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Muslim, Immigrant, Teenager…Superhero: How Ms. Marvel Will Save the World

By Wei Zhu

…n a one-dimensional stereotype, but not completely free of cultural specificity. Fortunately, writer G. Willow Wilson, editor Sana Amanat, and artist Adrian Alphona have created a superheroine who stands well on her own. We first meet Kamala at her local Jersey City deli, where she stares at a BLT sandwich longingly, whispering to herself, “Delicious, delicious, infidel meat….” Throughout the issue, she’s shown to be a quirky, albeit frustrated, y…

Wherein An Elected Official Gets His Holiday Miracles Mixed Up

By Sarah Posner

…Here’s a heartwarming holiday story from Springfield, Massachusetts, where city councilor Bud Williams said at a Chabad Lubavitch-sponsored Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony, “Jesus is the reason for the season.” Williams pointed the finger at the Chabad rabbis for his blunder: The city councilor said he referenced Jesus Christ, whose birth is celebrated every Dec. 25 by Christians worldwide but not by Jews, after participants in the ceremony men…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…he 2015 World Congress of Families summit, which will be held in Salt Lake City, the first time the gathering has been held in the U.S. The annual summit is an international gathering of anti-gay and anti-reproductive choice activists organized by the US-based Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society. Also organizing the Salt Lake City event is the Utah-based Sutherland Institute, whose president Paul Mero has argued that a free society cann…

The New Ground Zero on LGBT Rights and Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ious beliefs, but about the judgment to publish a book that could open the City of Atlanta to lawsuits without discussing it with senior leadership. Reed also asked people to stop calling his home and asking for Cochran to be reinstated. He said people have been calling him and calling him names, like “Antichrist.” Cochran did speak with the city’s ethics advisor on multiple occasions about the book, Reed said. He added that she advised him not to…

Is The Episcopal Church Driving Drunk?

By J. Terry Todd

…d the trustees who supported her. General Theological Seminary in New York City, once known as a finishing school for future bishops, was engulfed in a similar but even more public battle in the fall of 2014 after struggling financially for years. While sideshows like these play on in the background, the Episcopal Church continues to hemorrhage members. No wonder Jefferts Schori said thanks but no thanks to a second term as Presiding Bishop. Who w…

Why Don’t Republicans Want to Allow Pastors to Endorse from Pulpit?

By Daniel Silliman

…nt their pastors to be able to endorse political candidates. An increasing number of Americans say they want more religion in politics. Pew reports that nearly half of Americans say churches should express their views on political issues. There are still many who support the idea of separating church and politics, of course, but it’s not like this law is actually working. One doesn’t have to look further than Houston to find pastors engaged in pol…

Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

By Stephanie Gaskill

…The video is transcendent, above human interpretation or intervention. The city of North Charleston agreed, ordering 250 body cameras for the city’s entire department. But miracles can be too good to be true. Body cameras offer a deceptively enticing solution to police brutality, but treating cameras as a panacea minimizes the importance of who holds the camera and who mediates its footage. Even photography can’t make us entirely objective. Race T…

Hicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm

By Timothy King

…n years. Two months later, I began the actual journey back home. Forsaking city life for a return to “the land” is hardly a new story. Around the time the sugar shack’s tough beams first had been roughly hewn, Henry David Thoreau penned these words: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I ha…

A Pastor Takes on BP in New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

…historically and predominantly African-American region—the largest in the city—so the prospects of cooperation between the two communities was vital. “Both communities have been willing to be in a relationship; it’s just that [the] process has needed assistance, and that was vision of Father Vien,” says Denise Graves, an African-American community organizer for the Micah Project. “He was in the middle of a black community but they weren’t having…

Passover with Mohammed: A Jewish Journalist in Yemen

By Sam Kestenbaum

…ut already has a thick goatee. When I tell him I’m a Jew he takes out his iPhone and wants to play me a song. Hebrew lettering appears on the bottom of the screen and a yarmulke-clad singer stands on a stage, microphone in hand. When he begins singing, in Arabic, Ahmed knows every word. He sings about chewing qat, about falling in love. “Most of the Jews here went to Israel, but they stayed Yemeni—listen to his accent! He’s a perfect Sana’ani. He…