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ABC’s Good Christian Bitches Makes Feminists of Religious Right

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…you who are coming in late could borrow the notes from someone else in the class, and maybe the rest of us could take a broader view than just the presence of the b-word in the title (which, after all, has been changed to “GCB” as a shooting title, most likely to be renamed as the airdate approaches). Perhaps we might think instead about how the media actually portrays and affects women? Which brings me to…. Thought two: Ever heard of the Bechde…

King Hearings: Right to Attorney = Enabling Extremism?

By Hussein Rashid

…e hearings is Constitutional: you cannot single out a group of people as a class for the actions of a few from that class. That’s not equal protection under the law. But while Jasser is absolutely right about the debates that need to happen within religious communities it’s not the government’s job to interfere or dictate which conversations religions have in this country. You cannot protect the Constitution by being unconstitutional. Oddly enough…

Meet Arizona’s Even More Anti-Immigrant Bill

By Lauri Lebo

…or public benefits that violate federal law and enhances penalties (from a class 2 to a class 1 misdemeanor) for agency employees who fail to report “discovered” violations of federal immigration law; Limits the types of documents a person can show to prove their identity; Requires the state police training agency, AZ POST, to summarily revoke a peace officer’s ability to serve the public if the officer does not uphold state or constitutional law…

Repurposing the Gospel Aura: Eminem’s Chrysler Ad Borrows Some Spirit

By Douglas Harrison

…r the salvation of freedom in the Civil Rights era. And then there are any number of other mainstream movies that in one fashion or another use the crossover hit, “Oh Happy Day,” what one reader at my blog aptly suggested could be retitled “the only black gospel song Hollywood knows.” For only one of the most recent examples of this phenomenon, see Disney’s Secretariat (2010), in which a montage overlaid with a black gospel choir singing “Oh Happy…

High School Senior Leads Effort to Repeal Louisiana Anti-Evolution Law

By Lauri Lebo

…Freedom” bills, which paves the way for sneaking creationism into science class. While lawmakers have denied the law has anything to do with inserting creationism into science class, I’ve written about how members of Louisiana school boards interpret the law here. Admittedly, Kopplin and other supporters of the Constitution in Louisiana have an uphill battle. Only three members of the House voted against the original law. State Senator Karen Cart…

State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…classless society. Other nations are still caught in the snares of age-old class conflict while we have only the one great class: the middle. That economic fiction has always gone hand-in-hand with the theological concept of “original sinlessness.” We bear no guilt because there has been, and still is, so little economic oppression (none at all, some have always maintained); we bear no burden of past strife because the past has been so harmonious….

2012 Film Heralds Progressive Utopia, No Effort Required

By Jessica Weisberg

…or them. Meet Me at the Wrecking Ball Pinchbeck himself was raised among a number of sixties luminaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Jack Kerouac. (He lived in Manhattan, where his father was a painter and his mother a Beat writer and editor.) In his twenties, he worked as a freelance journalist and founded a literary journal called Open City. “Once upon a time, not so long ago, I was a typical Manhattan atheist, suspicious, cynic…

The Morning After in Colorado

By Paul Harvey

…logy remain a potent brew, provided their voters can be mobilized in large numbers. These are mostly not the white working-class voters whose legitimate grievances Evan discusses here, but more middle-class folk clearly fine to accept the mess of Trump porridge. They were not, to the same degree, in 2012, for an explicitly and articulately religious candidate (Mitt Romney). They were, this time, for the candidate who played on the lower frequencie…

What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

By Chrissy Stroop

…ndustries; and even “class” (though how millennials were able to kill both class and not-exactly-classy chain restaurants like Applebee’s is anyone’s guess). The trend of bashing millennials shifted into high gear in 2013, when Time magazine published “The Me, Me, Me Generation,” prompting frustrated millennial cartoonist Matt Bors to publish an editorial cartoon response in which he eviscerated lazy stereotypes about his generation and insisted t…

The Semiotics of Trump: All the Cool Kids Are Doing It

By Gregory Bottoms

When I saw Trump bumper stickers on the backpacks of middle-class white kids in Tidewater, Virginia, I had an inkling—but only an inkling, like a twitchy nighttime fear—that Trump could win. But then no, I told myself, no way. We are not this gullible and self-destructive! Yet those bumper stickers on kids’ backpacks were haunting. I couldn’t shake them. I am an English professor in Vermont, in a liberal college town in arguably the most liberal…