is carefully controlled by a center—the Vatican, the pope as the sole spokesman for the religion —it makes it that much more difficult for the church to change and shift and evolve to changing times. Part of why Catholicism is stagnant in Mexico and Santa Muerte is…

McCain Endorser: “Destroy” Islam

By Martin E. Marty

…More and in broadcasts to large and presumably assenting audiences. While Americans know that some who claim Allah would like to destroy Christian civilization, citizens often overlook the tit-for-tat or tat-for-tit (that is, “who started it?”) calls for war from militants on both sides. As reported in Mother Jones, Parsley says there is a war and he wants bigger war, as America can only “fulfill its divine purpose” by seeing to it that Islam, “t…

In Tea Party Senate Candidate’s Dissertation, A Nostalgia for a Populist Christian Nation

By Sarah Posner

…vatives, but a source of pride, a true believer representing the authentic American masses. “His dreadful performance as lead witness,” Sasse writes, “ultimately resulted less from an arrogant commitment to grandstanding than from a genuine naiveté about this thicket.” Despite Becker’s loss, Sasse argues that a conservative push for the entanglement of religion and politics prevailed. “Americans did not want a privatization of faith,” he maintains…

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

By Adam Shapiro

…interpretation of its history. The fight over official public memorials of American history has intensified, especially in the South—with activists calling out the valorization of Confederate relics without acknowledgement of the role that racism and slavery played in that history. The same concern is present for the erasure of native people’s histories in American settler-colonialism. If the bill’s goal is truly to “memorialize the role the book…

Conservative Bishops Unhappy At Synod, But Ignore Walkout Call; Australian Religious Leaders Step Up Marriage Equality Opposition; Italy Debates Civil Unions; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, but that looks highly unlikely, with his main coalition partner, a small center-right group, fiercely opposed to the project. However, looking to speed up the process, the government on Wednesday briefly presented its bill to the upper house Senate, a move which could open the way for its approval in early 2016…. A number of opposition parties, including former premier Silvio Berlusconi Forma Italia group, have said they support the plan, meanin…

Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…ideologues online who call for the excommunication and even “the purge” of American Orthodox scholars. For years the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University (not affiliated with the OCA) has been one of the most engaged institutions in the academic study of Orthodox Christianity. And for years the Center has been maligned by conservative and far-right Orthodox, who often use the term “Fordhamite,” seemingly as a riff on the slur so…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…ionist policies. Still, there’s a good chance that aid to Israel, like the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will manage to be exempt from their ire. The billions of dollars spent every month on the two wars (and over 270 American military bases around the world) are somehow not a sign of “big government” for the Tea Party faithful. Late last month, in a trenchant article for The Nation, Princeton lecturer Melissa Harris-Perry sought to expla…